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sented to-night and for its extraordinarily prompt 

 completion. 



The entire edition will be ready for distri- 

 bution before the end of the year. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 A BRONZE bust of Dr. Eugene W. Hilgard, 

 emeritus professor in the University of Cali- 

 fornia, was recently unveiled in the foyer of 

 the new agi-icultural hall at the same time 

 that the building was dedicated. The occa- 

 sion was also marked by the formal investiture 

 of Professor Thomas F. Hunt as dean of the 

 department of agriculture. 



On Friday, the thirteenth of December, a 

 complimentary dinner was given at the Cos- 

 mos Club to Dr. Theodore Nicholas Gill, of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, in commemora- 

 tion of the seventy-fifth year of his life and of 

 the fifty-fifth year of his publishing activities 

 as a naturalist. More than one hundred 

 guests were in attendance, mainly scientific 

 men. Admiral Stockton, U.S.lSr., president of 

 the George Washing-ton University, presided. 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, permanent secretary of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, acted as toastmaster. The speakers 

 were Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian of Con- 

 gress; Dr. C. E. Monroe, professor of chem- 

 istry in George Washington University; Dr. 

 B. W. Evermann, of the U. S. Bureau of Fish- 

 eries ; Dr. A. F. A. King ; Dr. Hugh M. Smith, 

 of the Bureau of Fisheries, and Dr. W. J. 

 Holland, of the Pittsburgh Museum. Dr. Gill's 

 remarks in reply were largely retrospective of 

 his long residence in Washington and his con- 

 nection with the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Many letters were read from prominent nat- 

 uralists and old friends of Dr. Gill. The 

 dining room was festooned with fish-nets; 

 aquaria were placed here and there upon the 

 tables, and corals and sea forms of difierent 

 kinds were intermingled with fiowers as table 

 decorations. 



On the evening of December 13 a dinner 

 was given in honor of Dean W. F. M. Goss 

 by local members of the American Society of 

 Mechanical Engineers, members of the faculty 



of the College of Engineering and members of 

 the Council of Administration of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. The dinner was given in 

 recognition of the election of Dean Goss to 

 the presidency of the American Society of 

 Mechanical Engineers. 



Captain Eoald Amundsen will be the guest 

 of honor at the annual banquet of the Na- 

 tional Geographic Society on January 11, in 

 Washington. Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary 

 will act as toastmaster. Captain Amundsen, 

 a gold medalist of the National Geographic 

 Society, for his voyage through the Northwest 

 passage, is again gold medalist of the society 

 for the discovery of the South Pole. 



Among the prizes offered for competition by 

 the Academic des Sciences the most impor- 

 tant is the Breant prize (100,000 francs, $20,- 

 000) for the cure of Asiatic cholera. From 

 the income of the Breant foundation the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded prizes 

 of $500 to Dr. Carlos J. Finlay and to Dr. 

 A. Agramonte, of Havana for their work on 

 the role of the mosquito in the propagation 

 of yellow fever. 



Oxford University has conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of science on Professor Ernest 

 William Hobson, fellow of Christ's College, 

 and Sadlerian professor of pure mathematics 

 at Cambridge. 



The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall 

 has awarded its Bolitho gold medal to Mr. 

 Geo. Barrow, for his services to Cornish 

 geology. 



Major E. H. Hills, F.E.S., has been ap- 

 pointed honorary director of the observatory, 

 University of Durham. 



Dr. Adeline Ames, Ph.D. (Cornell, '12), 

 has been appointed assistant forest pathologist 

 in the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Dr. James A. Honeij, Cambridge, has been 

 appointed assistant physician at the Leper 

 Colony, Penikese Island. He will have the use 

 of the laboratory of the Harvard Medical 

 School and will make a study of the fifteen 

 cases of leprosy now on the island. 



