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determined by actual measurement. The amount 

 present in the ore has been found in fact to be es- 

 sentially the same as the theoretical amount re- 

 quired by the uranium-radium ratio. The extrac- 

 tion figures for the last five carloads of carnotite 

 treatment has shown a recovery of over 90 per 

 cent, in each ease. 



A bulletin giving details of mining, concentra- 

 tion and methods of extraction is being prepared 

 by the Bureau of Mines and will be issued early in 

 the faU. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. David Staer Jordan has been elected a 

 member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sci- 

 ence at Stockholm, in appreciation of his work 

 in zoology. 



It is planned at Brown University to collect 

 a fund to endow the library of the depart- 

 ment of mathematics in honor of Professor 

 Nathaniel F. Davis, who will retire from active 

 service at the close of the present academic 

 year, after having served Brown University 

 for over forty years. 



The University of Edinburgh has conferred 

 the degree of doctor of laws on Professor 

 W. A. Herdman, who holds the chair of zool- 

 ogy in the University of Liverpool, and on 

 Professor Arthur Thomson-, who holds the 

 chair of human anatomy in the University of 

 Oxford. 



The Eoyal Scottish Geographical Society 

 has awarded the Livingstone gold medal to 

 Lord Kitchener in recognition of his work on 

 the survey of Palestine and as director of the 

 survey of Cyprus, as well as in recognition of 

 his services to the state. The society's gold 

 medal has been awarded to Dr. J'. Scott Keltie, 

 late secretary of the Eoyal Geographical So- 

 ciety, in consideration of his services to geo- 

 graphical science. 



The medal and grant for 1915 of the South 

 African Association for the Advancement of 

 Science have been awarded to Mr. C. P. Louns- 

 bury, chief of the division of entomology. 

 Union Department of Agriculture. 



The following is a list of recently elected 

 honorary fellows of the Eoyal Society of Medi- 

 cine: British: Sir E. Douglas Powell, Lord 



Moulton, Sir John McFadyean, Sir Francis 

 Darwin, Eobert Bridges, Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Sir David Prain, T. Pridgin Teale, Sir John 

 Williams, Professor E. G. Browne, Professor 

 S. G. Shattock. Foreign: Professors J. Babin- 

 ski, A. Chauffard, Jules Dejerine, M. T. Tuffier 

 of Paris, and Dr. Paul Heger, of Belgium. 



The Hanbury medal has been awarded to 

 Mr. E. M. Holmes, curator of the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society's Museum, for his original re- 

 search in the natural history of drugs. 



On June 30, as we learn from Nature, Dr. 

 Alexander Fischer de Waldheim, director of 

 the Imperial Botanic Garden of Peter the 

 Great at Petrograd, completed the fiftieth year 

 of his scientific and administrative activities. 

 The event was made the occasion of a ceremony 

 with presentation of addresses in the hall of 

 the herbarium at the garden. Dr. Fischer de 

 Waldheim commenced his botanical career as 

 decent at the University of Moscow, and later 

 became professor of botany at the University 

 of Warsaw. On the death of A. F. Batalin in 

 1897 he was appointed director of the gardens 

 at Petrograd. 



The committee on awards for scientific 

 exhibits at the San Francisco meeting granted 

 gold medals to the pathological departments 

 of Stanford University and of the University 

 of Michigan; to the Indiana State Board of 

 Health, for its exhibit on a public health cam- 

 paign; to Drs. C. C. Bass and F. M. Johns, of 

 Tulane University, for their exhibit on pyor- 

 rhea alveolaris and malaria; to Drs. Claud A. 

 Smith and J. Witherspoon, on hookworm; to 

 the pathological laboratory of the New York 

 Lying-in Hospital, on the demonstration of 

 the cultivation of human tissue in vitro; to 

 Dr. Martin H. Fischer, of Cincinnati, on newer 

 experiments in the physiology and pathology 

 of kidney functions, and to Dr. J. T. Case, oi 

 Battle Creek, on lantern slides illustrating 

 Eoentgen-ray studies. 



The bronze thesis medal of the Science Club 

 of the University of Wisconsin was awarded 

 at commencement to Walter Pitz for a thesis 

 on " The Effect of Elemental Sulphur and of 

 Calcium Sulphate on Certain of the Higher 



