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Parker (heavy chemicals), J. B. P. HerreshofE 

 (sulfuric acid), Karl Langenbeck (ceramics), 

 G. E. Barton (glass), Ernest B. McCready 

 (cement, mortar and building materials), 

 Clifford Richardson (asphalt and petroleum), 

 A. D. Little (cellulose and paper), Francis I. 

 du Pont (explosives), E. G. Bailey (fuels), 

 J. D. Pennock (destructive distillation), John 

 Alden (textiles, bleaching and dyeing), P. G. 

 Mcllhiney (pigments, resins and varnish), W. 

 C. Geer (rubber), Ernest Twitehell (fats, 

 waxes and soaps), W. D. Home (sugar and 

 starch), W. K Alsop (leather), G. E. Under- 

 wood (glue), Edward Mallinckrodt (fine chem- 

 icals), M. C. Whitaker (gas), W. E. Hille- 

 brand (pure and analytical chemistry), W. H. 

 Walker (engineering chemistry), Wm. Camp- 

 bell (metallography), W. C. Ebaugh and E. H. 

 Thorp (miscellaneous industrial chemistry). 



The Committee on the Qualifications of 

 Chemists made a preliminary report on the 

 establishment of an Institute of Chemistry, 

 which has been under consideration for the 

 past two years and it was decided on account 

 of its great and far-reaching importance to 

 refer this matter again to a representative 

 committee of fifteen for further consideration 

 to report back to the council. 



The committee appointed to consider the 

 training and education of chemists and 

 chemical engineers made its report and as a 

 result a movement is under way to establish 

 a Section or Division of Chemical Education 

 within the society, which shall especially ap- 

 peal to teachers and shall study more par- 

 ticularly the existing standards and methods 

 of instruction throughout the country and the 

 possibility of improving them. 



The society adjourned after one of the 

 pleasantest meetings in its history. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The medal struck by the Linnean Society 

 to commemorate the ficftieth anniversary of the 

 reading of the papers on natural selection by 

 Darwin and Wallace was, on July 1, awarded 

 to Dr. Alfred Eussel Wallace, Sir Joseph Dal- 

 ton Hooker, Professor Ernst Haeckel, Pro- 



fessor Eduard Strasburger, Professor August 

 Weismann, Dr. Francis Galton and Sir E. 

 Ray Lankester. 



On the occasion of King Edward's birthday, 

 baronetcies were given to Sir T. Lauder 

 Brunton, F.E.S., and Dr. W. W. Cheyne, 

 F.R.S., and the knighthood to Professor A. G. 

 Greenhill, F.R.S., and Colonel David Bruce, 

 F.R.S. 



M. Henei Becquerel has been elected per- 

 manent secretary of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences for the physical sciences. 



Dr. William Osler, regius professor of 

 medicine at Oxford, has been selected as an 

 independent candidate for the lord rectorship 

 of Edinburgh University. 



At the eighty-third annual commencement 

 of Hobart College the address before the Phi 

 Beta Kappa Society was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor A. G. Webster, of Clark University, 

 who received the honorary degree of LL.D. 



Dr. William J. Holland, director of the 

 Carnegie Museum, has returned from his visit 

 to Germany and France to present on behalf 

 of Mr. Andrew Carnegie life-size plaster casts 

 of the Diplodocus. In recognition of his ser- 

 vices to science, the German emperor con- 

 ferred upon Dr. Holland the Order of the 

 Crown, while President Fallieres bestowed 

 upon him the Cross of the Legion of Honor. 



The Rumford Cormnittee of the American 

 Academy has made the following grants in 

 aid of researches in light and heat: To Pro- 

 fessor N. A. Kent, of Boston University, an 

 additional appropriation of $400 for a set of 

 echelon plates for use in his research on the 

 conditions influencing electric spark lines. 

 To Professor Joel Stebbins, of the University 

 of Illinois, an additional appropriation of 

 $100 for his research on the use of selenium in 

 stellar photometry. 



A GOLD medal was recently struck and pre- 

 sented to Professor Ramon y Cajal, in the 

 name of his friends and admirers throughout 

 Spain. Professor Cajal refused to permit a 

 public ceremony, and the medal was presented 

 informally at his home on May 27. 



