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end of the present year. Dr. Cross has been 

 professor of physics at the institute since 1875. 

 At a testimonial dinner given by the Phila- 

 delphia County Medical Society to Dr. James 

 Tyson on his retirement after fifty-four years 

 of practise on May 11, Dr. Hobart A. Hare was 

 toastmaster and addresses were made by the 

 following speakers : Dr. Henry D. Jump, presi- 

 dent of the Philadelphia County Medical So- 

 ciety; Dr. Abraham Jaeobi; Dr. William H. 

 Welch; Dr. James W. Holland, and Dr. Ed- 

 ward Martin. 



Dr. T. Beailsfoed Robertson, professor of 

 biochemistry and pharmacology in the Uni- 

 versity of California, has donated to the 

 regents of the University of California his pat- 

 ents for the growth-controlling substance tethe- 

 lin which he has succeeded in isolating from 

 the anterior lobe of the pituitary body and 

 which has been employed to accelerate repair 

 in slowly healing wounds. The proceeds which 

 may accrue from the sale or lease of these pat- 

 ents are to constitute a fund which will be en- 

 titled " The University of California Founda- 

 tion for International Medical Research " and 

 which will be expended in the furtherance of 

 medical research, preferably in the physiology, 

 chemistry and pathology of growth. 



The Societe de Geographie has awarded its 

 highest prize, the Conrad Malte-Brun Gold 

 Medal to Dr. John H. Finley, president of the 

 University of the State of New York, in recog- 

 nition of " the exceptional interest and high 

 merit of his volume, ' The French in the Heart 

 of America.' " The Commission de Geographie 

 of Quebec, with the approval of the Minister 

 of Lands and Forests, has named a new town- 

 ship in Gaspe, P. Q., in honor of Dr. John M. 

 Clarke, state geologist of New York in recog- 

 nition of his scientific writings on Gaspe and 

 especially of his book " The Heart of Gaspe." 



Professoe Wm. Bullock Clark, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed 

 by the governor of Maryland a member of the 

 State Defense Council. 



The executive committee of the Entomolog- 

 ical Society of America has commemorated 

 the appearance of the fourth and final volume 



of the Carnegie mosquito monograph by elect- 

 ing Frederick Knab a fellow of the society. 



The Institute of Chemistry, London, has 

 presented a silver bowl to Mr. R. B. Pilcher, 

 registrar and secretary, in appreciation of his 

 twenty-five years' service. 



A committee on research to cooperate with 

 the National Research Council has been ap- 

 pointed at Washington University, consisting 

 of members of the corporation, St. Louis 

 alumni and faculty as follows: B. M. Duggar 

 (chairman), J. Erlanger, E. Flad, W. W. 

 Horner, A. S. Langsdorf, E. Mallinckrodt, R. 

 McCulloch, L. McMaster, G. T. Moore, E. L. 

 Opie, L. Pyle, P. A. Shaffer and J. L. Van 

 Ornum. 



A RESEARCH committee has been appointed at 

 Iowa State College at the suggestion of the 

 National Research Council. The committee 

 is representative of the various interests of the 

 college and is made up as follows : P. E. Brown, 

 professor of soil bacteriology, chairman, J. M. 

 Eward, associate professor of animal hus- 

 bandry, L. H. Pammel, professor of botany, L. 

 B. Spinney, professor of physics, Helen 

 Monsch, associate professor of domestic sci- 

 ence, Chas. Murray, associate professor of 

 veterinary pathology and bacteriology. 



A FIRM of geologists has been organized in 

 Tulsa, Oklahoma, for consulting work, con- 

 sisting of Messrs. J. B. Newby, R. E. Garrett, 

 J. R. Crabtree and A. P. Wright. 



Charles Fuller Baker, professor of agron- 

 omy in the college of agriculture of the Uni- 

 versity of the Philippines, has been given a 

 year's leave of absence, to accept under tempo- 

 rary appointment, the post of assistant director 

 of the Botanical Gardens at Singapore, in 

 charge of experimental work in tropical agron- 

 omy. 



B. R. Leach, of the Bureau of Entomology, 

 who has been in Washington preparing manu- 

 script and notes on the results of his investiga- 

 tions of the woolly apple aphis, has returned to 

 his permanent headquarters at Winchester, 

 Va., to resume his field duties in connection 

 with apple insect investigations. 



