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honor by the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences. Mme. Curie planned to visit New 

 Haven this week to be present at the installa- 

 ation of President Angell on June 22. She ex- 

 pected to sail with her daughters for France 

 on June 25. 



Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, having resigned as 

 chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, to accept a position 

 as one of the three directors of the Food 

 Research Institute established at Stanford 

 University by the Carnegie Corporation, the 

 bureau chiefs of the department gave him a 

 farewell dinner at the Cosmos Club on 

 June 17. Dr. L. O. Howard acted as toast- 

 master and Assistant Secretary Ball spoke in- 

 formally and Dr. Alsberg replied. 



At the annual commencement of the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute on June 10, 

 the class of 1871 celebrated the fiftieth anni- 

 versary of its graduation, and H. P. Armsby 

 of that class received the honorary degree of 

 doctor of science, this being the first honorary 

 degree ever conferred by the institute. 



The degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred on Dr. Edward Kenneth Mees, research 

 chemist of the Eastman laboratory, at the 

 seventy-first commencement of the University 

 of Rochetser. 



Indiana University has conferred the de- 

 gree of LL.D. on W. S. Blatchley, formerly 

 state geologist of Indiana. 



Franklin College at its commencement on 

 June 8 conferred the honorary degree of doc- 

 tor of humane letters on Dr. Albert Perry 

 Brigham, professor of geology in Colgate Uni- 

 versity. 



Miss Annie J. Cannon, of the Harvard Col- 

 lege Observatory, has received from Groningen 

 University in Holland an honorary doctor's 

 degree in mathematics and astronomy, in ac- 

 knowledgment of her work in the study of 

 stellar spectra. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Linnean 

 Society of London on May 24 its Linnean 

 gold medal was presented to Dr. Dukinfield H. 

 Scott, for his services to recent and fossil 

 botany. 



Professor Dwight Porter, since 1883 a 

 member of the civil engineering department of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 and for twenty-five years professor of hydrau- 

 lic engineering, has retired. 



We learn from Nature that Dr. W. T. Cai- 

 man, who has been in charge of the Crustacea 

 at the ^Natural History Museum since 1904, 

 the author of " The Life of Crustacea " and 

 of numerous articles on this group, has been 

 appointed deputy keeper in the department of 

 zoology. 



A NUMBER of changes have recently been 

 made in the scientific staff of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. Dr. C. Anderson, who has 

 been mineralogist since 1901, succeeds the late 

 R. Etheridge, Jr., as director. Mr. A. Mus- 

 grave fills the vacancy caused by the death of 

 W. J. Rainbow, entomologist, and Messrs. J. 

 R. Kinghorn and E. le G. Troughton, second- 

 class assistants, have been promoted to be 

 first-class assistants in charge of reptiles, birds 

 and amphibians, and mammals and skeletons, 

 respectively. 



Dean Albert R. Mann, of the ISTew York 

 State Agricultural College at Cornell Univer- 

 sity, has declined the position of head of the 

 !New York State Agricultural Department. 

 Reference was made in Science to " candi- 

 dates " for this position. The word was not 

 intended to imply that the position was being 

 sought by the scientific men in question, but 

 that their qualifications were such as to have 

 led to the consideration of their appointment. 



Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden has been elected 

 a member of the International Health Board 

 of the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Anthony 

 J. Lanza, of Cleveland, has been appointed 

 by the board to inaugurate a department of in- 

 dustrial hygiene in the new ministry of health 

 in Australia. 



Professor George Grant MacCurdy has 

 leave of absence from Yale University for the 

 academic year 1921-22. With Mrs. MacCurdy 

 he sailed for Europe on June 18 to become the 

 first director of the American School in 

 France for Prehistoric Studies. The school 

 is scheduled to open at the rock shelter of La 



