JUNE 7, 1912] 
time, without tempting them to take more 
subjects in a given year than they can credit- 
ably pursue. 
Wittram T. Foster 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
By the untimely death of Wilbur Wright 
the country loses an inventor of distinction, 
whose great achievement in the development 
of the aeroplane gives him high rank among 
those who have contributed to the practical 
applications of science. 
Dr. Witttam McMicHarEL WoopwortH, of 
the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology 
and the author of important contributions to 
zoology, has died at the age of forty-eight 
years. 
Vicr-PRESMENT THOMAS JONATHAN BURRILL 
and Comptroller Samuel Walker Shattuck, of 
the University of Illinois, will retire from 
active service at the end of the present aca- 
demie year, having been granted special re- 
tiring allowances by the Carnegie Foundation 
for the Advancement of Teaching. Both of 
them have been with the university since its 
foundation in 1868, and have been potent 
factors in its upbuilding. Dr. Burrill has 
served as professor, dean, vice-president and 
acting president and has done notable research 
work in botany and bacteriology. Professor 
Shattuck has served as professor of mathe- 
matics, vice-president and comptroller. 
Dr. Henry T. Eppy, head of the department 
of mathematics and mechanics at the Univer- 
sity of Minnesota and dean of the graduate 
school, will retire from active service under 
the terms of the Carnegie Foundation. 
Proressor THEODORE W. RicuHarps, of the 
department of chemistry of Harvard Univer- 
sity, lectured at the University of Michigan 
upon “ Atomic Compressibility ” on May 16. 
On May 17 he was awarded the Willard Gibbs 
medal by the Chicago Section of the American 
Chemical Society, and delivered an address 
upon “ Atomic Weights.” 
THE death of Lord Lister having created a 
vacancy in the membership of the Royal So- 
ciety of Science, Upsala, Sir Victor Horsley, 
F.R.S., has been elected his successor. 
SCIENCE 
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Tue Société Astronomique de France has, 
says The Observatory, lately taken advantage 
of two anniversaries to pay honor to the 
founder and past-president of the society. 
January 28 last was the twenty-fifth anniver- 
sary of the founding of the society, and this 
year is the fiftieth of M. Flammarion’s career 
as an astronomical writer, for his first great 
work, “ La Pluralité des Mondes habités,” was 
published in 1862. The actual ceremony took 
place in the large hall of the Sociétés Savants 
on the evening of February 26, which hap- 
pened to be M. Flammarion’s seventieth birth- 
day, so that three anniversaries were cele- 
brated. 
As a memorial of Professor Ralph S. Tarr 
a volume is to be published consisting of 
essays on physiographic and geographic sub- 
jects, the work of men trained by him. A 
committee has been named to take charge of 
the preparation and publication of the volume. 
This committee has asked Dr. Frank Carney, 
professor of geology in Denison University, to 
edit the work. 
THE completion by Rudolf von Jaksch of 
twenty-five years as professor of internal medi- 
cine at Prague was celebrated recently. The 
Prager med. Wochenschrift issued a special 
number in his honor and a Festschrift was 
presented to him. 
CotoneL Sir Davin Bruce, C.B., F.R.S., has 
been promoted to the rank of surgeon general 
in the British Army, in consideration of his 
eminent services to the cause of science. Sir 
David Bruce is at present at the head of the 
Sleeping Sickness Commission appointed by 
the government, with the advice of the Royal 
Society, to continue the study of the disease 
in Nyasaland. 
A GRANT of $140 from the C. M. Warren 
Fund of the American Academy of Arts and 
Sciences has been made to Professor Arthur 
B. Lamb for work upon the rhodiumamines. 
Harry Mites Jonnson, Ph.D. (Hopkins 712), 
has been appointed psychological assistant in 
the physical laboratory of the National Elec- 
tric Lamp Association, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Tue American Road Builders’ Association 
gave a dinner at the Hotel Astor, New York 
