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chemistry, has accepted a position with the 

 Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Ferdinand H. Haessler, hitherto an as- 

 sistant in pathology and bacteriology, has ac- 

 cepted an appointment as resident pathologist 

 in the Department for ITervous and Mental 

 Diseases in the Pennsylvania Hospital at 

 Philadelphia. 



Dr. Arthur B. Lyon, hitherto an assistant in 

 medicine, has resigned to enter private 

 practise. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The University of Wisconsin has conferred 

 the degree of doctor of laws on Dr. Alonzo E. 

 Taylor, professor of physiological chemistry, at 

 the University of Pennsylvania, and the de- 

 gree of doctor of science on Dr. Joel Stebbins, 

 professor of astronomy at the University of 

 Illinois. 



The degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred on Dr. C. 0. Adams, director of the 

 Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion at the college of forestry of Syracuse 

 University by Illinois Wesleyan University, 

 on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its found- 

 ing. 



Professor John W. Towney, dean of the 

 Yale Forest School received the degree of 

 LL.D., at the commencement exercises of the 

 New York State College of Forestry at Syra- 

 cuse University. 



The University of Vermont has conferred 

 the degree of LL.D., on Dr. Edward G. 

 Spaulding, professor of philosophy in Prince- 

 ton University. 



The University of St. Andrews has con- 

 ferred the degree of LL.D., on Dr. Leon 

 Fredericq, for nearly forty years professor of 

 pathology in the University of Liege, Bel- 

 gium; on Mr. W. J. Matheson, president of 

 the biological laboratory of the Brooklyn In- 

 stitute, and scientific adviser in chemistry to 

 the Board of Health for the city of New York, 

 and on Dr. ISTorman Walker, inspector of 

 anatomy for Scotland and direct representa- 

 tive of the profession in Scotland on the Gen- 

 eral Medical Coimcil, and on Dr. Norman 



Kemp, Smith professor of logic and meta- 

 physics at the University of Edinburgh. 



The Association of American Physicians 

 has elected as honorary members: Sir Olifiord 

 Allbutt, University of Cambridge, M. Eoux, 

 until recently director of the Pasteur Insti- 

 tute, Paris, Professor Heger of Brussels, and 

 Professor Marchiafava of Home. 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society on 

 May 27 the gold medal of the society was 

 handed by the president to Sir Bay Lankester, 

 to whom it had been awarded by the presi- 

 dent and council. 



Dr. J. G. Adami, vice-chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity of Liverpool, and lately Strathcona 

 professor of pathology and bacteriology in 

 McGill University, has been elected to an hon- 

 orary fellowship at Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge, of which he was formerly a scholar. 



Dr. E. F. Ladd, president of the North Da- 

 kota Agricultural College, and previously pro- 

 fessor of chemistry, has been nominated by the 

 Republican party for the senate in place of 

 Senator Gronna. Dr. Ladd was the candidate 

 of the Non-Partisan League. 



Dr. Henry Keaemer, dean of the school of 

 pharmacy of the University of Michigan, has 

 resigned. He will continue his investigations 

 on the cultivation of medicinal plants and the 

 nature and distribution of color in plants. 



Dr. E. F. Northrup has resigned from 

 Princeton University as assistant professor of 

 physics, having been elected vice-president 

 and technical adviser of the recently organized 

 Ajax Eleetrothermic Corporation, of Trenton, 

 N. J., which manufacturers the high fre- 

 quency induction furnace which he developed 

 in the Palmer Physical Laboratory. 



Dr. E. W. Gudger, after fourteen years serv- 

 ice as professor of biology in the North Caro- 

 lina College for Women, Greensboro, N. C, 

 has resigned. During the coming year he will 

 be at the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, associated with Dr. Bashford Dean as 

 editor of Volume III. of the Bibliography of 

 Fishes, Volumes I. and II. of which have al- 

 ready appeared. 



