December 5, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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E. — Geology and Geography — George F. Kay, 

 State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 



F. — Zoology — Herbert V. Neal, Tufts College, 

 Mass. 



■G. — Botany — W. J. V. Osterhout, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Mass. 



H. — Anthropology and Psychology — (Acting Secre- 

 tary), E. K. Strong, Jr., Columbia University, 

 New York, N. T. 



I. — Social and Economic Science — Seymour 0. 

 LooMis, 69 Church Street, New Haven, Conn. 



'K. — Physiology and Experimental Medicine — Don- 

 ald R. Hooker, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



L. — Education — Stuart A. Courtis, , Liggett 

 School, Detroit, Mich. 



Treasurer 



E. S. Woodward, Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, Washington, D. C. 



Assistant Secretary 



F. S. Hazard, Office of the American Association 

 :Eor the Advancement of Science, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The medals of the Royal Society have been 

 awarded as follows: The Copley medal to Sir 

 Hay Lankester, on the ground of the high 

 scientific value of the researches in zoology 

 carried out by him, and of the researches in- 

 spired and suggested by him and carried out 

 by his pupils; a Royal medal to Professor H. 

 B. Dixon, F.R.S., for his researches in physical 

 chemistry, especially in connection with explo- 

 sions in gases; a Royal medal to Professor E. 

 H. Starling, F.R.S., for his contributions to 

 the advancement of physiology; the Davy 

 medal to Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., for his 

 ■work in synthetic chemistry; the Hughes 

 medal to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, on the 

 ground of his share in the invention of the 

 telephone and more especially the construction 

 of the telephone receiver; the Sylvester medal 

 to Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., for his 

 mathematical researches. 



The former pupils of Sir Henry Roscoe 

 during the long period he occupied the chair of 

 chemistry at Owens College, now the Univer- 

 sity of Manchester, decided some time back to 



commemorate the celebration of his eightieth 

 birthday in January, 1913, by presenting his 

 bust to the Chemical Society of London, and 

 the formal presentation took place on Novem- 

 ber 21 at the society's rooms. Sir Edward 

 Thorpe first presented to Sir Henry Roscoe 

 an address signed by some 140 of his former 

 students. He then unveiled the bust, and, on 

 behalf of the subscribers, asked the president 

 of the Chemical Society to accept it as a per- 

 manent memorial. He extended to Mr. Albert 

 Drury, R.A., the thanks of the committee for 

 the excellent and striking likeness that he had 

 secured. He also asked Sir Henry Roscoe to 

 accept as a further memento a replica of the 

 bust for himself and the members of his 

 family. The gift to the Chemical Society was 

 accepted by the president, Professor W. H. 

 Perkin. Sir Henry Roscoe then acknowledged 

 the gifts, both to himself personally and to 

 the Chemical Society. 



Professor F. Loeffler, who since 1888 has 

 occupied the chair of hygiene in the Univer- 

 sity of Greifswald, has been appointed director 

 of the Koch Institute of Infectious Diseases 

 at Berlin in succession to Professor Gafiky. 



Dr. J. N. Langlet, professor of physiology 

 in the University of Cambridge, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Munich 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The Mary Kingsley medal of the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine has been pre- 

 sented to Professor F. V. Theobald, vice- 

 principal and zoologist of the Southeastern 

 Agricultural College, Wye. 



The Bessemer gold medal of the British 

 Iron and Steel Institute for 1914 will be 

 awarded to Dr. Edward Riley, F.C.S., F.LO. 

 An appropriation from the Shaler Memorial 

 Fund of Harvard University has been granted 

 to Professor P. E. Raymond and Professor 

 W. H. Twenhofel for an investigation into 

 the correlation of the Ordovician and Silurian 

 strata of the Baltic region with those of North 

 America. 



Dr. L. W. Stephenson has been granted 

 leave of absence by the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, to occupy a chair of paleontology in the 



