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faculty from 1887 to 1892, when he was called to 

 his alma mater as Silliman professor of geology. 

 During this time he maintained as later an inti- 

 mate connection with the United States Geological 

 Survey and was associate editor of the American 

 Journal of Science and Journal of Geology and a 

 frequent contributor to other learned periodicals 

 and societies. 



In 1904 he was recalled to Cornell University as 

 professor of geology and continued his work with 

 the United States Geological Survey. He now 

 retires to accept a pension under the Carnegie 

 Foundation. The trustees desire to repeat the cor- 

 dial expression of their appreciation of his ability 

 and fidelity to the university which they recorded 

 on his resignation in 1892. They further express 

 the hope that he may long enjoy the facilities of 

 the university to which he has generously con- 

 tributed and continue his distinguished services 

 to geological science. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Eockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Eesearch, has, according 

 to cablegrams from Stockholm, been awarded 

 the Nobel prize in medicine. Dr. Carrel, who 

 was born in France in 1873, has carried for- 

 ward important research work in experimental 

 pathology, physiology and surgery. 



Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.K.S., has been 

 elected an honorary fellow of the Royal So- 

 ciety of South Africa. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has appointed Professor Allen J. 

 Smith and Professor Hugo de Vries delegates 

 to tlie dedication exercises of the Eice Insti- 

 tute, and Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn a 

 delegate to the dedication exercises of the 

 New York State Education Building. 



Professor Dugald C. Jackson, head of the 

 department of electrical engineering of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been given leave of absence until January 

 first and has gone to England at the British 

 government's request. When the English 

 Post Office Department considered the pur- 

 chase of the different telephone lines, it deter- 

 mined to call one authority outside the coun- 

 try to work with the English commission. 

 The selection of the government was Professor 



Jackson, who is now called to England for the 

 final work of appraisal. 



Professor W. J. Hussey, director of the 

 Detroit Observatory of the University of 

 Michigan, is at present engaged, as has been 

 reported in Science, in the reorganization of 

 the Astronomical Observatory of the Univer- 

 sity of La Plata, Argentina, of which also he 

 is director. Professor Hussey was granted 

 eighteen months' leave of absence from Mich- 

 igan last spring in order that he might carry 

 forward the plan of cooperation between the 

 observatory at Ann Arbor and the similar 

 institution in the southern hemisphere. He 

 left for the south last June and since that 

 time has been followed by Messrs. P. T. 

 Delavan and B. P. Dawson, both of whom 

 have been trained in astronomical work at 

 Michigan. Mr. Delavan returns to Argen- 

 tina, where he was a member of the Carnegie 

 expedition for the observation of fundamental 

 stars in the southern hemisphere. The fourth 

 member of the present expedition to the La 

 Plata Observatory was Mr. H. J. Colliau, the 

 Detroit Observatory instrument maker, who 

 sailed on August 20 to join Professor Hussey 

 and assist in the reconstruction of the instru- 

 mental equipment of the southern institution. 

 With Mr. Colliau went a shipment of ma- 

 chinery, tools and supplies to equip the new 

 observatory shop which Professor Hussey is 

 having built at La Plata. Dr. Sebastian 

 Albrecht, formerly of the Lick Observatory, 

 and more recently first astronomer of the 

 Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba, 

 has been appointed junior professor of astron- 

 omy in the University of Michigan. During 

 Professor Hussey's absence the Detroit Ob- 

 servatory of the University of Michigan is in 

 charge of Professor E. H. Curtiss, the as- 

 sistant director. 



Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn gave the 

 address published in this issue of Science on 

 behalf of the State Museum at the ceremonies 

 in Albany connected with the dedication of 

 the new museum quarters in the Education 

 building on October 15. On the evening of 

 that day a commemorative dinner was given 



