APRIL 26, 1901. ] 
upon, Professors Weir, Buchner, and Judd re- 
signed from the University. The following is 
a copy of the resignation sent by each of the 
professors to the Chancellor: ° 
April 12th. 
To the Chancellor of New York University : 
Because of long-continued dissatisfaction with the 
administration of the School of Pedagogy, and be- 
cause I have learned that the repeated efforts of cer- 
tain members of the faculty to improve this adminis- 
tration, while they have met with a sufficient degree 
of officfal approval to mark these efforts as thoroughly 
justifiable, have, notwithstanding, resulted in a reso- 
lution on the part of a Committee of the University 
Council to recommend that the chairs of} allj Pro- 
fessors of the School of Pedagogy be vacated at the 
May meeting of the Council, I therefore resign my 
professorship in the University, this resignation to 
take effect at the close of this university year. 
I respectfully request that an official statement of 
the fact, which has been at different times informally 
stated, that my academic work and conduct as ajpro- 
fessor in the University have been satisfactory, be 
sent to me at once. 
A MEETING of students and alumni of the 
School of Pedagogy was held in the University 
Building, Washington Square, on April 20th, 
and the following resolution was passed : 
To the Council of the New York University : 
We, the former and present students of the School 
of Pedagogy of New York University, having learned 
through the public press of the resignations of Profess- 
ors Weir, Buchner and Judd jfrom the Faculty of 
the School of Pedagogy : 
Hereby beg leave to express our firm belief that the 
loss of these professors from the Faculty will greatly 
weaken public confidence in the institution, and will 
undoubtedly impair its usefulness in the future. 
These gentlemen are everywhere recognized as thor- 
ough scholars, inspiring instructors, and men of sound 
judgment and impressive personality. 
We beg leave, therefore, to express our further con- 
viotion that the University will do itself and the edu- 
cational public of this city a service by securing, if 
possible, a withdrawal of these resignations. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. ALEXANDER AGAsSsIz, of Cambridge, 
Mass., has been elected president of the 
National Academy of Sciences. The further 
transactions of the Academy are recorded in a 
special article published above. 
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ProFessor G. L. GooDALE, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, has been appointed delegate from the 
National Academy of Sciences to the Inter- 
national Association of Academies meeting in 
Paris. 
Proressor E. B. WiLson, of Columbia Uni- 
versity, has been invited to deliver the annual 
address before the Medical School of Yale Uni- 
versity. 
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard University, is 
expected to return to Cambridge this week. 
He has been for the past three months in Ber- 
muda and the West Indies. 
WE learn from the Botanical Gazette that a 
handsome silver loving cup was presented by a 
number of teachers to Mr. Thomas Meehan, 
the veteran horticulturist and botanist of Phila- 
delphia, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth 
birthday. 
Dr. JAMES E. TALMAGE, professor of geol- 
ogy in the University of Utah, has been elected . 
a life associate in the Philosophical Society of 
Great Britain, otherwise known as the Victoria 
Institute, and also a corresponding member of 
the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. 
Mr. L. DE NICEVILLE has been appointed 
entomologist in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 
WE learn from Nature that Professor Eugen 
Warming and Dr. Victor Madsen have been 
appointed to the Danish Geological Survey, and 
that Dr. H. Topsoe has retired from the Survey. 
THE Adams prize of Cambridge University 
for the present year has been awarded to Mr. 
H. M. MacDonald, of Clare College, for a paper 
on ‘Electric Waves.’ 
Mr. C. E. BoRCHGREVINE, the Antarctic ex- 
plorer, has been created a Knight of the Order 
of St. Olaf by King Oscar of Sweden and Nor- 
way. 
Dr. RoBertT E. Mortirz, of the University of 
Nebraska, has received leave of absence for next 
year which he will spend in study in Germany. 
PROFESSOR WATASE informs us that at the 
meeting of the Zoological Society of Tokio, held 
at the Zoological Institute of the University of 
Tokio, March 15, 1901, Professor Bashford 
Dean, of Columbia University, gave an account 
of his trip to the Philippines. Among others, 
