June 25, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



993 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathol- 

 ogy in the Johns Hopkins TJniversity, has been 

 elected president of the American Medical 

 Association. 



Peopessor E. W. Morlet has been elected 

 honorary president and Dr. W. H. Nichols 

 acting president of the Seventh International 

 Congress of Applied Chemistry, which has 

 accepted the invitation extended by the con- 

 gress through the president and the secretary 

 of state, to meet in this country in 1912. 



Mr. Orville Wright and Mr. Wilbur 

 Wright were presented on June 19 with the 

 gold medal authorized by congress, a medal 

 on behalf of the state of Ohio and a medal on 

 behalf of the city of Dayton. 



Governor Sloan, of Arizona, has appointed, 

 as territorial geologist, William P. Blake, 

 Sc.D., emeritus professor of geology in the 

 University of Arizona. 



Professor F. W. Putnam has been ap- 

 pointed professor emeritus of anthropology in 

 the University of California. 



The University of Pennsylvania has con- 

 ferred its doctorate of laws on Dr. Charles B. 

 Penrose, formerly professor of gynecology at 

 the university. 



Brown University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Dr. C. V. Chapin, pro- 

 fessor in the Harvard Medical School and 

 superintendent of public health in Provi- 

 dence; on Mr. J. B. F. Herreshoff, the chemist 

 of New York City, and on Dr. W. C. Gorgas, 

 of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Dr. 

 Gorgas has also received the doctorate of laws 

 from JefPerson Medical College. 



Dr. George E. MacLean, president of the 

 Iowa State University, gave the commence- 

 ment address at Syracuse University and the 

 degree of doctor of laws was conferred on him. 



The University of Glasgow has conferred 

 its doctorate of laws on Dr. C. S. Sherrington, 

 professor of physiology at Liverpool and on 

 Mr. W. H. Maw, editor of Engineering. 



The senate of the University of Michigan 

 has presented Dr. Angell with an address en- 



grossed in parchment and bound in silver 

 covers with symbolic designs. 



A committee has been formed in Dublin to 

 present Professor Eraser with some token of 

 respect on the completion of his twenty-five 

 years as professor of anatomy in the school of 

 the Eoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 



Dr. Andrew Walker McAlester, professor 

 of surgery and dean of the School of Medicine 

 of the University of Missouri, has resigned 

 from the faculty of the school with which he 

 has been connected since 18Y3. 



Professor John Clelland, of the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow, who has held the chair of 

 anatomy since 187Y, and Professor William 

 Jack, who has held the chair of mathematics 

 in the same institution since 1879, are about 

 to retire from active service. 



Dr. W. p. Mason, professor of chemistry in 

 the Eensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been 

 elected president of the American Waterworks 

 Association for the meeting to be held next 

 year in New Orleans. 



The Harben gold medal for eminent ser- 

 vices to the public health, has been awarded 

 to Professor E. von Behring, of Marburg, and 

 Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. Leishman, professor 

 of pathology, Eoyal Army Medical College, 

 has been appointed the Harben lecturer for 

 the year 1910, and Professor Angelo Celli, of 

 Eome, the Harben lecturer for the year 1911. 

 The Harben lectures for 1909 were delivered 

 by Professor E. Pfeiffer, of Breslau, on June 

 21, 23 and 25. 



Lieutenant Edward H. Shackleton ar- 

 rived in England on June 10. He will ad- 

 dress a meeting of the Eoyal Geographical 

 Society at the Albert Hall on June 28, when 

 the special gold medal of the society will be 

 presented to him by the Prince of Wales. At 

 a luncheon given in his honor at the Eoyal 

 Geographical Society on June 15, Lieutenant 

 Shackleton announced that he contemplated 

 another Antarctic expedition at an early date. 



A cablegram to the daily papers states that 

 Professor T. C. Chamberlin, Dr. E. D. 



