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Tue Stevens Institute has conferred its doc- 
torate of engineering on Professor Charles F. 
Scott, who holds the chair of electrical engi- 
neering in the Sheffield Scientific School of 
Yale University. 
Tue University of Manila has conferred a 
doctorate of science on Father José Algué, 
director of the Weather Bureau. 
Amone the degrees conferred by Columbia 
University, at its recent commencement, was 
the doctorate of letters on Dr. John Grier 
Hibben, president of Princeton University; 
the doctorate of science on Colonel George W. 
Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama Canal, 
and the degree of master of science on Dr. S. 
S. Wheeler, president of the Crocker-Wheeler 
Company. 
Kine Grorce has conferred a knighthood on 
Mr. Harry James Veitch, distinguished for 
his work in horticulture. 
Tue board of trustees of the University of 
Alabama at their meeting on May 30, 1912, 
relieved Dr. Eugene A. Smith, professor of 
mineralogy and geology, of active class-room 
work, in order that he might devote his whole 
time to the Geological Survey and to the up- 
building of the museum of Smith Hall, the 
new building named in his honor and devoted 
to geology and natural history. Dr. Smith is 
retained in the university as head of the de- 
partment of geology and as director of the 
museum. The teaching is turned over to Dr. 
Wm. F. Prouty, professor of geology, and his 
assistants. This action of the board of trus- 
tees was based on the request of Dr. Smith and 
the recommendation of President Denny. 
Mr. Ouiver B. Hopxins, who recently re- 
ceived his Ph.D. degree at Johns Hopkins 
University, has been appointed assistant state 
geologist of Georgia to fill the position made 
vacant by the resignation of Dr. T. Poole 
Maynard. 
T. R. ARKELL, associate professor of animal 
husbandry at the New Hampshire College, has 
resigned to accept a position with the Cana- 
dian government as head of the sheep division 
in Ottawa. 
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Paux Ravi, Ph.D. (Columbia, 711), has been 
appointed to the fellowship of the Interna- 
tional School of American Ethnology and 
Archeology for research in anthropology in 
Mexico City. 
Dr. Wittiam H. Hate, superintendent of 
public baths in Brooklyn, has been appointed 
to represent New York City at the Interna- 
tional Public Bath Conference to be held im 
Holland from August 27 to 30. 
Dr. Burr G. Witper, professor emeritus in 
Cornell University, lectured recently at the 
Charleston Museum. He spoke on the silk 
spider, and at the conclusion of his lecture 
took occasion to highly compliment the work 
of Dr. P. M. Rea, director of the museum. 
Dr. ArTHUR W. GoopspEEp, professor of 
physics in the University of Pennsylvania, 
will on June 13 give the commencement ad- 
dress at the South Carolina Military College, 
Charleston. 
Proressor Huco MunsTerBerG, who has 
now sailed for Europe, gave an address on 
June 4 before the Naval War College in New- 
port, R. I., on “ The Psychology of the Navy,” 
and an address on June 5 before the American 
Association for Labor Legislation on “ The 
Psychology of Industrial Efficiency.” 
Proressor D’Arcy W. THompson, professor 
of natural history at Dundee, has been ap- 
pointed Herbert Spencer lecturer at Oxford 
for 1912. 
AT a meeting of the Chemical Society at 
Burlington House on June 26, Sir William 
Tilden, F.R.S., will deliver a memorial lecture 
in honor of the late Professor Stanislao Can- 
nizzaro. 
Dr. Ep. Straspurcer, the eminent botanist, 
professor at Bonn, died on May 20, aged 
sixty-eight years. 
Dr. ALFRED PripraM, professor of pathology 
in the German university at Prague, has died, 
aged seventy-one years. 
Tue U. S. Civil Service Commission an- 
nounces an examination on June 29 to fill va- 
cancies in the position of agriculturist at sal- 
aries ranging from $2,000 to $2,500, and as- 
