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and regard in which he is held by all his 
friends and associates. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Proressor RatpH StockKMAN Tarr, head of 
the department of physical geography at Cor- 
nell University, known for his important con- 
tributions to geology and geography, died on 
March 21, aged forty-eight years. 
THE resignation of Charles Loring Jackson, 
Erving professor of chemistry at Harvard 
University, has been accepted to take effect on 
September 1. Professor Jackson has been on 
the teaching staff of the university for forty- 
four years. 
Dr. Henry S. Caruart, late professor of 
physics in the University of Michigan, now 
retired on a Carnegie grant, has become con- 
nected with Throop Polytechnic Institute, in 
Pasadena, where he has taken up his home. 
He will have a special laboratory equipped 
with apparatus for his researches in the insti- 
tute. 
Proressor JOHN F. Hayrorp, dean of the 
college of engineering of Northwestern Uni- 
versity, has been appointed a research asso- 
ciate by the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 
ton and has received a grant of $6,000 in aid 
of his investigation of the laws of evaporation 
and steam flow. 
M. Bicourpan, of the National Observatory, 
Paris, has been elected president of the Paris 
Bureau des Longitudes for the present year. 
M. Baillaud becomes vice-president and M. 
Andoyer, secretary. 
Tue Entomological Society of America has 
named Professor J. H. Comstock, Cornell 
University; Dr. Henry Skinner, Academy of 
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; Dr. P. P. 
Calvert, University of Pennsylvania; Pro- 
fessor Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University ; 
Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, Leland Stanford 
Jr. University, and Dr. W. J. Holland, di- 
rector of the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, 
as delegates to represent the society at the 
Second International Congress of Entomology, 
to be held at Oxford, England, from August 
5 to 10, 1912. 
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Proressor WILLIAM H. Hopss, professor of 
geology, has been appointed by President 
Hutchins to represent the University of Mich- 
igan at the two hundred and fiftieth anni- 
versary of the Royal Society of London, which 
will be held from July 16 to 18. Professor 
Hobbs has leave of absence for the coming 
year. 
"MM. Lippmann, president of the Paris Acad- 
emy of Sciences, will represent the academy 
at the celebration of the two hundred and 
fiftieth anniversary of the granting of the 
second charter to the Royal Society, which will 
be celebrated in July. 
VICE-PRESIDENT T. J. BurRILu and Professor 
S. A. Forbes, of the University of Illinois, 
have been in the east attending the anniversary 
celebration of the Philadelphia Academy of 
Natural Science. 
Dr. AvotF Meyer, professor of psychiatry 
in the Johns Hopkins Medical School, sailed 
on March 16 for Switzerland. 
Freperick H. Buiopeett, Ph.D. (Hopkins 
710), acting professor of biology and geology, 
has resigned from Roanoke College and as- 
sumed the duties of plant pathologist and 
physiologist at the Texas Experiment Station, 
College Station, Texas, on February 1. The 
work interrupted by the sudden death of Dr. 
Raymond H. Pond last summer will be re- 
sumed and some additional attention paid to 
plant diseases. 
Proressor ELLswortH Huntineton, of Yale 
University, delivered three illustrated lectures 
on the “ Desert,” at the University of Mich- 
igan, beginning on Wednesday afternoon, Feb- 
ruary 28. In his first lecture he discussed 
Chinese Turkestan; Thursday, Palestine, and 
on Friday, March 1, “ Historic Changes of 
the Climate in Relation to Geographical 
Effects.” 
On March 1, Dr. C. F. Hodge, professor of 
biology in Clark College, lectured before a 
convocation of the students and faculty of 
Indiana University, on “Civic Biology.” In 
the evening Professor Hodge addressed the 
members of Sigma Xi and invited guests on 
the teaching of biology. 
