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British New Tear's honors include two 

 kniglithoods conferred on scientific men — Dr. 

 James Johnston Dobbie, F.E.S., principal of 

 the government laboratories, formerly professor 

 of chemistry at the University College of 

 North Wales, and Frank Watson Dyson, 

 F.R.S., astronomer royal since 1910. 



Dr. Henry S. Drinker, president of Lehigh 

 University, was re-elected president of the 

 American Forestry Association at the meet- 

 ing held in New York City last week. 



■Herr E^l Benz, founder of the German 

 automobile firm, Benz and Company, has been 

 given the doctorate of engineering by the 

 Technical Institute of Karlsruhe. 



The council of the Geographical Society of 

 -Philadelphia has authorized the holding of 

 monthly meetings for study and research, in 

 addition to the usual illustrated lectures on 

 travel and exploration. The first of these 

 meetings was held on the evening of January 

 15, when Professor D. W. Johnson, of Colum- 

 bia University, addressed members of the so- 

 ciety on " The Physiographic Features of 

 Western Europe and Their Influence on the 

 Campaign against France." Professor John- 

 son has also given illustrated lectures on the 

 same subject recently before the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, the Brookljoi Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences, and the American Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



" Our Natural Resources : Their Economic 

 Significance," is the subject of a series of illus- 

 trated lectures to be given by Associate Pro- 

 fessor J. Paul Goode, of the department of 

 geography in the University of Chicago, be- 

 ginning January 11, at the Berwyn center of 

 the University Lecture Association. The pur- 

 pose of the course is to discuss the great re- 

 sources of the country from the point of view 

 of their physical origin, and to trace the in- 

 fluence of these physical conditions on our 

 daily social life. The subjects of the individ- 

 ual lectures are as follows : " The Evolution of 

 a Continent," " Our Obligation to the For- 

 est," " The Age of Steel," " The Social Signif- 

 icance of Wheat," " The Reclamation of Arid 

 Lands," and " When the Coal is Gone." 



An illustrated lecture was given by Pro- 

 fessor R. D. Salisbury, dean of the Ogden 

 School of Science, University of Chicago, on 

 January 8, before the Southern Geographical 

 Society, Knoxville, Tennessee. The subject 

 of the lecture was " In and About Patagonia," 

 and related to views and experiences of a stay 

 of two months in that region for certain stud- 

 ies in connection with the Geological Survey 

 of Argentina. 



John A. Mathews, Ph.D., Sc.D., general 

 manager of the Halcomb Steel Company, will 

 deliver on February 1, an illustrated address 

 upon " Iron in Antiquity and To-day " before 

 the Syracuse University chapter of Sigma Xi 

 and the Syracuse branch of the Archeologieal 

 Institute of America, of which Dr. Mathews 

 is vice-president. The lecture will be illus- 

 trated and the date is February fifth. 



We learn from foreign journals that the 

 memorial at Finse, Norway, in honor of Cap- 

 tain Scott and his companions was unveiled 

 on December 28 by Dr. Skattum, vice-presi- 

 dent of the Norwegian Geographical Society. 

 The memorial has taken the form of a monu- 

 ment about 20 feet high bearing the names of 

 the explorers — Captain R. F. Scott, Dr. Wil- 

 son, Captain L. E. G. Oates, Lieutenant H. E. 

 Bowers and Petty Officer Evans — and an in- 

 scription reading : " Erected by Norwegians 

 in honor of Antarctic research and heroic 

 courage." 



Dr. J. W. Spengel, professor of zoology at 

 Giessen, has been elected a foreign member 

 of the Royal Upsala Academy of Sciences. 



De. Johann Hjort, director of the fisheries 

 of Norway, lectured before the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences and the Biological So- 

 ciety of Washington on January 19, his sub- 

 ject being " Migrations and Fluctuations of 

 the Marine Animals of Western Europe." 



An English correspondent informs us that 

 Professor Albrecht Penck who, since his re- 

 turn frora Australia with a load of geograph- 

 ical information, had been detained in Lon- 

 don by the British government, was allowed 

 to go back to Berlin on December 31, since it 

 no longer seemed probable that the Germans 



