applications that have been received. The most essential points decided upon by the board are the following:

(1) The fellowships are designed primarily for research as fundamental to a teaching career in one of the medical sciences. For this latter reason it is prescribed that the fellow must work where facilities for, but not obligations in, teaching are afforded.

(2) The fellowships are for full time and basal salaries of $1,800 for unmarried men and $2,300 for married men have been determined. Salaries in either of these grades may be larger than the minimum, depending upon the number of dependents and the locality chosen by the candidate for work.

(3) The place of work and the subject chosen for investigation are determined by the candidate with due consideration for the feasibility of the plan proposed. It has been decided that the work may be carried out either in this country or abroad.

The first fellows have been appointed and are now at work. In spite of the fact that the funds for these fellowships generously donated by the Rockefeller Foundation and General Education Board were not available and that announcements concerning the fellowships could not be made until relatively late in the year numerous applications have been received and twenty-six candidates have already been accepted.

The fellows so far appointed cover the whole group of the specialities of medicine and are divided as follows:

Pathology and bacteriology.
Medicine

Surgery

Physiology

Biochemistry

Anatomy

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Pharmacology

Physical chemistry.

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The following is a complete list of fellows so far appointed:

Albritton, Errett C., A.B. Missouri, M.D. Johns Hopkins, Mayfield, Ky. Ohio State University; endocrine physiology.

Andrus, William D., A.B., M.A. Oberlin, M.D. Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, Ohio. University of Cincinnati; surgery.

Anson, Barry J., A.B. Wisconsin (has equivalent of Ph.D. degree), Muscatine, Iowa. Harvard Medical School; embryology and histology.

Bent, Michael J., M.D. Meharry, San Andres, Republic of Colombia. College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City; bacteriology and hygiene.

Cone, William V., B.Sc., M.D. Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Iowa State University; neuropathology.

Connor, Charles L., M.D. Baylor College of Medicine, Forsyth, Montana. Harvard Medical School; the etiology of Rocky Mountain fever.

Curtis, George M., A.B., M.A., Ph.D. Michigan, M.D. Rush Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The University of Chicago; surgery of the hypophysis.

Davis, Loyal E., M.S., M.D. Northwestern, Chicago, Ill. Northwestern University; neuorolgical surgery.

Derick, Clifford L., A.B. Lachute Academy, M.D. McGill, Noyan, Quebec, Canada. Harvard Medical School; medicine.

Ferry, Ronald M., A.B. Harvard, M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, Concord, Mass. Harvard Medical School; biochemistry.

Josephs, Hugh W., A.B. Harvard, M.D. Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. The University of Chicago; physical chemistry.

Leiter, Louis, B.S., M.S. Chicago, M.D. Rush Medical School, Los Angeles, California. The University of Chicago; pathology.

Lennox, William G., A.B. Colorado College, M.D. Harvard, M.A. Denver, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Harvard Medical School; medicine, especially epilepsy.

MacCready, Paul B., B.S. Princeton, M.D. Johns Hopkins, New York. Johns Hopkins University; laryngology.

McIver, Monroe A., A.B. North Carolina, M.D. Harvard Medical School, Gulf, N. C. Harvard Medical School; pathology.

McLean, Jay, B.S. California, A.M., M.D., M.S. Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Md. The University of Leipzig; surgery.

Mills, Clarence A., A.B. South Dakota, Ph.D. Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. The University of Cincinnati Medical School; experimental medicine.

Rapport, David, A.B., M.D. Harvard, Cornell Medical College, New York, physiology.

Reznikoff, Paul, B.Sc. New York University, M.D. Cornell Medical College, Brooklyn, N. Y. Harvard Medical School; experimental medicine. Robinson, Elliott S., A.B., M.D. Yale, New Haven, Conn. Yale School of Medicine; bacteriology and immunology.

Rosenthal, Sanford M., M.D. Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville, Tenn. Johns Hopkins Medical School; clinical medicine.

Schmitz, Herbert W., B.S. Wisconsin, M.D. Harvard, Manitowoc, Wis. New York Post Graduate Hospital; biochemistry.

Shibley, Gerald S., A.B., M.D. Columbia, Maplewood, N. J. Columbia University; medicine, especially infectious diseases.

Smith, Beverly C., A.B., M.D. Virginia, Franklin, La. Columbia University; toxemia in intes

tinal obstruction.

Stieglitz, Edward J., B.S. Chicago, M.D. Rush Medical School, Chicago, Ill. Johns Hopkins Hospital; a clinical study of nephritis.

Locke, Charles Edward, Jr., A.B., M.D. California, Special Docteur en Chururgie, Brussels, University of California Hospital, San Francisco. University of California Hospital; neurological surgery.

SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF

EUGENICS

As has been noted in SCIENCE, the International Commission of Eugenics met at Brussels on Saturday, October 7, and Monday, October 9. According to the report in Eugenical News, there were present Major Leonard Darwin, chairman; Dr. Almert Govaerts, secretary; Dr. Van Herwerden of Utrecht, Holland; Dr. Winner, Professor of psychiatry, Copenhagen; Dr. Jon Alfred Mjoen of the

Winderen Laboratorium, near Christiania; M. Lucien March of "Statistique générale de la France," and Dr. Pinard, President of the Société Française d'Eugénique, Paris; and Dr. C. B. Davenport, of Cold Spring Harbor.

It was voted unanimously to invite German delegates to the commission. It was decided provisionally to hold the next meeting of the commission at Lund, Sweden, and the next meetings of the Eugenics Congress in 1924 at Prague. These decisions are contingent upon the possibility of making appropriate arrangements for the meetings.

The occasion of the meeting of the International Commission of Eugenics at Bruxelles was taken advantage of for a meeting of the Ligue nationale Belge contre le Péril vénérien at the same place, and an extensive social program was arranged.

On October 7, a lecture was given by Dr. Apert, physician of the hospitals of Paris, entitled, "L'Hérédité Morbide." On October 8, in the morning a joint congress of the Ligue contre le Péril vénérien and Fédérations of Anti-Alcoholic Societies of Belgium was held in collaboration with the Belgian Eugenics Society. In the afternoon there was an excursion to Waterloo, where an address was given by M. Gheude, député permanent, entitled, "Les buts Eugéniques de la Ferme-École." This was followed by visits to the battlefield and to the Ferme-école Provinciale, the new home for the feeble-minded which it is hoped will be ready for occupancy in the spring. On Monday, there was held the second meeting of the commission, and, at 4 o'clock, a visit to the Solvay Institute of Sociology where Major Darwin gave an address entitled “L'Eugénique” and Professor Wimmer of Copenhagen one on "Mental Heredity." At 5 o'clock, the Prison de Forêst and its laboratory of anthropology were visited. On Tuesday, addresses were given by Dr. Daisy M. Robinson, by M. Lucien March, of Paris, and Dr. Berthollet, of Lausanne, on matters partly of anti-veneral and partly of eugenical interest. At half past two in the afternoon, a meeting was held in the large hall of the Solvay Institute of Sociology, at which was inaugurated the eugenics room

of the institute. Two lectures were given on the practical organizations of eugenics, "in the. United States" by Dr. Davenport; "in Belgium" by Dr. Govaerts. On Wednesday a visit was made by the Congress to the city of Antwerp.

THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL

BIOLOGY

THE 1922 annual meeting of the federation will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, December 27, 28 and 29, at Toronto, Canada, under the auspices of the University of Toronto. The program will be sent out about December 14. An effort to secure special railroad rates is being made. In case these are secured members will be notified. The hotel headquarters are the King Edward. About 100 men can be accommodated, in either single rooms or in suites each with two bedrooms, in the men's residences of the university. About 12 women can be accommodated in one of the women's residences. Breakfast for those living in the residences can be obtained at Hart House. The charge for these rooms will be $3.00 for 3 nights, or $2.00 for 2 or 1 night. Luncheons will be provided on the 27, 28, and 29. Dinners will be followed by a smoker on the evenings of the 27 and 28. All these will be given in Hart House, the student's club, near the residences and the medical building.

The Local Committee is anxious to arrange a large series of demonstrations. As the departments of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology are all in the one building, facilities of all kinds can readily be arranged. All communications in regard to the same should be addressed to Professor J. M. Olmsted, Medical Building, University of Toronto.

The general meetings will be held in the Physics Building of the university. Meetings of the Constituent Societies will be held in the Medical and Anatomy Buildings of the university, which intercommunicate. The lecture rooms are not distant from each other and it is hoped to have a notice board system, so that the papers to be read in each section will be

posted in each other section. Professor Andrew Hunter is chairman and Professor V. E. Henderson is secretary of the local committee.

THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

THE 24th annual meeting (the 118th regular meeting) of the American Physical Society will be held in Boston on December 2630, 1922, in affiliation with Section B-Physics -of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The meetings will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the session in charge of Section B, Professor G. W. Stewart, the retiring vice-president and chairman of Section B, will give the annual address. This will be followed by a symposium on "Ionization Potentials and Atomic Radiation," and the invited speakers are to be Dr. Paul D. Foote, of the Bureau of Standards, and Professors K. T. Compton and Henry Norris Russell, of Princeton.

Members wishing to present papers at the Boston meeting are requested to send abstracts ready for publication to the secretary before December 9. The secretary expects to send the program to all members before the meeting, but the delays in the mails are so great at present that members should not depend upon the program to determine their attend

Reduction of singularities of plane curves by birational transformation: PROFESSOR G. A. BLISS, University of Chicago, retiring president of the society.

The grafting of the theory of limits on the calculus of Leibniz: PROFESSOR FLORIAN CAJORI, University of California, representing the association.

Geometry and physics: PROFESSOR OSWALD VEBLEN, Princeton University, retiring vicepresident of Section A of the American Association.

At the Friday morning session the following papers will be given:

Period of the bifilar pendulum for finite amplitudes: PROFESSOR H. S. UHLER, Yale University. Skew squares: PROFESSOR W. H. ECHOLS, University of Virginia.

On the averaging of grades: PROFESSOR C: F. GUMMER, Queen's University.

Mathematics at Oxford and the Ph.D. degree: PROFESSOR W. R. BURWELL, Brown University. Some unsolved problems in the theory of sampling: PROFESSOR B. H. CAMP, Wesleyan University.

Some unsolved problems in solid geometry: PROFESSOR J. L. COOLIDGE, Harvard University.

It is of special note that the session on Friday afternoon will be devoted to a "Symposium on Mathematical Statistics," for the purpose of strengthening the existing entente cordiale between mathematicians on the one hand and practicing statisticians on the other. It is hoped that this symposium will be of real service, not only to those who are giving courses in statistics in departments of mathematics, but also to others who may be interested in the application of mathematics to statistical problems. The following papers will be read:

The subject matter of a course in mathematical statistics: PROFESSOR H. L. RIETZ, head of the department of mathematics at the State University of Iowa, and chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on the Mathematical Analysis of Statistics.

Time series of economic statistics: their fluctuation and correlation: WARREN M. PERSONS, professor of economics at Harvard University, and editor of the Review of Economic Statistics, published by the Harvard Committee on Economic Research.

The fundamental concepts of the calculus of mass variation: ARNE FISHER, statistician of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and

author of "The mathematical theory of probabilities and its application to frequency curves and statistical methods." The discussion will be opened by RAYMOND PEARL, professor of biometry and vital statistics in the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and statistician of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

CHEMISTRY AT THE BOSTON MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

THE Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will undoubtedly be the most important to chemists of any of its meetings held for years. Papers on research work completed or in progress are now invited from the chemists of the country. In addition to such papers as may be submitted there will be a symposium on "The Progress of Chemistry," and a second symposium on "Photochemistry and Plant Physiology," in which the leading chemists of the country will discuss these subjects. In addition the American Physical Society will continue the series of symposia begun last year jointly with the Mathematica and Chemical Societies. The subject will be "Ionization Potentials and Atomic Radiation," and the speakers will be Paul D. Foote, K. T. Compton and Henry Norris Russell.

The following list gives the papers already arranged for in connection with the symposium on the progress of chemistry: "Compressibilities and the size of atoms," by Theodore W. Richards, of Harvard University; "Proteins and the theory of colloidal behavior," Jacques Loeb, of the Rockefeller Institute; "X-rays as related to the structure of atoms and of crystals," William Duane and also George L. Clark, both of Harvard University; "Changes in volume during the solution of solids," Gregory P. Baxter, of Harvard University; "The chemistry of the photographic process," C. E. K. Mees, of the Eastman Kodak Company; "The present status of the theory of complete ionization," D. A. MacInnes, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; "The present status of the theory of incomplete ionizaion," James Kendall, of Columbia University; "Ionization potentials and chemical action," W. A. Noyes, Jr., and "The separation

of isotopes," by R. S. Mulliken, both of the University of Chicago. In addition a number of other topics, not yet fully decided upon, will be discussed by noted chemists.

At the symposium on photochemistry and plant physiology to be held Thursday, December 28, at 2 p. m., H. A. Spoehr, of the Desert Laboratory, will discuss "Photosynthesis," S. E. Sheppard will speak on "Photochemical reactions," and a third speaker will present the subject "Carbohydrate metabolism."

The address of the retiring vice-president and chairman of Section C will be upon the subject "The nuclei of atoms and the general system of isotopes."

It is expected that one or two of the sessions will be provided with a program by nearby sections of the American Chemical Society as follows: the Northeastern, the New York, the Eastern New York, the Cornell, the New Haven, the Philadelphia, the Washington, and the Delaware sections.

Speakers have been invited to present papers on atomic structure, the electron theory of valence, the nature of metals, the work of various great laboratories, and various other topics of interest to professional chemists. It should be noted that no specific invitations have been sent out for papers on the research work of individuals, but it is hoped that the chemists of the United States and Canada will respond in considerable numbers to the general invitation given in the present notice. The titles of such papers should be sent as soon as possible either to the retiring chairman, Professor W. D. Harkins, of the University of Chicago, to the secretary of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, Professor E. B. Millard, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., or to the vice-president and chairman, Professor W. Lash Miller, of the University of Toronto.

SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS AT the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society on November 30, its awards are to be conferred as follows: Royal medal to Professor C. T. R. Wilson, for his researches on con

densation nuclei and atmospheric electricity, and to Professor J. Barcroft, for his researches in physiology, especially in respiration; the Copley medal to Sir Ernest Rutherford, for his researches in radioactivity and atomic structure; the Rumford medal to Professor Pieter Zeeman, for his researches in optics; the Davy medal to Professor J. F. Thorpe, for his researches in synthetic organic chemistry; the Darwin medal to Professor R. C. Punnett, for his researches in the science of genetics; the Buchanan medal to Sir David Bruce, for his researches and discoveries in tropical medicine; the Sylvester medal to Professor T. Levi-Civita, for his researches in geometry and mechanics; and the Hughes medal to Dr. F. W. Aston, for his discovery of isotopes by the method of positive rays.

AT the formal opening of the University of Paris, honorary degrees of doctor of laws were received by Ambassador Herrick on behalf of Elihu Root, Esq., Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, and Professor Albert A. Michelson, of the University of Chicago.

DR. M. C. WHITAKER, chemical engineer of New York City, has been awarded the Perkin medal "for the most important contribution to applied chemistry made by any citizen of the United States," by the Society of Chemical Industry. The presentation will be made by Dr. Charles F. Chandler.

AT the meeting of the Ophthalmic Section of the American Medical Association, Dr. Frederick H. Verhoeff, of Boston, was awarded the Knapp Medal for his paper on "Ghoinas of the Optic Nerve." Dr. Verhoeff is president of the New England Ophthalmological Society.

THE British Institution of Mining Engineers has awarded its medal to Sir George Beilby, "in recognition of his valuable contributions to science, with special reference to his researches on fuel."

MR. R. T. A. INNES, the union astronomer at Johannesburg, has received the degree of doctor of science from the University of Leyden.