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Thompson, Sir St. Clair,. London, England. 



B^gouin, Paul, Bordeaux, Trauce. 



Lemaitre, Eernand, France. 



Picqug, Eobert, Bordeaux, France. 



Alexion, Alexander, Greece. 



Constas, Jolin, Greece. 



Allen, Belle Jane, Baroda, India. 



Fletcher, A. G., Taiku, Japan. 



Kamaimura, Asajiro, Tokio, Japan. 



Kodama, Eyuzo, Japan. 



Uchimo, Senichi, Tokio, Japan. 



Hoist, Peter F., Norway. 



Muro, Felipe, Lima, Peru. 



Ingvar, Sven, Lund, Sweden. 



HONORARY DEGREES AT YALE UNIVERSITY 



At the commencemeiit exercises on June 18 

 Dr. Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, professor of 

 international law, emeritus, in presenting can- 

 didates for honorary degrees said as public 

 orator : 



MASTER OF ARTS 



Orville Wright : The survivor of two broth- 

 ers who by their mechanical skill, ceaseless 

 experimentation 'and accumulated knowledge 

 of physics, have led the way in mastering 

 human flight. The inventive genius of Mr. 

 Wright in a brief sixteen years has filled the 

 sky with its creations, has changed the meth- 

 ods of warfare, has captivated the youth of all 

 lands and now ventures to cross the ocean. 



Samuel Hosea Wadhams: A graduate of 

 Sheffield, in 1894, a surgeon in the regular 

 army, serving in the Spanish War, early sent 

 to France as an observer, placed later on the 

 General Staff, in tact, in vision, in ability pre- 

 eminent. Colonel Wadhams, more than any 

 one else, has shaped the policy of his depart- 

 ment. During our share in the war, he has 

 borne the entire responsibility for the wounded 

 in the battle area, has won the admiration of 

 his fellow workers and has earned the honor 

 which his university desires to pay. 



DOCTOR OF SCIENCE 



Samuel Wesley Stratton: Mathematician, 

 physicist, professor in the Universities of Illi- 

 nois and Chicago, a naval officer in the Span- 

 ish war, since 1901 director of the National 

 Bureau of Standards in. weight and measures. 



Dr. Stratton's work in this bureau has been 

 conspicuous and constructive, recognized be- 

 yond our own limits, vitally important in war 

 and war research. A man weighed in the 

 balance and not found wanting. 



Harvey Cushing : Son of Tale and Harvard 

 professor, a leader in the new field of neuro- 

 logical surgery, in operations of the brain pre- 

 eminent, surgeon in chief of the model Brig- 

 ham Hospital, honored at home and abroad. 

 Colonel Cushing served with the French in 

 1915 and 1917, with the British at Messines 

 and Passchaendaele, being mentioned in dis- 

 patches. At this time organizing intensive 

 study of penetrative skull wounds, he reduced 

 their mortality by one half. Under our own 

 flag he became chief consultant in neurolog- 

 ical surgery for the A. E. F. A gentleman, 

 a bold investigator, an artist in the operative 

 field. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Princeton University has conferred the 

 doctorate of science on Dr. John M. Clarke, 

 director of the State Museum of New York, 

 and the degree of master of arts on Mr. Lester 

 E. Jones, director of the U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. 



Dr. David F. Houston, secretary of agricul- 

 ture, has received the degree of LL.D. from 

 Brown University. 



The honorary degree of doctor of science 

 has been conferred upon Dr. Raymond Foss 

 Bacon, director of the Mellon Institute of In- 

 dustrial Research, by De Pauw University. 



On the occasion of the annual commence- 

 ment of the University of Pittsburgh on June 

 13, the honorary degree of doctor of engineer- 

 ing was conferred upon Mr. Yannoy H. Mann- 

 ing, director of the United States Bureau of 

 Mines, in recognition of his noteworthy accom- 

 plishments in the investigation of problems of 

 mineral technology. The university also con- 

 ferred the honorary degree of doctor of chem- 

 istry upon Dr. Willis R. Whitney, director of 

 the Research Laboratory of the General Elec- 

 tric Company, Schenectady, New York, be- 

 cause of the valuable service which he ren- 

 dered to the government as a member of the 



