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...directors Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum and of the Zoological Museum, C. P. Curtis; Jr. '13, a fellow of Harvard College, H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Edward Reynolds '81, curator of the Peabody Museum, and Alexander Hamilton Rice '98, gold medalist of the Royal Geographic Society, scientist, and explorer, who has been given an appointment at the Harvard Medical School...
...bright sign that druggists are scientists of sorts comes once a year- when the American Pharmaceutical Association grants its Remington Medal for "distinguished service to pharmacy." Last week the association made its annual gesture. Medalist was Dr. (Phar. D.) Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, 64, chief of Parke, Davis & Co.'s analytical department since 1907, chairman of the committee of revision of the National Formulary, vice-chairman of the U. S. Pharmacopœia.† Eight other men have received the Remington Medal, including Dean Henry Hurd Rusby of Columbia University (see p. 42), but not Dr. (Phar. D.) E. Fullerton...
...another Progress Medalist is Director Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory; in 1913, for work done in his native England. Medalist Sheppard is the man who discovered that "if the cows didn't eat mustard plant, we could have no movies" -a trace of sulphur compound in gelatine being essential to the speed of silver halide reactions in photography.-ED. Harding's Portrait...
Gibbs Gold Medalist. Chemist Harkins' researches have brought him world fame and the Willard Gibbs gold medal, a major honor in chemistry. He was chosen by a jury of twelve good chemists and true; the medal was presented by the Chicago section of the society. Atomic pictures are not his only passport to professional prestige. In various oil-and-water experiments he has earned the gratitude of oilmen. By pouring oil on water and letting the oil layer spread out to the thickness of one molecule he has been able to measure the exact size of the molecule...
...Listened to Vice President Dawes while he read an epistle from Congressional Medalist Lindbergh inviting each & every Senator to fly with him last week*.¶ Amended, passed and sent to the House the Norris resolution ordering the War Department to complete and operate the Government's $140,000,000 wartime power plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala., on the Tennessee River, and ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce...