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and on Professor William Strieby, of Colo- 

 rado College, and the degree of doctor of laws 

 on H. A. Howe, of the University of Denver. 

 Dr. John M. Mecklin has resigned the pro- 

 fessorship of mental and moral philosophy at 

 Lafayette College because his teaching was 

 regarded as not in accord with the standards 

 of the Presbyterian church. 



The first Loubat prize of $1,000, for the 

 best work printed and published in the Eng- 

 lish language upon the history, geography, 

 archeology, ethnology, philology or numismat- 

 ics of North America, during the quinquen- 

 nial period ending July 1, 1913, has been 

 awarded by Columbia University to George 

 Louis Beer, of New York (A.B., 1892), for his 

 series of works on the British Colonial Sys- 

 tem. The second prize of $400 has been 

 awarded to Dr. John Reed Swanton, of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D. C, for 

 his two works, one on " The Indian Tribes of 

 the Lower Mississippi Valley," and the other, 

 " Tlingit Myths and Texts." 



The Academic Frangaise has awarded the 

 Grand Prix Broquette Gonin, of the value of 

 $2,000, to Professor Grasset, of Montpellier. 

 The prize is for " the author of a work, philo- 

 sophic, political, or literary, which shall be 

 judged to be of a nature to inspire the love 

 of the true, the beautiful, and the good." 

 Professor Grasset, who is knovm for his re- 

 searches on the nervous system, is also the 

 author of several works on questions of psy- 

 chology, moral responsibility and the philos- 

 ophy of practical life. 



Professor Egbert Andrews Millikan, of 

 the department of physics in the University 

 of Chicago, was elected on May 23 president 

 of the local chapter of Sigma Xi. Dr. Henry 

 C. Cowles, of the department of botany, was 

 elected vice-president of the chapter, and Dr. 

 Rollin T. Chamberlin, of the department of 

 geology, secretary. 



Dr. Henry A. Bumstead, professor of phys- 

 ics in Tale University, has been given leave 

 of absence for the coming academic year. 



Professor Edward Alexander Wester- 

 MARCK, professor of sociology in the Univer- 



sity of London, has accepted an invitation to 

 give four lectures next year at Brown Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., professor of 

 physiology at Liverpool, has been appointed 

 an additional member of the British depart- 

 mental committee on the lighting of factories 

 and workshops. 



Mr. a. J. Mdtchler has been appointed 

 assistant in the department of invertebrate 

 zoology of the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Mr. a. C. Eraser, of Cornell University, 

 has come to the New York Botanical Garden 

 to assist during the coming summer in the 

 experimental work in plant breeding. 



Dr. John Detlefsen, assistant professor of 

 genetics in the University of Illinois, will 

 spend the summer visiting the principal Euro- 

 pean genetic laboratories. 



Nelson C. Brown, M.E., Yale Forest 

 School, in charge of forest utilization in the 

 New York State College of Forestry, is spend- 

 ing the summer studying forest conditions in 

 Germany and Austria. 



The Amazon expedition of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, in charge of Dr. W. C. 

 Farabee, arrived in Para, Brazil, last week. 

 Here Dr. Farabee will charter a vessel for the 

 trip in the Amazon regions, according to the 

 original program. The Brazilian govern- 

 ment is interested in the expedition, and is 

 aiding the university in various ways. 



Dr. Frank Hartley, professor of clinical 

 surgery in Columbia University, has died at 

 the age of fifty-nine years. 



The U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 

 nounces an examination for assistant in plant 

 histology, on July 16, to fill a vacancy in this 

 position in the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 Department of Agriculture, at a salary rang- 

 ing from $1,200 to $1,620 a year. 



The material collected by the third African 

 expedition, under Dr. W. S. Eainsford, has 

 been received at the American Museum of 

 Natural History. It contains specimens of 



