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lectured on "Man and the signs of the heavens." 

 M. C. E. Guillaume followed on "The work of 

 Flammarion." Distinguished artists of the 

 Comedie Frangaise read extracts from Flam- 

 marion's works, and astronomical photographs 

 were thrown on the screen. 



Peofessoe Heebeet F. MoobE; professor of 

 engineering materials at the University of Illi- 

 nois, received the degree of doctor of science 

 at the commencement of the New Hampshire 

 College. 



The following geographers were elected hon- 

 orary members of the Hungarian Geographical 

 Society at its fiftieth anniversary meeting in 

 Budapest in May, 1922: MM. de Margerie 

 (Paris), Mackinder (Oxford), Hellmann (Ber- 

 lin), Beltran y Rozpide (Madrid), Machatsehek 

 (Prague), Marinelli (Florence), Lawrence 

 Martin (Washington), and the presidents of 

 the Spanish and Italian geographical societies. 



De. William Libbet, professor of physical 

 geography at Princeton University, and M. S. 

 S. Smith, professor of civil engineering, have 

 retired with the title of professor emeritus. 



Dr. John Loeenzo Heppron resigned as 

 dean of the Syracuse University School of 

 Medicine on June 15. This resignation termi- 

 nates the connection which Dr. Heifron has held 

 with the teaching staff of the medical school 

 for forty years, during fifteen of which he has 

 served as dean. Dr. Heft'rou was made dean 

 emeritus. 



Me. Hubbet Vickeey, Ph.D. (Yale '22), has 

 been appointed research assistant in bioehem~ 

 istry in the laboratory of Dr. Thomas B. Os- 

 borne, Connecticutt Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, New Haven. 



Peopessoe T. H. Goodspeed, of the Univer- 

 sity of California, is at present working at the 

 University of Oxford, and will spend the latter 

 part of the summer at the John Innes Horticul- 

 tural Institution at Merton, Sui-rey. 



De. Waltee L. Bieeeing, Des Moines, sailed 

 for Scotland on June 27, to attend the cere- 

 mony of his election as an honorary member of 

 the Eoyal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. 



Peopessoe Adolph E. Wallee of the Ohio 



State University, will devote the current season 

 to the further study of economic botany in Eu- 

 rope, later returning to America via England 

 in time to attend the annual meeting of the 

 Britiesh Association. 



Me. Feank C. Bakee, curator of the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, University of Illinois, 

 will spend the summer in Wisconsin, continuing 

 his study of the mollusean fauna of that state 

 for the Geological and Natural History Survey. 



The twelfth season for the Laguna Marine 

 Laboratory of Pomona College began on June 

 21. The summer school will last six weeks. 

 There are the usual courses in zoology and 

 marine biology, with eight private rooms for 

 investigators. As in the past ten years the 

 work is under the charge of Dr. W. A. Hilton. 



The new plant breeding station and chemical 

 laboratories established in connection with the 

 agricultural department of the University Col- 

 lege of Wales, Aberystwyth, were formally 

 opened on May 20. The station has been made 

 possible by the endowment provided by Sir 

 Laurence Philipps, who, in addition, will for 

 ten years contribute a substantial sum towards 

 the annual cost of the farm of ninety-two acres. 



As reported in the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association, the new laboratory build- 

 ing, erected by the Harvard Cancer Commis- 

 sion for the study of cancer and biophysics in 

 Boston, was opened recently with appropriate 

 exercises, in the amphitheater of the Harvard 

 Medical School. This building adjoins the 

 Huntingdon Memorial Hospital and will be 

 known as the John Collins Warren Laboratory, 

 in recognition of the services rendered to the 

 university by Dr. Warren, former chairman of 

 the cancer coromission. In the basement of the 

 new building a vault for the storage of the 

 commission's radium is provided, together with 

 the necessary pumps and apparatus for collect- 

 ing and purifying the gaseous emanation from 

 the radium solution. The first floor contains 

 the reception and examination rooms for out- 

 patients, together with the Roentgen ray labora- 

 tory for Professor Duane. Free diagnosis 

 service will be maintained by the State Depart- 

 ment of Health, under the supervision of Dr. 



