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persons " of distinguished eminence in sci- 

 ence, literature, the arts, or for public serv- 

 ices," Mr. Horace T. Brown, F.RS., LL.D., 

 and Sir David Bruce, F.E.S. 



Sir William White was the guest of the 

 Sheffield Society of Engineers and Metallur- 

 gists at their biennial dinner on February 26. 



Dr. F. a. Disey has been elected president 

 of the Entomological Society of London. 



Professor Ramon y Cajal, of Madrid, and 

 Professor Emil Fischer, of Berlin, have been 

 elected honorary members of the Paris Biolog- 

 ical Society. 



A Swiss Neurological Society has been 

 formed, the headquarters of which are at 

 Ziirich and the first president of which is 

 Professor von Monakow. 



We learn from Nature that Dr. F. H. Hatch 

 has' been appointed by the government of 

 Natal to make an examination of the mineral 

 resources of the colony, and will shortly pro- 

 ceed to South Africa for that purpose. 



Dr. Sven Hedin lectured before the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society on February Y, and pro- 

 posed to give a number of lectures in England 

 in the course of the following month on " My 

 Eecent Expedition in Tibet." 



Convocation Day was observed by the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh on February 12, Lincoln's 

 birthday. An address was made by Colonel 

 Samuel Harden Church upon Lincoln, by Dr. 

 W. J. Holland upon Darwin, and by Dr. J. A. 

 Holmes, of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, upon " The Conservation of Our National 

 Eesources." Vice-president-elect James S. 

 Sherman was present and made a brief ad- 

 dress. The honorary degree of LL.D. was 

 conferred upon Hon. James S. Sherman, Col- 

 onel S. H. Church and Judge William Waugh, 

 of Greenville, Ohio, who graduated from the 

 university seventy years ago in the class of 

 1839. The degree of Sc.D. was conferred 

 upon Mr. F. A. Lucas, eurator-in-chief of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Dr. 

 J. A. Holmes, of the United States Geological 

 Survey, and Mr. Edward Goodrich Acheson, 

 the electrical engineer. 



A SUM of over $10,000 has been subscribed 

 to a monument to be erected in honor of 

 Berthelot, the eminent chemist. 



Dr. Carroll D. Wright, the first president 

 of Clark College, U. S. Commissioner of 

 Labor from 1885 to 1905, president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science in 1904, eminent for his contribu- 

 tions to statistics and sociology, died at Wor- 

 cester, Mass., on February 20, at the age of 

 sixty-eight years. 



Dr. Ernest S. Wheeler, lecturer on tropi- 

 cal medicine in the Dartmouth College Medi- 

 cal School, died on February 15, at the age of 

 forty years. 



At the suggestion of the North American 

 Conference on the Conservation of Natural 

 Eesources, in session in Washington last 

 week. President Eoosevelt has determined to 

 issue, through the state department, invita- 

 tions to all nations to send delegates to an 

 international conference on conservation, to 

 be held at The Hague. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $100,000 

 for branch buildings to the Cincinnati public 

 library. 



Dr. George Gore, F.E.S., formerly lecturer 

 on chemical and physical science at King 

 Edward's School, Birmingham, who died on 

 December 20, aged eighty-two years, left an es- 

 tate valued at £6,802. The testator left £500 

 in personal bequests and £100 to the Birming- 

 ham University. All his other property he 

 left equally between the Eoyal Society and the 

 Eoyal Institution of Great Britain. 



The Gordon Wigan income for 1908 at the 

 disposal of the Special Board of Biology and 

 Geology, of Cambridge University, has been 

 applied as follows : (a) £50 to D. Sharp, M.A., 

 the curator in zoology; (&) £50 to A. G. 

 Tansley, M.A., to enable the Botanic Garden 

 Syndicate to continue to offer special facili- 

 ties for plant-breeding experiments; (c) £50 

 to Professor Hughes, being £30 for the pur- 

 chase of a projection lantern for the geologi- 

 cal department and £20 for the expenses of 

 research on Pleistocene dejwsits in the neigh- 

 borhood. The prize of £50 from the fund for 



