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received and entertained the members of the 

 academy and their guests. The Watson medal 

 for astronomical research was presented to 

 Dr. J. C. Kapteyn, the Draper medal for as- 

 trophysical research to the French Ambassa- 

 dor for M. Henri Deslandres, the Agassiz 

 medal for oceanographical research to the 

 Norwegian minister for Dr. Johan Hjort, 

 and the Comstock prize of the value of $1,500 

 for research in radiant energy, to Professor 



E. A. Millikan, of the University of Chicago. 

 At the dinner on the evening of April 24, Dr. 

 R. S. Woodward acted as toastmaster and 

 speeches were made by the vice-president of 

 the United States, the British Ambassador, 

 Dr. S. Wier Mitchell, Dr. W. W. Keen, presi- 

 dent of the American Philosophical Society, 

 and Senator Burton. 



At the business meeting of the academy the 

 following new members were elected: Henry 

 Andrews Bumstead, professor of physics, Tale 

 University; L. E. Dickson, professor of 

 mathematics, University of Chicago ; Rosa G. 

 Harrison, professor of comparative anatomy. 

 Tale University; Gilbert Newton Lewis, pro- 

 fessor of physical chemistry, University of 

 California; Lafayette B. Mendel, professor of 

 physiological chemistry, Tale University; 

 George H. Parker, professor of zoology, Har- 

 vard University; L. V. Pirsson, professor of 

 geology. Tale University; Edward B. Rosa, 

 chief physicist. Bureau of Standards; Erwin 



F. Smith, pathologist in charge, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture; A. O. Leuschner, professor of astron- 

 omy. University of California. 



The officers elected for a term of six years 

 were: 



President — Dr. W. H. Welch, professor of path- 

 ology, The Johns Hopkins University. 



Vice-president — Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Home Secretary — Dr. A. L. Day, director of the 

 Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Sir William Osler, regius professor of 

 medicine, gave, last week, the SiUiman lec- 



tures at Tale University. The subject of the 

 course was " The Evolution of Modern Medi- 

 cine." 



The Walker grand honorary prize, which is 

 awarded by the Boston Society of Natural 

 History once in five years, was this year voted 

 to Mr. Robert Ridgway, of the United States 

 National Museum, in recognition of his in- 

 vestigations in ornithology, and particularly 

 for his work on the " Birds of North and 

 Middle America." This prize, the amount of 

 which is one thousand dollars, was founded 

 by the late William Johnson Walker, a bene- 

 factor of the society, and is given in recog- 

 nition of important investigation in natural 

 history, published and made known in the 

 United States of America. 



President Richard C. MACLAURDf, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 taken out the first papers for citizenship in the 

 United States. His statement shows that he 

 was born in Scotland, forty-six years ago, 

 and that his last foreign place of residence 

 was New Zealand. 



Dr. R. S. Breed, for several years professor 

 of biology at Alleghany College, has been se- 

 lected as bacteriologist of the New Tork Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N. T. 

 Dr. Breed succeeds Dr. H. A. Harding who 

 becomes head of the dairy department of the 

 University of Illinois. Dr. Breed is a gradu- 

 ate of Amherst and of Harvard, having a 

 Ph.D. from the latter institution. He will 

 assume the duties of this position about Au- 

 gust first. 



Dr. Maurice C. Tanquary, instructor in 

 zoology in the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, has been granted a three years' leave of 

 absence in order that he may accompany the 

 American Museum of Natural History 

 Crocker Land Expedition. 



Dr. a. Hrdlicka, of the U. S. National 

 Museum, has returned from his expedition to 

 Peru. He has secured important collections 

 in physical anthropology and pre-Columbian 

 pathology. 



