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Sir William Crookes, D.Se., LL.D., F.R.S., 
O.M., of London, England, in recognition of 
his important discoveries in inorganic and 
analytical chemistry and of his pioneer work 
on the discharge of electricity through gases. 
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, Ph.D., LL.D., 
D.C.L., F.R.S., of London, England, in recog- 
nition of his extended and important re- 
searches in the domains of inorganic, physical 
and industrial chemistry. 
Since Henry Shaw’s death, in 1889, over 
$400,000 has been paid in special street and 
sewer taxes and the like, for improvement of 
unproductive endowment property—two thirds 
as much has been spent in keeping up the 
grounds and plant houses and increasing the 
collection of plants at Shaw’s Garden. This 
burden is now nearly lifted and income from 
the newly improved property as well as the 
full return from that which has always been 
productive is to become rapidly available for 
very large extensions and increased beautifica- 
tion of the garden. Carrying out the pro- 
posed improvements is expected so fully to 
occupy the time of the director that the trus- 
tees and Dr. Trelease, who has acted ex officio 
as a trustee for the last three years, are agreed 
that this development should be undertaken 
by a man who is free to give his entire effort 
to it, while the scientific work that Dr. Tre- 
lease has under way or in contemplation is 
sufficient to call for further freedom of his 
time from administrative encroachment. For 
these reasons Dr. Trelease, who has been di- 
rector of the Missouri Botanical Garden since 
the death of its founder, in 1889, has asked 
to be relieved from the responsibilities of the 
office at the earliest convenience of the trus- 
tees, and intends, after this request has been 
granted, to give his entire time for the present 
to the completion and publication of a number 
of research papers on which he is now work- 
ing, and which will involve study in the her- 
baria as well as at the St. Louis garden. 
Dr. Grorce H. AsHLey, state geologist of 
Tennessee, will resign to accept a position 
with the U. S. Geological Survey as a member 
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of the land classification board in charge of 
the coal work. 
Proressor Marston Tayior Bocert, of Co- 
lumbia University, has been appointed chair- 
man of the American Commission on Organic 
Nomenclature, the other members of which are 
President Ira Remsen, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity; Professors W. A. Noyes, of the Uni- 
versity of Illinois; T. B. Johnson, of Yale 
University; J. B. Tingle, of McMaster Uni- 
versity; J. F. Norris, of Simmons College; 
M. Gomberg, of the University of Michigan, 
and Dr. C. S. Hudson, of the Bureau of 
Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
The commission will cooperate with similar 
national bodies in other countries in the re- 
vision of the nomenclature of organic com- 
pounds. The chairman will be glad to receive 
suggestions from American organic chemists. 
Prorressor P. G. Honpen, head of the de- 
partment of agricultural extension of Iowa 
State College, has resigned his position to en- 
gage in an active campaign for nomination 
for the governorship of Iowa on the Repub- 
lican ticket. R. K. Bliss has been made act- 
ing head of the department. 
Dr. H. von Grortu, professor of mineralogy 
at Munich, has been elected an honorary mem- 
ber of the London Chemical Society. 
Dr. F. W. Dyson, F.R.S., has been elected 
president of the Royal Astronomical Society. 
Proressor P. Anpoyer has been elected 
president of the French Mathematical Society. 
Proressor JoHN Jouy, F.R.S., has been ap- 
pointed Huxley lecturer at Birmingham Uni- 
versity for the current session. 
Dr. J. M. McBrypz, former president of the 
University of South Carolina, later president 
of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and now 
on the Carnegie Foundation, was awarded the 
McMaster medal by the University of South 
Carolina at the celebration of Founder’s Day 
on January 12, 1912. The McMaster medal 
is awarded annually by the University of 
South Carolina to an alumnus or former stu- 
dent of the university for “ distinguished 
service to mankind.” 
