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so happily executed. A little while 

 since, it is not likely that the United 

 States would have paid Japan to re- 

 frain from killing animals which we 

 regard as ours. The execution of such 

 a treaty promises well for the possi- 

 bility of similar efforts to preserve the 

 sperm whales and for engaging in 

 other enterprises of international con- 

 servation. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We record with regret the death of 

 Dr. Carl Beck, of St. Mark's Hospital, 

 New York City; of Dr. I. W. Black- 

 burn, pathologist at Washington, and 

 of Sir Eupert Boyce, professor of 

 pathology in the University of Liver- 

 pool. 



Dr. Eobert A. Harper, professor of 

 botany in the University of Wisconsin, 

 has been elected Torrey professor of 

 botany at Columbia University. — Mr. 

 Leonhard Stejneger has been appointed 

 head curator of the department of biol- 

 ogy in the U. S. National Museum to 

 succeed Dr. F. W. True. 



Dr. Abraham Jacobi, emeritus pro- 

 fessor in Columbia University, was 

 elected president of the American Med- 

 ical Association, at the Los Angeles 

 meeting. — Professor William G. Ray- 



mond, dean of the College of Applied 

 Science at the State University of 

 Iowa, has been elected president of the 

 Society for the Promotion of Engineer- 

 ing Education. 



The University of Gottingen has 

 conferred the honorary degree of doc- 

 tor of philosophy upon Professor Albert 

 A. Michelson, head of the department 

 of physics at the University of Chi- 

 cago, and retiring president of the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. — The George Wash- 

 ington University has conferred the 

 honorary degree of doctor of medicine 

 on Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the 

 Bureau of Entomology and permanent 

 secretary of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, for 

 "distinguished services to science in 

 relation to preventive medicine. ' ' 



The building named for Dr. Edward 

 Williams Morley at the Western Re- 

 serve University and devoted to the 

 departments of chemistry and geology, 

 occupied this year for the first time, 

 was opened for formal public inspec- 

 tion during commencement week. The 

 building contains a tablet, bearing 

 testimony to Dr. Morley 's work in 

 science, and to his thirty-seven years 

 of active service in Western Reserve 

 University. 



