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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



feasors ought to be ^Yill provide presi- 

 dents for the future. And if there 

 were no university presidents, what 

 would become of the nation? 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We record with regret the deaths of 

 Major Clarence Edward Button, U.S.A., 

 retired, eminent for his contributions 

 on volcanoes and earthquakes; of Miss 

 Susan Maria Hallowell, professor 

 emeritus of botany in Wellesley Col- 

 lege; of Mr. George E. M. Murray, 

 F.E.S., for many years on the staff of 

 the department of botany of the Brit- 

 ish Museum, and of M. Paul Topinard, 

 the distinguished French anthropologist. 



President Taft has nominated Dr. 

 Eupert Blue, of South Carolina, as sur- 

 geon general of the public health and 

 marine hospital service. — M. Henri 

 Bergson, professor of philosophy at 



the College de France, has been ap- 

 pointed visiting French professor of 

 Columbia University for the year 1913. 

 M. Bergson has also been appointed 

 Gifford lecturer at Edinburgh. — The 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has awarded the Hayden Medal 

 in gold for distinguished work in geol- 

 ogy to Professor John C. Branner, of 

 Leland Stanford Jr. University. 



The organ of the Japan Peace So- 

 ciety gives an account of the visit of 

 Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of 

 Stanford University, in August, Sep- 

 tember and October, undertaken under 

 the auspices of the Japan and Amer- 



[ ican Peace Societies. Dr. Jordan gave 

 a large number of addresses, mainly on 



' peace and arbitration, at Tokyo, Yoko- 

 hama, Sendai, Nagoya, Okayama and 

 Osaka. At Tokyo between September 



j 13 and 18 he gave as many as ten 

 formal addresses. 



