Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12
SCIENCE NOTES.

The Paris Academy of Medicine has
elected as foreign correspondents Prof.
Ladome of Geneva and Sir Dyce
Duckworth of London.
Dr. L. D. Ricketts,, president ana gen.
eral manager of the Canadian Copper
Company, has been elected president of
the American Institute of Mining En-
gineers.
Sir William Turner, principal Of
Edinburgh University, distinguished as
an anatomist. died at the age Of
teiefty-three years.
The gold medal of the Royal AS
Economical Society has been presented
to DR.. j. L. E. Dreyer for his con,
tributions to astronomical history ana
his catalogue of nebulae.
At the Royal College of Physicians
of London, Sir Thomas Barlow is to be
the Harveian orator for the present
Bradshaw lecturer, and Dr. w: ).
Haworth, the Milroy lecturer for 1917.
The Colorado School of Mines an
nounces that the United States bureau
of mines will move its laboratory from
Denver to Golden in June. The two
institutions will cooperate in investl-
cation work r. B. Moore and ten
assistants constitute the bureau stan
The Graduate School of Agriculture
will be held at the Massachusetts
Agricultural College July to 20;
This school is under the auspices OF
the Association of American Agricul-
tural colleges and Experimental Sta
tions. DR.. H. C. Prue of Washington,
d. c. is the dean of the school
An appeal, signed by 246 German and
Austrian scientific men, has been made
to the public not to cease to subscribe
to scientific periodicals. Such peri
odicals. the memorialists state, are in
dispensable to scientific progress
The Museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons of England has been closed
since June last. the motive being the
desire to safeguard the collection from
destruction during air raids
The twenty-seventh session of the
biological laboratory of the Brooklyn
Institute of Arts and Sciences, located
at Cold Spring Harbor, Will be held In
the summer of 1916.
The Woman's Medical Association of
New York city offers the Mary Putnam
jacob fellowship of $780, available for
post graduate study. 1t is open to any
the medical sciences.
c. J. Marshall, professor of veteri-
tnary medicine in the veterinary school
of the University of Pennsylvania, is
soon to visit England and France to
make observations in the hope that the
informant ton obtained will be of service
, to America
DR. Edward B. Poulton, professor Of
.F<.t, I-r,fxr rct4. hos hnn
elected foreign member of the Swed-
ish Royal Academy of Science.
A grant of $500 from the c. NJ. War
| rem fund of the American Academy of
| Arts and Sciences has been made to
| University for the study of factors
which influence the valency of carbon
DIR. Albert Einstein of Berlin has
been elected a corresponding member
| in the section of mathematics and
| physics
Ivan Palor. the eminent Russian
psychologist, died some days ago at
years. In 1904 he was awarded the
Nobel prize for medicine.
| In the joint statement given out by
! the United States geological survey and
| the bureau of the mint the value of
new gold added to the home supply
| from mills and smelters in 1915
| amounted to $9S,S91.1O0.
The magnetic survey vessel Carnegie
has arrived at South Georgia Island,
| having made magnetic observations
! daily since her departure for New Zea-
| land. The Carnegie is on the continu-
| alton trip of her circumnavigation of
| the region between the parallels so and
| so degrees south.