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ditionary Force in France; to Alexander C. 

 Humiplireys, president of tlie Stevens Insti- 

 tute of Teclmology; to Edwin W. Eice, Jr., 

 president of the General Electric Co.; to Wil- 

 liam Hubert Burr, professor emeritus of Co- 

 lumbia University, and to Onward Bates, of 

 Cliicago. Tiie degree of master of civil engi- 

 neering was conferred on Francis E. House, 

 president of the Duluth & Iron Range Bail- 

 road. 



At the oommencement of Colgate Univer- 

 sity the honorary degree of doctor of science 

 was conferred on Professor Clarence A. Mar- 

 tin, dean of the college of architecture of Cor- 

 nell University. 



Harry Lee Huber, formerly pathologist in 

 the University of Chicago, was awarded the 

 Eicketts Prize on May 2, on account of his re- 

 search work to determine new methods of treat- 

 ing tuherculosis. The prize consists of the in- 

 come of $5,000 and is given in memory of the 

 late Dr. Howard Taylor Ricketts. 



Mr. F. E. Kempton, who receives his doctor- 

 ate in plant pathology at the University of 

 Illinois, this spring, has been appointed as 

 pathologist to the Porto Eican Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. He will leave for Porto 

 Rico at once, where his address will be 



Professor James H. Bonner, of the faculty 

 of the school of forestry at the State Univer- 

 sity of Montana, has completed his training 

 at Camp Lee, Virginia, where he received a_ 

 commission as captain in the engineering 

 corps. 



Mr. John H. Card, teacher of chemistry at 

 the high school, Brockton, Mass., has joined 

 the Chemical Service Section of the National 

 Army. He has been assigned to the oifensive 

 research investigations at the American Uni- 

 versity Experiment Station, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Benjamin T. Terry has resigned his 

 place as director of the Brooklyn laboratories 

 of pathology of the Charities Department. He 

 is reported to have said that he was not a 

 politician, but a teacher, and conditions had 

 become such that he thought it better to re- 

 sign. 



Ira a. WiLLiAiis, formerly with the Iowa 

 Geological Survey, and for the past five years 

 ceramist and geologist for the Oregon Bureau 

 of Mines and Geology, has asked to be relieved 

 from his duties in comiection with the bureau 

 for the present field season in order to take 

 charge of the development of large ranch in- 

 terests in the Sacramento vaUey of California. 

 Mr. Williams also relinquishes the professor- 

 ship of ceramic engineering in the Oregon 

 School of Mines at Corvallis at the close of the 

 present college year. 



Professor C. H. Eigenmann, of Indiana 

 University, has resigned as curator of ichthy- 

 ology in the Carnegie Museum, the resignation 

 to take effect on June 1. 



Professor Ernest Haeckel, the distin- 

 guished German zoologist and exponent of the 

 Darwinian theory, is reported by the German 

 newspapers to be in failing health. On his 

 eighty-fourth birthday, he is said to have sent 

 to his friends an engraved birthday card, bid- 

 ding them farewell. 



The University of Pennsylvania Museum 

 has dispatched an expedition to South Amer- 

 ica under the leadership of Mr. Theodoor de 

 Booy, assistant curator in the American Sec- 

 tion of the museum, to explore the Sierra 

 Pareja range of mountains in Venezuela not 

 far from Lake Maracaibo. This high range 

 of mountains which juts into Colombia is un- 

 explored and the character of its natives un- 

 known. 



The station at Green River, Wyoming, for 

 the observation of the total eclipse of June S 

 by the party from the Terkes Observatory, 

 University of Chicago, has been named " Camp 

 Charles A. Young," in honor of the eminent 

 American spectroscopist of solar eclipse-s. The 

 program of observations to be undertaken in- 

 cludes : Direct photography of the corona with 

 60-foot eoelostat and with 12-inch equatorial 

 telescopes: spectroscopic investigation of the 

 flash spectrum, in the infra-red with a small 

 concave grating, and in the violet with camera 

 using a " movie " film for quick succession ex- 

 posures; photography of the coronal spectrum 

 with prismatic cameras and with a slit-spectro- 



