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degree of doctor of engineering- by the Tech- 

 nological Institute of Dresden. 



Sir George Darwin, KC.B., F.E.S., has 

 been elected a foreign member of the Amster- 

 dam Academy of Sciences. 



Sir William Eamsay has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Societa italiana delle 

 Scienze. 



Dr. Max Eubner, professor of hygiene at 

 Berlin, has been awarded the Liebig gold 

 medal by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 

 for his work in veterinary science. 



The twenty-fifth anniversary of the con- 

 nection of Professor A. Ceccherelli with the 

 surgical clinic at Parma, Italy, was celebrated 

 on June 24. A " Festschrift " was presented 

 by his friends and pupils, and two albums, 

 with autographs of colleagues at home and 

 abroad and a gold plaque. 



Dr. August Schubeeg, associate professor 

 of zoology at Heidelberg, has been appointed 

 director of the laboratory for protozoa in the 

 Berlin Bureau of Health. 



Dr. Adolf Meyer, recently elected director 

 of the psychiatric clinic of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University endowed by Mr. Henry 

 Phipps, will shortly visit Europe with the 

 architect of the new buildings to inspect for- 

 eign psychiatric clinics. 



Dr. J. H. MussER, Philadelphia, is chair- 

 man of the national committee for the United 

 States of the sixteenth International Medical 

 Congress, to be held in Buda-Pesth next year. 



The United States .government will be 

 represented at the fourth Latin- American Sci- 

 entific Congress to be held at Santiago, Chili, 

 next September by W. H. Holmes, Bureau of 

 American Ethnology; Col. W. C. Gorgas, 

 United States army ; Professor Bernard Moses, 

 University of California; Professor William 

 B. Smith, Tulane ; Professor Paul S. Eeinsch, 

 University of Wisconsin; Professor Leo S. 

 Eowe, University of Pennsylvania; Professor 

 William E. Shepherd, Columbia ; Professor A. 

 C Coolidge, Harvard; and Professor Hiram 

 Bingham, Yale. 



As heretofore, there is this year at the sum- 

 mer session of Cornell University a series of 

 lectures open to the public on Monday even- 



ings through the session. These deal with the 

 present problems in various sciences. The 

 course was opened on July 6, by President 

 Schurman, and other speakers in the course 

 are Professors Nichols, Titchener and Dennis. 

 On Wednesday evenings general lectures are 

 given. Arrangements have been made for one 

 by Professor Condra on the great irrigation 

 projects of the govermnent in the arid lands 

 of the west, one by Mr. Charles W. Furlong 

 on the remote regions of Patagonia, which he 

 visited last winter, and another by Mr. Louis 

 A. Fuertes on birds. 



We learn from Nature that the council of 

 the Eoyal College of Surgeons has given per- 

 mission to Dr. Elliot Smith and Dr. Wood 

 Jones, of the Cairo Medical School, to carry 

 out, in the museum of the college, an examina- 

 tion of a collection of material found during 

 excavations in the Nile Valley. The material 

 is representative of peoples inhabiting Nubia 

 in ancient times, and is expected to throw 

 light on their pathology and the results of 

 their surgery. The Egyptian government has 

 expressed its willingness to present the col- 

 lection of specimens to the museum of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons. 



The council of the Eoyal Society has 

 awarded the Mackinnon studentships for the 

 year 1&08 as follows : One in physics to Mr. 

 J. A. Crowther, of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, for an investigation of the passage 

 through matter of the ^ rays from radio- 

 active substances ; one in biology to Mr. D. 

 Thoday, of Trinity College, Cambridge, for a 

 , research into the physiological condition of 

 starvation in plants and its relation to the 

 responsiveness of protoplasm to stimulation, 

 especially to stimuli affecting respiration. 



The astronomical observatory and library 

 founded in honor of Maria Mitchell, adjacent 

 to her birthplace, on Nantucket, were formally 

 dedicated on July 15. 



William Dampiee, the navigator, has been 

 commemorated by a tablet placed in the 

 parish church of his native village, East 

 Coker, Somersetshire. It takes the form of a 

 marble slab, bearing a brass plate with in- 

 scription recounting Dampier's geographical 



