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of the work in plant pathology. The appoint- 
ment takes effect on September 1, 1912. 
Captain H. G. Lyons, F.R.S., has been ap- 
pointed assistant director of the Science Mu- 
seum, South Kensington. 
Proressor Dirck, until a short time ago 
director of the pathologic institute at Jena, 
has assumed the direction of the pathologic 
institute at Rio de Janeiro. 
THE executive committee of the Entomolog- 
ical Society of America has named the follow- 
ing as additional delegates to the second 
International Congress of Entomology, to be 
held at Oxford, England, August 5 to 10, 
1912: Professor Stephen A. Forbes, University 
of Illinois; Dr. L. O. Howard, chief, U. S. 
Bureau of Entomology; Dr. Wm. M. Wheeler, 
Harvard University; Dr. James G. Needham, 
Cornell University. 
THE former students of Professor O. Hen- 
rici, F.R.S., who recently retired from the 
chair of mathematics at the City and Guilds 
Engineering College, have had engraved in his 
honor a medal to be awarded annually for pro- 
ficiency in mathematics. 
THE alumni and students of the School of 
Mines of the University of Pittsburgh have 
held a banquet in honor of Professor M. E. 
Wadsworth, the retiring dean of the school. 
In presenting a silver loving cup to him, Mr. 
Floyd Rose said: “In the four years during 
which Dr. Wadsworth has been with us he has 
become intimately associated with every stu- 
dent in the school. He has aided the weak, 
encouraged the despondent and won the affec- 
tion of every one with whom he has come in 
contact. A more popular or more successful 
dean the university has never seen. From an 
insignificant department, he has developed the 
school of mines into one of the best schools of 
its kind in the country. It is a source of 
pleasure that, though he retires from teaching, 
he will remain with us as dean emeritus.” 
THe Lucy Wharton Drexel medal of the 
Museum of Archeology of the University of 
Pennsylvania has been awarded to Dr. M. 
Aurel Stein for his explorations in China. 
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Tue Albert medal of the Royal Society of 
Arts has been awarded to the Right Hon. Lord 
Strathcona and Mount Royal, F.R.S., for his 
services in improving the railway communica- 
tions, developing the resources and promoting 
the commerce and industry of Canada and 
other parts of the British empire. 
Dr. CHARLES J. CHAMBERLAIN, of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, has been elected an hon- 
orary member of the Naturforschende Gesell- 
schaft an der Kaiserl. Universitat zu Kiew, 
Russia. Dr. Chamberlain has just returned 
from Australia and South Africa, where he 
has been making a field study of the oriental 
eyeads and collecting material for a detailed 
morphological investigation. 
Proressor Burton E. Livineston is con- 
tinuing his researches at the Desert Labora- 
tory during the present summer. He is as- 
sisted by Mr. E. M. Harvey. 
Mr. J. T. Luoyp, assistant in limnology in 
Cornell University, has recently gone from 
Colombia, where he has been spending the 
past six months collecting in the summits of 
the Andes, to Europe, where he will spend the 
summer visiting fresh-water biological field 
stations. 
Henry Houmes BeFievp, dean of. the tech- 
nological course of the high school of the Uni- 
versity of Chicaga from 1903 to 1908, and or- 
ganizer of the Chicago manual training 
school, of which he was director until it was 
merged with the university high school in 
1903, died in Ann Arbor, Mich., on June 5. 
THe United States Civil Service Commis- 
sion announces an examination on July 24, 
to fill vacancies in the position of entomolog- 
ical assistant (male), at salaries ranging 
from $1,400 to $1,800 per annum, in the 
Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agri- 
culture, Washington, D. C. 
A RESEARCH laboratory is being planned for 
the National Jewish Hospital for Consump- 
tives at Denver, to cost about $100,000. 
THE nineteenth International Congress of 
Americanists to be held in 1914 will consist 
