KOVEMBEB 27, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



751 



Durham; and Dr. J. J. Thomson, Cavendish 

 professor of experimental physics at Cam- 

 bridge. The K.C.B. has been conferred on 

 Dr. Donald Macalister, principal of Glasgow 

 University, and formerly lecturer on medi- 

 cine at the University of Cambridge. Dr. 

 Alfred Eussel Wallace has received the Order 

 of Merit. 



The freedom of West Ham has been pri- 

 vately conferred upon Lord Lister at his house 

 in the country, as he was prevented by his 

 state of health from receiving the distinction 

 in public. Lord Lister was born at Upton, 

 Essex, in the borough of West Ham. 



Sir Daniel Morris has been elected an 

 honorary life fellow of the Eoyal Horticul- 

 tural Society, London. 



Professors Henry M. Howe and William 

 Campbell, of the department of metallurgy of 

 the Schools of Mines, Engineering and Chem- 

 istry of Columbia University, have been ap- 

 pointed by the American Society for Testing 

 Materials as their representatives on the in- 

 ternational committee dealing with the prob- 

 lem of uniform nomenclature of iron and 

 steel. Professor Howe is chairman of this 

 committee. 



Professor Solon I. Bailey, of the Harvard 

 College Observatory, who has had charge of 

 the Arequipa Observatory, in Peru, has gone 

 to South Africa, where he has established an 

 observing station about four hundred miles 

 east of Cape Town. 



Dr. J. E. KiRKWOOD, formerly in charge of 

 botany at Syracuse University and recently 

 associated with Professor E. E. Lloyd in 

 Guayule investigations at Mazapil, Mexico, 

 has taken up his residence at Tucson, Ari- 

 zona, where he will complete some investiga- 

 tions on desert problems at the Desert Botan- 

 ical Laboratory, and where he may be ad- 

 dressed. 



Mr. Abbott H. Thayer, the American artist 

 and naturalist, has been giving at the Zoolog- 

 ical Gardens, London, demonstrations of the 

 obliterative effect of the patterns where the 

 coloration is supposed to be conspicuous. 



Dr. E. B. Poulton, Hope professor of zool- 

 ogy in Oxford University, will give the annual 



address before the Entomological Society of 

 America at its Baltimore meeting, on Thurs- 

 day evening of convocation week, December 

 31. The title of the address will be " Mimicry 

 in the Butterflies of North America." 



The Founder's Day address at the twelfth 

 anniversary of the Thomas S. Clarkson Me- 

 morial School of Technology will be delivered 

 on December I'y Dr. S. W. Stratton, director 

 of the Bureau of Standards. 



Mr. Eobert Mond, of London, lectured at 

 the College of the City of New York, on 

 Tuesday, November 10, on " The Mond Nickel 

 Process and the Carbonyls of Iron and Co- 

 balt." 



Professor W. B. Cannon has been elected 

 president. Dr. J. L. Bremer, secretary, and 

 Professor F. B. MaUory, treasurer, of the Bos- 

 ton Society of Medical Sciences. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has appointed Dr. Arthur Erwin 

 Brown as its delegate to the University of 

 Cambridge Darwin memorial celebration. Al- 

 though Darwin became a member of the 

 Dresden Academy in 1857, before the publica- 

 tion of the " Origin of Species," it is probable 

 that to the Philadelphia Academy belongs the 

 honor of having been the first foreign society 

 to accord his great work official recognition. 

 He was elected a correspondent on March 27, 

 1860, upon the nomination of Isaac C. Lea 

 and Joseph Leidy. To his election Darwin 

 refers appreciatively in a letter to Lyell dated 

 May 8 of that year. 



At the opening meeting of the Linnean 

 Society, held on November 2 at Burlington 

 House, the president. Dr. Dukinfield Scott, 

 announced that the council had arranged to 

 present a silver copy of the Darwin-Wallace 

 medal to the British Museum. He handed 

 the gift to Mr. H. A. Grueber, keeper of the 

 coins and medals, who, on behalf of the trus- 

 tees, acknowledged it. Professor Dendy, 

 E.E.S., the zoological secretary, exhibited the 

 memorial medal founded by the New Zealand 

 Institute in honor of the late Captain Hutton, 

 F.E.S., who did so much to promote the study 

 of natural science in the dominion. 



