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It is still in an experimental stage, but its use 

 by the Census Office and the Bureau of Edu- 

 cation is expected to develop any defects or 

 weaknesses in it, and lead to the adoption of 

 a form that will meet the conditions existing 

 in the various cities of the country. 



Another forward step has been taken as re- 

 gards the prompt issuance of the Annual Re- 

 port of the Commissioner of Education. On 

 certain conditions, which can undoubtedly be 

 met, the public printer has agreed to furnish 

 bound copies of Volume 1 of the Annual Re- 

 port for 1909 on December 1 of this year, 

 and volume 2 on March 1 of the year 1910. 

 In view of this arrangement, it may now be 

 confidently expected that the first volume, con- 

 taining general surveys, directories, etc., will 

 be in the hands of readers before the conven- 

 ing of those educational associations which 

 meet during the holiday season; and the sec- 

 ond volume, containing the statistical tables, 

 will be received prior to the Easter vacation 

 meetings. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, 



Commissioner 



Washington, D. C, 

 August 9, 1909 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At a meeting of the Board of Geological 

 Survey of Michigan in Detroit on August 9, 

 Professor R. C. Allen, of the University of 

 Michigan, was elected state geologist to suc- 

 ceed A. C. Lane, whose resignation to accept 

 a chair in Tufts College we announced a 

 month or two ago. Professor Allen had re- 

 ceived the endorsement of five out of six of 

 the board of scientific advisers. 



At the celebration of the fifth centenary of 

 the University of Leipzig a large number of 

 honorary degrees were conferred, including a 

 doctorate of medicine on Professor E. B. Wil- 

 son, of Columbia University, and a doctorate 

 of philosophy on Professor Jacques Loeb, of 

 the University of California. 



At its recent celebration the University of 

 Geneva conferred one hundred and fifty hon- 

 orary doctorates. Among the men of science 

 included were Lord Lister, Professor Haeckel, 

 Professor Ostwald and Professor Engler. 



De. H. W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, has had conferred on him the 

 Cross of the Legion of Honor by the French 

 government. 



Dr. J. C. KliPTEYN, director of the observa- 

 tory at Groningen, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The Baly medal, awarded by the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of London every alternate 

 year for distinguished services to physiology, 

 has been awarded to Dr. Emil Eischer, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the University of Ber- 

 lin ; and the Moxon medal, awarded every third 

 year for distinguished services to clinical 

 medicine, has been awarded to Sir W. R. 

 Gowers, F.R.S. 



The Berlin Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded its Leibnitz medal in gold to M. 

 Ernest Solvay, of Brussels, and to Dr. C. von 

 Bottinger, of Eberfeldt. 



The Santaro prize of $2,000 of the Acca- 

 demia dei Lincei of Rome has been awarded 

 to Professor Quirino Majoranna for his re- 

 searches in wireless telegraphy. 



Dr. Isador Rosenthal, professor of physi- 

 ology at Erlangen, has celebrated the fiftieth 

 anniversary of his doctorate. 



The following professors have retired from 

 active service: Dr. Georg Gerland, professor 

 of geography at Strasburg; Dr. Friedrieh 

 Prim, professor of mathematics at Wiirzburg, 

 and Dr. Anton Griinwald, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Prague. 



Dr. Walter Lehmann, of Berlin, has been 

 appointed curator in the Munich Ethnograph- 

 ical Museum. 



Dr. Breinl, of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the newly- founded School of Tropical 

 Medicine in Western Australia. 



Dr. J. Franklin Meyer, formerly professor 

 of physics at the Pennsylvania State College, 

 State College, Pa., has resigned his professor- 

 ship to accept a position with the Westing- 

 house Lamp Company, Bloomfield, N. J., in 

 charge of the physical research. 



