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by the optimistic people of Kansas that sim- 

 ilar results will not be obtained here. 



The logical outcome of this new movement 

 in Kansas would perhaps be a gradual merg- 

 ing of the interests of all the state schools, 

 and the realization of a greater University 

 of Kansas. The actual outcome will be 

 watched with more than usual interest by 

 every one who has at heart the problems of 

 efficient and liberal university administration. 



Charles A. Shull 

 The University of Kansas 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



De. Hugh M. Smith, deputy commissioner 

 ■of fisheries, has been appointed United States 

 fish commissioner. 



The Chicago Section of the American 

 Chemical Society has elected Dr. Leo H. 

 Baekeland, of Yonkers, N. Y., to be the re- 

 cipient of the Willard Gibbs medal, founded 

 by William A. Converse. The first award 

 was made in 1911 to Professor Svante Ar- 

 rhenius, director of the Nobel Institute, at 

 Stockholm, Sweden. The second medalist 

 was Professor Theodore W. Richards, of Har- 

 vard University. The formal presentation of 

 the Willard Gibbs medal will be made to 

 Dr. Baekeland at the May meeting of the 

 Chicago Section of the American Chemical 

 Society. The jury of award which selected Dr. 

 Baekeland comprised Professor Alexander 

 Smith, Dr. W. R. Whitney, Dr. E. C. Frank- 

 lin, Professor W. A. Noyes, Dr. J. D. Pen- 

 nock, Professor G. B. Frankforter, Professor 

 John H. Long, Professor Julius Stieglitz, Mr. 

 William Brady, Mr. E. B. Bragg, Mr. S. T. 

 Mather and Dr. G. Thumauer. 



The American Philosophical Society at its 

 ■stated meeting on April 19 elected the follow- 

 ing members : Dr. George F. Atkinson, pro- 

 fessor of botany and head of the botanical 

 •department of Cornell University; Dr. Charles 

 Edwin Bennett, professor of the Latin lan- 

 guage and literature in Cornell University; 

 Dr. John Henry Comstock, professor of ento- 



mology and invertebrate zoology in Cornell 

 University and non-resident professor of ento- 

 mology in Stanford University; Luther P. 

 Eisenhart, professor of mathematics in 

 Princeton University; George Washington 

 Goethals, U.S.A., chief of engineers of the 

 Panama Canal; William Crawford Gorgas, 

 Assistant Surgeon General, U.S.A., member 

 of the Isthmian Canal Commission; Dr. Ross 

 Granville Harrison, professor of comparative 

 anatomy, Yale University; George Augustus 

 Hulett, professor of physical chemistry in 

 Princeton University; Dr. Clarence Erwin 

 McClung, professor of zoology, University of 

 Pennsylvania; John Dyneley Prince, pro- 

 fessor of Semitic languages in Columbia Uni- 

 versity and president of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives of New Jersey; Dr. Samuel Rea, 

 president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 

 pany; Dr. Henry Norris Russell, professor of 

 astronomy at Princeton University; Witmer 

 Stone, curator of ornithology of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Three 

 foreign members were elected as follows : Sir 

 Arthur John Evans, keeper of the Ashmolean 

 Museum, Oxford; Sir Joseph Larmor, Lu- 

 easian professor of mathematics at Cam- 

 bridge; and Dr. Arthur Schuster, professor of 

 physics at the University of Manchester. 



The Lobachevsky prize of the Academy of 

 Sciences of Kasan has been awarded to Pro- 

 fessor F. Schur, of the University of Strass- 

 burg, for his researches in the foundations 

 of geometry. 



The University of Edinburgh will confer 

 the degree of LL.D. on the Hon. James Wil- 

 son, lately secretary of agriculture of the 

 United States. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel and Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, 

 of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. H. M. Biggs 

 and Dr. William H. Park, of the New York 

 Department of Health, and Dr. John W. 

 Brannan, of Bellevue and allied hospitals, 

 have been made knights of the Royal Order 

 of Isabella the Catholic by King Alfonso of 

 Spain. 



Dr. Thomas N. Carver, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed by Secretary 



