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philosophy in 1899. In addition to his teach- 

 ing at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology he has been extensively occupied with 

 expert ^yo^k for various mining and manufac- 

 turing chemical concerns. He also carried out 

 a large quantity of research work of a purely 

 scientific character. 



Professor Warren is a member of the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the 

 Greological Society of America. He is also a 

 member of the Yale Chapter of the honorary 

 society of Sigma Xi. His published works 

 include "A Manual of Determinative Miner- 

 alogy" (1910), and contributions to American 

 and German technical journals. 



Dr. Eussell H. Chittenden has been a mem- 

 ber of the Yale faculty since his graduation 

 from the Sheffield Seientifie School forty-seven 

 years ago. He has been head of the Sheffield 

 Scientific School since 1898, when he succeeded 

 Professor George Jarvis Brush, first director 

 of the school. Dr. Chittenden offered his resig- 

 nation to be effective a year ago, but conceded 

 to a wish that he spend another year in office 

 until a suitable successor might be found. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The joint meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science and its 

 Pacifie Division is being held this week at Salt 

 Lake City. The address of the pi'^sident of 

 the Pacific Division, Dr. Barton W. Evemiann, 

 given on Thursday evening, is on "The con- 

 servation and proper vise of our natural re- 

 sources." At the dinner on Friday evening. 

 Professor James Harvey Robinson gives an 

 address on "The humanizing of knowledge." 



The gold medal of the Linnean Society of 

 London, which is given in alternative years to 

 a botanist and a zoologist, was this year award- 

 ed to Professor E. B. Poulton at the anniver- 

 sary meeting on May 24. In making the pre- 

 sentation, the president, Dr. A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, referred to Professor Poulton's long 

 labors in entomology, and his keepership of 

 the Hope Collection at Oxford. 



The Charles P. Daly medal of the American 

 Geographical Society for 1922 has been award- 

 ed to Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Young- 

 husband, president of the Royal Geographical 



Society. It has been forwarded through the 

 Department of State for presentation at Lon- 

 don by the American ambassador. The medal 

 bears the inscription: "Lieutenant Colonel Sir 

 Francis Younghusband for explorations in 

 northern India and Tibet and for geographical 

 publications on Asiatic and African borders of 

 the Empire." 



Rutgers College has conferred the degree 

 of doctor of science on Mr. Thomas A. Edison. 



At its annual commencement held on June 6, 

 the University of Utah conferred the honorary 

 degree of doctor of laws on James E. Talmage, 

 who was formerly president of, and professor 

 of geology in, the institution. On the same 

 occasion the honorary degree of doctor of 

 science was conferred on Dorsey Alfred Lyon, 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. 



The University of Maryland at its com- 

 mencement on June 10 conferred the honorary 

 degree of doctor of science upon Eugene 

 Amandus Schwarz, honorary custodian of 

 coleoptera in the U. S. National Museum. Mr. 

 Schwarz began official work as a specialist in 

 beetles for the Division of Entomology under 

 the U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture in 1878. 



At the commencement of the University of 

 Pittsburgh on June 14, the honorary degree of 

 doctor of laws was conferred upon Mr. Alfred 

 Cotton Bedford, chairman of the board of 

 directors of the Standard Oil Company of New 

 Jersey. This honor was bestowed upon Mr. 

 Bedford in recognition of his activities in the 

 development of the American petroleum indus- 

 try and for his foresight in the encouragement 

 of the application of scientific research. 



Professor H. 0. Hopman, professor of 

 mining and metallurgy at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, and Professor A. E. 

 Burton, dean and professor of topographical 

 engineering, have retired from active service. 



Professor Oakes Ames has resigned as 

 director of the Harvard Botanic Garden. It is 

 expected that he will continue as assistant pro- 

 fessor of botany at the Bussey Institution. 



Phopessoe E. Kraepelin" has asked to be re- 

 lieved from delivering the course on psychiatry 

 at the University of Munich, as he wishes to 

 devote all his energies to research on psychiatry 



