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president of the rrench Eepublic, presided at 

 the opening meeting, a gathering at which 

 esplorers and geographers from various parts 

 of the world were present. 



Dr. E. J. EussELL, director of the Eotham- 

 sted Experimental Station, has been appointed 

 a foreign corresponding member of the Eeale 

 Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere di 

 Milano. 



W. M. Smart, chief assistant at the Cam- 

 bridge Observatory, has been appointed to the 

 John Couch Adams Astronomership, recently- 

 founded in Cambridge University tmder a be- 

 quest from the late Mrs. Adams. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Michigan has adopted congratulatory and 

 laudatory resolutions in recognition of the 

 services of Professor W. W. Beman, who 

 has for fifty consecutive years been a member 

 of the literary faculty and for thirty-four 

 years head of the department of mathematics. 



Professor Herbert E. Gregory, of Tale 

 University, director of the Bishop Museimi 

 in Honolulu, has been awarded life member- 

 ship in the National Geographic Society for 

 his original contributions to geographic 

 science. 



Henry E. Allanson has been appointed 

 assistant to the chief of the bureau of plant 

 industry. Department of Agriculture. He 

 is a graduate of Cornell University, and 

 came to the bureau in 1911. 



Professor Alexander M. Gray, director 

 of the school of electrical engineering of Cor- 

 nell University, has been granted leave of ab- 

 sence for the year 1921-22, because of ill 

 health. 



Dr. Walter Long Williams, professor of 

 obstetrics and research in the diseases of 

 breeding animals, has retired from the faculty 

 of the New York State Veterinary College at 

 Cornell University. Dr. Williams was a mem- 

 ber of the original faculty of that college. 

 For eighteen years he was professor of vet- 

 erinary research and obstetrics and for the 

 last seven years has devoted his time to the 

 study of the diseases of breeding animals. 



Dr. Edward Phelps Allis, Jr., has re- 

 turned to his biological laboratory at Men- 

 tone, France, after some nine months in 

 America. 



An expedition on behalf of the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa to the gulf coast of Florida 

 was conducted by Professor H. E. Dill in the 

 latter part of May. A collection of marine 

 fishes was made which will be mounted for the 

 museum. 



The Hugo Miiller lecture of the Chemical 

 Society, entitled " The natural photosynthetic 

 processes on land and in sea and air, and 

 their relation to the origin and preservation 

 of life upon the earth," will be delivered by 

 Professor Benjamin Moore on June 16. 



The geological library of 4,000 volumes and 

 15,000 geological specimens collected by the 

 late Professor H. P. Cushing and his father- 

 in-law, the late S. G. Williams, have been pre- 

 sented to Western Eeserve University by Mrs. 

 Cushing. 



A monument in memory of the French 

 chemist, Adolphe Wui-tz, was unveiled at 

 Strasbourg on July 5. 



The death is announced at eighty-three 

 years of age, of Professor Viktor von Lang, 

 formerly professor of physics at Vienna. 



The Mathematical Association of America 

 and the American Mathematical Society will 

 hold their summer meetings at Wellesley Col- 

 lege, September 6-7 and 7-9, respectively. Two 

 joint sessions will be devoted to a symposium 

 on " Eelativity." On the afternoon of the 

 seventh. Professor Pierpont, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, will give a paper entitled " Some 

 mathematical aspects of the theory of rela- 

 tivity," while on the forenoon of the eighth. 

 Professor Lunn, of the University of Chicago, 

 will speak on " The place of the Einstein 

 theory in theoretical physics." 



The regents of the University of California 

 have granted $20,000 from the campus im- 

 provement fund to the Lick Observatory for 

 the improvement of the grounds and buildings 

 at Mount Hamilton. 



The American Pharmaceutical Association 



