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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXX. No. 757 



James Crichton-Browne and Major Ronald 

 Eoss. ^ 



The French Institute has awarded the 

 Osiris prize to M. Louis Bleriot and M. Ga- 

 briel Voisin, the aeronauts and engineers, in 

 recognition of their achievements and experi- 

 ments in aerial navigation. The prize, which 

 is of the value of £4,000, is awarded every 

 three years to the person or persons who dur- 

 ing that period shall have made the most re- 

 markable contribution to the cause of human 

 progress. 



The Pharmaceutical Society has awarded 

 the Hanbury gold medal to Professor W. 0. A. 

 Tschirch, professor of pharmacognosy and 

 practical chemistry at Berne University. 



SiK Felix Semon, KC.V.O., physician ex- 

 traordinary to the king, is about to retire 

 from practise, and a complimentary banquet 

 is to be given him by his professional and 

 other friends on July 2. The organizers of 

 the banquet are anxious to found a lectureship 

 or scholarship in his name to be a record of 

 his scientific work. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that Professor A. Tamas- 

 sia, of the chair of medical jurisprudence at 

 the University of Padua was recently elected 

 member of the Italian senate, and his election 

 and the thirtieth anniversary of his connec- 

 tion with the university were celebrated sim- 

 ultaneously on May 29 by the presentation 

 from the citizens, facility and students of 

 parchment testimonials, a gold medal, a bust 

 of himself and a banquet. 



Dr. Gottfried Galle, the eminent astron- 

 omer, who since his retirement from Breslau 

 twelve years ago, has been living in Potsdam, 

 has celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday. 



De. Edward PfliIger, the eminent physi- 

 ologist, has been made an honorary citizen of 

 Bonn, on the occasion of his eightieth birth- 

 day. 



Dr. Samuel C. Chew, professor of medicine 

 in the University of Maryland, has resigned 

 his position, which he has held for nearly 

 forty-five years. 



Professor Lloyd Tanner, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., has resigned the chair of mathematics 



in Cardiff University College, after twenty- 

 six years' service. 



The German Physiological Society has been 

 meeting at Wiirzburg, under the presidency of 

 Professor Max von Frey. 



Frederic Walton Carpenter, Ph.D., has 

 been appointed by the president and fellows 

 of Harvard College to be director of the Berr 

 muda Biological Station for Research for the 

 summer session of 1909. 



Dr. Ralph Arnold, geologist, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, formerly of Washington, 

 D. C, resigned on June 1 and moved to Los 

 Angeles, California, where he expects to con- 

 tinue his scientific investigations in connection 

 with professional work as a consulting geol- 

 ogist and engineer. 



Mr. H. Helm Clayton has resigned as 

 meteorologist of the Blue Hill Meteorological 

 Observatory, with which he has been con- 

 nected for many years. Mr. Andrew H. Pal- 

 mer, a graduate student of meteorology at 

 Harvard University, has joined Professor 

 Rotch's staff. 



Mr. Pierce Larkin, A.B., University of 

 Oklahoma, has been elected to a fellowship in 

 the department of paleontology in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. He will spend the sum- 

 mer in collecting vertebrates in the Oklahoma 

 Eedbeds. 



Messrs. U. S. Grant and D. F. Higgins 

 sailed from Seattle on June 8 for Seward, 

 Alaska, where they will begin a reconnaissance 

 of the eastern part of Kenai Peninsula. They 

 will use a large launch for traveling, as the 

 work will necessitate passing many headlands 

 that are open to the full sweep of the Pacific. 



Professor W. E. Stimpson, of the Univer- 

 sity of Kansas, has received a year's absence 

 to work in the Bureau of Standards at Wash- 

 ington. 



Professor Charles Edward A. Winslow, 

 of the biological department of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, has been granted 

 leave of absence for three montlis, so that he 

 may take the place of Professor E. O. Jordan, 

 of the University of Chicago, during this fall 

 when he will be in Europe. 



