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particiilarly well equipped, two are in electro- 

 dynamics and one in the study of viscosity of 

 liquids. 



The building in which all these researches 

 are conducted is more than thirty-two years 

 old, but, all things considered, it still serves 

 its purpose very well. This is all the more 

 remarkable when it is remembered that at the 

 time when it was built there were few labo- 

 ratories, either here or abroad, to serve as 

 models. It is to the foresight of Professor 

 John Trowbridge that the successful design 

 of the Jefferson laboratory was largely due and 

 it was his unselfish energy which made its 

 equipment possible. Those who work in the 

 building should ever keep these facts grate- 

 fully in mind. 



Theodore Lyman 



Cambkidge 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Society of American Bacteriologists 

 will meet at I^Tew Haven on December 26, 27 

 and 28. There will be an adjourned meeting in 

 New York on December 29 in afiiliation with 

 Section K of the American Association. 

 Members of program committee who have been 

 requested, in opening the sessions under their 

 charge, to review the work done in America in 

 their field in bacteriology are as follows : Pro- 

 fessor C.-E. A. Winslow, characterization and 

 classification; Dr. P. G. ISTovy, protozoology; 

 Professor C. E. Marshall, agricultural bac- 

 teriology; Professor F. P. Gorham, industrial 

 bacteriology; Professor E. O. Jordan, sanitary 

 bacteriology; Dr. W. H. Park, human pathol- 

 ogy; Dr. V. A. Moore, comparative pathology; 

 Dr. Erwin Smith, phytopathology, and Dr. 

 D. H. Bergey, pedagogics of bacteriology. 

 Those who have accepted invitations to speak 

 at the dinner are Dr. A. C. Abbott, Dr. Herman 

 M. Biggs, Professor H. W. Conn, Dr. J. J. 

 Kinyoun, Professor W. T. Sedgwick, Dr. 

 Theobald Smith, Dr. V. C. Vaughan and Dr. 

 W. H. Welch. 



To celebrate the eighty-sixth birthday (May 

 6) of Dr. Abraham Jacobi a dinner was given 

 at the Eitz-Carlton, New Tork. Dr. Jacobi, 



emeritus professor of diseases of children in 

 Columbia University, is in active hospital and 

 private practise in New York City. 



Dr. Eaymond Dodge, professor of psychol- 

 ogy in Wesleyan University, has been ap- 

 pointed by the trustees of Columbia University 

 to be Ernest Kempton Adams research fellow 

 for the academic year 1916-17. 



At its meeting held May 10, 1916, the Eum- 

 ford Committee of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences voted a grant of $500 to 

 Professor R. A. Millikan, of the University 

 of Chicago, in aid of his researches on the 

 photoelectric properties of metals in extreme 

 vacua. 



A GRANT of $300 has been made from the 

 C. M. Warren Fund of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences to Professor Grinnell 

 Jones, of Harvard University, for work on the 

 free energy of chemical reactions. 



The British Institution of Civil Engineers 

 has made the following awards for papers read 

 and discussed during the session of 1915-16 : 

 A TeKord gold medal to Sir John Benton 

 (Eastbourne) ; a Watt gold medal to Sir 

 George Buchanan (Rangoon) ; a George 

 Stephenson gold medal to Mr. F. W. Carter 

 (Eugby), and Telford premiums to Mr. C. 

 Carkeet James (London), Mr. D. E. Lloyd- 

 Davies (Cape Town), and Mr. W. T. Lucy 

 (Oxford). 



The two annual Walker prizes in Natural 

 History offered by the Boston Society of Nat- 

 ural History were this year awarded as fol- 

 lows: a first prize of one hundred dollars to 

 Wilbert Amie Clemens for his essay entitled 

 "An Ecological Study of the May-fly, Oliiro- 

 tenetes" and a second prize of fifty dollars to 

 Carl Cheswell Forsaith, for his essay on " The 

 Eolation of Peat Deposits to the Formation of 

 Coal." These prizes are annually offered for 

 the best memoirs submitted on subjects in nat- 

 ural history, and while the composition is open 

 to all, it was the intent of the founder of the 

 prizes, the late William Johnson Walker, that 

 they should serve as an encouragement for 

 younger naturalists, rather than as a reward 

 for mature investigators. 



