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Columbia University since 1875, and Dr. T. 

 Mitchell Prudden, professor of pathology since 

 1891, will retire on June 30, next. 



De. E. Benjamin Andrews has beea com- 

 pelled by failing health to resign the chancel- 

 lorship of the University of Nebraska, and 

 will retire from the office December 31, 1908. 

 On December 8 a special convocation was 

 held of students and faculties in honor of the 

 retiring chancellor, at which somewhat ex- 

 tended addresses were made by Honorable 

 WiUiam G. Whitmore of the board of regents. 

 Judge E. P. Holmes of the alumni, and Pro- 

 fessor C. E. Bessey of the university faculties. 

 On the evening of the same day, the Faculty 

 Dinner Club gave a complimentary banquet at 

 which distinguished men from all parts of the 

 state were present to do him honor. Many 

 short addresses were made by representatives 

 of the professors, regents, alumni and citizens 

 of the state, as well as by the governor and 

 the governor-elect. The banquet was closed 

 by a farewell address by Dr. Andrews. 



In addition to the program of addresses to 

 be given at the Darwin celebration already 

 published in Science on October 30, page 602, 

 certain brief addresses have been arranged for 

 at the time of the dinner as follows : Professor 

 W. H. Welch, " On the Debt of Medicine to 

 Darwinism " ; Professor Edward Poulton, and 

 Professor Albrecht Penck, " On the Geograph- 

 ical Factor in Evolution." The details of the 

 dinner arrangements will be published at the 

 time of the meeting. The dinner will be a 

 memorable occasion and all will wish to attend. 

 In order that proper accommodations may be 

 supplied, it will be necessary to obtain tickets 

 for the dinner as early as possible during con- 

 vocation week. 



Mr. Charles H. Townsend, director of the 

 New York Aquarium, has been made a life 

 member of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, in recognition of his gift of mounted 

 specimens of birds from Alaska and ethnolog- 

 ical material from the South Sea Islands. 



Dr. Bashford Dean, professor of vertebrate 

 zoology in Columbia University, has been 

 elected an honorary fellow because of gratu- 

 itous services during the past five years to the 



department of vertebrate paleontology, espe- 

 cially in respect to the collection of fossil 

 fishes. 



The Rev. Thomas Roscoe Reid Stebbing, 

 M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., gold medalist of the 

 Linnean Society, formerly fellow and tutor 

 of Worcester College, Oxford, has been elected 

 an honorary fellow of the college. 



President Charles F. Cox has been ap- 

 pointed the delegate of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences to the Darwin centennial 

 anniversary exercises at the University of 

 Cambridge. 



Professor Edward E. Prince, fish commis- 

 sioner of Canada, has been appointed, in place 

 of Mr. Samuel T. Bastedo, resigned, the Brit- 

 ish representative on the International Fish- 

 eries Commission having in charge the prepa- 

 ration of joint statutes to govern the fisheries 

 of the international boundary waters. Presi- 

 dent David Starr Jordan is the American 

 Commissioner. 



An investigation into the cause of cancer 

 and its possible prevention and cure has been 

 begun in the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, Columbia University, under the direc- 

 tion of a committee consisting of Dr. Samuel 

 W. Lambert, dean; Dr. William J. Gies, pro- 

 fessor of biological chemistry; Dr. Philip 

 Hanson Hiss, Jr., professor of bacteriology; 

 Dr. Francis Carter Wood, professor of clinical 

 pathology; Dr. Gary N. Calkins, professor of 

 protozoology, and Dr. Eugene H. Pool, in- 

 structor in the department of surgery. 



The field parties of the U. S. Biological 

 Survey have now returned to Washington for 

 the winter. The biological survey of New 

 Mexico under Vernon Bailey, assisted by E. A. 

 Goldman and Clarence Birdseye, is nearly 

 completed. Field work in southern Utah, dis- 

 continued several years ago, has been resumed 

 under W. H. Osgood. Field work in Colorado, 

 under Merritt Cary, has been finished, and the 

 report is now nearly ready for publication. 

 In the southern states work on geographic 

 distribution has been continued by A. H. 

 Howell in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Vir- 

 ginia. 



