May 23, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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if I have been too somber and too personal, 

 I trust that I may not have been guilty of 

 the social crime of having been uninter- 

 esting. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



On the occasion of the installation of the 

 Duke of Northiimberland as chancellor of 

 Durham University honorary degrees -were 

 conferred on the following men of science: 

 D.C.L., Lord Eayleigh; D.Sc, Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, KC.B., Sir William Eamsay, K.C.B., 

 Sir T. C. Allbutt, K.C.B., Sir J. A. Ewing, 

 K. C. B., Sir William Crookes, O.M., Sir J. J. 

 Thomson, O.M., and Professor E. B. Poulton. 



The Linnean Society, London, has awarded 

 its Linnean medal to Professor Adolf Engler, 

 of Berlin. 



The French Academy of Moral and Polit- 

 ical Science has elected M. Pierre Janet, pro- 

 fessor of experimental psychology at the Col- 

 lege de France, to the chair left vacant by the 

 death of M. Fouillee. 



When the Lobachewski Prize was recently 

 awarded to Professor Schur, of Strasburg, the 

 committee also awarded an honorable mention 

 to Professor Julian L. Coolidge, of Harvard 

 University, for his book on " Non-Euclidean 

 Geometry," Oxford, 1909. 



The annual meeting of the Iron and Steel 

 Institute was held in London on May 1 and 2, 

 when the Bessemer gold medal for 1913 was 

 presented to Mr. Adolphe Greiner by the presi- 

 dent, Mr. Arthur Cooper. The Andrew Car- 

 negie gold medal for 1912 was presented to Dr. 

 J. Newton Friend. 



The Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society has nominated Sir Thomas H. Hol- 

 land, F.E.S., to represent it at the twelfth In- 

 ternational Congress of Geology, to be held in 

 Toronto in August next. 



Dr. James W. Glover, professor of mathe- 

 matics and insurance at the University of 

 Michigan, has been appointed expert special 

 agent of the Bureau of the Census to super- 

 vise the preparation of a special volume on 

 vital statistics. Extensive mortality tables 



are to be prepared, based on the population and 

 vital statistics of the United States. Dr. 

 Glover has also been appointed collaborator 

 to the Office of Public Roads in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture to assist in the prepara- 

 tion of several bulletins on the various meth- 

 ods of issuing and financing public highway 

 bonds. 



Professor Amos S. Hershey, head of the 

 department of political science at Indiana 

 University, and Dean Walter Williams, dean 

 of the school of jurisprudence at the Univer- 

 sity of Missouri, have been appointed fellows 

 of the Kahn Foundation for the coming year^ 

 and both will begin a one-year tour around 

 the world within the month. The fellowships 

 carry with them a stipend of $3,000 for each 

 appointee and in addition there is an allow- 

 ance to each of $300 for purchases. 



Professor Herbert E. Moody, of the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York, is in residence 

 for the summer term at Oxford University, 

 where he is associated with Mr. T. V. Barker, 

 of the department of mineralogy at the Uni- 

 versity Museum. Professor Moody is en- 

 gaged in learning from Mr. Barker the de- 

 tails, so far as developed, of the von Federon 

 method of Crystallo-Analysis. Mr. Barker 

 learned Eussian last year in order to work 

 with von Federon in St. Petersburg. The 

 method is not yet made public. 



At the annual general meeting of the Ma- 

 rine Biological Association of the United 

 Kingdom, held in the rooms of the Eoyal So- 

 ciety on April 30, the following oificers and 

 members of council were elected for the year: 

 President, Sir Eay Lankester; Chairman of 

 Council, Dr. A. E. Shipley; Hon. Treasurer, 

 Major J. A. Travers; Members of Council, E. 

 T. Browne, L. W. Bryne, Dr. W. T. Caiman, 

 Professor H. J. Fleure, Professor F. W. 

 Gamble, Sir Eustace Gurney, Commander 

 Campbell Hepworth, Professor J. P. Hill, E.. 

 W. L. Holt, Professor E. W. MacBride, H. G. 

 Maurice, Dr. E. Schuster, G. W. Smith, Pro- 

 fessor D'Arcy W. Thompson ; Hon. Secretary, 

 Dr. E. J. Allen. The following governors are 

 also members of council : G. P. Bidder, the 



