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cept Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., until No- 

 vember 1. Special exhibition of old deeds, manu- 

 scripts, books, portraits, etc., relating to the his- 

 tory of the United States up to and including the 

 war of 1812. (Catalogue for sale.) 



ISlew York Sistorioal Society, corner of Seventy- 

 seventh Street and Central Park West. September 

 25 to October 30, open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

 Robert Fulton exhibition of the New York His- 

 torical Society, in cooperation with the Colonial 

 Dames of America. (Catalogue for sale.) 



New York Public Libary, Lenox Branch, Fifth 

 Avenue and Seventy-second Street. Open daily, 

 except Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Special 

 exhibition of prints, books, manuscripts, etc., re- 

 lating to Henry Hudson, the Hudson River, Robert 

 Fulton and steam navigation. ( Special illustrated 

 catalogue for sale; price, ten cents.) 



New York Zoological Park, under the manage- 

 ment of the New York Zoological Society, St. 

 Nicholas Avenue (138th to UOth Streets), in 

 Bronx Park. Open daily, including Sundays, from 

 9 A.M. until an hour before sunset (November 1 

 to May 1 from 10 A.M.). Free, except on Mondays 

 and Thursdays, when an admission fee of twenty- 

 five cents is charged. Exhibition of a splendid 

 collection of animals, birds and reptiles. The 

 fauna of Henry Hudson's time on Manhattan 

 Island and in the Hudson River Valley will be 

 indicated by the flag of the Hudson-Fulton Cele- 

 bration. (Special illustrated catalogue for sale.) 

 Reformed Dutch Church. The Reformed Prot- 

 estant Dutch Church of the City of New York 

 will make an exhibit in the chapel of the church 

 of St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth 

 Street, during the week of the celebration, 9 A.M. 

 to 5 P.M. daily. (This church was organized 

 A.D. 1628, and the exhibit will comprise articles 

 connected with its long history.) 



Van Cortlandt House Museum, in Van Cort- 

 landt Park. This fine colonial mansion, built in 

 1748, with furniture of the period, is one of the 

 oldest houses within the area of Greater New 

 York; it is in the custody of the Colonial Dames 

 of the State of New York. Open daily, 9 a.m. 

 to 5 P.M. Special exhibition of mezzotint por- 

 traits of men prominent in political life prior to 

 the revolution; Wedgwood's medallion portraits 

 of illustrious personages; cartoons and carica- 

 tures of political events, etc. (Special illustrated 

 catalogue on sale.) 



Washington's Headquarters (The Jumel Man- 

 sion), Roger Morris Park, Edgecombe Road and 

 One Hundred and Sixty-second Street. Built 

 about 1760. Under the Department of Parks. 



Exhibition by the ladies of the Washington Head- 

 quarters Association, Daughters of the American 

 Revolution. Open free daily, including Sundays, 

 from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Special features: collection 

 of colonial furnishings, objects and pictures; also 

 the Bolton collection of war relics of the revolu- 

 tion. 



American Geographical Society, 15 West Eighty- 

 first Street. Special exhibition of books and maps 

 relating to Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton. 

 Admission can be obtained by card. Apply to the 

 librarian, 15 West Eighty-first Street. Open from 

 September 25 to October 9, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

 George F. Kunz, 

 Chairman Historical and Scientific Exhibitions, 

 Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 

 Tribune Building, New York 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 In connection with the celebration of the 

 twentieth anniversary of Clark University, 

 honorary degrees have been conferred as fol- 

 lows: Doctor of Laws — ^Percival Lowell, Bos- 

 ton; Ernest Fox Nichols, president of Dart- 

 mouth College; William Fogg Osgood, 

 Harvard University; James Pierpont, Tale 

 University; Hermon Carey Bumpus, director 

 of the American Museum of Natural History; 

 Leo Burgerstein, University of Vienna; Carl 

 Barus, Brown University; Franz Boas, Co- 

 lumbia University; Sigmund Freud, Univer- 

 sity of Vienna; Herbert Spencer Jennings, 

 Johns Hopkins University; Carl G. Jung, 

 University of Zurich; Adolf Meyer, Johns 

 Hopkins University; L. William Stern, Uni- 

 versity of Breslau; Edward Burr Van Vleck, 

 University of Wisconsin; Robert Williams 

 Wood, Johns Hopkins University. Doctor of 

 Physics — Vito Volterra, University of Rome; 

 Albert Abraham Michelson, University of 

 Chicago; Ernest Rutherford, University of 

 Manchester, England. Doctor of Letters — 

 Edward Bradford Titchener, Cornell Univer- 

 sity. Doctor of Biology — Charles Otis Whit- 

 man, University of Chicago. Doctor of 

 Mathematics — Eliakim Hastings Moore, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, of New York, 

 has been elected a corresponding member of the 

 Senckenberg Natural History Society at 

 Frankfort. 



