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SCIENCE 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Charles Edwin Bessey, head of the depart- 

 ment of botany and head dean of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, distinguished as a leader in 

 botanical research and education, past presi- 

 dent of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, died on February 25, 

 in his seventieth year. 



Arthur von Auers, the eminent German 

 astronomer, has died at the age of seventy-six 

 years. 



Director W. A. Campbell, of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory, president of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the Swedish 

 Eoyal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. 



The William H. Nichols medal is to be 

 conferred on March 5 on Dr. Irving Langmuir, 

 of the research laboratory of the General 

 Electric Company, at the meeting of the New 

 York Section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety. Dr. Langmuir will make an address on 

 " Chemical Research at Low Pressures." 



On the occasion of the inauguration of Dr. 

 E. B. von Klein Smid as president of the 

 University of Arizona, the degree of doctor of 

 laws was conferred on Dr. D. T. MacDougal, 

 director of the department of botanical re- 

 search of the Carnegie Institution, and on Dr. 

 J. W. Eewkes, of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. 



Dr. John C. Mereiam, professor of paleon- 

 tology in the University of California, has 

 been appointed to be chairman of a sub-com- 

 mittee on research work on the Pacific coast 

 established by the committee of one hundred 

 on scientific research of the American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science. 



Dr. W. H. Hadow, principal of Armstrong 

 College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Sir Henry 

 J. Oram, engineer-in-chief of the British fleet, 

 have been elected members of the Athenaeum 

 Club, for distinguished eminence in science 

 and public service. 



Dr. Adelaide Brown, of San Erancisco, has 

 been appointed a member of the California 

 State Board of Health, to succeed Dr. O. 

 Stansbury. 



Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, professor of medi- 

 cine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 

 was the guest of honor at the thirty-third an- 

 nual banquet of the McGill Medical Society, 

 Montreal. 



Dr. H. p. Aemsby, director of the Institute 

 of Animal Nutrition of the Pennsylvania Col- 

 lege and Station, has been relieved of all 

 undergraduate instruction and will devote his 

 entire time to research in animal nutrition 

 and to advanced graduate instruction. 



The board of trustees of Stanford Univer- 

 sity has elected to its membership Dr. Ralph 

 Arnold, of Los Angeles, a graduate of the 

 university, and has reelected Mr. William 

 Babeock, a capitalist of San Francisco, and 

 Mr. Charles P. Eells, a lawyer of San Fran- 

 cisco, whose terms recently expired. Dr. 

 Arnold is the second alumnus on the board at 

 the present time, the other being Mr. Herbert 

 C. Hoover, who is now serving as chairman of 

 the Belgian Relief Commission in London. 

 Dr. Arnold graduated from the department of 

 geology at Stanford in 1899, received his A.M. 

 there in 1900, and his Ph.D. in 1902. For a 

 number of years he was engaged in scientific 

 work for the government, being for a time 

 paleontologist of the Geological Survey and 

 later in charge of the survey's oil investiga- 

 tions in California. For the last haK dozen 

 years Dr. Arnold has been engaged in private 

 practise in the oil fields of the United States, 

 Mexico and South A m erica. He has recently 

 been withdrawing from technical work to a 

 considerable degree in order to devote himself 

 more fully to research work in the field of 

 paleontology. 



Me. a. F. Meyer, associate professor of 

 hydraulics in the University of Minnesota, 

 visited Toronto in February to confer with 

 Mr. Arthur V. White and appear before the 

 international joint commission in connection 

 with the Lake of the Woods investigation. 

 Mr. Meyer is serving this commission as con- 

 sulting engineer. 



Mr. John Blackstock Hawley (Minne- 

 sota, '87), consulting engiaeer of Forth Worth, 

 Texas, has been elected president of the Texas 



