March 7, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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Sir William Eamsay, K.C.B., LL.D., D.Sc, M.D., 

 Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., of London, England, in 

 recognition of numerous discoveries of far-reach- 

 ing importance in the science of chemistry. 



Emil Fischer, Ph.D., M.D., D.Sc, F.E.S., of 

 Berlin, Germany, in recognition of numerous con- 

 tributions of fundamental importance to the sci- 

 ence of organic and biological chemistry. 



The annual dinner of the Alumni Associa- 

 tion of Stevens Institute of Technology, held 

 on February 14 at the Hotel Astor, took the 

 form of a testimonial to Dr. Humphreys on 

 the tenth anniversary of his inaugiiration as 

 president of Stevens. The regard of the 

 alumni was evidenced by the presentation of 

 a model of the historic Stevens Castle which 

 was recently purchased by the institute. 



Dr. James Law, emeritus professor of vet- 

 erinary medicine at Cornell University, was 

 seventy-five years old on February 13. In the 

 afternoon Acting President Crane and all the 

 members of the faculty of the Veterinary 

 College called upon Dr. Law at his home to 

 congratulate him. 



The senate on February 20 voted to grant 

 permission to Col. W. C. Gorgas of the 

 Isthmian Canal Commission to enter the 

 service of the Republic of Ecuador for the 

 purpose of cleaning up the port of Guayaquil. 



It is announced that the Canadian govern- 

 ment will grant Mr. Stefansson the sum of 

 £15,000 towards his expedition into unex- 

 plored territory north of the Canadian main- 

 land. Mr. Stefansson will take with him 

 Canadian students with scientific knowledge, 

 and the expedition will be directly under the 

 Canadian Geological Survey. He expects to 

 be absent three winters and four summers. 



Dr. H. Monmouth Smith, since 1902 pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Syracuse University, 

 has accepted a research position in the nu- 

 trition laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. 



Mr. Lancaster D. Burling, assistant cu- 

 rator of the division of invertebrate paleon- 

 tology in the United States National Museum, 

 has resigned to accept the position of inverte- 

 brate paleontologist in the Geological Survey 

 of Canada. 



Mr. Egbert Anderson has resigned as geol- 

 ogist of the United States Geological Survey 

 and will engage in professional work, in part- 

 nership with Mr. A. C. Veatch, specializing 

 in the geology of petroleum. 



Mr. David Hooper, curator of the Industrial 

 Section of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, has 

 been appointed economic botanist to the Bo- 

 tanical Survey of India. 



Professor Bier, of the University of Berlin, 

 who has been quoted as having spoken favor- 

 ably of Dr. Friedmann's treatment for tu- 

 berculosis, has given out a statement which 

 concludes as follows : " I must therefore pub- 

 licly protest against the misuse of my name 

 for the recommendation of a remedy of whose 

 effectiveness I have so far no evidence. I 

 hope that this statement may find its way into> 

 the foreign press as quickly and as widely as 

 my alleged recommendation of the treatment. 

 It should also relieve me of the burden of 

 constantly answering letters and stating that 

 I have seen as yet no evidence of any unusual 

 curative action of Friedmann's treatment." 



A joint meeting of the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and the Philosophical Society 

 of Washington was held on March 1, in the 

 assembly hall of the Cosmos Club, when an 

 address was given by the Eight Honorable 

 James Bryce on " The Physical Aspects of 

 Australia and New Zealand." 



Professor Edwin G. Conklin, of Prince- 

 ton University, wiU lecture before the Harvey 

 Society at the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine on March 8, his subject being, " The Size 

 of Organisms and their Constituent Parts 

 in Eelation to Longevity, Senescence and 

 Eejuvenescenee." 



N. H. Darton, geologist. Bureau of Mines, 

 gave recently two lectures on applied geology 

 to the advanced geological students at Co- 

 lumbia University. The subjects were " Con- 

 struction of Structure Maps of Coal Basins" 

 and " Construction of Maps showing Artesian 

 Water Conditions." 



Professor John B. Watson, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, is giving at Columbia a 

 course of eight lectures on animal behavior. 



