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guished members to take part in it. The dis- 

 tant seats of learning in the younger British 

 countries have responded with not less cor- 

 diality; seven in Canada, seven in Australia, 

 £ve in New Zealand and the same number in 

 South Africa have appointed delegates; India 

 and Ceylon are represented by eight. Within 

 the United Kingdom 68 universities and socie- 

 ties are lending their support ; and, in addition 

 to the appointed delegates, there are some 200 

 invited guests, who include men eminent in 

 every walk of life. 



A share in evoking this extraordinary mani- 

 festation of world-wide respect belongs, of 

 course, to the prestige of Cambridge Univer- 

 sity, which is acting as host; but Cambridge 

 could not have planned a festival on this scale 

 or sent out the invitations in honor of a lesser 

 man. Other great men were bom in the 

 famous year 1809, and one at least was at 

 Cambridge; but it is impossible to conceive a 

 pious pilgrimage of this sort to celebrate 

 their birth. It helps us to realize the immense 

 space on the intellectual horizon of the world 

 filled by the figure of the great observer and 

 generalizer. His achievement has, in a sense, 

 become so familiar, its indirect influence has 

 so closely interpenetrated the general con- 

 sciousness of mankind that we can hardly see 

 it plain or measure its proportions. It is not 

 a matter for the learned only, but for all of us. 

 To no other man has it been given to effect a 

 revolution in human thought so large, so per- 

 vading, so sudden, and yet so enduring. Dar- 

 win taught mankind to see all things in a new 

 light, not only the operations of nature, great 

 and small, the mysteries of existence and the 

 innumerable objects of research, but the com- 

 mon things of every-day life. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Yale University has given its doctorate of 

 science to Dr. E. W. Morley, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity; to Dr. Wm. T. Sedgwick, professor 

 of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, a graduate of the Sheffield 

 Scientific School, and to Dr. E. H. Moore, 

 professor of mathematics of the University of 



Chicago, a graduate in arts and philosophy at 

 Yale University. 



Dr. S. F. Emmons, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has received the doctorate of science 

 from Harvard University. 



Washington and Jefferson College has 

 conferred the degree of doctor of science on 

 Dr. C. H. Townsend, of the New York 

 Aquarium. 



The delegates to the Darwin commemora- 

 tion on whom the degree of doctor of science 

 was conferred by the University of Cam- 

 bridge are: Edouard van Beneden, professor 

 of zoology at Liege; Prince Eoland Bona- 

 parte, Paris ; Geheimrat Biitschli, professor of 

 zoology and paleontology at Heidelberg; 

 Robert Chodat, professor of botany at Geneva ; 

 Francis Darwin, F.R.S., honorary fellow of 

 Christ's College, and formerly reader in 

 botany; Karl F. Goebel, professor of botany 

 at Munich ; Ludwig von GrafF, professor of 

 zoology and comparative anatomy at the Uni- 

 versity of Graz and president-elect of the 

 International Zoological Congress which meets 

 at Graz next year; Richard Hertwig, profes- 

 sor of zoology and comparative anatomy at 

 Munich; Harold Hoffding, professor of phi- 

 losophy at Copenhagen ; Jacques Loeb, pro- 

 fessor of physiology in the University of Cali- 

 fornia; Edmond Perrier, director of the 

 Natural History Museum of Paris; Gustav 

 Albert Schwalbe, professor of anatomy at 

 Strassburg; Hermann Graf zu Solms-Lau- 

 baoh, professor of botany at Strassburg; Clem- 

 ent Timiriazeff, professor of botany in Mos- 

 cow; Frantisek Vejdovsky, professor of zo- 

 ology in the Bohemian University of Prague ; 

 Max Verworn, professor of physiology at 

 Gottingen; Hermann Vochting, professor of 

 botany at Tiibingen; Hugo de Vries, pro- 

 fessor of botany at Amsterdam ; Charles D. 

 Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution at Washington ; E. B. Wilson, profes- 

 sor of zoology in Columbia University, New 

 York; and Charles Rene Zeiller, professor of 

 paleobotany in the Ecole des Mines, Paris. 



At the commencement of Harvard Univer- 

 sity on June 30 the degrees of doctor of laws 



