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■the valuable work which he has done in con- 

 nection with meteorological science. The 

 medal will be presented at the annual meet- 

 ing of the society on January 21, 1914. 



Professoe Julius Stieglitz, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry in the University of Chi- 

 cago, is a member of the committee appointed 

 by the Chicago section of the American Chem- 

 ical Society to cooperate, if desired, with the 

 mayor of Chicago in the solution of the city's 

 waste problem. Other members of the com- 

 mittee are Professor John H. Long, of North- 

 western University, and Professor Harry 

 McCormack, of the department of chemical 

 engineering in the Armour Institute of Tech- 

 nology. 



Professor E. E. Southard, of Harvard 

 University, has been made a member of the 

 board of scientific directors of the Eugenics 

 Eecord Office, Cold Spring Harbor, N. T. 

 Professor Southard has also been made a mem- 

 ber of the consulting board for the laboratory 

 erected by the Bureau of Social Hygiene in 

 connection with the State Reformatory for 

 Women at Bedford Hills, N. T. 



We learn from The Oiservaiory that owing 

 to the continued illness of Professor Sir Rob- 

 ert Ball, Professor Newall has been made dep- 

 uty director of the Cambridge Observatory. 



Mr. H. Knox Shaw has been appointed 

 superintendent of the Helwan Observatory, 

 Egypt. 



Edgar T. Wherry, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania, 

 '09), lately assistant professor of mineralogy 

 at Lehigh University, has been appointed as- 

 sistant curator of mineralogy and petrology 

 in the department of geology, United States Na- 

 tional Museum, succeeding Mr. Joseph E. 

 Pogue, transferred to the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, and James C. Martin, Ph.D. 

 (Princeton, '13), has been appointed assistant 

 curator of physical and chemical geology, suc- 

 ceeding Mr. Chester G. Gilbert, now curator of 

 mineral technology. 



Mr. Thomas Lancaster Wren, who took a 

 first class in the mathematical tripos in 1909 

 and 1911, and Mr. Franklin Kidd, son of Ben- 

 jamin Kidd, the author of " Social Evolution," 



who took a first class in the natural science 

 tripos in 1912, have been elected to fellowships 

 in St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Dr. S. Chapman, chief assistant at the 

 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has been 

 elected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 



The clinical congress of surgeons of North 

 America was held in Chicago last week. In 

 addition to the clinical demonstrations held 

 in the various hospitals of the city, eight even- 

 ing sessions were devoted to the reading and 

 discussion of papers. Among those who made 

 addresses before the congress were Dr. Edward 

 Martin, Philadelphia; the retiring presi- 

 dent. Dr. George E. Brewer, of New York; 

 the incoming president. Sir W. Arbuthnot 

 Lane, London; Dr. Carl Beck, Chicago; Dr. 

 John B. Deaver, Philadelphia; Dr. Howard 

 Kelly, Baltimore; Dr. C. J. Gauss, Freiburg; 

 Dr. Roswell Park, Buffalo; Dr. James Ewing, 

 New York, and Dr. Charles Mayo, Rochester. 



Professor H. Monmouth Smith, of Syra- 

 cuse University, who has for several years been 

 a volunteer investigator in the nutrition lab- 

 oratory of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, Boston, has recently accepted a posi- 

 tion on the laboratory staff in connection with 

 the respiration calorimeters. 



Dr. Alois Riehl, professor of philosophy at 

 the University of Berlin, and formerly rector 

 of the university, will give two lectures, in 

 German, in Emerson Hall, Harvard Univer- 

 sity, on the afternoons of November lY and 18. 

 The topics are " Nietzsche " and " Nietzsche 

 and Bergson." 



At the regular monthly meeting of the 

 Cosmos Club on November 10, Dr. Bailey 

 Willis gave an address on " Present Day Con- 

 ditions in Argentina." 



The eighty-eighth Christmas course of juve- 

 nile lectures, founded at the Royal Institution 

 in 1826 by Michael Faraday, will be delivered 

 this year by Professor H. H. Turner, F.R.S., 

 Savilian professor of astronomy in the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford, his title being, " A Voyage in 

 Space." The lectures will be experimentally 

 illustrated, and the subjects are as follows: 

 The Starting Point— Our Earth, The Start 



