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fields of activity and usefulness, if properly 
administered. We are face to face with new 
problems which will require wise considera- 
tion for many years to come. It is not to be 
expected that I shall be able to guide the pol- 
icies which are to be inaugurated for a suffi- 
cient length of time to insure their ultimate 
success. I, therefore, feel that they should be 
intrusted to one having a reasonable expecta- 
tion of long term of service. 
Tue Elisha Kent Kane Medal of the Geo- 
graphical Society of Philadelphia has been 
awarded this year to Professor Wm. Morris 
Davis, of Harvard University. 
Tue Longstaff Medal of the Chemical So- 
ciety, London, has been presented to Dr. H. 
Brereton Baker, F.R.S. 
THe Turin Academy of Sciences has 
awarded the Vallauri prize of £800 for con- 
tributions to the progress of physics in the 
period of 1907-1910 to Professor A. Righi and 
Professor J. Perrin. 
Tue Royal Geographical Society has made 
its awards as follows: The Victoria medal to 
Sir George Darwin, of Cambridge Univer- 
sity; the founders medal to Mr. Charles Mon- 
tague Doughty, known for his explorations of 
Arabia; the patrons medal to Mr. W. Caruth- 
ers, who has conducted expeditions in Turkes- 
tan and Arabia; the Murchison bequest to 
Captain W. C. Macfie, R.E., for his topo- 
graphical survey of Uganda; the Gill me- 
morial to Captain F. M. Bailey, who has made 
explorations in China and Thibet. The Cuth- 
bert Peek fund to Mr. Cecil Clementi, who 
has traveled extensively in central Asia; the 
Black bequest to Mr. L. A. Wallace, who has 
made surveys in Rhodesia. 
Proressor E. MrtTCcHNIKOFF, assistant direc- 
tor of the Pasteur Institute at Paris, has been 
elected foreign associate of the French Acad- 
emy of Sciences, in. succession to Sir Joseph 
Hooker. 
Sir Davin Gint, K.C.B., F.R.S., has suc- 
ceeded Lord Cromer as president of the Re- 
search Defence Society; Lord Cromer, Mr. 
Balfour, Sir Edward Elgar, O.M., Mr. Rud- 
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yard Kipling and Lord Rayleigh, O.M., have 
consented to be vice-presidents of the society. 
Mr. OC. E. Apams has been appointed gov- 
ernment astronomer for the dominion of New 
Zealand. 
Mr. Harwan J. Suiru has been elected hon- 
orary curator of archeology in the American 
Museum of Natural History. 
Proressor J. C. ArtHuR and Dr. Frank D. 
Kern, of Purdue University, are spending a 
few days with Professor F. E. Lloyd, at the 
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, making it the 
center of field operations in the study of the 
Uredineew, with the especial purpose of iden- 
tifying the at present unknown alternate hosts 
of certain species. 
Dr. W. H. WetcH, of the Johns Hopkins 
University, delivered the convocation address 
before the students of the University of Wis- 
consin on April 12. 
At a meeting of the Southern California 
Academy of Science on April 6, Dr. David 
Starr Jordan, president of Stanford Univer- 
sity, gave an address on “ Eugenics.” 
THe Norman W. Harris lectures of North- 
western University will be given by Dr. Mil- 
ton J. Rosenau, professor of preventive medi- 
cine and hygiene in Harvard University. The 
lectures will be delivered from April 15 to 20, 
the general subject being “ Milk and its Rela- 
tion to Public Health.” The successive lec- 
tures deal with “Dirty Milk,” “ Diseases 
Spread by Milk,” “Clean Milk,” “ Pasteuriza- 
tion ” and “ From Cow to Consumer.” 
Mrs. CuristiInE Lapp FRANKLIN has given 
three university lectures on color vision before 
the department of psychology of Columbia 
University, as follows: 
March 25—‘‘The Theory of Color Theories— 
The Color Triangle and the Color Square—The 
Facts inconsistent with the Hering Theory.’’ 
March 27—‘‘ The Young-Helmholtz Theory in its 
Latest Form—its Indispensableness and its Inade- 
quacy.’’ 
March 29—‘‘The Recent Views on Color—Brun- 
ner, Pauli, Bernstein, Schenck—The Development 
Theory of Color. 
