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Dr. J. J. Stevenson, who has recently re- 

 tired from the active duties of the chair of 

 geology at New York University, has gone to 

 California. He expects to spend the summer 

 in Europe. 



Me. 0. L. Van Dine, Stanford, about 1900, 

 late territorial entomologist of Hawaii, has 

 been appointed special agent of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in charge of sugar-cane 

 and rice investigations. Mr. David T. Fulla- 

 way, Stanford, 1908, his assistant, is promoted 

 to be territorial entomologist of Hawaii. 



Professor Wm. W. Payne has resigned the 

 directorship of Goodsell Observatory, Carleton 

 College, and has retired upon the Carnegie 

 Foundation. He retains charge of the observa- 

 tory time service and is still owner, editor and 

 publisher of Popular Astronomy. Dr. H. C. 

 Wilson has been appointed director of the ob- 

 servatory. 



Mr. E. C. Punnett has been appointed 

 superintendent of the museum of zoology, at 

 Cambridge, in succession to Dr. S. P. Harmer, 

 who recently accepted the keepership in zool- 

 ogy at the British Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. 



M. Delafond will succeed M. Nivoit as 

 director of the Paris School of Mines. 



The University of Edinburgh will, at the 

 approaching spring graduation, confer the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. on Professor Alex- 

 ander Crum Brown, till lately professor of 

 chemistry in that university. 



Dr. Adolf Prank, the eminent chemist, has 

 celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. 



The portraits of the following former vice- 

 chancellors have been presented to the Uni- 

 versity of London, and have been framed and 

 hung in the vice-chancellor's room: Sir John 

 W. Lubbock, Sir John Shaw-Lefevre, Sir Ed- 

 ward Ryan, Sir George Jessel, Sir Julian 

 Goldsmid, Sir John Lubbock (now Lord 

 Avebury), Sir James Paget, Sir Henry Eos- 

 coe. Dr. A. Eobertson (now bishop of Exeter) 

 and Dr. P. H. Pye- Smith. 



The following fifteen men of science have 

 been nominated by the council of the Eoyal 

 Society for election to membership : Mr. E. C. 



C. Baly, Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart., Eev. E. 

 W. Barnes, Dr. F. A. Bather, Sir Eobert A. 

 Hadfield, Mr. A. D. Hall, Dr. A. Harden, Mr. 



A. J. Jukes-Browne, Professor J. G. Kerr, 

 Professor W. J. Lewis, Professor J. A. Mc- 

 Clelland, Professor W. McFadden Orr, Dr. A. 



B. Rendle, Professor J. Lorrain Smith and 

 Professor J. T. Wilson. 



Mr. J. G. Bartholomew, head of the Geo- 

 graphical Institute, the map house of Edin- 

 burgh, has been elected an honorary corres- 

 ponding member of the Societe de Geog- 

 raphie of Paris. 



The Smith's Prizes at Cambridge have been 

 adjudged as follows: H. W. TumbuU, B.A., 

 Trinity College, for his essay "The Irredu- 

 cible Concomitants of Two Quadratics in n 

 Variables " ; G. N. Watson, B. A., Trinity Col- 

 lege, for his essay " The Solution of the 

 Homogeneoiis Linear Difference Equation of 

 the Second Order, and its Applications to the 

 Theory of Linear Differential Equations of 

 Fuchsian Tjrpe." 



Dr. Frederik van Eeden, of Amsterdam, 

 who twenty years ago established a successful 

 clinic for the mental treatment of disease, is 

 at present in this country. 



Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark has sailed for 

 Jamaica to make collections on the reefs at 

 Port Antonio. 



At the last meeting of the Middletown 

 Scientific Association Dr. W. G. Cady, as- 

 sociate professor of physics at Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, gave a lecture on " Electrical Oscilla- 

 tions." 



The Chicago Chapter of the Sigma Xi So- 

 ciety held its winter meeting on March 9. 

 Professor W. L. Tower presented a paper on 

 " Some Effects of Changed Environment upon 

 Evolution Processes." Nine new members 

 were admitted to the society. 



The Lowndean professor at Cambridge, Sir 

 Eobert Ball, F.E.S., lectured on "Ancient 

 and Modern Views of the Constitution of the 

 Milky Way" before the Cambridge Antiquar- 

 ian Society on March 1. 



Sir Victor Horsley wUl deliver the Linacre 

 lecture at St. John's College, Cambridge, on 



