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tlie Cartwriglit prize of $500 for his work on 

 "The Effect of Light on the Movements of 

 Lower Organisms," awarded by the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 



The Linnean Society has presented its gold 

 medal to Dr. F. O. Bower, F.E.S., regius pro- 

 fessor of botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Professor W. F. Osgood, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been elected corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Mathematical Society of Charkow. 



M. E. BouDiER has been elected a corres- 

 ponding member in the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences in the section of botany. 



Dr. Georges Dreyer, professor of pathology 

 in the University of Oxford, has been elected 

 a member of the Danish Eoyal Academy of 

 Letters and Science. 



Dr. W. W. Daniel, professor of chemistry 

 at the University of Wisconsin, has retired 

 from the chair which he has held since 1868. 

 His former students have presented the uni- 

 versity with a portrait by Mr. J. C. Johansen, 

 of New York. 



The trustees of Columbia University have 

 awarded the Ernest Kempton Adams research 

 fellowship, for the year 1909-10, to Professor 

 0. W. Chamberlain, of Vassar College. 



At a meeting of the board of directors of 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 held on May 29, the following promotions and 

 appointments were made: Associate, Paul A. 

 Lewis (pathology) ; Assistant, F. Peyton Rous 

 (pathology) ; Scholar, Angelia M. Courtney 

 (chemistry). 



Dr. C. D. Peerine, of the Lick Observatory, 

 has proceeded to Buenos Ayres to assume the 

 directorship of the Argentine National Ob- 

 servatory at Cordobe, vacant by the death of 

 Dr. Thome. His address will be Observatorio 

 Nacional, Cordoba, Argentina. 



The secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion and Mrs. Charles D. Walcott sailed on 

 June 5 to attend the commemoration of the 

 centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin as 

 the representative of the institution. During 

 his stay in Great Britain, Dr. Walcott will 

 visit the northwest coast of Scotland to collect 

 and study specimens of Cambrian fossils found 



in that locality. He will return to Washing- 

 ton on July 3, after which he will proceed to 

 British Columbia to continue there his field 

 work. 



Professor L. H. Bailey, director of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, Cornell University, has 

 leave of absence for next year. Professor 

 Herbert J. Webber will act as director. 



Dr. a. M. Tozzer, of Harvard University, 

 has been given leave of absence for 1909-10 

 to carry on archeological investigations in 

 Guatemala. 



Dr. Nettie M. Ste'\tsns, associate in ex- 

 perimental morphology at Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege, who has been studying at the Zoological 

 Station in Naples and the University of 

 Wiirtzburg as the Alice Freeman Palmer re- 

 search fellow for the year 1908-9, will resume 

 her work at the college next year. 



Dr. Paul C. Freer, director of the Bureau 

 of Science, Manila, has left, in April, for 

 Europe by the Trans-Siberian route. Dr. 

 Freer will spend some time studying the lab- 

 oratory methods of the leading scientific in- 

 stitutions of Europe. He will return to the 

 Orient after two months in this country. 



Dr. Charles L. Edwards, professor of natu- 

 ral history at Trinity College, will spend next 

 year in Europe. 



Dr. F. O. Geover, professor of botany at 

 Oberlin College, will spend next year abroad. 



Lieutenant Shackleton is expected to 

 reach England about the middle of June. 

 Several members of the Nimrod expedition 

 have reached England, including Mr. Raymond 

 E. Priestley, of Bristol, the geologist; Mr. G. 

 E. Marston, of London, the artist; Mr. Ernest 

 Joyce, London, who was in charge of the sup- 

 porting party; Mr. Frank Wild, of Bedford- 

 shire, who accompanied Lieutenant Shackleton 

 furthest south, and Mr. Bernard Day, of 

 Leicester, who had charge of the motor car. 



Dr. Henry P. Walcott, chairman of the 

 Massachusetts State Board of Health, will 

 preside at the International Congress of 

 Hygiene and Demography, which it is pro- 

 posed to hold in Washington nest year. 



Dr. W. H. Howell, dean of the Johns Hop- 

 kins Medical School, will give the anniversary 



