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to receive the doctorate of laws from Glasgow 

 University. 



The Chemical Society, London, has con- 

 ferred its LongstafE medal on Professor S. F. 

 Kipping, of University College, Nottingham. 



Professor Harold Dixon has been elected 

 president of the Chemical Society, London, 

 succeeding Sir William Eamsay. 



At the sixty-second annual meeting of the 

 Paleontographical Society, held in the rooms 

 of the Geological Society, London, on March 

 19, Dr. Henry "Woodward was reelected presi- 

 dent, Dr. G. J. Hinde, treasurer, and Dr. A. 

 Smith Woodward, secretary. Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, was elected a vice-president in suc- 

 cession to the late Mr. W. H. Hudleston. 



Peofessoe Thomas Purdie will retire at the 

 end of the summer session from the chair of 

 chemistry at St. Andrews, owing to ill-health. 



The Isaac Newton, studentship at Cam- 

 bridge University, tenable to April 15, 1812, 

 has been awarded to Mr. W. J. Harrison, of 

 Clare College. 



Mr. N. W. Thomas has' been appointed 

 government ethnologist to southern Nigeria. 



Dr. Caroline McGill, instructor in anat- 

 omy at the University of Missouri, has been 

 awarded the Sarah Berliner research fellow- 

 ship for women of the value of $1,200. 



Dr. Philip P. Calvert, assistant professor 

 of zoology in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 will be given leave of absence, and his place 

 will be filled next year by Dr. Merkel Henry 

 Jacobs', who is now engaged in post-graduate 

 study at the University of Berlin. 



Mr. J. E. Johnston, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, returned recently from the vicinity 

 of Baracoa, Cuba, where he hag been engaged 

 for some months in researches on the nature 

 and possible control of the cocoanut bud-rot. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, of the University 

 of Michigan, will deliver the presidential ad- 

 dress at the meeting of the Association of 

 American Physicians to be held in Washing- 

 ton on May 11 and 12. 



Dr. a. C. Lane, state geologist of Michigan, 

 gave a special lecture on " The Grain of 



Rocks," in the department of geology and a 

 talk on the " First Evidences of Life on the 

 Globe," to the Science Club, at the University 

 of Wisconsin on March 26. 



At the meeting of the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society on March 19, Professor Marston T. 

 Bogert, of Columbia University, gave an ad- 

 dress entitled " On Coal Tar Products and 

 their Application in the Arts and Medicine," 

 which was illustrated by a large number of 

 specimens. 



Major M. W. Ireland, who is chairman of 

 the committee appointed by the legislative 

 council of the American Medical Association, 

 to assist Mrs. Carroll, the widow of Major 

 James Carroll, announces that $2,500 have 

 been subscribed, chiefly by medical officers of 

 the Army, the Navy and the Public Health 

 and Marine Hospital Service. Though Mrs. 

 Carroll was voted a pension of $125 a month, 

 this does not suffice to support and educate her 

 seven minor children; the aged mother of 

 Major Carroll was also dependent on him. 

 Subscriptions for the relief of Major Carroll's 

 family and as a recognition of his heroic and 

 distinguished services for the suppression of 

 yellow fever may be sent to Major M. W. Ire- 

 land, Office of the Surgeon General, War 

 Department, Washington, D. 0. 



Dr. William Jones was murdered, on 

 March 28, by natives in the Philippine Islands, 

 where he was carrying forward anthropological 

 work on behalf of the Field Museum of Nat- 

 ural History of Chicago. Dr. Jones, who was 

 partly of Shawnee Indian descent, studied at 

 Harvard University and subsequently took the 

 degree of doctor of philosophy at Columbia 

 University. He was an accomplished anthro- 

 pologist, and his death is a serious loss to the 

 science of anthropology. 



William Charles Kjernot, professor of en- 

 gineering in Melbourne University, has died 

 at the age of sixty-four years. 



Following up the plan inaugurated by the 

 section of geology and mineralogy of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences last year, the 

 mineralogical and geological section of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 proposes to arrange for a second annual spring 



