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Franklin D. Barker, associate professor of zool- 

 ogy in the University of Nebraska. 



George A. Bates, professor of histology. Tufts 

 College Medical School. 



Henry B. Bigelow, assistant in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. 



Margaret H. Cook, instructor in zoology, Welles- 

 ley College. 



Ulrio Dahlgren, professor of biology, Princeton 

 University. 



Charles H. Danforth, instructor in anatomy, 

 Washington University. 



Vincent Gregg, preparator in histology, Prince- 

 ton University. 



Eobert W. Hall, professor of biology, Lehigh 

 University. 



Duncan S. Johnson, professor of botany, Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



W. O. Redman King, demonstrator in zoology, 

 University of Leeds, England. 



J. S. Kingsley, professor of zoology, Tufts Col- 

 lege. 



F. D. Lambert, associate professor of biology, 

 Tufts College. 



H. V. Neal, professor of biology, Knox College. 



H. D. Senior, professor of anatomy. University 

 and Bellevue Medical College. 



L. E. Thaeher, student. Tufts College. 



Caroline B. Thompson, associate professor of 

 zoology, Wellesley College. 



Hardolph Wasteneys, assistant, Eockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 SiE W. H. White has been elected presi- 

 dent of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science for the meeting to be 

 held next year in Birmingham. 



FoRDHAM Unwersity has conferred the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. on Drs. Henry 

 Head, of London, Carl Jung, of Zurich, Nico- 

 las Achucarro, of Madrid, and H. E. Storer, 

 of Newport, E. I. 



On Thursday afternoon, September 12, 

 1912, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a 

 sweet gum tree {Liquidamhar Styracifiua) 

 was planted in the local flora section of the 

 garden, by Professor Hugo de Vries, of 

 Amsterdam. About one hundred invited 

 guests were present at the exercises. A dinner 

 was given in Professor de Vries's honor at 



6 o'clock, and in the evening he delivered a 

 lecture, under the joint auspices of the garden 

 and the department of botany of the Brook- 

 lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, on 

 " Plant Breeding in the Botanic Garden of 

 Amsterdam." 



Dr. George Santayana, professor of phi- 

 losophy at Harvard University, has resigned. 



Mr. a. Wendell Jackson, who has ar- 

 ranged a loan of $50,000,000 to China, in op- 

 position to the offers of the financiers of the 

 sis great powers, is a mining engineer who 

 was formerly professor of mineralogy and 

 economic geology at the University of Cali- 

 fornia. He is a fellow of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science and 

 a fellow of the Geological Society of Amer- 

 ica. 



Dr. Jean Mascart, of the Observatory at 

 Paris, has been appointed director of the Ob- 

 servatory at Lyons, as successor to M. Andre. 



Dean Milo S. Ketchum, of the College of 

 Engineering of the University of Colorado, 

 was recently elected president of the Colorado 

 Association of Members of the American So- 

 cJiety of Civil Engineers. 



At the meeting of the Missouri Section of 

 the American Chemical Society, held Friday 

 evening, July 26, in the chemistry lecture 

 room. University of Missouri, Mr. N. W. Ar- 

 thur, research chemist of the General Electric 

 Co., Schenectady, N. Y., spoke on a new elec- 

 tric furnace and new electric furnace prod- 

 ucts as SiO-monax and nionas. 



Dr. W. J. G. Land, of the botanical staff of 

 the University of Chicago, sailed from San 

 Francisco on August 27, for a trip of four 

 months in the Hawaiian, Samoan, Fiji and 

 Tongo Islands, with probably an extension 

 through the New Hebrides to Australia. The 

 chief purpose of the trip is to investigate the 

 bryophytic flora and to secure critical mater- 

 ial of it for morphological study. Inciden- 

 tally, research material in other groups also 

 will be secured. 



Mr. and Mrs. C. William Beebe have re- 

 turned from a three months' trip to Europe 

 in the course of which the pheasants in the 



