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thropology), Sir Richard Temple, Bart., 

 CLE.; I (physiology). Professor F. Go-wland 

 Hopkins, F.R.S.; K (botany), Miss Ethel 

 Sargant, F.L.S.; L (education), Principal E. 

 H. Griffiths, F.R.S.; M (agriculture). Pro- 

 fessor T. B. Wood. 



The following fifteen candidates have been 

 selected by the council of the Royal Society to 

 be recommended for election into the society: 

 Professor V. H. Blackman, Dr. William Bul- 

 loch, Mr. D. L. Chapman, Professor W. E. 

 Dalby, Dr. T. R. Elliott, Professor J. C. 

 Fields, Dr. J. S. Flett, Professor J. P. Hill, 

 Mr. A. R. Hinks, Professor F. Keeble, Pro- 

 fessor A. Keith, Dr. K. Lucas, Professor O. 

 W. Richardson, Dr. W. Bosenhain, and Mr. 

 G. W. Walker. 



The university faculty of Cornell Univer- 

 sity passed on March 14 the following resolu- 

 tion: 



Whereas Professor Willard C. Fisher, a distin- 

 guished alumnus and former fellow of the uni- 

 versity, has been dismissed from the chair of eco- 

 nomics and social science at Wesleyan University 

 on grounds stated in the letters of January 27, 

 1913, exchanged between the president of Wes- 

 leyan University and Professor Fisher; therefore, 

 Besolved, that the faculty of C!ornell University 

 extend to Professor Fisher greetings and assur- 

 ance of regard, with the message that his alma 

 mater still seeks to maintain and extend the spirit 

 of liberality, toleration and loyalty to truth, il- 

 lustrated by the principles and I'ves of its found- 

 ers, Ezra Cornell and Andrew D. White. 



On May 3 the Duke of Northumberland 

 will be installed as chancellor of Durham 

 University in succession to the late dean of 

 Durham. The following are among the hon- 

 orary degrees to be conferred: D.C.L., Lord 

 Rayleigh; D.Sc, Sir Archibald Geikie, P.R.S., 

 Sir J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., Sir William 

 Crookes, F.R.S., Sir William Ramsay, F.R.S., 

 Sir J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., Sir T. C. Allbutt, 

 and Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S. 



The Harris lecture committee of North- 

 western University has announced that the 

 Norman Waite Harris lectures for 1913-14 

 wiU be delivered by Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, 

 professor of zoology at Princeton University. 



The general subject of his lectures will be 

 heredity and eugenics. 



Dr. Lloyd Morgan, F.R.S., has been ap- 

 pointed Herbert Spencer lecturer for 1913 at 

 the University of Oxford. 



Dk. Ernst Mach, professor of physics at 

 Vienna, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday 

 on February 18. 



The trustees of the Peabody Museum, 

 Salem, Mass., have granted Professor Ed- 

 ward S. Morse a year's leave of absence from 

 the directorship with full salary, in order that 

 he may complete his revision of the New Eng- 

 land Mollusca and prepare for publication his 

 Japanese journals. 



Dr. Oskar Bolza, honorary professor of 

 mathematics in the University of Freiburg, 

 who was for eighteen years actively associated 

 with the department of mathematics in the 

 University of Chicago and who is still non- 

 resident professor in that department, will 

 give courses during the summer quarter of the 

 present year. 



Professor Charles Lane Poor, of Co- 

 lumbia University, has been given leave of ab- 

 sence for next year. Professor Edward Kas- 

 ner will have leave of absence during the sec- 

 ond half year. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Breeders' Association, Dr. David Fairchild, 

 of Washington, was elected president, and 

 Professor W. E. Castle, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, vice-president. 



Officers of the Association of American 

 Medical Colleges elected at Chicago, on Feb- 

 ruary 26, are : President, E. P. Lyon, St. 

 Louis University; Vice-president, F. F. Wes- 

 brook. University of Minnesota; Secretary- 

 treasurer, F. C. Zapple, University of Illinois. 



Edward W. Berry, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been elected a member of the 

 Societe Geologique de France. 



Dr. S. W. Stratton, director of the United 

 States Bureau of Standards, Washington, 

 D. C, has been elected a member of the coun- 

 cil of the Underwriters' Laboratories, Chi- 

 cago, m. The council is made up of twenty- 



