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important work in exploration and publica- 

 tion, to Professor Rudolph E. Brunnow, for 

 Ms work in Assyria and in the exploration of 

 Arabia. 



Me. Arthur Hill, regent of the University 

 of Michigan, has made the offer to the board 

 of regents of a bronze or marble bas-relief of 

 President James B. Angell, in commemoration 

 of his eightieth birthday and the valuable 

 services which he has rendered to the univer- 

 sity, state and nation. The monument will be 

 placed in the new Memorial Hall. 



Dk. Edgar F. Smith, professor of chemistry 

 and vice-provost of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, is recovering from a somewhat serious 

 illness. 



Dr. 0. C. Clark, associate statistician of 

 the Department of Agriculture, has accepted 

 an appointment as chief of the Bureau of 

 General Statistics and Agricultural Informa- 

 tion in the International Institute at Rome. 



At the annual meeting of the Royal As- 

 tronomical Society on February 12 Mr. H. F. 

 Newall, the president, extended a cordial wel- 

 come to Professor 0. Backlund, director of 

 the observatory, Pulkowa, Russia, to whom the 

 society's gold medal had been awarded. The 

 Jackson-Cwilt bronze medal and gift were 

 handed to Mr. P. Melotte, of the Royal Ob- 

 servatory, Greenwich, in recognition of his 

 discovery of the eighth satellite of Jupiter. 

 Sir David Gill was elected president of the 

 society for the coming year; Sir W. H. M. 

 Christie and Messrs. J. W. L. Glaisher, H. F. 

 Newall and H. H. Turner, vice-presidents; 

 Major E. H. Hills, treasurer; Messrs. A. R. 

 Hinks and S. A. Saunder, secretaries, and 

 Sir W. Higgins, foreign secretary. 



Mr. Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr., founder of 

 the Coxe archeologieal expedition from the 

 University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. George 

 B. Gordon, curator of the museum, have sailed 

 for Egypt to join members of the expedition 

 who are working in Nubia. 



Dr. J. K. Small, head curator of the mu- 

 seums and herbarium of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, accompanied by Mr. J. J. Carter, 

 of Pleasant Grove, Pa., has been in south 



Florida for botanical exploration and collect- 

 ing on the everglade keys, in continuation of 

 his previous work in that region and his 

 studies of the plants of the southeastern 

 United States. Dr. J. A. Shafer, museum 

 custodian in the garden, is in Cuba, commis- 

 sioned to spend about three months collecting 

 in the northeastern portion of that island, 

 which has been little visited by botanists. 



Dr. Hiram Bingham, Jr., instructor in 

 Latin-American history at Tale University, 

 who is now in southern Peru on his South 

 American trip of historical research, is re- 

 ported to have made important discoveries of 

 Inca remains near Abancay, Peru. 



A meeting of the Columbia Chapter of the 

 Society of Sigma Xi was held on March 4 in 

 Fayerweather Hall. " The Sanitary Protec- 

 tion of Tidal Waters" was the topic of the 

 evening, and George A. Soper, C.E., Ph.D., 

 president of the Metropolitan Sewerage Com- 

 mission, the lecturer. The address described 

 the harmful consequences resulting from the 

 discharge of sewage into tidal harbors and the 

 measures taken to prevent excessive pollution. 



Mr. W. H. Finlet, assistant chief engineer 

 of the ■ Chicago and Northwestern Railway 

 Company, gave a lecture before the College of 

 Engineering of the University of Illinois on 

 Friday, February 19 on " The Quebec Bridge 

 Failure." 



At the 658th meeting of the Society of Arts, 

 Boston, on February 27, Professor Charles E. 

 Lucke, of Columbia University, made an ad- 

 dress on the subject of internal combustion 

 engines. 



President Taft gave the annual Washing- 

 ton's Birthday oration at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, being presented by the gover- 

 nor of the state. Among those on whom the 

 doctorate of laws was conferred was Dr. Sam- 

 uel G. Dixon, formerly professor in the uni- 

 versity and now Commissioner of Health in 

 the state of Pennsylvania. 



President Hadley, of Tale University, made 

 the commemoration day address at the Johns 

 Hopkins University on February 22, which 

 was entitled " Two Sides of University Life." 



