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ceived the degree of doctor of laws at the com- 

 mencement exercises of New Tork University. 



The State University of Iowa conferred at 

 the recent commencement exercises the doc- 

 torate of laws on Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson 

 and on Dr. Franklin H. Giddings, professor 

 of sociology in Columbia University, who de- 

 livered the commencement address. 



The degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred by the Kansas State Agricultm-al Col- 

 lege on C. V. Piper, in charge of forage crop 

 investigation. United States Department of 

 Agriculture, and on "Walter T. Swingle, in 

 charge of the office of crops physiology. United 

 States Department of Agricultui-e. 



At the commencement exercises of the Uni- 

 versity of Maine the doctorate of science was 

 conferred on Leon S. Merrill, dean of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture; Professor Jeremiah S. 

 Ferguson, of Cornell University; John Belling, 

 of the Carnegie Institution, and Josiah W. 

 Votey, dean of the College of Engineering, 

 University of Vermont, and the doctorate of 

 engineering on Harold S. Boardman, dean of 

 the Maine College of Technology. 



Tribute to the services of Dr. John Deaver 

 and Dr. John Marshall, who retire at the end 

 of the present academic year as professor of 

 surgery and professor of chemistry and toxi- 

 cology, respectively, was paid at the last meet- 

 ing of the Board of Trustees of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, by the passage of the follow- 

 ing resolutions : 



Eesolved, That the trustees receive with very 

 great regret the resignation of Dr. John B. 

 Deaver as John Khea Barton professor of sur- 

 gery in the School of Medicine, taking effect 

 June 30, 1922, and the secretary be instructed to 

 convey to Dr. Deaver the regret of the trustees 

 at the ending of his distinguished term of service. 



Eesolved, That the trustees are gratified to 

 learn that Dr. Deaver will remain on the univer- 

 sity instructional staff, retaining his position of 

 professor of surgery in the Graduate School of 

 Medicine. 



Eesolved, That the trustees receive with very 

 great regret the resignation of Dr. John Marshall 

 as professor of chemistry and toxicology, in the 

 School of Medicine, taking effect June 30, 1922, 

 and the secretarv be instructed to eonvev to Dr. 



Marshall the gratitude of the university for his 

 long and faithful service as a teacher and officer 

 of the university, and their regret at the severing 

 of his connection with the institution. 



Having reached the age limit of seventy 

 years on May 1, Professor Ramon y Cajal was 

 retired from his connection with the chair of 

 histology and pathologic anatomy at the Uni- 

 versity of Madrid. Spain and Latin America 

 aie taking the lead in organizing a tribute to 

 him. Among the early features of this is the 

 Cajal number of the Arehivos de Medicina of 

 Madrid. 



A DINNER in honor of Professor Edwin G. 

 Boring, professor of psychology, was given 

 by the faculty of Clark University on May 31, 

 with Professor Arthur G. Webster, of the de- 

 partment of physics, as toastmaster. Professor 

 Boring is leaving Clark University to go to 

 Harvard University. 



The annual Walker prizes of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History were this year 

 awarded as follows: A first prize of $100 to 

 James W. Mavor, of Union College, Schenec- 

 tady, N. T., for his essay "On a modification 

 of the mechanism of inheritance produced by 

 X-rays" ; and a second prize of $50 to Frank J. 

 Wright, of Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, 

 Virginia, for an essay on "The physiography 

 of the upper James River basin in Virginia." 

 At the annual meeting of the council of the 

 society it was voted to elect Professor William 

 Bateson, director of the John Innes Horticul- 

 tural Institute, London, England, an honorary 

 member. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has appointed Dr. R. A. F. Penrose, 

 Jr., a delegate to the Thirteenth International 

 Geological Congress in Brussels and Dr. Wm. 

 P. Wilson a delegate to the Twentieth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Americanists at Rio de 

 Janeiro. 



Eleven of the twelve members of the com- 

 mittee of the League of Nations on Interna- 

 tional Cooperation in Intellectual work have' 

 been selected. These include in the sciences 

 Madame Curie; Professor Albert Einstein; 

 Miss Bonnevie, professor of zoology at Chiis- 

 tiania ; Dr. A. De Castro, of the medical faculty 



