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A large voliame of anthropological essays 

 contributed by various friends and associates 

 was presented, and numerous letters and tele- 

 grams of congratulation were received from 

 scientific bodies in this country and in Europe. 

 We much regret to learn that Professor 

 Simon Newcomb, who had been recovering 

 from an operation performed in January, has 

 been compelled to return to the Johns Hopkins 



At a convocation of McGill University to 

 be held on the occasion of the opening of 

 McDonald College at St. Anne's on June 3, 

 the degree of LL.D. will be conferred on the 

 Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agriculture; 

 Dr. James Earl Russell, dean of Teachers 

 College, Columbia University; Mr. Gifford 

 Pinchot, chief forester; Dr. D. McEachern, 

 former dean of the faculty of comparative 

 medicine of McGill University, and Dr. James 

 W. Robertson, principal of Macdonald College. 

 The Cullom Gold medal of the American 

 Geographical Society of New York, awarded 

 to Professor W. M. Davis in the spring of 

 1908, was presented to him at the meeting of 

 April 20, 1909, when he lectured before the 

 society on the " Lessons of the Colorado 

 Canyon." 



Professor A. Lawrence Eotch has recently 

 been elected an honorary member of the 

 Austrian Meteorological Society. 



At the Washington meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Physical Society, Professor Max Planck, 

 of the University of Berlin, now in this coun- 

 try to lecture at Columbia University, was 

 elected an honorary member. 



To Professor L. H. Priedburg his colleagues 

 of the chemistry department of the College of 

 the City of New York, gave a dinner on May 

 1 in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of 

 his receiving the doctor's degree at Gottingen. 

 Professor Charles B. Richards, for the 

 past twenty-five years head of the mechanical 

 engineering department in the Sheffield 

 School of Yale University, has signified his 

 intention of retiring. 



The office of the superintendent for sup- 

 pressing the gypsy and brovm-tail moths by 

 an act of the general court of Massachusetts 



has been combined with the office of state 

 forester under the title of the latter. Gov- 

 ernor Draper and his council appointed Mr. P. 

 W. Rane to the new position on April 14 at a 

 salary of $5,000. The office of state forester 

 has been moved from the State House to No. 

 6 Beacon street. 



Mr. H. Foster Bain has become associate 

 editor of the Mining and Scientific Press at 

 San Francisco. Mr. T. A. Eickard, editor of 

 the journal, is about to start a monthly mining 

 magazine at London, England. 



Professor Arthur Hoskins, professor of 

 mineralogy in the Colorado School of Mines, 

 was seriously injured by a collision of the 

 train carrying 135 members of the senior 

 class of the School of Mines on a trip of in- 

 spection to Utah and Montana. 



Professor Wallace C. Sabine, dean of the 

 Graduate School of Applied Science, of Har- 

 vard University, sailed from New York on 

 April 29 for Naples. He goes in the interests 

 of the university to observe the equipment 

 and methods of various technical schools in 

 Europe and to study the acoustics of some of 

 the buildings. He will visit technical schools 

 at Turin, Zurich, Aachen, Munich, Leipsic, 

 Charlottenburg, Breslau, Paris, London, Man- 

 chester, Leeds and other places. 



Dr. Robert Kennedy Duncan, professor of 

 industrial chemistry at the University of Kan- 

 sas, sailed on May 15 for Europe to attend the 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry. 

 Dr. a. Hrdlicka, of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, has returned from a five months' trip 

 to Egypt and Europe. 



Dr. Warren D. Smith has resumed his 

 duties as chief of the Mining Division of the 

 Bureau of Science, Manila, after ten months 

 spent in America and Europe in working up 

 Philippine material. He spent some time in 

 Leiden in comparing Philippine fossils with 

 Dr. Martin's Javan types. While in Lon- 

 don Dr. Smith was elected a fellow of the 

 Royal Geographical Society. 



Professor J. Mark Baldwin, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, has been giving courses 

 under the auspices of the Mexican Depart- 

 ment of Public Instruction on University 



