JUNE 21, 1901.] 
PROFESSOR BASHFORD DEAN, who is now 
working at the Misaki Marine Station of the 
Imperial University of Tokio, has presented a 
yacht, with a complete outfit for marine zo- 
ological work, to the institution. 
THE Society of Arts, London, has awarded 
the Albert medal to King Edward, who for 
' thirty-eight years has acted as president of the 
society. 
CoLUMBIA UNIVERSITY at its recent com- 
mencement exercises conferred its newly es- 
tablished D.Sc. on Mr. Arnold Hague, of the 
U.S. Geological Survey. The degree of LL.D. 
was conferred on Dr. W. H. Maxwell, superin- 
tendent of the New York schools, and the de- 
gree of M.S. on the Rey. Frank D. Gamewell, 
professor of physics at the University of Pekin, 
and on Dr. G. M. Lefferts, clinical professor 
of laryngology in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of the University. 
THE valuable contributions to entomology 
made by William H. Ashmead, of the U. S. 
National Museum, were recognized by the 
Florida Agricultural College and Experimental 
Station in Lake City, Fla., at its recent com- 
mencement by the conferment of the honorary 
degree of A.M. 
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY will confer its D.Sc. on 
W. Burnside, professor of mathematics, Royal 
Naval College, (Greenwich; W. E. Wilson, 
F.R.S., and Francis Joseph Edward Spring, 
C.1.E. 
PROFESSOR H. 8. CARHART has been appointed 
a delegate to the International Engineering 
Congress in Glasgow by the American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers. He has also been 
nominated as an honorary member of the Con- 
gress. He sails on August 13, and will attend 
both the Engineering Congress and the meeting 
of the British Association in Glasgow. 
Mr. F. W. HonGe has recently been appointed 
assistant in charge of office in the Smithsonian 
Institution, and to accept that appointment has 
resigned his position as ethnologist in the 
Bureau of American Ethnology. He continues 
as managing editor of the American Anthropolo- 
gist. 
Dr. Victor C. VAUGHAN, of the University 
of Michigan, was elected president of the 
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American Academy of Medicine at the annual 
meeting held in St. Paul, Minn., the first week 
in June. 
Dr. FREDERICK BEDELL, of Cornell Univer- 
sity, will spend the coming year in Europe. 
Proressor J. CULVER HARTZELL, of the 
Illinois Wesleyan University, will be engaged 
during the summer in tracing certain partings 
in Indiana for the Indiana Geological Suruey. 
PROFESSOR W. RAMSAY will lecture on the 
‘Inert Constituents of the Atmosphere,’ and 
Professor Francis Darwin on ‘The Movements 
of Plants,’ at the approaching Glasgow meet- 
ing of the British Association. 
PROFESSOR JAMES DEWAR gave the Bakerian 
Lecture before the Royal Society on June 18, 
his subject being ‘The Nadir of Temperature 
and Allied Problems.’ 
THE William T. Lusk Memorial Science 
Prize has been awarded by the faculty of the 
University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 
lege to S. S. Goldwater, for a paper entitled 
‘Notes on Blood Pressure in Man.’ This prize 
is awarded to the member of the senior class 
presenting the best thesis which is the product 
of personal original research. 
A MEMORIAL tablet to the late J. C. Porter, the 
botanist, was unveiled at Lafayette College in 
connection with the commencement exercises. 
WE regret to announce the death of Profess- 
or Truman Henry Safford, which occurred at 
Williamstown, on June 13. Born at Royalton, 
Vt., in 1836, he had since 1876 occupied the 
chair of astronomy in Williams College. 
Dr. ARTHUR HAZELIUS, of Stockholm, the 
enthusiastic inspirer of the Northern Museum 
in that town, and the reviver of old Swedish 
customs, dances and costumes in the beautiful 
open-air museum known as Skansen, died on 
Whitmonday, mourned by all his countrymen. 
M. Maris, known for his contributions to 
scientific agriculture, died at Montpelier, on 
May 9; Professor W. H. Heineke, for thirty- 
three years professor of surgery at Erlangen, 
has died at the age of sixty-six years. 
JOHN VIRIAMU JONES, principal of, and pro- 
fessor of physics in, the University College of 
South Wales at Cardiff, died at Geneva on June 
