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meritorious and wortliy of honor. The medal and 

 diploma and surplus income shall not, however, 

 for more than two years successively, be awarded 

 for treatises upon any one branch of either of the 

 sciences above mentioned. Professor Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn, of New York, the scientific director 

 of the American Museum of Natural History in 

 New York City and the secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution at Washington for the time 

 being, are appointed as such judges. Vacancies at 

 any time occurring in the number of the judges 

 shall be filled by the Council of the said National 

 Academy of Sciences, and in each case of a vacancy 

 it is the wish of the said Margaret Henderson 

 Elliot that the council will, if practicable, appoint 

 to the position an American naturalist eminent in 

 zoology or paleontology. 



As science is not national the medal and di- 

 ploma and surplus income may be conferred upon 

 naturalists of any country, and as men eminent in 

 their respective lines of scientific research wiU act 

 as judges, it is the wish of the said Margaret 

 Henderson Elliot that no person acting as such 

 judge shall be deemed on that account ineligible 

 to receive this annual gift, and the medal, diploma 

 and surplus income may in any year be awarded to 

 any one of the judges, if, in the opinion of his 

 associates, he shall, by reason of the excellence of 

 any treatise published by him during the year, be 

 entitled to receive them. 



Tlie comimittee of tlie award includes Secre- 

 tary Ckarles D. Walcott, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution; Director F. A. Lucas, of the 

 American MuseTom, and President Henry Fair- 

 field Osihorn, of the American Museum. The 

 committee invites nominations from the works 

 of the year 1919. The award for 1917 was to 

 Frank M. Chapman's "Birds of Colombia." 

 The award for 1918 was to Beebe's "Monograph 

 of the Pheasants." 



Henry Fahifield Osborn 



American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Princeton TJntveesity has conferred its 

 doctorate of laws on Dr. Eaphael Pumpelly, 

 the geologist, and its doctorate of science on 

 Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Eockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research. Dr. Carrel has also 



received the same degree from Brown Uni- 

 versity. 



The degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred upon Dr. Frank Schlesinger, director 

 of the Yale Observatory, by the University of 

 Pittsburgh at its commencement on June 9. 



The degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred on Professor Lewis William Fetzer, of 

 the department of physiology and pharmacol- 

 ogy in the Baylor University College of Med- 

 icine, at the recent commencement exercises 

 of the University of Dallas. 



The degree of doctor of laws has been con- 

 ferred by the University of Pennsylvania on 

 Professor John M. Macfarlane, who is this 

 year retiring from the chair of botany after a 

 service of twenty-eight years. 



The degree of doctor of science has been 

 conferred by the University of Liverpool on 

 Professor F. G. Donnan, formerly professor 

 of physical chemistry in the university, and 

 now professor of chemistry in University Col- 

 lege, London, and on Professor W. A. Herd- 

 man, formerly Derby professor of natural his- 

 tory, and now professor of oceanography, in 

 the university. 



The honorary degree of doctor of letters 

 has been conferred by the University of Oxford 

 on Dr. Temistocle Zammit, professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Malta and 

 curator of the Valetta Museum. 



Dr. B. L. Eobinson, Asa Gray professor of 

 systematic botany in Harvard University, has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the 

 Czecho-Slovakian Botanical Society. 



The Stewart prize of the British Medical 

 Association has been awarded to Dr. Harriette 

 Chick, an assistant in the department of ex- 

 perimental pathology of the Lister Institute. 



Sm William J. Pope has been elected pres- 

 ident of the Society of Chemical Industry. 



Professor Augustus Trowbridge, of the 

 department of physics of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, has been granted a leave of absence 

 for the coming academic year in order to 

 become chairman of the Committee on Mathe- 

 matics, Physics and Astronomy of the Na- 

 tional Research Coimcil. 



