more non-commercial exhibits than have been entered before, and all scientists and institutions that can possibly do so are urged to take part. What is mainly needed is exhibits of newly devised or improved methods for research, either in the form of operating apparatus or otherwise, as by means of models, drawings or photographs, and exhibits of new results of research. Members of the association or of the associated scientific organizations are earnestly requested to do their share toward making the Kansas City Exhibition the great success that it surely ought to be.

Members are also asked to aid the exhibition management to secure exhibits and advertising from commercial firms. A small charge will be made for space taken by these firms, but no charge will be made in case of exhibits from individuals and research laboratories. Correspondence should be addressed to Major H. S. Kimberly, director of the Kansas City Exhibit of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington, D. C. Prompt action is very requisite; only a little time remains.

HOTELS AT THE KANSAS CITY MEETING

To the list of hotels already published in SCIENCE (November 13) are to be added the following names. All these hotels are within a block or two of those already mentioned.

The Aladdin Hotel. Single rooms, $2.50 and up; double rooms, $3.50 and up. All rooms have baths. The registration and publicity offices will be in the Aladdin and the upper floors are reserved for the exhibition. It is a new hotel, just being opened.

The Commonwealth Hotel. Single rooms, $2.00 and $2.50; double rooms $3.00 and $3.50. Each room is with bath.

The Robert E. Lee Hotel. Single rooms $2.00 and $2.50; double rooms $3.00 and $3.50. All are outside rooms and all have baths.

As in case of the other hotels on our list for the Kansas City meeting, room reservations should be sent directly to the hotels. Promptness in applying for reservations may avoid possible slight troubles upon arrival in Kansas City, but there seems to be no question as to the adequacy of the hotel accommodations for the meeting.

BURTON E. LIVINGSTON, Permanent Secretary

MEETINGS OF THE SECTION OF ZOOLOGY AT KANSAS CITY

A COMPLETE program is being arranged for Section Fat Kansas City to cover three days, Tuesday, De

cember 29, to Thursday, December 31. On Tuesday afternoon the retiring vice-president, Dr. Edwin Linton, will deliver his address on the topic of "The scientific method and authority." At the same session Dr. C. E. McClung will also address the section on "A quarter-century of American cytology." Both addresses are open to the public.

On Tuesday morning, and on both the morning and the afternoon of Wednesday, sessions will be held for the reading of papers by members of the section. It may be necessary to hold similar sessions on Thursday. A joint session with the Society of Parasitologists is scheduled for Thursday morning and a joint session with the Ecological Society of America for Thursday afternoon. A meeting of the section committee is called for Tuesday afternoon following the public addresses, and the business meeting of the section will occur at 9:30 on Wednesday morning. The zoological dinner will take place on Wednesday evening at the headquarters of the section.

The headquarters for Section F and the zoological societies will be the Kansas City Athletic Club, 11th Street and Baltimore Avenue. Members should make their reservations early and directly with the Athletic Club. The secretary of the local committee announces that rooms for women may also be had at the Athletic Club during the time of the meetings.

For information on railroad rates, other hotels and general announcements members should consult the preliminary announcement of the permanent secretary of the association, which has been published in SCIENCE for November 27. A list of hotels and rates were also published in SCIENCE for November 13.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

GEO. T. HARGITT, Secretary of Section F

GRANTS OF THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION In view of its financial position, the Carnegie Corporation has continued during the fiscal year just closed a policy of holding down its grants to a minimum figure, according to the announcement made by President F. P. Keppel in submitting his yearly report to the trustees of the corporation at the annual meeting of the board in New York. With a single exception, the grants voted during the year ending September 30, 1925, come to an even smaller total than those made during the previous year, namely, $2,408,645, as against $3,206,115.95. The single exception referred to is that of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which was voted $5,712,500, of which $5,000,000 will be an addition to its capital endowment. The total of grants authorized for the year by the trustees of the corporation is therefore $8,121,145.

In describing the grant made to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mr. Keppel said:

The duty of the corporation is clearly to give careful consideration to any proposal which may be received from a sister institution, but to take favorable action only as it is convinced that the grant proposed, as compared with other possibilities of usefulness open to the corporation, offers an outstanding opportunity to carry out the broad terms of its charter. To the trustees of the corporation it appeared that the situation facing the Carnegie Institution of Washington did offer such an outstanding opportunity and it appeared further that a delay in coming to the aid of the institution until a day more convenient from the point of view of its own finances would involve serious injustice to a body of workers whose contributions to science and scholarship are of the greatest importance to the community.

In view of its action in making this grant, the corporation has made a re-study of its whole financial situation and has now before it a seven-year program, which, if carried out, will: (1) meet the stated obligations falling within the period; (2) liquidate in full the grants upon which interest is now being paid pending capitalization; (3) restore its reserve fund to its normal figure of $2,500,000; (4) continue the amortization of its $8,000,000 grant to the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, due in 1946, and (5) provide a limited sum, estimated at $2,225,000 annually, for the continuation and development of its own program.

The program of the corporation, for the present, is concentrated upon adult education, library service and the arts and upon selected educational studies and cooperative research problems.

TESTIMONIAL TO DR. JAMES F. NORRIS PRESIDENT JAMES F. NORRIS, of the American Chemical Society, was honored by the Northeastern section of the society in Boston on the evening of November 13, when as guest of the section he was tendered a banquet and reception and then, after he had delivered an address to the members of the section and their guests, was presented with an engrossed testimonial of appreciation for his services as president of the society.

Mr. Norris, a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the testimonial meeting was held, is a member of the Northeastern section as well as president of the national society. Last year as chairman of the division of chemistry of the National Research Council he traveled all over the United States enlisting the cooperation of manufacturing chemists in the council plan to foster chemical research. Last summer he spent traveling in Europe and received numerous honors.

Although it is not customary for a president of the American Chemical Society to succeed himself, in recognition of Professor Norris's able administration the Northeastern Section of the society has voted to nominate him for reelection.

The illuminated testimonial was presented Professor Norris by Professor Lyman C. Newell, chairman of the section and head of the chemistry department at the Boston University College of Liberal Arts, on behalf of the section. The ceremonies were held in connection with the regular meeting of the section held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A reception to Professor Norris was given in Walker Memorial building at 6 P. M., followed by an informal dinner in North Hall, Walker Memorial, at 6.30 P. M. Following the dinner Professor Norris spoke briefly on his experiences last summer in traveling in Europe on behalf of the organization.

The meeting itself was convened at 8 P. M. in the naval architecture building, where Professor Norris was the speaker of the evening. His subject was "Chemical Reactivity."

As his address drew to a close, Professor Newell arose and paid tribute to Professor Norris's services to the society, to the cause of education and to the cause of chemical research, as well as to his eminence as a scientist. Then he presented the engrossed tribute. The gift, a booklet bound in a crushed Levant leather case, blue in color, with a hand-tooled special design, gold ornamented on the margin, contained the tribute of the section, and was signed by the officers of the Northeastern Section, headed by Professor Newell as chairman, and by about 250 members of the section, resident in and near Boston. The pages are illuminated by hand, and are in two colors. The text of the tribute is as follows:

We, your associates and friends in the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, desire at this time to express our genuine appreciation of your achievements as an executive, organizer, investigator, teacher and author in the field of chemistry.

We recognize that your work in the varied phases of chemistry has been characterized continuously by marked originality, keen insight, unerring judgment and prodigious industry.

We are gratified that your contributions to chemistry and your cordial cooperation with chemists have brought honor to you at home and abroad.

We rejoice in your pervasive geniality and in your ability to establish and maintain friendship.

We wish sincerely that the springtime of youth may always stay in your heart during the coming years of still greater achievements.

SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS

THE following awards have been made by the Royal Society: The Copley Medal to Professor Albert Einstein, for his theory of relativity and his contributions to the quantum theory; the Davy Medal to Sir James Irvine, for his work on the constitution of the sugars; the Sylvester Medal to Professor A. N. Whitehead, for his researches on the foundations of mathematics; the Hughes Medal to Mr. F. E. Smith, for his determination of fundamental electrical units and for researches in technical electricity; the Royal Medals to Professor W. H. Perkin, for his work on the constitution of the alkaloids, and to Professor A. C. Seward, for his researches on the paleobotany of Gondwanaland.

THE following officers were elected at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society on November 30: President, Sir Ernest Rutherford; treasurer, Sir David Prain; secretaries, Mr. J. H. Jeans and Dr. H. H. Dale; foreign secretary, Sir Richard Glazebrook. Other members of council, Professor J. H. Ashworth, Professor L. Bairstow, Professor F. O. Bower, Professor S. Chapman, Sir Dugald Clerk, Professor F. G. Donnan, Professor E. J. Garwood, Professor J. P. Hill, Professor J. B. Leathes, Professor J. C. G. Ledingham, Sir Thomas Lewis, Professor F. A. Lindemann, Sir Robert Robertson, Sir Charles Sherrington, Dr. G. C. Simpson and Mr. W. C. D. Whetham.

DR. JOHN J. ABEL, professor of pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, will receive the first $2,500 annual award of the Research Corporation of New York, as an investigator who has made "outstanding contributions to the cause of science without profit to himself."

THE Perkin Medal for 1925 has been awarded to Dr. R. B. Moore, formerly chief chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, who was largely responsible for the development of helium production during the war. The medal is given by the American section of the Society for Chemical Industry and the selection is made by a committee from that organization, the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American section of the Société de Chimie Industrielle. The presentation will be made on January 15.

DR. EDWARD ROBIE BERRY, of the General Electric Company, Lynn, Mass., has been awarded the Grasselli Medal of the American section of the Society of Chemical Industry. Presentation of the medal will be made at a meeting of the section in New York City on December 4, when Dr. Allen Robers, of the Pratt Institute, will give reminiscences of Dr. Berry's early days, and Professor Robert W. Wood, of the Johns Hopkins University, will speak on the optical proper

ties of fused quartz and its use in the study of ultraviolet light.

PROFESSOR CHARLES L. THORNBERG, professor emeritus of mathematics at Lehigh University, was awarded the honorary LL.D. by the university on the occasion of its annual founder's-day exercises.

DR. GEORGE H. MEEKER, dean of the graduate school of medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, received the degree of doctor of laws from Lafayette College at the founder's day exercises on October 21.

DR. J. FRANK DANIEL, professor of zoology at the University of California, while on sabbatical leave last year, attended the meetings of, and was elected to membership in the Société Zoologique de France, which met at Paris, and in the Association des Anatomistes, which met at Turin.

PROFESSOR DAVID EUGENE SMITH is preparing to retire from his active work as professor of mathematics in Teachers College, Columbia University, on February 1. He expects to devote his attention thereafter to writing. Lectures on the history of mathematics at Columbia will be discontinued with his retirement.

DR. KARL FROMME, professor of theoretical physics and geodesy at the University of Giessen, retired on November 1.

THE Bakelite Corporation has established a research fellowship in the research division in the School of Chemistry and Physics at the Pennsylvania State College. Dr. Lyman Chalkley, Jr., formerly research chemist of the Standard Oil Company, Whiting, Ind., has been appointed as senior fellow.

DR. H. L. DOZIER, chief of the division of entomology of the Porto Rico Insular Station, has been appointed entomologist at the Delaware Experiment Station.

THE Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has appointed Dr. J. H. Burn, pharmacologist in the National Institute for Medical Research, director of the new laboratories to be established by the society to provide facilities for biological tests such as are imposed under the therapeutic substances act, which became law on August 7, 1925.

DR. E. W. SCHULTZ, M. D. (Hopkins, '17), has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Dr. Schultz will work on the bacteriophage, in the laboratory of the International Sanitary Council at Alexandria, Egypt.

PROFESSOR H. H. WHETZEL, of Cornell University, and Dr. F. J. Seaver, of the New York Botanical Garden, will sail early in January for a five-weeks

collecting trip in Bermuda. They are preparing a fungous flora of these islands for the Bermuda government. They will be the guests of the director of agriculture, Mr. E. A. McCallan.

DR. C. P. RICHTER and Dr. G. B. Wislocki, of the Johns Hopkins University, have returned from Central America where they studied tropical animal life. Most of their time was spent at the Institute for Research in Tropical America.

DR. S. F. BLAKE, of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry, returned from abroad in November, where he has been examining types of South American Compositae at the principal European herbaria.

PROFESSOR PAVLOV, the Russian physiologist, has left Leningrad for Paris, where he intends to work in the Sorbonne for some time.

DR. JAMES F. NORRIS, president of the American Chemical Society, is visiting a number of cities from November 17 to December 15, during which period he will give addresses before about twenty meetings of local sections of the American Chemical Society.

DR. EDWIN E. SLOSSON, director of Science Service, will address the Columbia University chapter of the Sigma Xi on December 8 on "A chemical interpretation of history."

ON November 13, in connection with his visit to the Illinois Geological Survey at Urbana, Ill., Dr. David White, chairman of the division of geology and geography of the National Research Council, spoke before a joint seminar meeting of the staffs of the survey and the department of geology of the University of Illinois on "Lines of geologic investigation of especial promise."

DR. CHARLES R. STOCKARD, professor of anatomy at the Cornell University Medical College, gave, on November 17, the second annual lecture of the Biochemical Society of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, on "Recent advances in our knowledge of internal secretion." Professor H. Gideon Wells, of the University of Chicago, is announced as the third lecturer for 1926.

DR. IRVING LANGMUIR, of the Research Laboratory of the General Electric Company, Schenectady, gave an address on "Pure science in industrial research," at the Faculty Club of New York University, on November 20.

PROFESSOR JAMES KENDALL, of the department of chemistry of Columbia University, delivered his retiring address as chairman of the New York section of the American Chemical Society at the November meeting of the section at the Chemists' Club on

November 6. The subject of his lecture was: "The separation of the rare earths."

HARALD U. SVERDRUP, in charge of the scientific work of the Maud expedition to the Arctic, gave an illustrated lecture on the scientific work of the expedition at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, on December 1.

DR. ANNIE J. CANNON, of the Harvard College Observatory, will give an illustrated lecture on "Starlight and its message," before a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, in Philadelphia, on December 4.

DR. LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY, of Cornell University, gave a lecture on "Botanical gardens," before a meeting of the Ohio Botanic Garden Society, which met in Cincinnati, on November 20.

MISS H. NEWELL WARDLE, assistant curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, on November 19 addressed a meeting of the Philadelphia Natural History Society on the "Life of the eastern woodland Indians before the discovery of America."

PROFESSOR YANDELL HENDERSON, of Yale University, lectured at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, on October 22 and 23 on "The control of respiration in anesthesia by inhalation of carbon dioxide and on absorption and elimination of volatile substances through the lungs." The lectures were repeated at the University of Manchester on October 26 and 27, and at the University of Edinburgh on October 29 and 30. They were delivered under the auspices of the Dental Board of the United Kingdom.

On November 30 and December 1 Professor Henderson lectured at University College, London, on the "Efficiency of the heart, and its measurement."

DR. ALBERT SAUVEUR, professor of metallurgy and metallography of the Harvard Engineering School, gave a series of three public lectures on November 30, December 1 and 2 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology on "Directional properties and dendritic segregation in steel" and "Hardening of steel."

DE LAMAR lectures at the Johns Hopkins University have been given as follows: November 16, by Dr. David Marine, "The prevention of simple goiter as a public health problem"; November 30, by Dr. Alice Hamilton, "The present status of industrial toxiIcology in the United States."

THE Huxley memorial lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute was given this year by Sir Arthur J. Evans, F.R.S., at the rooms of the Royal Society, November 24, on the subject of "Early Nilotic, Libyan and Egyptian relations with Minoan Crete."

THE hundredth annual course of Christmas lectures for children at the Royal Institution will be delivered this year by Sir William Bragg on "Old trades and new knowledge." The trade of the sailor is the title of the first lecture, to be given on December 29, and the following five lectures will be on the trades of the smith, the weaver, the dyer, the potter and the miner. PROFESSOR E. P. CATHCART delivered the Chadwick public lectures at Reading, England, on October 30 and 31, his subject being the nature and composition of food and its relation to the energy needs of the body.

SIR DAVID PRAIN, F.R.S., formerly director of Kew Gardens and of the Botanical Survey of India, gave a lecture on some useful plants of India at a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain on November 10.

IN memory of Dr. Norman Lothian (British) and Dr. Darling (American), the two members of the Malaria Commission of the League of Nations who were killed in a motor accident near Beirut last May while investigating malaria conditions in Syria, the League's Health Committee has decided to create a "Lothian Scholarship" and a "Darling Prize," which will be awarded periodically for the encouragement of malariological study.

A MEMORIAL to Sir James Dewar, consisting of a bronze plaque, was unveiled at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on November 10.

DR. FREDERICK B. PECK, professor of mineralogy and geology at Lafayette College, died on November 2, aged sixty-five years.

DR. JOHN LEWIS HILDRETH, formerly professor of clinical medicine and dean of Tufts Medical College, Boston, died on November 27, in his eighty-seventh year.

PROFESSOR J. MASSART, professor of botany in the University of Brussels, has died, aged sixty years.

DR. PAUL HEGER, from 1873 to 1907 professor of physiology at the University of Brussels, and afterwards honorary professor and president of the university, has died, aged seventy-nine years.

DR. MORITZ RETHY, professor emeritus of mathematics at the Budapest School of Technology, has died at the age of seventy-nine years.

THE deaths are announced of Dr. Y. V. Samoilov, a Russian professor of mineralogy, and B. V. Davydov, hydrographist and leader of a number of expeditions to Wrangle Island.

THE president of the executive committee of the International Research Council has summoned a

meeting of the general assembly of that body to be held at Brussels on June 29, 1926. The object of the meeting will be to discuss the advisability of removing from the statutes the restrictions which have hitherto stood in the way of admitting the Central Powers of Europe to the Research Council.

THE board of directors of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers has, on the recommendation of the committee on coordination of institute activities, adopted the following schedule of meetings for 1926: Midwinter convention, New York, week beginning February 8; annual business meeting, New York, May 21; annual convention, probably June 21-25, place to be determined by the committee; Pacific Coast convention, Salt Lake City, date to be decided later; regional meetings: Middle Eastern District, Cleveland, March 18-19; Northeastern District, Niagara Falls, latter part of May or early in June.

THE Biological Laboratory of the Long Island Biological Association at Cold Spring Harbor has recently acquired a forty-five foot motor launch. The boat, which is the gift of Dr. Walter B. James, a member of the board of directors of the biological laboratory, is capable of carrying sixty persons to marine collecting grounds in the vicinity of the laboratory. Its shallow draught of less than three feet will permit of its entering inlets and estuaries, while its seaworthiness, due to its 912 foot beam and general construction, will make practicable collecting trips to the rocky Connecticut shore across the sound. It is equipped with a standard heavy duty marine motor, developing a speed of ten miles an hour. Apparatus, suitable for dredging in Cold Spring Harbor, Oyster Bay and Long Island Sound, will be installed.

A SHIPMENT consisting of seventy mammal skins and skulls has been received by the U. S. National Museum, collected by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, in Siam. These specimens make an important addition to the collection of mammals as they come from a region not represented in the collections of Malayan mammals previously made for the museum by Dr. W. L. Abott and C. B. Kloss.

A CORRESPONDENT writes: "L'Institut Océanographique, founded by the Prince of Monaco, had already published seven volumes of its Annales before the interruption caused by the breaking out of the European war. Since 1922, however, the publication of these Annales has been continued under the direction of Professor Joubin, of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. It has just been learned that there is scarcely an institution, library, museum or university in this country which has up to the present time