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on Sir E. J. Russell, formerly lecturer in chem- 

 istry at Owens College, Manchester. 



The doctorate of laws has been conferred 

 by the University of St. Andrews on Sir Peter 

 Bedford Soott Lang, emeritus professor of 

 mathematics in the university; Dr. Arthur Lap- 

 worth, professor of organic chemistry in the 

 University of Manchester; Dr. Charles Robert- 

 shaw Marshall, professor of materia medica 

 in 'the University of Aberdeen ; and Sir Harold 

 Jalland Stiles, regius professor of clinical sur- 

 gery in the University of Edinburgh. 



M. Albert Recoura, professor at Grenoble, 

 has been elected a correspondent of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the death of M. Ernst Solvay. 



Dr. Legey, professor of anatomy in the 

 Paris School of Medicine, has been elected a 

 member of the Paris Academy of Medicine in 

 the place of the late M. Ranvier. 



In accordance with an act of the California 

 legislature, a commission of agricultural edu- 

 cation has been appointed by the governor to 

 formulate the needs of agricultural teaching 

 and research in California and report to the 

 next legislature. This commission consists of 

 A. C. Hardison, who succeeds the late G. 

 Harold Powell, G. H. Hecke, H. A. Jastro, 

 Senator S. C. Evans, Mark Grimes, R. N. Wil- 

 son and Elwood Mead. 



Dr. Henry B. Ward, of the University of 

 Illinois, will conduct investigations for the 

 Bureau of Fisheries of the pelican in relation 

 to the fishes of the waters of Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park, with the view of ascertaining to 

 what extent these birds prey upon the fish and 

 whether or not they serve as hosts for the para- 

 site which infests many of the trout of the 

 park waters. 



B. LiNEBUEG, a graduate student at the 

 Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed 

 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 

 the summer to conduct work on the responses 

 of bees to lights of various wave lengths and 

 intensities. 



The Rockefeller Foundation has sent a hook- 

 work commission to Honduras. One of its 

 members, Dr. D. B. Wilson, accompanied by 



Dr. Brizzio, director of public health, has 

 already visited several towns. 



Dr. Charles H. Gilbert, accompanied by 

 Willis H. Rich and W. P. Studdert, sailed 

 from South Bellingham, Wash., on June 1 

 for the purpose of making a thorough investi- 

 gation of the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries 

 Reservation to determine whether the present 

 regulations are adequate to keep the fisheries 

 of that district in perpetuity. 



Professor H. H. Whetzel, who has been 

 for fifteen years head of the department of 

 plant pathology of the College of Agriculture 

 of Cornell University, retired on July 1 from 

 the administrative headship in order to devote 

 his time and energies more fully to teaching 

 and research together with the immediate 

 preparation of one or more text-books. Dr. 

 L. M. Massey, who has been acting head for 

 the past year during Professor Whetzel's ab- 

 sence in Bermuda, succeeds to the permanent 

 position. A correspondent writes: "Cornell 

 was the fii'st American University to establish 

 an independent department of plant pathology 

 and this stands, doubtless, at present as the 

 largest development in its field. It is note- 

 worthy when the leader of a flourishing depart- 

 ment like this voluntarily retires from the ad- 

 ministrative headship while still in his prime." 



Professor B. M. Kozot-Poljanski, of 

 Dorpat University, Russia, has requested 

 American botanists to exchange papers with 

 him, in order that he may come in touch again 

 with American work. His present address is 

 University Botanical Institute, Woronesh, 

 Russia. 



At a meeting of the Societe Mathematique 

 de France in the Sorbonne on July 12, Pro- 

 fessor Edward Kasner, of Columbia University, 

 spoke on "Problemes de geometrie dans la 

 theorie de gravitation Einsteinien." 



Professor G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., and 

 Professor J. T. Hunter described a reconstruc- 

 tion of the Piltdown skull at a meeting of the 

 Royal Anthropological Institute on June 13. 



Professor C. Lloyd Morgan, Bristol, has 

 been selected to deliver the Gifford Lectures 

 in the University of St. Andrews in 1922-23 



