Aprin 5, 1912] 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Sir J. J. THomson has been appointed by 
King George V. a member of the order of 
merit. The other scientific men who are mem- 
bers of the order are Lord Rayleigh, Dr. A. R. 
Wallace and Sir William Crooks. The order 
has recently lost through death Sir Joseph 
Dalton Hooker and Lord Lister. 
Dr. Grorce T. Moore has been elected di- 
rector of the Missouri Botanical Garden to 
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 
Dr. William Trelease. 
Ir is expected that the Peter Bent Brigham 
Hospital, now under construction on land ad- 
joming the Harvard Medical School, will be 
completed in October, 1912. Dr. Henry A. 
Christian, retiring dean of the Harvard Med- 
ical School, will be physician-in-chief, Dr. 
Harvey Cushing, of the Johns Hopkins Med- 
ical School, surgeon-in-chief, and Dr. H. B. 
Howard, superintendent. 
Proressor ArtHur Searue, Phillips pro- 
fessor of astronomy at Harvard University, 
has presented his resignation after a teaching 
service at the university of forty-two years. 
He graduated from Harvard in 1856. 
Proressor JEAN Gaston Darpoux and Pro- 
fessor Elias Metchnikoff have been elected 
honorary members of the Royal Irish Acad- 
emy in the section of science. 
Dr. Just Lucas-CHAMPIONNIERE has been 
elected a member of the Paris Academy of 
Sciences in succession to the late Professor 
Lannelongue. 
THE council of the British Iron and Steel 
Institute has awarded the Andrew Carnegie 
Gold Medal of the Institute to Dr. Paul 
Goehre, the metallurgist of Aachen. 
Dr. C. L. SHear, pathologist in the Bureau 
of Plant Industry, has sailed for Europe to 
spend several months in the investigation of 
fruit diseases. 
Dr. J. E. Pogue, assistant curator of 
mineralogy, U. S. National Museum, has re- 
turned to Washington after a three months’ 
research and study trip in Europe. 
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Dr. Hersert M. Evans, of the Johns Hop- 
kins Medical School, has been granted leave 
of absence to go abroad to work in the labora- 
tory of Professor Ehrlich, at Frankfort, dur- 
ing the coming summer. 
Dr. Dovetass Witson Jounson, of Har- 
vard University, who has recently been ap- 
pointed associate professor of physiography 
at Columbia University, is spending a half 
year in Europe. 
Dr. Frank Briuuies, professor of medicine 
at the University of Chicago, has been ap- 
pointed to provide the details of the program 
for the section of epilepsy of the State Con- 
ference of Charities and Corrections to be 
held in Chicago next October. 
Mr. E. J. McCaustianp, professor of mu- 
nicipal engineering in the State University 
of Washington, has been appointed a member 
of the State Board of Health. Professor Mc- 
Caustland has for three years acted in the 
capacity of consulting sanitary engineer to the 
board. 
In the preliminary list of papers to be pre- 
sented at the eighteenth international con- 
gress of Americanists to be held in London, 
beginning on May 27, there are titles from 
the United States by Dr. Franz Boas, of Co- 
lumbia University; Dr. A. Hrdlicka, of the 
U. S. National Museum; Dr. Charles Pea- 
body, of Harvard University; Mr. Stansbury 
Hagar, of New York. 
Proressor JosepH P. Ippines, of Washing- 
ton, will deliver a course of lectures to the 
geological students of the Johns Hopkins 
University, on “ The Problems of Petrograph- 
ical Provinces.” The lectures will be given 
during the last two weeks in April. 
Tue Rey. Caspar René Gregory, professor 
of theology in the University of Leipzig, has 
concluded a special course of lectures at West- 
ern Reserve University. The lectures in- 
cluded a series of six on the subject “ Five 
Hundred Years of Science in Leipzig.” 
Tue Society for Biological Research of the 
University of Pittsburgh held, on March 20, 
its second special meeting for the year 1911— 
12, at which time Dr. Robert Russell Bensley, 
