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Professor Patrick Geddes. Lord Eayleigh 

 and Lord Haldane presided on July 4, and 

 among others Principal W. H. Hadow, Sir 

 Edward Busk and Sir George Gibb were on 

 the program. On Friday, when Lord Strath- 

 cona presided, Dr. G. E. Parkin and Sir Al- 

 fred Keogh dealt with the question of the es- 

 tablishment of a central bureau, Mrs. Sophie 

 Bryant, Mrs. Sidgwick, and others with the 

 position of women in universities, and Sir 

 James Donaldson and Mr. Michael Sadler 

 with the representation of teachers and grad- 

 uates on the governing body of a university. 

 The entertainments included a luncheon at 

 the invitation of the government, a reception 

 of delegates by Prince Arthur of Connaught 

 at the University of London, dinners at the 

 halls of several city companies and an " At 

 Home " at the Mansion House. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Cambridge University has conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of science upon Edwin Brant 

 Erost, director of the Yerkes Observatory. 



Among newly created doctors of laws of the 

 University of Edinburgh are Dr. J. S. 

 Phelps, of the Geological Survey, and Pro- 

 fessor J. Theodore Cash, F.E.S., professor of 

 materia mediea. University of Aberdeen. 



Durham University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Professor PrafuUa 

 Chandra Eay, dean of the faculty of science 

 in the University of Calcutta; Professor L. 

 P. Anderson Stuart, professor of physiology 

 and dean of the faculty of medicine in the 

 University of Sydney. 



Cambridge University will confer the de- 

 gree of doctor of science on Dr. Howard 

 Marsh, professor of human anatomy in the 

 university and master of Downing College. 



Dr. E. T. Glazebrook, F.E.S., director of 

 the National Physical Laboratory, has been 

 elected president of the Faraday Society. 



At the seventy-eighth annual general meet- 

 ing of the Eoyal Statistical Society, Pro- 

 fessor E. Y. Edgeworth was elected president. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that the friends, the pupils 

 and ophthalmologists of many countries united 

 recently in celebrating the seventy-seventh 

 birthday of Professor Henri Dor, by present- 

 ing him with a portrait medal. The reverse of 

 the medal typifies Dor's life-work, as it repre- 

 sents science pushing back the clouds that the 

 light can fall on the child beside it. The 

 background shows Dor's home on the banks of 

 the Ehone at Lyons where he has been pro- 

 fessor of ophthalmology since 1876. He was 

 a pupil of both Graefe and Donders, and 

 founded thirty years ago the Revue Generale 

 d' Ophthalmohgie. 



A new office, that of administrative geol- 

 ogist, has been created on the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, and Dr. George H. Ashley, Ph.D. 

 (Stanford, '94), chosen to fill it. This posi- 

 tion is virtually vice-director of the survey, 

 placing the incumbent in complete charge of 

 the organization during the absence of the 

 director, and in addition giving him charge 

 of certain functions of the organization the 

 whole time. Dr. Ashley has been a geologist 

 of the survey since 1901 except for the years 

 1910 and 1911, when he was state geologist of 

 Tennessee. 



The following promotions to the rank of 

 geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey have 

 been made: Eobert Anderson, B. S. Butler, 

 Adolph Knopf, F. H. Moffit, G. B. Eichard- 

 son and A. E. Schultz. 



Dr. Chester A. Eeeds, for the past four 

 years lecturer and associate in geology at 

 Bryn Mawr College, has been appointed as- 

 sistant curator of the department of geology 

 and invertebrate paleontology of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History. He enters 

 upon his new duties August first, after spend- 

 ing some weeks in Europe visiting museums. 



Mr. F. W. Jones, has been appointed chief 

 chemist of the purification works of the Fitch- 

 burg, Massachusetts, Sewer Department. Mr. 

 Jones was for some time instructor in chem- 

 istry at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

 During the past year he has been assistant 



