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during the session 1911-12: Telford gold med- 
als to Messrs. E. and W. Mansergh; a George 
Stephenson gold medal to Mr. R. T. Smith; 
a Watt gold medal to Mr. A. H. Roberts; Tel- 
ford premiums to Messrs. J. Goodman, A. B. 
McDonald, G. M. Taylor, D. C. Leitch, W. C. 
Easton and D. H. Morton; and the Manby 
premium to Mr. 8. H. Ellis. 
AT his own request and on account of phys- 
ical disability, after a steady teaching service 
of over thirty-six years, by vote of the board 
of regents of the University of Minnesota, 
Arthur E. Haynes, professor of engineering 
mathematics, has been retired. The board has 
passed the following resolution: “Voted to 
express the appreciation of the board not only 
of the professional services of Professor 
Haynes, but of his personal devotion, his influ- 
ence for the highest type of living and his 
loyalty to the university.” 
Mr. Water E. Arcuer, ©.B., who, as as- 
sistant secretary, has been in charge of the 
Fisheries Division of the Board of Agricul- 
ture and Fisheries since its establishment in 
October, 1908, has been compelled to retire 
from the public service owing to ill-health. 
His retirement took effect on May 1. 
Ir is stated in Nature that the services of 
the official guide to the collections at the 
British Museum, Bloomsbury, have been so 
highly appreciated that a similar officer has 
been appointed, experimentally, at the Natural 
History Museum, South Kensington. Mr. J. 
H. Leonard has been selected for the position. 
The guide will make two tours of the museum 
daily, each tour lasting an hour. Provision 
will also be made for special tours, and for 
these, special application will have to be made. 
THE consul general of Uruguay and six 
members of a commission of agricultural en- 
gineering are visiting our colleges of agricul- 
ture. The commission is on a world tour to 
study agriculture in different countries. 
Proressor Henry B. Warp spoke on May 
8 before the Medical Research Club of Cin- 
cinnati on “ Recent Discoveries of Value in 
the Accurate Diagnosis of Human Parasites,” 
illustrating the talk with material from the 
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zoological research laboratory of the Univer- 
sity of Illinois. On May 10 he delivered the 
convocation address at the University of Cin- 
cinnati on the topic “The Prolongation of 
Life.” While in Cincinnati he met with the 
committee of the university on the formula- 
tion of a constitution and at the request of 
President Charles W. Dabney discussed some 
of the general problems involved in this work. 
Proressor Lauper W. Jones, University of 
Cincinnati, lectured before the students of 
chemistry, Central University of Kentucky, 
Danville, on Friday, May 10, his subject be- 
ing “Some Historic Text-books and their 
Authors.” 
On May 14 Professor W. Bateson gave the 
first of two lectures at the Royal Institution 
on “The Study of Genetics.” 
It is proposed to endow a pathological labo- 
ratory at St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, 
as a memorial of Dr. William Francis Nor- 
man O’Loughlin, the senior medical officer of 
the Titanic, in which he went down after 
rendering all possible assistance in saving 
others. Dr. O’Loughlin had been forty years 
in the service of the White Star Line. 
Prince DaMRONG, minister of the interior in 
Siam, has founded a Pasteur Institute in 
memory of his daughter, who died of hydro- 
phobia. 
Sir FREDERICK WALLACE, an eminent Lon- 
don surgeon, has died at the age of fifty-three 
years. 
THE death is also announced of M. Eugene 
Caventou, the distinguished organic chemist, 
president of the Paris Academy of Medicine 
in 1897. 
THERE is existing a vacancy in the position 
of chief of drainage investigations in the 
Office of Experiment Stations, Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., at a salary 
of about $4,000 per annum. The government 
is endeavoring to find the best man available 
for this work and has no particular individual 
in view. Applications for the examination 
will be accepted until June 10. Applicants 
should have a broad training in civil engineer- 
