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to 1906 professor of agi'icvdture and dean of 

 the College of Agriculture; upon George 

 Holmes Howison, Mills professor of intellec- 

 tual and moral polity in the University of 

 California from 1884 to 1909 ; and on William 

 Mulholland, the engineer. 



At its recent commencement Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity conferred the degree of doctor of sci- 

 ence on Dr. Walter P. Bradley, who has this 

 year retired from the professorship of chemis- 

 try which he had held since 1893. 



Dean Frank D. Adams, of McGill Univer- 

 sity, school of applied science, received the 

 honorary degree Sc.D. at the Tufts College 

 commencement. Incidentally he spoke at the 

 annual dinner of the Association of Harvard 

 Engineers and Dr. and Mrs. Adams were the 

 guests of the geologists of Greater Boston at a 

 dinner at the University Club. 



On the occasion of the opening of the new 

 physiological laboratory at the University of 

 Cambridge on June 9, the degree of doctor of 

 science was conferred on Sir William Osier, 

 Sir David Ferrier, Sir Edward Schafer and 

 Professor E. H. Starling. 



The first award of the Chandler gold medal 

 was made to Dr. L. H. Baekeland when the 

 Charles F. Chandler lectureship at Columbia 

 University was inaugurated by an address 

 given by him. 



The Eoyal Society of Arts will confer the 

 Albert medal for the current year on Chevalier 

 Guglielmo Marconi, " for his services in the 

 development and practical application of wire- 

 less telegraphy." 



The Geological Society of London has 

 elected to foreign membership Dr. F. J. Becke, 

 professor' of mineralogy at Vienna; Dr. T. C. 

 Chamberlin, professor of geology in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; Dr. F. J. Loewinson-Less- 

 ing, professor of mineralogy and geology at 

 St. Petersburg; Dr. A. P. Pawlow, professor 

 of geology and paleontology at Moscow; Dr. 

 W. B. Scott, professor of geology in Princeton 

 University; Dr. P. Choffat, Geological Survey 

 of Portugal, and Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, 

 president of the University of Wisconsin. 



Director William Wallace Campbell, of 

 Lick Observatory, has gone to Russia on the 

 Crocker Expedition to observe a total eclipse 

 of the sun. For this purpose Regent William 

 H. Crocker gave $5,800 to the University of 

 California. 



Dr. Simon Flexner and Dr. Peyton Rouse, 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, have gone to Spartanburg, S. C, to 

 study the situation in regard to pellagra. 



Mr. J. S. DiLLER, geologist of the United 

 States Geological Survey, has gone to Mount 

 Lassen to prepare a report on the eruptions of 

 the peak. 



On June 23, Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven and 

 Mr. Frederick M. Gaige, of the museum of 

 zoology of the University of Michigan, sailed 

 for British Guiana, where they will carry on 

 zoological field studies. The principal field 

 work will be the study of the local distribu- 

 tion and habits of the amphibians, reptiles 

 and ants, and the gathering of extensive col- 

 lections of amphibians, reptiles, ants, molluscs 

 and crustaceans. An attempt will also be 

 made to secure specimens in a few groups 

 other than those mentioned, particularly in 

 those needed to fill out the synoptic collections 

 in the museum. 



A party from the Peabody Museum of Yale 

 University, under the leadership of Professor 

 R. S. LuU, is to explore the Miocene along the 

 Niobrara River, Nebraska, this summer, in 

 the hope of securing additional fossil vertebrate 

 material to supplement the great Marsh collec- 

 tion at Tale. 



Dr. Robert K. Nabours, professor of zool- 

 ogy in the Kansas Agricultural College and 

 zoologist of the Kansas State Experiment 

 Station, sailed on May 19 for Rotterdam. He 

 will visit for the college the agricultural ex- 

 periment stations of Russia, Turkestan and 

 Central Asia, making special study of the work 

 in animal genetics and securing specimens for 

 his experiments. On the return trip he will 

 visit experiment stations in Germany and 

 other European countries. 



Dr. Charles H. Ellwood, professor of soci- 

 ology in the University of Missouri, has been 



