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SCIENCE 



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omy at Berlin; Dr. Mittag-Loeifler, professor 

 of mathematics at Stockholm; Dr. H. A. 

 Schwarz, professor of mathematics at Berlin ; 

 Dr. Walther Nernst, professor of physical 

 chemistry at Berlin ; Dr. Sigismond Exner, 

 professor of physiology at Vienna; Professor 

 A. G. Nathorst, director of the Paleontological 

 Museum at Stockholm, and Mr. Bailey Willis, 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. H. a. Lorentz, professor of physics at 

 Leiden, has been made an honorary member, 

 and Dr. Ernest Rutherford, professor of phys- 

 ics at Manchester, and Dr. W. C. Brogger, pro- 

 fessor of geology at Christiania, have been 

 made corresponding members, of the Vienna 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The honorary degree of D.C.L. has been 

 conferred on Sir William Osier, regius pro- 

 fessor of medicine at Oxford by Durham Uni- 

 versity. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 its Binoux prize (for the history of science) to 

 Professor J. L. Heiberg, of the University of 

 Copenhagen, for his works on the history of 

 ancient mathematics and in particular for 

 those on the method of Archimedes. 



DmECTOR Bailey has been appointed to rep- 

 resent Cornell University at the inauguration 

 of Dr. C. A. Duniway as president of the Uni- 

 versity of Wyoming on January 24. Besides 

 making a speech at the inauguration, Mr. 

 Bailey will make an address on the occasion of 

 the laying of the corner stone of Wyoming's 

 new agricultural building. 



On the evening of December 17, the Linnean 

 Society of New York held its first annual ban- 

 quet at which Mr. Prank M. Chapman was 

 the guest of honor. The occasion had the two- 

 fold object of inaugurating a series of annual 

 dinners and of honoring Mr. Chapman for his 

 distinguished services to ornithology. Dr. 

 Jonathan Dwight, Jr., president of the society, 

 acted as toastmaster, and among other guests 

 at the speaker's table besides Mr. Chapman 

 were Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mr. John 

 Burroughs, Dr. A. K. Fisher, Mr. George Bird 

 Grinnell, Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, Dr. Fred- 



eric A. Lucas, Mr. Spencer Trotter, Mr. Ernest 

 T. Seaton and Mr. John H. Sage. 



Professor H. J. Wheeler, for the past ten 

 years director of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station of the Rhode Island State College, 

 who recently resigned, has accepted the posi- 

 tion as manager of the Agricultural Service 

 Bureau of the American Agricultural Chem- 

 ical Company of Boston and New York, with 

 headquarters at 92 State St., Boston, Mass. 



Mr. Benjamin Boss has been appointed act- 

 ing editor of the Astronomical Journal. 



Mr. H. D. Goodale has recently been ap- 

 pointed by the trustees of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College as research biologist in 

 the department of poultry husbandry of the 

 experiment station. Mr. Goodale graduated 

 from Trinity College in 1903 ; after spending 

 a year in graduate work at that institution, he 

 spent three years at Columbia University as 

 a special student of zoology. From 1907 to 

 1911 he was engaged in farming, and since 

 1911 has been employed by the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution of Washington in its department of ex- 

 perimental evolution. 



The cornerstone of the new dispensary 

 building of the College of Medicine of Syra- 

 cuse University was laid on December 14 by 

 Chancellor Day. Afterwards addresses were 

 made by Dr. William S. Thayer, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University; Mr. Augustus S. Down- 

 ing, assistant commissioner of education of the 

 state of New York, and Mr. Alan C. Forbes, 

 who spoke on behalf of the Syracuse Free Dis- 

 pensary Association. 



Professor Marston Taylor Bogert, of the 

 department of chemistry, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, president of the Society of Chemical In- 

 dustry, lectured on December 16, before the 

 McGill Chemical Society, Montreal, on the 

 subject of " The Classification of Carbon Com- 

 pounds," and in the evening addressed the 

 Montreal members of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry at a banquet at Coopers Limited. 

 On the following day he addressed the Toronto 

 members of the society at a banquet at the 

 Engineers' Club, Toronto, on the subject of 

 " A Closer Cooperation between the Universi- 

 ties and Chemical Industries." 



