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sides such a body would receive exceptional 

 courtesies from the authorities abroad. 



It is only natural that a competent director 

 of the tour will be named who, with extensive 

 experience in travel abroad and a knowledge 

 of languages, will be in position to care for 

 the welfare of the party in the best possible 

 way. 



It is hoped that the members of the pro- 

 fession will aid the committee in its work. 

 Those who desire further information will be 

 given full attention. 



Adolph Eichhorn, 



Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, a correspondent in the Section of Geog- 

 raphy and Navigation, in the place of the late 

 Sir George Darwin. 



The University of California has awarded 

 an honorary degree to Mr. John Muir, " born 

 in Scotland, reared in the University of Wis- 

 consin, by final choice a Californian, widely 

 traveled observer of the world we dwell in, 

 man of science and of letters, friend and 

 protector of nature, uniquely gifted to in- 

 terpret unto other men her mind and ways." 



The Halle Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded its gold Cothenius medal to Dr. 

 Leonhard Sehultze, professor of geography at 

 Marburg. 



Dr. Otto H. Tittman, chief of the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, has been made an hon- 

 orary member of the Berlin Geographical 

 Society. 



The Hanbury medal of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society, London, has been awarded to Dr. 

 Frederick Bilding Power, Ph.D., LL.D. The 

 medal is awarded bienially for original re- 

 search in the chemistry and natural history of 

 drugs. Dr. Power, who is director of the 

 Wellcome Research Laboratories, London, is 

 an American by birth. 



The council of the Eoyal Society of Arts 

 has passed the following resolution : 



On tlie occasion of the fiftieth award of the 

 Albert medal of the Royal Society of Arts, the 

 council of the society desire to offer the medal to 

 H.M. King George V., for nine years president, 

 and now patron of the society, in respectful recog- 

 nition of his Majesty's untiring efforts to make 

 himself personally acquainted with the social and 

 economic condition of the various parts of his 

 dominions, and to promote the progress of arts, 

 manufactures and commerce in the United King- 

 dom and throughout the British Empire. 



The gold Nachtigall medals of the Berlin 

 Geographical Society have been awarded to 

 Duke AdoK Friedrich, of Mecklenberg, and 

 Professor Hans Meyer, for explorations in 

 Africa. 



Professors J. L. Coolidge, E. V. Huntisg- 

 TON and G. D. Birkhopf, of the division of 

 mathematics of Harvard University, have been 

 elected to membership in the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences. 



The Rumford Committee of the American 

 Academy, at its last meeting, voted the follow- 

 ing appropriations : to Frederick G. Keyes, of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 $300 to be used for the payment of assistants 

 in the computation of thermodynamic tables 

 for ammonia, and to Professor Theodore W. 

 Richards, of Harvard University, $100 to be 

 used in aid of the publication of the Annual 

 International Tables of Constants. 



Secretary Lane has announced a reorgan- 

 ization of the reclamation service. F. H. 

 Newell, director of the Reclamation Service, 

 will be chairman of a new Reclamation Com- 

 mission. The commission will consist of five 

 members, who, besides Chairman Newell, will 

 be George Barton French, in charge of opera- 

 tion and maintenance; A. P. Davis, chief 

 engineer; Judge Will R. King, of Oregon, 

 chief counsel, and one other, who will have 

 charge of the contracts and finances. 



Dr. W. D. Bigelow, for many years a mem- 

 ber of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has resigned from the 

 government service to take charge of the labo- 

 ratory of the National Canners' Association 

 to be established in Washington. 



