May 10, 1912] 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
CoMMEMORATION day will be observed by the 
University of Glasgow on June 25, when Pro- 
fessor F. O. Bower, F.R.S., will deliver an 
oration on “Sir Joseph Hooker.” 
Tue Aero Club of Washington held a field 
day last Monday in commemoration of the 
anniversary of Secretary Langley’s first aero- 
drome flight on May 6, 1896. Professor Willis 
L. Moore, president of the club, gave an ad- 
dress on Langley’s work and influence on avia- 
tion. General Robert Shaw Oliver spoke on 
the work of the army in aviation, and Captain 
W. I. Chambers, on the work of the navy. 
A portrait of Dr. Edgar F. Smith, provost 
of the University of Pennsylvania, painted by 
Mr. Hugh H. Breckenridge, will be presented 
to the university by the members of the class 
of 1902 College on the occasion of their tenth 
anniversary this June. 
THE speaker at the annual commencement 
exercises of the Johns Hopkins University on 
June 11 will be Dr. William C. Gorgas, chief 
sanitary officer of the Panama Canal Zone and 
member of the Isthmian Canal Commission. 
Dr. WitHELM Frepier, professor of mathe- 
matics at Zurich, has celebrated his eightieth 
birthday. 
Magsor von ABERCRON, known for his work 
in aeronautics, has been made an honorary 
doctor by the University of Marburg. 
Dr. ApotF von KoENEN, professor of geology 
at Gottingen, has received the honorary doc- 
torate of engineering from the Technological 
Institute of Hanover. 
AT the celebration of the seventy-fifth anni- 
versary of the foundation of the University 
of Athens, on April 10, honorary degrees in 
medicine were conferred, as reported in 
Nature, on Professors von Behring (Mar- 
burg), Celli (Rome), Ehrlich (Frankfort), 
Exner (Vienna), Golgi (Pavia), Kronecker 
(Berne), Laudouzy (Paris), Richet (Paris), 
Sir Ronald Ross (Liverpool), Roux (Paris), 
Schulze (Wirzburg), Weichselbaum (Vienna) 
and others. The degree of doctor of philos- 
ophy was conferred on Sir Donald MacAlister 
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(Glasgow),  Delbriick (Jena), Dérpfeld 
(Athens), Gubernatis (Rome), Harnack (Ber- 
lin), Kenyon (London), Mahaffy (Dublin), 
Wheeler (Berkeley) and others; and the de- 
gree of doctor of science on Professor Depéret 
(Lyons), Halacsy (Vienna), Lacroix (Paris), 
Lepsius (Darmstadt), Partsch (Leipzig) and 
Philippson (Bonn). 
Tue third annual award of the Hunterian 
Society’s medal has been made to Dr. A. 
Goulston, of Heavitree, Exeter, for his essay 
on “The Use of Sugar in Heart Disorders.” 
Grants have been made from the C. M. 
Warren Fund of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences as follows: To Professor H. 
G. Byers, University of Washington, $250, for 
work upon the passivity of metals. To Pro- 
fessor W. D. Harkins, University of Montana 
(to be at Chicago University), $300, for work 
upon the energy relations in a surface between. 
two liquid phases. To Dr. Latham Clark, 
Harvard University, $150, for work on the 
paraftin hydrocarbons. 
Mr. R. N. Lyne, director of agriculture in 
Portuguese East Africa, has been appointed 
the director of the new agricultural depart- 
ment of Ceylon. 
DELEGATES have been appointed by the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 
phia as follows: To the Second International 
Congress of Entomology, Dr. Henry Skin- 
ner, Professor Philip P. Calvert and Dr. W. 
J. Holland; to the Eighteenth International 
Congress of Americanists, Sir Thomas Lauder 
Brunton. 
Dr. Epwarp Bartow, director of the State 
Water Survey and professor of chemistry at 
the University of Illinois, has been appointed 
a delegate to the fifteenth International Con- 
gress of Hygiene and Demography, to be held 
in Washington, September 23 to 28. 
Dr. H. B. Warp, head of the zoological de- 
partment of the University of Illinois, has 
been appointed delegate of the Illinois Acad- 
emy of Science to the meetings of the Iowa 
Academy of Science at Des Moines. He will 
deliver two addresses. 
