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member of the extinct commissao geo- 

 logica, of which Professor C. F. Hartt 

 was the chief. He has lived in Brazil 

 ever since, and is the leading authority 

 on Brazilian geology. — Professor J. A. 

 Bownocker, of the State University, 

 has been appointed state geologist of 

 Ohio to succeed Professor Edward 

 Orton, Jr., resigned. — The lords com- 

 missioners of the admirality have ap- 

 pointed Syndey S. Hough, Esq., F.R.S., 

 chief assistant to the astronomer at 

 the observatory, Cape of Good Hope, to 

 be astronomer at that observatory on 

 the retirement of Sir David Gill, 

 K.C.B. 



Dr. William A. Noyes, head of the 

 department of chemistry in the Bu- 

 reau of Standards, and secretary and 

 editor of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, has been elected professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Illinois. 

 ■ — -Professor Ernest Rutherford, Mac- 

 donald professor of physics in McGill 

 University, has been appointed to suc- 

 ceed Professor Schuster as Langworthy 

 professor and director of the physical 

 laboratories at the University of Man- 



chester. — Dr. William Duane, professor 

 of physics in the University of Colo- 

 rado, at Boulder, has resigned to accept 

 a position in the Curie Radium Labo- 

 ratory at Paris. The fund providing 

 for Dr. Duane's work is the gift of Mr. 

 Andrew Carnegie. 



At the annual banquet of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society the first 

 award of its gold medal was made to 

 Commander Peary. — Professor T. W. 

 Richards has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Royal Institution of 

 Great Britain. — Mr. Alexander Agassiz 

 has chartered the steam yacht Virginia 

 for a cruise to the West Indies. The 

 yacht will sail from New York the first 

 week in February to be absent for 

 three months. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller has given 

 the University of Chicago $2,700,000 

 for its permanent endowment, and 

 $217,000 for current expenses and spe- 

 cial purposes. It is further reported 

 that Mr. Rockefeller will give $3,000,- 

 000 for a pension at the University 

 of Chicago, and $2,000,000 for the pro- 

 posed Louisville University. 



