May 5, 1916] 



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According to tlie Nieuwe Gourant, as quoted 

 in Nature, the Eoyal Academy of Sciences of 

 Amsterdam has awarded the following grants 

 from the Van't Hoff Eesearch Fund: $125 to 

 Professor F. Ephraim, of Berne, for the con- 

 tinuation of his studies on the nature of sub- 

 sidiary valencies; $250 to Dr. P. E. Verkade, 

 of Delft, for the purchase of apparatus for 

 the determination of heats of combustion; 

 $50 to Dr. D. H. Wester, of The Hague, 

 for a chemical examination of certain species 

 of Loranthus; $100 to Dr. C. H. Sluiter, of 

 Vught, for the purchase of Beilstein's hand- 

 book and of materials for an investigation of 

 f ormaldoxime ; $100 to Professor E. Janecke, 

 of Hannover, for the continuation of his work 

 on melting and transition points under high 

 pressures. 



At the sisty-ninth annual meeting of the 

 Paleontographical Society, London, on March 

 31, Dr. Henry Woodward was reelected presi- 

 dent; Dr. G. J. Hinde was elected a new vice- 

 president; Mr. E. S. Herries was reelected 

 treasurer; Dr. A. Smith Woodward was re- 

 elected secretary, and Miss Mary S. Johnston, 

 Mr. H. L. Hawkins and Mr. G. W. Young 

 were elected members of council. 



Peofessoe Heney S. White asks us to state 

 that the footnote on page 591 of the last issue 

 of Science should have referred to the presi- 

 dential address of Professor E. B. Van Vleck 

 on " The Eole of the Point-set Theory in 

 Geometry and Dynamics," Bulletin of the 

 American Mathematical Society, Vol. 21 

 (1915), pp. 321-341. 



The Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine 

 and Hygiene was given by Dr. Simon Elexner, 

 director of the Laboratories, Eockefeller Lasti- 

 tute for Medical Eesearch, on " The Einer Ad- 

 justments of the Immunity Eeactions to Ee- 

 covery from Infection," at the Harvard Med- 

 ical School on April 26. 



The eleventh Harvey Society Lecture was 

 delivered at the ITew Tork Academy of Medi- 

 cine, on April 29, by Dr. William H. Welch, 

 of the Johns Hopkins University, on " Medical 

 Education in the United States." 



Lafayette B. Mendel, professor of physical 

 chemistry in Sheffield Scientific School, Tale 

 University, will deliver an address on " Ab- 

 normalities of Growth" before the experi- 

 mental medicine section of the Cleveland 

 Academy of Medicine, May 12. 



Professor Walter B. Cannon, of the Har- 

 vard Medical School, gave a lecture before the 

 section on general medicine of the College of 

 Physicians of Philadelphia at Thompson Hall, 

 on April 20, on " An Explanation of some Dis- 

 orders supposed to have an Emotional Origin." 



Dr. James William White, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of surgery in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and a trustee of the university, died on 

 April 24, aged sixty-six years. 



Professor Howard Drysdale Hess, of the 

 department of machine design, Sibley College, 

 Cornell University, died on April 22, aged 

 forty-four years. 



Professor Henry Barber N'ison, Ph.D., 

 since 1888 in charge of the department of 

 mathematics in Pennsylvania College, Gettys- 

 burg, Pa., died on March 30, at his home on 

 the campus. 



Charles Albert Davis, peat expert in the 

 U. S. Bureau of Mines, known for his investi- 

 gations on peat and related subjects, died in 

 Washington on April 9, aged fifty-five years. 



Charles Albert Catlin for nearly fifty 

 years chemist for the Eimiford Chemical 

 Works, known for his work on phosphoric acid 

 and its compounds, died at his home in Provi- 

 dence, R. I., on April 13, aged sixty-seven 

 years. 



George Edward Patrick, chief of the dairy 

 laboratory in the bureau of chemistry of the 

 Department of Agriculture, died in Washing- 

 ton, on March 25. 



Dr. Edgar Moore Senseney, professor of 

 diseases of the nose, throat and chest in Wash- 

 ington University, died in St. Louis, on April 

 Y, aged sixty years. 



Dr. William Frederick King, chief astron- 

 omer of the Canadian government, superin- 



