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arrondissement; the Prince of Monaco, Prince 

 Roland Bonaparte; MM. Liard, vice-rector of 

 the University of Paris; Baillaud, director of 

 the Paris Observatory; Deslandres, director of 

 the Observatory of Meudon; Mgr. Duchesne, 

 director of the Ecole Fran^aise de Eome; 

 Paul Hervieu, Henri de Regnier, Louis Passy, 

 Joseph Reinach, Georges Perrot, Rene 

 Doumic, Mmes. Milne-Edwards, Emile Ollivier, 

 Professor Hutinel and others. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The follovping lectures will be delivered at 

 the International Congress of Applied Chem- 

 istry to be held in New York in September: 

 " The Role of the Infinitely Small in Biolog- 

 ical Chemistry," by M. G. Bertrand, of Paris; 

 " Oxidation of Atmospheric Nitrogen in Nor- 

 way," by Dr. S. Eyde, of Christiania ; " The 

 Most Recent Problems of Chemical Industry," 

 by Dr. C. Duisberg, of Elberf eld ; " Perma- 

 nent Fireproofing of Cotton Goods," by Pro- 

 fessor W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., of Manchester; 

 " Synthetic Ammonia," by Dr. H. A. Bernth- 

 sen, of Ludwigshafen ; " The Photochemistry 

 of the Future/' by Mr. G. Ciamician, of 

 Bologna, and " Priestley in America," by 

 President Ira Remsen, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Professor von Wassermann has been ap- 

 pointed head of an institute for experimental 

 research on cancer established by the Kaiser 

 Wilhelm Society for the Promotion of Sci- 

 ence. 



The Vienna Academy of Sciences has con- 

 ferred its Lieben prize for 1912 on Dr. Os- 

 wald Richter for his work on the food of 

 algse. 



The medal of the Royal Bavarian Academy 

 of Science has been awarded to Dr. C. C 

 Hosseus, of Berchtesgaden, for his journey in 

 Siam. 



The Schaudinn medal has been awarded to 

 Dr. Chagas, of the Institut Oswaldo Cruz, at 

 Rio de Janeiro, for his discovery of the trypan- 

 osome responsible for epidemic thyroiditis. 



Professor Carl Bixz, formerly director of 

 the Pharmacologic Institute at Bonn, cele- 

 brated his eightieth birthday July 1. 



In the geological survey at Berlin, Drs. 

 Oskar Tietze Wilhelm Wunstorf and Leo 

 Siegert have been promoted to be geologists. 



Col. "Willlvm C. Gorgas has declined tke 

 invitation to become chairman of the Boston 

 Board of Health. 



Dr. Alexander N. Winchell has resigned 

 from the United States Geological Survey in 

 order to resume work as a consulting mining 

 geologist. He has recently returned to his 

 office in Madison, Wisconsin, after spending 

 several weeks in Nevada in connection with 

 litigation regarding the ownership of the ore 

 deposits of the national mine in that state. 



Assistant Dean W. T. Bawden, of the Col- 

 lege of Engineering of the University of Illi- 

 nois, has resigned and will take up special 

 graduate work at Teachers College of Colum- 

 bia University in education. 



Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck, professor of phi- 

 losophy in the State University of Iowa, has 

 been granted sabbatical leave for the coming 

 year, and will reside in Boston. He will act 

 for the year as psychologist adviser to the 

 Beacon Press in the publication of children's 

 and young people's literature, and especially 

 in the formation of the graded Sunday-school 

 curriculum. 



Professor William S. Dietrich, head of the 

 division of swine husbandry at the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, has resigned to become super- 

 intendent of a stock farm. 



Dr. Mel. T. Cook, professor of plant pa- 

 thology at Rutgers College, gave a lecture be- 

 fore the students at the Biological Laboratory 

 of Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., on the " Immun- 

 ity of Plants to Disease," on July 29, 1912. 



Dr. E. F. Bashford, director of the Imperial 

 Cancer Research Fund, will deliver the von 

 Leyden memorial lecture in Berlin on Oc- 

 tober 21. As already announced he will give 

 the Middleton Goldsmith lectures before the 

 Pathological Society of New York on October 

 2. 3 and 4. 



Professor Theobald Smith, of Harvard 

 Univei-sity, gave his last lecture as visiting 

 professor to the University of Berlin on 

 June 23. 



