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William Abbott Herdman, delegate from the 

 University of Liverpool; a great authority on 

 marine biology, who has dredged the floor of the 

 ocean, and learned the secrets of the oyster and 

 the pearl. 



William Bebryman Scott, a delegate from 

 Princeton University; a persistent and thorough 

 explorer of early mammal forms, he has helped to 

 draw aside the veil that shrouds the mystery of 

 life upon our planet. 



Arthur Amos Noyes, chemiirt of renown; a 

 leader of research in physical chemistry. As pro- 

 fessor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy, and recently its head, our neighbor, our fel- 

 low-laborer, and our friend. 



Edward Bradford Titcheneb, a delegate from 

 Cornell ; thorough and exact in methods of work 

 in a new and rich field, his researches in experi- 

 mental psychology have enlarged the bounds of 

 human knowledge. 



Eliiiu Thomson, delegate from the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences; prolific in re- 

 search and invention; a magician who by the 

 witchcraft of science has subdued electricity to 

 the service of man. 



The degree of doctor of law was conferred 

 on President Eemsen with the following 

 words : 



Ira Remsen, president of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity; eminent for his researches in chemistry; 

 a public-spirited citizen; and worthy to lead the 

 university that first taught our country the higher 

 training of scholars. 



SCIENTIFIC ^'OTES AND NEWS 

 PnoFESsoR Georg Lunge, the eminent chem- 

 ist of Zurich, was presented on September 

 19 with a gold medal bearing his portrait 

 and the sum of 40,000 francs to celebrate his 

 seventieth birthday and the jubilee of his 

 doctorate. Chemists were present from many 

 countries and addresses were delivered by a 

 number of delegates. Professor Lunge in his 

 reply announced his intention of giving the 

 money to the Polytechnic Institute for the 

 aid of students of chemistry. 



We learn from Nature that in view of the 

 retirement of Professor J. Cleland, F.R.S., 

 from the chair of anatomy, and of Professor 

 Jack from the chair of mathematics, at the 

 end of the present month, there has been set 



on foot, on the initiative of the business com- 

 mittee of the general council of the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow, a movement for making ap- 

 propriate recognition of their long and dis- 

 tinguished services. The form of recognition 

 will, to a large extent, depend on the amounts 

 subscribed, but it is thought that it might 

 fitly include the provision of some fund for 

 the advancement of anatomical and anthro- 

 pological science in the case of Professor Cle- 

 land, and of mathematical science in the case 

 of Professor Jack, and the presentation to the 

 university of portraits or busts by an eminent 

 artist. 



Dr. J. F. Anderson has been appointed 

 director of the Hygienic Laboratory, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, to succeed Dr. M. J. Rosenau, 

 who retires from the Public Health Service to 

 accept a professorship of preventive medicine 

 and hygiene at Harvard University. Dr. 

 Anderson entered the Public Health Service 

 in 1898 and for the past seven years has been 

 assistant director of the laboratory. He has 

 carried on his work on the standardization of 

 diphtheria and tetanus antitoxins, market 

 milks for tubercle bacilli and immunity and 

 anaphylaxis. He is a graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia. 



Dr. Karl Schwarzschild, professor of as- 

 tronomy at Gottingen, has been appointed 

 director of the Astrophysical Observatory at 

 Pottsdam. 



Dr. O. L. zur Strassen, associate professor 

 of zoology at Leipzig, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Museum of the Senckenberg 

 Natural History Society at Frankfort. 



Temporary Industrial Fellowship, No. Y, 

 at the University of Kansas, concerning the 

 relation of the optical properties of glass to 

 its chemical constitution, has been awarded to 

 E. Ward Tillotson, Ph.D., of Yale. Dr. Til- 

 lotson, while at Yale, held both the Loomis 

 and the Silliman fellowships in chemistry. 



Wm. a. Withers, professor of chemistry in 

 the North Carolina College of Agriculture and 

 Mechanic Arts and chemist of the Experiment 

 Station, was elected president of the Associa- 

 tion of Official Agricultural Chemists at its 



