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principal clerk of the treasury, has been pro- 

 moted to be knight commander of the Bath 

 (K.C.B.), and Dr. Sven Hedin has been ap- 

 pointed an honorary knight commander of 

 the Indian Empire (K.C.I.E.). 



Professor L. A. "Wait, head of the depart- 

 ment of mathematics at Cornell University, 

 where he has been professor since 1870, will 

 retire from active service at the close of the 

 present year. 



Dr. Ernst Wilhelm Ebermayer, professor 

 of agricultural chemistry at Munich, has cele- 

 brated his eightieth birthday. 



Professor William Bateson has been 

 elected president of the Cambridge Philo- 

 sophical Society. 



Sir William Noven, K.C.B., F.E.S., has 

 been elected president of the London Mathe- 

 matical Society. 



Dr. M. P. Eavenel, professor of bacteriol- 

 ogy at the University of Wisconsin, has been 

 appointed " Official Eapporteur " to the In- 

 ternational American Congress at Buenos 

 Ayres next May, where he will have charge of 

 the program devoted to tuberculosis. 



Sir T. H. Holland, F.E.S., professor of 

 geology and mineralogy in Manchester Uni- 

 versity, will deliver the Wilde lecture of the 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 

 for 1910. 



The Eev. T. G. Bonney, F.E.S., delivered 

 a lecture in Cambridge on November 25, on 

 "A Desert Phase in the Development of 

 Britain." Dr. H. H. W. Pearson, of Gonville 

 and Caius College, professor of botany in the 

 South African College, Cape Town, delivered 

 a lecture, on November 19, on "A Botanical 

 Journey in Southwest Airica." 



An oil portrait of the late John T. Duffield, 

 for many years professor of mathematics at 

 Princeton University, has been added to the 

 collection in Nassau Hall. 



At the opening meeting of the Institution 

 of Electrical Engineers, London, on November 

 11, a marble bust, by Mr. Hamo Thomycroft, 

 of the late Dr. John Hopkinson, F.E.S., past- 

 president of the institution, was presented to 

 the institution by Professor Bertram Hopkin- 



son on behalf of his mother, Mrs. John Hop- 

 kinson. 



Dr. William James Eussell, E.E.S., for- 

 merly lecturer in chemistry in the Medical 

 School of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, died on 

 November 12, at the age of eighty years. 



The death is also announced of Dr. C. G. 

 Graham, formerly professor of chemical tech- 

 nology at University College, London, at the 

 age of seventy-four years. 



Dr. John S. Coulter, professor of botany 

 in the University of Chicago, gave recently 

 an address before the Science Club of the 

 University of Wisconsin, held to celebrate 

 the hundredth anniversary of Darwin's births 



President Charles E. Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, recently addressed 

 the members of the honorary agricultural so- 

 ciety at Iowa College, Ames, la., on " The 

 Conservation of Our Natural Eesources," and 

 the St. Louis Academy of Science and St. 

 Louis Pedagogical Society, in joint session, 

 on the same subject. 



Professor Eichard E. Dodge, of Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on " Desert Life " before the 

 geological department and the faculty of Col- 

 gate University on November 22. This was 

 the first of a series to be given during the 

 winter; the other lecturers being Professor 

 W. M. Davis, of Harvard University, Pro- 

 fessor James F. Kemp, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, and Mr. Cyrus C. Adams, of the Ameri- 

 can Geographical Society. 



The fifth course of lectures by the Harvey 

 Society, to be given in the New York Acad- 

 emy of Medicine on Saturday evenings, in- 

 cludes the following: 



December 4— Professor Otto Cohnheim, Univer- 

 sity of Heidelberg, "The Influence of Sensory- 

 Impressions on Scientific Deductions." 



December 11— Professor T. G. Brodie, Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, " Penal Activity." 



December 18 — Professor Carl G. Huber, Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, " Renal Structure." 



January 15 — Professor Ludwig Hektoen, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, " Certain Phases of the For- 

 mation of Antibodies." 



