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When the hood and diploma have reached us 

 I will then arrange with Mr. Parshall for his 

 formal admission to the degree. 



" So far as I am aware no precedent or 

 parallel for such an act can be found in the 

 history of British Universities. But it is our 

 business to make precedents as well as to fol- 

 low them, and we trust that in so doing our 

 act will be regarded as an expression of fel- 

 lowship and sympathy with kindred institu- 

 tions carrying on similar work, established for 

 similar services, and bound to us by many 

 ties." 



The degree was conferred at a sjjecial " con- 

 gregation " of the University of Liverpool, at- 

 tended by the United States consul general' 

 and many distinguished guests. The dean of 

 the faculty of science presented Mr. Parshall 

 for admission to the degree, and the vice chan- 

 cellor duly admitted him. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, has ap- 

 pointed a State Conservation Commission to 

 act in cooperation with the National Con- 

 servation Conunission named by President 

 Roosevelt after the recent conference on re- 

 sources. It is composed of Professor P. W. 

 Eane, state forester, chairman; Professor 

 George F. Swain, of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, and President Kenyon L. 

 Butterfield, of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, Amherst. 



Professor Wm. T. Sedgwick, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has been ap- 

 pointed one of a commission of four to in- 

 vestigate the causes of typhoid fever in Pitts- 

 burgh, by Mayor Guthrie, of that city. The 

 expenses of the investigation will be paid out 

 of $10,000 appropriated by the Russell Sage 

 Poundation. He was also offered by Mayor 

 Hibbard, but felt obliged to decline, one of the 

 vacancies in the Board of Health. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, and permanent secretary of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, has been made an honorary member 



of the Societe Rationale d'Acclimatation de 

 France. 



Professor Holland, K.C, has been elected 

 a corresponding member of the " Reale 

 Academia delle Scienze dell'Istituto " of Bo- 

 logna, as also an honorary member of the 

 " Reale Academia di Scienze Lettere ed Arti " 

 of Padua. 



At the annual general meeting of the Fara- 

 day Society, held in London, on June 23, Sir 

 Oliver Lodge was elected president and the 

 following vice-presidents were chosen: G. T. 

 Beilby, E. A. Hadfield, Professor W. Hittorf, 

 Professor A. K. Huntington, Lord Rayleigh, 

 Professor A. Schuster and Professor J. J. 

 Thomson. 



The council of the Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh has awarded the Neill prize for the 

 triennial period 1904-7 to Mr. Frank J. Cole, 

 lecturer on zoology. University College, Read- 

 ing, for his papers entitled "A Monograph on 

 the General Morphology of the Myxinoid 

 Fishes, based on a Study of Myxine," pub- 

 lished in the " Transactions " of the society, 

 regard being also paid to Mr. Cole's other 

 valuable contributions to the anatomy and 

 morphology of fishes. 



Dr. W. J. Holland, the director of the 

 Carnegie Museum, has returned after three 

 months' absence in Europe during which he 

 installed in Berlin and in Paris casts of 

 Diplodocus Carnegiei which were presented re- 

 spectively to the emperor of Germany and the 

 president of the French Republic. The latter 

 on June 15 conferred upon Dr. Holland the 

 order of Officier de la Legion d'Honneur " in 

 recog-nition of his services to the science of 

 paleontology," and upon his assistant, Mr. A. 

 S. Coggeshall, he bestowed the order of 

 Oi£cier de I'Instruction Publique. On the 

 evening of the same day a banquet in honor of 

 Dr. Holland was given by the professors of 

 the National Museum, which was attended by 

 many of the leading scientific men of Paris. 

 Addresses were made by M. Paul Doumer, 

 M. Bayet, assistant minister of public in- 

 struction. Professor Edmond Perrier, Pro- 

 fessor Grehant, Professor Becquerel and 



