PROF. G. H. PARKER NEW ZOO. LABORATORY HEAD

Professor George H. Parker '87, University zoologist, has been appointed director of the University Zoological Laboratory to take the place of Professor E. L. Mark, who will retire from active teaching at the close of the current year with the title of professor emeritus, after having spent forty-four years in the service of the University.

The new director, Professor Parker, has been associated with the University ever since his graduation in 1887, and has held a full professorship of zoology since 1906. His researches in the anatomy and reactions of the nervous organs and sense organs, especially his discoveries about the sensory reactions of fishes and the lower invertebrates in general have made him eminent in his field.

Nine Sheldon Fellowships

The Princeton Fellowship of $500, founded in 1910 by a Princeton graduate, as a token of the friendly relations between the two universities to enable a Princeton man to enter a graduate department of the University, goes this year to James N. Landis, now a senior at Princeton, who will begin his studies at the University Law School next fall.

The Bayard Cutting Fellowship in Physics is awarded to Dorus P. Randall of Cambridge, who was graduated from Western Reserve University and taught physics there from 1914-19.

Nine men have been awarded Sheldon Travelling Fellowships which go each year to a few advanced students of unusual calibre to enable them to undertake investigation and study in this country or abroad. The winners of these fellowships are as follows:

Harry J. Leon '18, of Worcester, who is now doing graduate study in the classics at Rome on a Sheldon Prize Fellow-ship.

Clarence Bouma gr Dv., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, a graduate of Calvin College and of Princeton Theological Seminary.

Edward C. Ehrensperger '16, of Chicago, who is studying English at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Hilmer M. Fridlund 3L., of Sioux City, Iowa, a graduate of Grinnell College.

John Hornicek '13, of Albion, Pa., who has been teaching and doing graduate work in romance languages.

Oliver W. Larkin '18, of Georgetown, Massachusetts, who has been serving as assistant in fine arts at Harvard.

John R. Reinhard '15, of Cambridge, who is enrolled in the Graduate School for the study of English.

Charles C. Stockman 1G., of Newburyport, who graduated from M. I. T. in 1918

David Yule 3G., of Shanghai, China, who came to Harvard from St. John's University in China for the graduate study of philosophy.

Several men have been awarded Murphy Scholarships founded by William S. Murphy '85, "for the collegiate instruction of men of the name of Murphy who, in the judgement of the Faculty, prove deserving of this kind of encouragement". Frederick J. Murphy 1G.Ed. is awarded such a scholarship for the second half of this year, while Norman B. Murphy 2M., James B. Murphy 3M., and Richard T. Murphy '23, are awarded them for next year. An award conditional on their passing satisfactory, admission examinations has also been made to Hugh C. Murphy Jr. and John G. Murphy.

The James A. Rumrill Scholarship in the award of which preference is given to graduates of secondary schools in the South, is won by Charles H. Taylor, who graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1919 and will study in the Graduate School next year.

The Charles Elliot Perkins Graduate Scholarship, offered each year to a graduate of an Iowa college or university in a graduate department of the University, goes to Glenn H. Browning, who is finishing his course at Cornell College. Mount Vernon, Iowa, and is to come to the University for graduate work.