July 3, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. 0. C. Trowbridge, instructor in physics in 

 Columbia University. 



The Albert medal of the Eoyal Society of 

 Arts has been awarded to Sir James Dewar. 



Sir William Eamsay succeeds Lord Kelvin 

 as a member of the Dutch Academy at Am- 

 sterdam. 



Dr. Wilhelm Pfeffer, professor of botany 

 at Berlin, has been made a knight, and Dr. H. 

 Lorentz, professor of physics at the University 

 of Leyden, a foreign knight, of the Prussian 

 order of merit. 



President David Starr Jordan, of Stan- 

 ford University, has been appointed United 

 States representative on the international 

 commission to investigate the fishery laws 

 governing the American-Canadian border 

 waters. He has gone to Eastport, Me., to 

 meet the British commissioner. 



At the May meeting of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, held at Boston, 

 Professor John Trowbridge was elected presi- 

 dent, and Professor Edward H. Hall, corre- 

 sponding secretary. 



Dr. Willum H. Howell, dean of the med- 

 ical faculty of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 delivered the address to the graduating class 

 of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, at 

 the annual commencement. 



Professor Armin O. Leuschner, director 

 of the Students' Observatory of the Univer- 

 sity of California, has been granted his sab- 

 batical leave for the next academic year. He 

 leaves Berkeley in June to visit some of the 

 eastern observatories before going abroad. 

 His time will be divided principally between 

 Berlin and Paris. For the year of his ab- 

 sence the Berkeley astronomical department 

 will be in charge of Assistant Professor E. 

 T. Crawford as acting director. 



Dr. J. Culver Hartzell, professor of chem- 

 ical geology, University of the Pacific, will 

 spend six weeks in a study of the metamorphic 

 rocks of the Santa Lucia Eange about the 

 Big Sur region. 



The University of Chicago will send a 

 paleontological expedition to the Permian of 

 Texas during the present season under the 

 charge of Mr. Paul Miller. 



The death is announced of Dr. Chamber- 

 land, sub-director of the Pasteur Institute, 

 author of papers on anthrax, drinking water 

 and epidemic diseases and other subjects. 



Dr. Ostwald Seeliger, professor of zoology 

 at Eostock, has died at the age of fifty years. 



Dr. a. a. BaeRj medical sujjerintendent of 

 Prisons, Berlin, and author of numerous 

 writings on the hygiene of prisons, on crim- 

 inals, on alcohol in relation to crime, etc., 

 has died, aged 74. 



The minister for agriculture of New South 

 Wales, Australia, desires applications for the 

 position of pathologist in his department. 

 The salary will be six hundred pounds with 

 yearly increments of twenty pounds, until the 

 sum of seven hundred pounds is reached. 

 The position is that formerly held by Dr. N. 

 A. Cobb. Further information may be had 

 by applying to Dr. Cobb, whose present ad- 

 dress is Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. The applications are due in 

 Sydney, New South Wales, on August 4, 

 1908. 



The Everhart Museum of Science and 

 Natural History, a gift of Dr. Isaiah F. Ever- 

 hart, was dedicated and presented to the city 

 of Scranton with fitting ceremonies on May 

 30. Dr. Everhart has endowed the institution 

 with a fund of $100,000. 



The New England Federation of Natural 

 History Societies will hold a field meeting on 

 the summit of Mount Washington during the 

 week from July 1 to 8. The gathering will 

 include representatives of about twenty socie- 

 ties and will be particularly strong in 

 botanical members. The members of the 

 geological section of the American Associa- 

 tion will join the party at the summit at the 

 conclusion of the meeting at Hanover. 



The Council of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Geographers has decided to hold its next 

 annual meeting at Baltimore, in affiliation 

 with the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. The" exact dates of 

 the meeting will be announced later. 



The semi-annual meeting of the American 

 Society of Mechanical Engineers was held 



