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SCIENCE 



N. S. Vol. XXX. No. 763 



Thk French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will meet this year at Lille 

 on August 2-7, under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor Landouzy, dean of the faculty of medi- 

 cine in the University of Paris. The gold 

 medal of the association, which was instituted 

 last year, is to be awarded to Professor H. 

 Poincare, who will deliver a lecture during 

 the course of the meeting. 



The sixth International Congress of Psy- 

 chology met at Geneva last week. Among the 

 Americans whose names appear on the pro- 

 gram are Professor J. Mark Baldwin, Pro- 

 fessor Jacques Loeb, of the University of 

 California; Professor H. S. Jennings, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University; Professor Light- 

 ner Witmer, of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania; Professor James H. Leuba, of Bryn 

 Mawr College; Professor Mas Meyer, of the 

 University of Missouri; Dr. E. M. Ogden, 

 of the University of Tennessee; Professor J. 

 W. Riley, of Vassar College, and Professor 

 E. M. Yerkes, of Harvard University. Ac- 

 cording to a cablegram to the daily papers 

 the seventh International Congress will meet 

 at Boston, with Professor William James, of 

 Harvard University, as honorary president; 

 Professor J. Mark Baldwin, as president, and 

 Professor E. B. Titchener, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, and Professor J. McKeen Cattell, of 

 Columbia University, as vice-presidents. 



In recognition of services rendered to the 

 cause of aerial navigation, the French govern- 

 ment has conferred the decoration of the 

 Legion of Honor upon Mr. Wilbur Wright, 

 Mr. Orville Wright and M. Farman, and the 

 Officer's Cross of the same order upon Mr. 

 Hart O. Berg and M. Santos Dumont. 



The Italian government has decorated Dr. 

 Louis Borsch, an American physician in Paris, 

 with the royal medal of the Ministry of Pub- 

 lic Instruction on the recommendation of the 

 committee of the International Congress of 

 Ophthalmology. 



Dr. C. Lloyd Morgan, F.E.S., has resigned 

 the office of vice chancellor of the University 

 of Bristol. In accepting the same the council 

 has placed on record its sense of the distin- 



guished services rendered by him to the cause 

 of university education during the twenty-two 

 years of his tenure of office. 



Surgeon-General W. L. Gubbins, C.B., 

 M.V.O., deputy director-general of the British 

 Army Medical Service, has been appointed 

 director-general in succession to Surgeon-Gen- 

 eral Sir A. Keogh, K.C.B. 



The State Board of Health of South Caro- 

 lina has opened a laboratory at Columbia 

 under the direction of Dr. Francis A. Coward. 



The New York State Department of Agri- 

 culture has been notified that two of its 

 veterinarians, Drs. George E. Martin and 

 John T. Hart, of Goshen, have contracted an- 

 thrax, while endeavoring to stamp out the dis- 

 ease among cattle in Orange County. 



Professor F. W. Woll, in charge of the 

 department of feed and fertilizer inspection 

 of the College of Agriculture, University of 

 Wisconsin, has left for the west to attend the 

 meeting of the American Association of Agri- 

 cultural Chemists at Denver from August 26 

 to 28, and the American Association of Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and Experiment Stations at 

 Seattle. 



Dr. Andrew M. Soule, dean of the Agri- 

 cultural College of the University of Georgia, 

 and Dr. T. H. McHatton, professor of horti- 

 culture, will represent the University of 

 Georgia at the Portland meeting of the So- 

 ciety for the Promotion of Agricultural Sci- 

 ence and at the other scientific meetings to be 

 held on the Pacific coast. 



Dean H. L. Eussell, of the CoUege of 

 Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, 

 is making a tour of several western states to 

 visit colleges of agriculture and important 

 farming sections, as well as to attend the 

 scientific meetings to be held in connection 

 with the Alaskan-Yukon Exposition. He will 

 address the American Association of Farmers' 

 Institute Workers at Seattle on " The Advisa- 

 bility of holding Demonstration Institutes in 

 the Summer." 



Professor Lewis M. Haupt, A.M., Sc.D., 

 addressed the International Congress of 

 Women held at Toronto, Canada, on June 29, 



