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lof California in 1892, where he settled in Los 

 Angeles, continuing, as his strength permitted, 

 "his researches into the malacology of the Pa- 

 'cific coast. He married March 28, 1850, Mary 

 Anne Libby, daughter of Oliver Libby, of Bos- 

 ion, and is survived by a daughter. 



Dr. Stearns was an earnest student of mol- 

 lusks from boyhood; his early experience led 

 Tiim to interest himself in horticulture and 

 landscape gardening, and his ability in this 

 line is attested by the beauty of the university 

 grounds at Berkeley, which .were developed 

 Tinder his superintendence. His knowledge of 

 the Pacific coast mollusca was profound, and a 

 long list of papers on this topic and on the 

 shells of Florida was the result. He also con- 

 tributed many papers on various branches of 

 liorticulture and gardening to the California 

 periodicals devoted to this subject. He was an 

 "enthusiastic supporter of the California 

 Academy of Sciences in its early days, and, 

 after the earthquake of 1868, when disaster 

 threatened the society, he, with Professor J. D. 

 Whitney and a few other friends, stood be- 

 tween it and dissolution. He was a member of 

 ■numerous scientific societies at home and 

 -abroad, and of the Sons of the Eevolution. 



Dr. Stearns was a man of sanguine tem- 

 perament, with a lively sense of humor and 

 liigh moral character. His reading was wide, 

 liis learning never obtrusive, his interest in 

 art, literature and all good causes, intense. 

 He was a staunch friend and, for a righteous 

 object, ever ready to sacrifice his own material 

 interests. His services to Californian science 

 will keep his memory green. 



Wm. H. Dall 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At a meeting of the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences on August 18, the permanent secretary 

 gave a eulogy of Professor Simon Newcomb, 

 who was a foreign associate of the academy. 



In the last issue of Science it was noted that 

 at the celebration of the five-hundredth anni- 

 versary of the University of Leipzig the de- 

 gree of doctor of medicine was given to Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia University, 

 and the degree of doctor of philosophy to Pro- 



fessor Jacques Loeb, of the University of 

 California. The degree of doctor of philos- 

 ophy was also given to Professor A. A. Michel- 

 son, of the University of Chicago. There 

 were in all five degrees given to Americans, 

 more than to the citizens of any foreign coun- 

 try except Austria. The two other degrees 

 were to Mr. Roosevelt and Professor J. W. 

 Burgess, of Columbia University. 



Clark University will hold its second de- 

 cennial celebration from September 6 to 11, 

 the exercises being under the auspices of the 

 department of psychology and the department 

 of pedagogy and school hygiene. Those from 

 abroad who will give lectures are Professors 

 L. William Sterns, of Berlin; Dr. C. G. Jung, 

 of Zurich ; Dr. Leo Bergerstein, of Vienna, and 

 Dr. Sigmund Freud, of Vienna. Among those 

 from America who give lectures are Dr. Ells- 

 worth Brown, Professor E. B. Titchener, Pro- 

 fessor Franz Boas, Professor H. S. Jennings 

 and Professor Adolf Meyer. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has decided 

 to signalize its appreciation of work in aero- 

 nautics by devoting $4,000 to striking gold and 

 enamel medals which will be presented to for- 

 eign and French aeronauts. Medals will be 

 awarded to the Wright brothers, and to MM. 

 Bleriot and Voisin. 



It is stated in Nature that the Cracow Acad- 

 emy of Sciences has awarded the Nicolas 

 Copernic prize, amounting to 1,000 crowns, to 

 M. Jean Krassowski, of Cracow, for his treat- 

 ment of the question, " A I'aide de la methode 

 de M. A. Schuster, examiner la question si les 

 periodes des variations des latitudes, indiquees 

 par MM. Chandler, Kimura, etc., sont reeUes 

 ou non." The Constantin Simon prize, of 900 

 crowns, for a work in the Polish language on 

 mathematics or physics, has been adjudicated 

 to M. Stanislas Zaremba, for his book " Ex- 

 pose des premiers Principes de la Theorie des 

 Nombres entiers." 



The Paris correspondent of the Journal of 

 the American Medical Association reports that 

 the Academy of Sciences has awarded three 

 prizes of $500 (2,500 francs) each, one to Dr. 

 Neumann for his researches on the family of 

 the ixodidse and on the various groups of para- 



