July 23, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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Science, will deliver an address at the opening 

 session of tlie Pacific coast meeting, held at 

 the Scottish Rite Auditorium, San Francisco, 

 on the morning of August 2. Dr. C. W. Eliot, 

 the retiring president of the association, is 

 unable to be present. 



The thirteenth annual session of the South 

 African Association for the Advancement of 

 Science v^as held at Pretoria, from Monday, 

 July 5, to Saturday, July 10, under the presi- 

 dency of Mr. E. T. A. Innes, union astron- 

 omer. 



The Trail avsrard and medal of the Linnean 

 Society for 1915 has been presented to Dr. 

 Leonard Doneaster, and the Linnean gold 

 medal to Mr. J. H. Maiden, of Sydney, New 

 South Wales. 



At its recent commencement Oberlin Col- 

 lege conferred its doctorate of science on Dr. 

 Charles A. Kof oid, professor of zoology in the 

 University of California. 



At a convocation of the University of Ox- 

 ford on June 25 the honorary degree of master 

 of arts was conferred on Mr. Horatio P. 

 Symonds, surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, 

 in recognition of his services to the Oxford 

 Medical School. 



Among knights created on King Albert's 

 birthday the following are given in Nature 

 as those engaged. in scientific work: Mr. C. E. 

 Eryer, superintending inspector of fisheries 

 division of the Board of Agriculture £ind 

 Fisheries since 1903; Mr. K. R. Gales, Ladian 

 Public Works Department, engineer-in-chief, 

 Hardinge Bridge, Sara, Bengal; Dr. J. Mac- 

 kenzie, F.R.S., lecturer on cardiac research at 

 the London Hospital; Dr. T. Muir, F.R.S., 

 superintendent-general of education. Province 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, Union of South 

 Africa; Mr. W. Pearce, director of William 

 Pearce and Sons (Limited) and Spencer, 

 Chapman, and Mensel (Limited), chemical 

 manufacturers; Mr. E. Eigg, since 1898 super- 

 intendent of the operative department of the 

 Royal Mint; Dr. W. N. Shaw, F. R. S., di- 

 rector of the Meteorological Ofiice since 1905 

 and reader in meteorology in the University 

 of London since 1907; Mr. W. Slingo, engi- 

 neer-in-chief of the General Post Office. 



Mr. Herbert Lang has been appointed as- 

 sistant in mammalogy and Mr. James P. 

 Chapin assistant in ornithology in the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. Mr. Lang 

 and Mr. Chapin have also been elected life 

 members of the museum in recognition of their 

 efficient services in conducting the Congo 

 expedition. 



A GRANT of £50 has been made from the 

 Balfour Fund of the University of Cambridge 

 to enable Mr. G. Matthai, of Emmanuel Col- 

 lege, to visit America in furtherance of his 

 researches on the comparative anatomy and 

 classification of the Madreporaria. 



Dr. Frederick Burr La Forge, of the staff 

 of the Rockefeller Lastitute for Medical Re- 

 search, has been appointed expert in organic 

 chemistry in the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture. Dr. Benjamin S. Eline, also of the 

 staff of the institute, has been appointed resi- 

 dent pathologist of the Montefiore Home for 

 Chronic Livalids, and in connection with this 

 appointment he has also undertaken work in 

 the department of pathology of the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. M. Sullivan has resigned from the 

 division of soil fertility of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, and 

 has accepted the position of bio-chemist of 

 the U. S. Public Health Service. Dr. Sullivan 

 will be engaged in the biochemical study of 

 pellagra with headquarters at the pellagra 

 hospital, Spartanburg, S. C. 



Dr. Nevin M. Fenneman, profesor of geol- 

 ogy at the University of Cincinnati, will have 

 his year's leave of absence next year. Dr. Guy 

 A. Tavtmey, professor of philosophy at Cincin- 

 nati, will return in the fall after a year's 

 study at Oxford, England. 



Dr. Lattitia M. Snow, associate professor 

 of botany in Wellesley College, has been 

 granted a leave of absence for 1915-16. She ex- 

 pects to study in several institutions but her 

 address for the year will be department of 

 botany. University of Chicago. 



Messrs. H. E. Anthony and D. S. Ball 

 have returned from an expedition to the moun- 



