JULY 1899] NEWS 73 
On June 21, at the Oxford Commemoration, the honorary degree of D.C.L. 
was conferred inter alios on F. D. Godman, F.R.S., and on Mr. J. G. 
Frazer, M.A., Fellow of Trinity. 
On June 8, a number of foreign guests who had been present at the Stokes 
jubilee celebration and the Royal Institution centenary, were entertained at 
Oxford, and, in a convocation, the honorary degree of D.C.L. was conferred on 
Profs. Becquerel, Kérner, Liebreich, Moissan, and Newcomb. 
At a congregation at Cambridge on May 11, the degree of Doctor in Science 
(honoris causa), was conferred on Alexander Kowalevsky, the illustrious pro- 
fessor of zoology in the Imperial University of St. Petersburg. 
On June 2 the University of Cambridge conferred honorary degrees on 
Professors Cornu, Darboux (Paris), Kohlrausch (Berlin), Michelson (Chicago), 
Mittag-Leffler (Stockholm), Quincke (Heidelberg), and Voigt (Gottingen). 
Mr. Prillieux has been nominated member of the Academy of Science, Paris, 
in the botanical section, in place of the late Ch. Naudin. 
The St. Petersburg Geographical Society has awarded its great gold medal 
to Dr. G. Radde, Director of the Caucasian Museum at Tiflis. 
Mr. Alexander Agassiz has been elected president of the American Academy 
of Art and Sciences. 
The gold medal of the Linnaean Society has been this year awarded to Mr. 
J. G. Baker, the well-known botanist of Kew. 
The following naturalists have been elected foreign members of the Lin- 
naean Society :—Adrien Franchet (Paris), E. C. Hansen (Copenhagen), Seiitsiro 
Ikeno (Tokyo), E. von Martens (Berlin), and G. O. Sars (Christiania). 
It has been resolved to establish a professorship of Agriculture at Cambridge, 
subject to the following regulations:—The professor shall teach and illustrate 
the principles of Agriculture, apply himself to the advancement of the know- 
ledge of the subject, and undertake the direction of the Department of Agricul- 
ture in connection with the University. The Professorship shall exist for ten 
years, and longer should the University so decide, and it shall not be tenable 
with any other Professorship or Readership in the University. The stipend 
shall be £800 per annum, or £600 per annum should the Professor hold a 
Fellowship. The Professor shall be connected with the Special Board of 
Studies for Biology and Geology, and shall be a member, ex officio, of the 
Special Board of Physics and Chemistry, and of the Board of Agricultural 
Studies. 
Convocation at Oxford on May 16 passed a decree authorising the Univer- 
sity chest to receive for the next five years £400 per annum from the Royal 
Geographical Society, and to pay the same to the common university fund, and 
also to pay that fund during the same period £100 per annum from the chest, 
the sums so paid to be applied to the furtherance of geographical study in 
Oxford. A provisional scheme for the teaching and study of geography has 
already been arranged. 
The appeal made some time ago by the Duke of Devonshire, as Chancellor of 
the University of Cambridge, for financial assistance to the university, is meet- 
ing with substantial support, the list published showing promises which amount 
to over £50,000. 
A statue of Charles Darwin by Mr. Hope Pinker, which has been presented 
to Oxford University by Mr. Edward B. Poulton, M.A., Fellow of Jesus Col- 
lege, Hope Professor of Zoology, was inaugurated at the University Museum, 
and an address was delivered by Sir Joseph D. Hooker, K.C.S.L, F.R.S., 
Hon. D.C.L. The Vice-Chancellor (the President of Corpus) presided, 
and among those present were Professor Charles Darwin of Cambridge, Sir 
