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Carnegie Institution of Washington, on May 

 3, in connection with the celebration of the 

 eighty-fifth anniversary of the Berlin Gesell- 

 schaft fiir Erdkunde. The medal is awarded 

 to Dr. Bauer for his researches in terres- 

 trial magnetism. Professor Neumayer, who 

 founded the medal, will be recalled as the 

 most eminent student, during his lifetime, of 

 the earth's magnetic phenomena. The medal 

 has not been awarded since 1906. 



Dr. George H. Barton, director of the 

 Teachers School of Science, Boston, was given 

 a dinner and a presentation on May 9. Among 

 those who made addresses were President Mac- 

 laurin, Professor Sedgwick and Professor 

 Burton, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology; Professor Woodworth and Pro- 

 fessor Ropes, of Harvard University; Pro- 

 fessor Pisher, of Wellesley College, and Pro- 

 fessor Lane, of Tufts College. 



Dr. Eossiter W. Eaymond, of Brooklyn, 

 was elected an honorary member of Alpha 

 Chapter of Tau Beta Pi at a joint meeting of 

 Tau Beta Pi and Phi B«ta Kappa, at Lehigh 

 University last week. 



Sir David Gill, formerly astronomer at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, has received the insignia 

 of commander of the Legion of Honor, which 

 has been conferred on him by the president of 

 the French Eepublic. 



The council of the Institution of Civil Engi- 

 neers has made the following awards for 

 papers read during the session 1912-13 : A 

 Telford gold medal to Mr. Murdoch Macdon- 

 ald, C.M.G. (Cairo) ; a George Stephenson 

 gold medal to Mr. G. D. Snyder (New York) ; 

 a Watt gold medal to Mr. H. A. Humphrey 

 (London) ; Telford premiums to Messrs. C. 

 W. Methven (Durban), B. Hall Blyth, Jr. 

 (Edinburgh), C. J. Crofts (Durban), Prank 

 Grove (Canton), B. T. B. Boothby (Hankow), 

 and Francis Carnegie (Enfield Lock), and 

 the Manby premium to Capt. C. E. P. Sankey, 

 E.E. (London). 



President Wilson received on May 6 a com- 

 mittee of the American Medical Association, 

 which urged a general conference to discuss 

 plans for a federal department of public 



health and matters pertaining to the conserva- 

 tion of human life and efficiency. Professor 

 Irving Fisher, of Yale; Dr. John B. Murphy, 

 of Chicago; Dr. G. H. Simmons, of Chicago; 

 Dr. L. K. Frankle, and Dr. Abram Jacobi, of 

 New York; Dr. Harvey M. Wiley, Senator 

 Owen, and Eepresentatives Foster, of Hlinois, 

 and Ourley, of Massachusetts, were present. 



Dr. Paul Marciial, chief of the Entomolog- 

 ical Station of Paris, professor in the Agro- 

 nomical Institute of France, and a member of 

 the French Academy of Sciences, landed in 

 New York on the fourth of the present month. 

 He comes to America for the purpose of study- 

 ing the organization of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology of the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington and other organizations working 

 in applied entomology. He will remain in the 

 United States for two or three months. Dr. 

 Marchal is especially well known to general 

 students of biology and morphology on account 

 of his remarkable researches in polyembryony. 

 In the course of his stay he will visit most 

 parts of the United States. 



Dr. Peer Geijer, the Swedish geologist, has 

 joined the University of Wisconsin expedition 

 to the Lake Superior mine regions. The party 

 consists of advanced students in the engineer- 

 ing college and professors. The inspection 

 tour is made every two years. Besides Dr. 

 Geijer, J. J. O'Neill, of the Canadian Geolog- 

 ical Survey, and G. W. Crane, of the Missouri 

 State Geological Survey, are of the party. 



Professor W. J. Baumgartner, of Law- 

 rence, Kansas, will conduct his fourth party of 

 biologists to the Puget Sound Marine Station 

 at Friday Harbor, Wash., this summer. A 

 chartered car will leave St. Paul on the morn- 

 ing of June 14, and will go over the beautiful 

 Canadian Pacific route, stopping to visit gla- 

 ciers, etc. Six weeks will be spent on the coast 

 studying the exceedingly rich fauna and flora 

 under very favorable conditions. 



Professor Henry H. Norris, head of the 

 department of electrical engineering at Cor- 

 nell University, has resigned to join the edi- 

 torial boards of The Electric Railway Journal 

 and The Electric World, of which he has been 

 an associate managing editor for some years. 



