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Soutli; and varieties of soy beans and the 

 oriental timber and edible bamboos of Japan, 

 ■which are now represented by groves in 

 various parts of the south, were also secured. 



HONORARY DEGREES AT YALE UNIVERSITY 



At the recent commencement of Yale Uni- 

 versity the degree of doctor of science was 

 conferred on Dr. H. P. Armsby and the 

 degree of master of arts on Dr. "William Dar- 

 rach. Professor H. E. Hawkes and Mr. E. W. 

 Nelson. In conferring these degrees President 

 Hadley said: 



Henry Prentiss Armsby: A graduate of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School in 1874, specializing in 

 chemistry; doctor of philosophy at Yale, 1879; 

 for several years he was associated with that ad- 

 mirable institution, the Connectiout Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. He has been a teacher in 

 various universities; he is a leading authority on 

 animal nutrition at Pennsylvania State College. 

 He is now director of the Institute of Animal Nu- 

 trition at Pennsylvania State College. After the 

 signing of the armistice, he was chosen to go 

 abroad in the commission concerned with food 

 problems in Europe. His career has been a multi- 

 tudinous blessing. 



William Daerach: Was graduated from Yale 

 College in 1897; member of Phi Beta Kappa; took 

 the degree of M.A. and M.D. at Columbia; is now 

 dean of the medical faculty at the College of Physi- 

 cians and Surgeons. He was attached to Base Hos- 

 pital No. 2, with commission as captain, and sailed 

 for France in May, 1917; was advanced to the 

 rank of colonel in 1919, and became senior con- 

 sultant in surgery at headquarters. His publica- 

 tions in scientific research are important. He is a 

 surgeon, a scholar, a teacher and a patriot. 



Herbert Edwin Hawkes: B.A., Yale, 1896; 

 Ph.D., 1900; like many of his classmates. Dr. 

 Hawkes became a member of the Yale faculty, and 

 taught mathematics for twelve years. In 1910 he 

 was called to Columbia as professor ; he was such a 

 conspicuous success in administration that he was 

 made dean of the college. He is the author of 

 books in his chosen field, but his chief distinction 

 is a worker of miracles — he has made hundreds of 

 young men love mathematics. Perhaps they would 

 not love mathematics so much if they did not love 

 him even more. A living force in education. 



Edward William Nelson: A distinguished nat- 

 uralist and one of the first ornithologists in the 



world. He has been on scientific expeditions in 

 the Arctic and Torrid Zones, and is at home every- 

 where. He was in Alaska in 1877, with the ex- 

 pedition in search of the Jeanette in 1881, and has 

 spent many years of scientific conquest in Mexico. 

 He has published authoritative monographs on the 

 birds of Bering Sea and on the squirrels of Cen- 

 tral America. He is chief of the Biological Sur- 

 vey in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Dur- 

 ing the war, he was constantly employed, and he 

 discovered the best method of ridding the trenches 

 of undesirable visitors; thus making the study of 

 natural history contributory to social science. He 

 leaves for Alaska to-day. 



The degree of doctor of laws was conferred 

 on Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, member of 

 British Parliament, formerly professor of 

 anatomy, British ambassador to the United 

 States. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Albert medal of the Royal Society of 

 Arts has been awarded to Dr. A. A. Michelson, 

 professor of physics in the University of Chi- 

 cago. 



Dr. Edgar E. Smith, retiring provost of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, after conferring 

 degrees and giving the commencement address, 

 received from Dr. William Pepper, dean of the 

 medical school, the doctorate of medicine, con- 

 ferred at the special request of the faculty of 

 the school of medicine. 



Harvard University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Dr. W. W. Keen, of Phila- 

 delphia, and Dr. H. M. Biggs, of New York. 



The doctorate of science has been conferred 

 by Tufts College on Dr. Arthur B. Lamb, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Harvard University. 



The degree of master of science was con- 

 ferred on Major Edward Hall Bowie, fore- 

 caster, U. S. Weather Bureau, at the com- 

 mencement of St. John's College. 



The semi-centennial celebration of Iowa 

 State College was held in connection with 

 commencement in June this year, having been 

 delayed nearly two years on account of the 

 war. Four hundred and thirty-five degrees 

 were awarded. No honorary degrees had been 

 given in recent years. Thirteen were conferred 



