AUOUST 2, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



141 



birth-place, and in Science, the official organ of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, of which Dr. Freer was a fellow. 

 For the staff of the Bureau of Science, 



Richard P. Steong 

 Chaeles S. Banks 

 E. D. Merrill 

 Alvin J. Cox 

 Oscar Teagde 

 A. E. Southard 



Committee 

 At Manila, Philippine Islands, this 

 Eighteenth Day of April, in the 

 Year of Our Lord One Thousand, 

 Nine Hundred and Twelve. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 A COMMITTEE representing the engineering 

 societies of the British Empire and the 

 United States of America has been formed to 

 carry into eifeet a proposal for the erection in 

 Westminster Abbey of a memorial window to 

 the late Lord Kelvin. 



As already noted in Science Cambridge 

 University has conferred its doctorate of sci- 

 ence on Professor E. B. Frost, director of the 

 Yerkes Observatory. At the same time the 

 degree was conferred on the following foreign 

 men of science attending the two hundred 

 and fiftieth anniversary of the Eoyal Society: 

 the Marchese Emanuele Paterno di Sessa, 

 professor of chemistry in the University of 

 Rome; Professor Pavlov, St. Petersburg Uni- 

 versity; Professor Picard, University of Paris; 

 Professor Eubens, University of Berlin, and 

 Dr. Warming, formerly professor of botany 

 at Copenhagen. 



On the occasion of the bicentenary celebra- 

 tion of the Trinity College Medical School, 

 Dublin, the degree of doctor of science was 

 conferred on a number of delegates, including 

 Dr. J. George Adami, professor of pathology 

 and bacteriology, McGill University; Dr. 

 Franklin P. Mall, professor of anatomy at the 

 Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Edgar F. 

 Smith, provost of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Dr. J. Whitridge Williams, pro- 

 fessor of obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



The University of Vermont has conferred 

 the degree of doctor of science on Professor 

 Edward H. Williams, Jr., for many years 

 professor of mining and geology at Lehigh 

 University. 



Dr. Henryk Ajrctgwski, chief of the sci- 

 ence department of the New York Public 

 Library, was given the honorary degree of 

 doctor of philosophy of the University of 

 Lemberg on the occasion of its two hundred 

 and fiftieth anniversary on May 29. 



The University of Giessen has conferred 

 the honorary degree of doctor of medicine on 

 Mr. E. Leitz, Jr., head of the firm of Ernst 

 Leitz, for his contributions to the advance- 

 ment of microscopy and the construction of 

 optical instruments. 



Professor Charles Lincoln Edwards has 

 been appointed naturalist of the Park Depart- 

 ment of the City of Los Angeles, with the 

 commission to plan a Zoological Park and 

 Aquarium. In Griffith Park, with an area of 

 3,000 acres of mountain lands, the animals 

 will have the freedom and atmosphere of the 

 wild. The aquarium building, in the mission 

 style, will be located on the ocean front cliffs 

 of San Pedro in a marine park with tide- 

 pools for sea-lions, sea-elephants and pen- 

 guins. 



Sir Patrick Manson, F.R.S., will retire 

 from the post of medical adviser to the Col- 

 onial Office in London on August 15. He has 

 been appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the 

 Order of St. Michael and St. George, in 

 recognition of his eminent services in con- 

 nection with the investigation of the cause 

 and cure of tropical disease. Sir J. Rose 

 Bradford, F.R.S., has been appointed senior 

 medical adviser, and Mr. C. W. Daniels, 

 junior medical adviser, to the Colonial Office 

 in London. Mr. W. T. Prout, late principal 

 medical officer. Sierra Leone, has been ap- 

 pointed medical adviser to the Colonial Office 

 in Liverpool. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that on the completion 

 of his fortieth year as member of the faculty 

 of the University of Berne, Professor T. 



