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$140 to Professor Joel Stebbins, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, in aid of his research with his 

 improved photo-electric cell photometer upon 

 variable stars. 



The first award of the Ackermann-Teubner 

 memorial prize in mathematics has been made 

 to Professor Felix Klein. 



The British Institution of Civil Engineers 

 has awarded its Telford gold medal to Mr. A. 

 L. Bell (Eosyth) ; Telford premiums to Mr. 

 C. W. Anderson (Chakradharpur, India), Sir 

 Thomas Mason (Glasgow), Dr. H. F. Parshall 

 (London), and Mr. H. E. Terbury (Sheffield), 

 and the Crampton prize to Mr. F. D. Evans 

 (Kuala Lumpur). 



Professor Sydney J. Hickson has been 

 elected president of the Manchester Literary 

 and Philosophical Society for the ensuing year 

 (1915-16). 



The corporation and faculty of Brown Uni- 

 versity gave on May 24 a complimentary dinner 

 to Professor Nathaniel F. Davis and Professor 

 William C. Poland, heads of the departments 

 of mathematics and art, who next month retire 

 on pension, after over forty years of service. 



The Cordilleran Section of the Geological 

 Society of America has elected Professor C. 

 F. Tolman, Jr., of Leland Stanford Jr. Uni- 

 versity, chairman in place of Dr. H. Foster 

 Bain, resigned, and Mr. Joseph A. Taff, 781 

 Flood Building, San Francisco, secretary, in 

 place of Professor G. A. Louderback, resigned. 



On the staff of associate editors of the Trcm- 

 sactions of the American Mathematical So- 

 ciety Professors A. B. Coble and W. A. Hur- 

 witz have succeeded Professors J. I. Hutchin- 

 son and Max Mason, who have served since 

 1902 and 1911, respectively. 



H. H. M. Bowman, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been appointed botanical re- 

 search investigator at the laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution on the Dry Tortugas. He 

 will sail from New York for the West Indies 

 on May 29. 



Under the auspices of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, Dr. Robert H. 

 Lowie, of the department of anthropology, will 

 leave early in June in order to undertake in- 



vestigations among the Hopi of Arizona and 

 the Moapa Paiute of southern Nevada. 



Dr. F. L. Stevens, professor of plant pathol- 

 ogy in the University of Pennsylvania, will be 

 engaged during the summer in a biological 

 survey of Porto Eico, collecting and studying 

 tropical plant diseases and fungi. He will sail 

 June 5 accompanied by Mrs. Stevens and by 

 several students. 



From the Zeitschrift fur Angemandte Ento- 

 mologie we learn that Dr. Georg Escherich, 

 Forstrat in Isen, was badly wounded by shat- 

 tering of the tibia near Markirch ; Dr. W. Her- 

 old, of Greifswald, is in a hospital in Berlin 

 with five wounds; Dr. K. H. C. Jordan, of 

 Neustadt, is in a hospital at Lambrecht; Pro- 

 fessor Dr. A. Thienemann, of Miinster, has 

 been injured by a shell splinter in the upper 

 thigh and lies wounded at Bonn. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences, after con- 

 sidering a report presented in secret com- 

 mittee by M. Adolphe Carnot, has passed a 

 resolution removing from its membership four 

 German scientific men, including Dr. Wilhelm 

 Waldeyer, professor of anatomy, and Dr. 

 Ernst Fischer, professor of chemistry, in the 

 University of Berlin. 



It is stated in Nature that Mr. J. E. Cul- 

 lum retires from the post of superintendent of 

 the Valencia Observatory, Cahirciveen, Co. 

 Kerry, Ireland, and that Mr. H. G. Dines has 

 been appointed to succeed him, as from May 

 1. Mr. A. H. E. Goldie has been promoted 

 senior professional assistant to Mr. Dines at 

 the observatory at Eskdalemuir. 



Professor Waterbury, of the University of 

 Arizona, gave on May 12 an illustrated lecture 

 on "Arizona and the Southwest," before the 

 Civil Engineering Society of the University of 

 Illinois. The pictures shown portrayed the 

 development of the reclamation work in Ari- 

 zona. 



The final meeting of the year of the Colum- 

 bia Sigma Xi, at which the Columbia Chapter 

 of the Phi Beta Kappa was the special guest, 

 was held on May 19. Dr. W. J. Gies spoke on 

 " Diseases of the Teeth and Bones, their Causes 

 and Prevention, with Some Demonstrations." 



