November 19, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



705 



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The Eoyal Society has awarded the Copley 

 medal to Dr. George W. Hill, of West Nyack, 

 N. T. 



Professor Theodore W. Eichards, of Har- 

 vard University, has been elected to corre- 

 sponding membership in the Eoyal Prussian 

 Academy of Sciences of Berlin. 



Sir Joseph Larmor, Professor Felix Klein 

 and Professor H. Poincare have been elected 

 honorary members of the Calcutta Mathe- 

 matical Society. 



Lieutenant E. H. Shackleton, the antarctic 

 explorer, has been created a knight by King 

 Edward. 



The first fellowship established under the 

 will of the late Dr. Sorby, has been awarded 

 to Dr. Jocelyn F. Thorpe, F.E.S., who will 

 work on the chemistry of the imino-com- 

 pounds. 



Akthur M. Banta, Ph.D. (Harvard), has 

 resigned the professorship of biology at Mari- 

 etta College to accept a position on the staff of 

 the Station for Experimental Evolution at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. F. H. Krecker, 

 Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), has been elected to 

 the position at Marietta College. 



Mr. Trygve Jexsex, a graduate of the de- 

 partment of electrical engineering of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, has recently been awarded 

 the prize offered by the Edison Medal Com- 

 mittee of the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers. The title of Mr. Jensen's thesis is 

 "The Operation of a 100,000-volt Trans- 

 former." The prize consists of a diploma and 

 a cash award of $150. 



The University of Kansas sent two collect- 

 ing parties into the field last summer. One, 

 consisting of Professors C. E. McClung, W. J. 

 Baumgartner, E. L. Moodie, W. E. Eobertson 

 with Mr. Ward Cook, devoted itself to 

 obtaining from the waters of Puget Sound an 

 extensive collection of specimens for class use. 

 These will be shared with the high schools and 

 colleges of Kansas in the endeavor to secure 

 as good teaching as possible. The other party, 

 consisting of Mr. H. T. Martin and two assist- 

 ants, secured a large and valuable series of 

 fish specimens from the Niobrara of Kansas. 



Several new forms were obtained and much 

 good material for further comparative study 

 of known species. 



The program of the meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Society on November 19 

 consists of a paper, by Professor C. L. Doo- 

 little, on Halley's comet, illustrated with 

 lantern views. 



At a meeting of the American Antiquarian 

 Society, held at Worcester, October 20, Dr. W. 

 C. Farabee, of Harvard University, presented 

 a paper on " Some Customs of the Macheyenga 

 Indians of the Upper Amazon." 



Dr. Willum E. Brooks, director of Smith 

 Observatory and professor of astronomy at 

 Hobart College, delivered his illustrated lec- 

 ture on " The Wonders of the Heaven," before 

 the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, on 

 November 5. 



Professor Joseph Jastrow, of the depart- 

 ment of psychology of the University of Wis- 

 consin, has been appointed by the trustees of 

 Columbia University to give graduate courses 

 in psychology in that institution during the 

 second semester of this year, and to deliver a 

 series of eight public lectures. 



Sir Augustus Waller delivered a series of 

 lectures on the Hitchcock foundation at the 

 University of California, beginning on Sep- 

 tember 18. The subject of the lectures was 

 '' Physiology the Servant of Medicine." 



Professor Frederic S. Lee, of Columbia 

 University, has recently given the following 

 addresses: On October 22, at New Haven and 

 Hartford, before the section on Hygiene of 

 the Connecticut State Teachers' Association 

 on " The Nature of Fatigue " ; on November 

 3, at Burlington, at the opening of the fifty- 

 seventh session of the College of Medicine of 

 the University of Vermont, on " A Defense of 

 Sanity," and on November 12, an address to 

 the graduating class of the Training School 

 for Nurses of the New York Infirmary for 

 Women and Children. 



Begixxixg Friday, November 12, Professor 

 S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia University, gives 

 a course of six lectures on " Modern Astron- 

 omy " in Philadelphia, for the University 



