July 5, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



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The University of Pittsburgli has conferred 

 the degree of doctor of laws on President E. 

 F. Nichols, president of Dartmouth College, 

 and on Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Dr. Lewis Boss, director of Dudley Observ- 

 atory, has received the doctorate of science 

 from Dartmouth College. 



The University of Colorado conferred the 

 degree of doctor of laws on Dr. Elorian 

 Cajori, professor of mathematics in Colorado 

 College. 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh has 

 awarded to Professor Alexander Smith, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in Columbia University, 

 the Keith Prize for the biennial period 1909- 

 1911. The award is made for his researches 

 upon sulphur and upon vapor pressure, which 

 have been published in the Journal of the 

 American Chemical Society. 



The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 has awarded the Edward Longstreth medal of 

 merit and diploma to Dr. Charles Baskerville, 

 professor of chemistry and director of the 

 laboratory at the College of the City of New 

 York, for his investigations on the chemistry 

 of anesthetics (ethyl ether, chloroform, nitrous 

 oxide and oxygen). 



According to Nature the list of honors on 

 the occasion of King George's birthday, which 

 was celebrated on June 14, includes the name 

 of only one fellow of the Eoyal Society, Lieut.- 

 Col. D. Prain, director of the Eoyal Gardens, 

 Kew, who has been knighted. Among others 

 upon whom a like honor has been conferred 

 are Mr. E. G. A. Moynihan, professor of 

 clinical surgery at the University of Leeds; 

 Mr. C. H. Eead, president of the Society of 

 Antiquaries; Mr. J. Bland Sutton, the distin- 

 guished surgeon; Dr. St. Clair Thomson, pro- 

 fessor of laryngology and diseases of the throat 

 at King's College Hospital. Another honored 

 member of the medical profession is Mr. E. J. 

 Godlee, president of the Eoyal College of Sur- 

 geons, who has been created a baronet. The 

 Companions of the Order of St. Michael and 

 St. George (C.M.G.) include Dr. A. Balfour, 

 director of the Government Eesearch Labora- 



tory, Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum; 

 Mr. J. Currie, principal of the same college, 

 and Mr. J. M. Maeoun, assistant botanist and 

 naturalist, Canadian Geological Survey. Dr. 

 G. A. Grierson and Dr. M. A. Stein have been 

 appointed Knight Commanders of the Order 

 of the Indian Empire (K.C.I.E.), and among 

 the new Companions of the same Order 

 (CLE) are Mr. B. Coventry, director of the 

 Indian Agricultural Eesearch Institute; Mr. 

 A. Chatterton, superintendent of industrial 

 education, Madras, and Dr. P. C. Eay, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry. Presidency College, Cal- 

 cutta. 



Dr. C. J. Martin, F.E.S., director of the 

 Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Lon- 

 don, has been elected an honorary member of 

 the Eoyal Society of New South Wales. 



Dr. W. W. C.4MPBELL, director of the Lick 

 Observatorj', expects to visit the D. O. Mills 

 Observatory at Santiago, Chili, which is under 

 his charge. Mr. Ogden Mills will continue to 

 maintain the observatory for 1913 and 1914. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, has left Washington 

 for British Columbia, where he will continue 

 his studies in Cambrian geology and paleon- 

 tology. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the labora- 

 tories of the Eockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Eesearch, who went abroad last February to 

 give lectures at the Edinburgh LTniversity and 

 the Eoyal Institute of Public Health, London, 

 has returned to New York. 



Dr. G. Patterson, Jr., assistant professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Notre Dame, 

 has accepted a position with the government 

 of the Eepublic of Panama and will sail from. 

 New York to take charge of his duties some 

 time this summer. 



Mr. Howland Bancroft has resigned from 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, with which he 

 has been connected since 1907, and will enter 

 practise as a consulting mining geologist. 



Dr. F. E. Lloyd, professor elect of botany in 

 McGill University, will spend a portion of the 

 summer at the Carnegie Institution of WasK- 



