NOVEMBEE 26, 1915] 



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the University of Vienna, for his work on the 

 physiology and pathology of the vestibule of 

 the ear. According to a Eeuter dispatch from 

 Stockholm, two of the ISTobel prizes for 1915 

 will be awarded as follows: chemistry — Dr. 

 Eichard Willstaetter, of the University of 

 Berlin. Physics — divided between Professor 

 William Henry Bragg, of the University of 

 Leeds, and his son, W. L. Bragg, of Cam- 

 bridge University, England, for research in 

 the structure of crystals by use of the Eont- 

 gen rays. The prize for medicine for 1915 is 

 reserved until next year. 



November 24 was the seventy-fifth birth- 

 day anniversary of John Alfred Brashear, 

 whose name has been intimately associated, 

 for half a century, with the civic, scientific 

 and intellectual progress of Pittsburgh. His 

 friends celebrated his many years of unselfish 

 and enthusiastic devotion to the public wel- 

 fare, by a popular subscription dinner, at 

 which an opportunity was afforded to express 

 to him their appreciation of his services, and 

 their hopes for long continuance of his useful 

 and inspiring life. The dinner was held in 

 the banquet hall of the Soldiers' Memorial 

 Hall and was in charge of a committee of 

 seventy-five. 



Nature states that the committee which was 

 constituted last year to promote testimonials 

 to Professors Perry and Harrison on their 

 retirement from the staff of the Imperial Col- 

 lege (Eoyal College of Science) has now com- 

 pleted its labors. The testimonial to Pro- 

 fessor Harrison, who has been associated with 

 the department of mathematics and mechan- 

 ics during thirty-two years, has taken the 

 form of an illuminated address, accompanied 

 by valuable personal gifts. In the case of 

 Professor Perry, former students of the Fins- 

 bury Technical College desired to be associ- 

 ated with the testimonial, in recognition of 

 his valuable services to that institution prior 

 to his joining the staff of the Eoyal College 

 of Science in 1896. The governing body of 

 the Imperial College having readily consented 

 to act as trustees, the aiia of the committee 

 was to establish a permanent memorial of 

 Professor Perry's work in the form of a medal 



or prize to be awarded annually at each of 

 the two institutions. Dies have been pre- 

 pared from designs by Mr. Charles Wheeler, 

 of the Eoyal College of Art. A silver medal 

 will be awarded annually to a student of the 

 Imperial College for distinction in mathe- 

 matics and mechanics, and at the Finsbury 

 College a similar award will be made for dis- 

 tinction in mathematics and engineering. 



With addresses by Governor Prank B. 

 Willis, Dr. Thomas C. Mendenhall, Chief C. 

 F. Marvin, of the Weather Bureau, and Pro- 

 fessor J. Warren Smith, the Ohio Academy of 

 Science will hold its quarter-centennial meet- 

 ing on November 26 and 27. Professor Smith, 

 who is president of the academy, will give the 

 annual address. Dr. Marvin's subject will be 

 " The Work of the Weather Bureau." Dr. 

 Mendenhall will discuss " The Eolation of 

 the Academy to the State and to the People 

 of the State." Professor William E. Lazenby, 

 of the department of forestry of the Ohio 

 State University, will give a historical sketch 

 of the academy. 



Dr. Walter 0. Snelling, of Pittsburgh, 

 has bought land in Long Island City on which 

 he will erect laboratories for chemical re- 

 search. 



Alfred W. Bosworth, associate chemist at 

 the New York Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, who has been engaged in experiment 

 station work during the past sixteen years, 

 has accepted the position of chief of the de- 

 partment of biological chemistry of the Bos- 

 ton Floating Hospital, beginning about the 

 first of the new year. 



Herbert T. Osborn, a graduate of the Ohio 

 State University in 1909, son of Professor H. 

 Osborn, of the department of zoology, has 

 been sent by the Sugar Planters' Association 

 of Honolulu to Formosa, to secure parasites 

 to use in Hawaii to exterrainate the cane 

 beetle. 



At the Chemists' Club, New York, on No- 

 vember 10, there was a gathering of the fol- 

 lowing industrial chemists, at a dinner tend- 

 ered by the management of the exposition, to 

 discuss plans for the next National Exposition 



