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SCIENCE 



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Mediterranean of the Occident. Plere is an 

 exceptional opportunity for the exceptional 

 man. Will he see it? 



J. A. Udden 

 Austin, Texas, 

 April 15, 1912 



BEGENTS OF TEE SMITSSONIAN 

 INSTITUTION 



Dr. Andrew D. White has heen reap- 

 pointed, by joint resolution of congress, as a 

 regent of the Smithsonian Institution for six 

 years. Dr. White received his first appoint- 

 ment to this office in the year 1888 and upon 

 the completion of the present term he will have 

 served the institution for thirty years. The 

 vacancy in the board caused by the resigna- 

 tion of Dr. James B. Angell, ex-president of 

 the University of Michigan, who was a re- 

 gent from January 19, 1887, to January 15, 

 1912, has been filled by congress by the ap- 

 pointment of the Honorable Charles W. Pair- 

 banks. With the appointments laentioned, 

 the roll of regents is now complete. It is as 

 follows : James S. Sherman, Vice-president of 

 the United States, chancellor; Edward D. 

 White, Chief Justice of the United States; 

 Shelby M. Cullom, member of the Senate; 

 Henry Cabot Lodge, member of the Senate; 

 Augnstus O. Bacon, member of the Senate; 

 John Dalzell, member of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives ; Scott Ferris, member of the House 

 of Representatives; Irvin S. Pepper, member 

 of the House of Representatives; Andrew D. 

 White, citizen of New York; Alexander 

 Graham BeU, citizen of Washington, D. C. ; 

 George Gray, citizen of Delaware; Charles P. 

 Choate, Jr., citizen of Massachusetts, John B. 

 Henderson, Jr., citizen of Washington, D. C. ; 

 and Charles W. Pairbanks, citizen of Indiana. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Jules Henri Poinoare, the great mathe- 

 matician and man of science, died on July 17. 

 He was born at Nancy on April 29, 1854. 



The University of Oxford has conferred the 

 degree of D.Sc. on the following foreign dele- 

 gates attending the celebration of the 250th 



anniversary of the foundation of the Royal 

 Society: Dr. Backlund, director of the Im- 

 perial Observatory, Pulkowa; Dr. Brogger, 

 professor of mineralogy and geology at Chris- 

 tiania and rector of the university; Professor 

 Lippmann, president of the Academie des 

 Sciences, Paris; Professor Scott, Blair pro- 

 fessor of geology and paleontology at Prince- 

 ton University; Dr. Waldeyer, professor of 

 anatomy and director of the anatomical insti- 

 tute in the University of Berlin ; Dr. Zeeman, 

 professor of physics at Amsterdam. 



The degree of LL.D. was conferred on Pro- 

 fessor A. H. Purdue, by the University of 

 Arkansas, upon his retirement from that insti- 

 tution in June. Por sixteen years he had 

 been professor of geology there, and ex-officio 

 state geologist of Arkansas since 1907. He is 

 now state geologist of Tennessee. 



At the last annual commencement of Lehigh 

 University the honorary degree of doctor of 

 science was conferred on Dr. James E. Tal- 

 mage, formerly professor of geology in the 

 University of Utah, and on Mr. James Gayley, 

 of New York City. 



Washington College, Chestertown, Md., 

 conferred the degree of doctor of science on 

 Dr. J. S. Grasty, professor of geology at the 

 University of Virginia, at the annual com- 

 mencement, when Professor Grasty delivered 

 the address to the students. 



On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, 

 the Belgian Chemical Society has elected as 

 honorary members all those who have received 

 the Nobel prize, namely, Messrs. Arrhenius, 

 von Baeyer, Buchner, Fischer, Ostwald, Ram- 

 say, Rutherford and Wallach and Mme. Curie. 

 , Dr. Francis H. Champneys has been elected 

 president of the Royal Society of Medicine, 

 London. 



Phopessoe Jereml4H W. Jenks, of Cornell 

 University, has been appointed financial ad- 

 viser to the Chinese republic. 



Dr. E. de Wildman has been appointed 

 director of the Brussels Botanical Garden. 



Mr. Willum Odling, M.A., F.R.S., has been 

 elected an honorary fellow of Worcester Col- 

 lege, Oxford, on his resignation of the Wayn- 



