June 12, 1896.] 



SCIENCE. 



865 



Peof. C. Jordan, author of ' Traite des Sub- 

 stitutions,' ' Cours d' Analyse,' etc., expects to 

 visit America the latter part of June. He in- 

 tends to spend about three months in America, 

 visiting mines and universities. 



The twenty-second annual meeting of the 

 American Neurological Association was held at 

 the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, on 

 June 3d, 4th and 5th, under the Presidency of 

 Dr. F. X. Dercum. The next meeting will be 

 held at Washington, D. C. 



The party from Cornell University which 

 will embark with Lieutenant Peary on the 

 Kite is as follows: E. S. Tarr, professor of 

 dynamic geology and physical geography ; A. 

 C.Gill, professor of mineralogy and petrogra^jhy; 

 J. A. Bonstell, assistant in geology ; T. L. 

 Watson, fellow in geok)gy ; E. M. Kindle, 

 scholar in paleontology, and J. O. Martin, 

 special student in entomology. It is the pur- 

 pose of the party to make as thorough a geo- 

 logical study as is possible in five or six weeks, 

 of the region near the Devil's Thumb, at the 

 south end of Melville Bay and in addition to 

 this to make collections of flora and fauna. 

 Another party will also sail with Lieutenant 

 Peary, under the leadership of A. E. Burton, 

 professor of civil engineering, in the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology. This party 

 will land at the great Umanak Fiord. They 

 will make pendulum observations, natural his- 

 tory collections and study the glacial phenom- 

 ena. Lieutenant Peary himself will proceed 

 north as far as Cape Sabine at the entrance of 

 Smith Sound. He will also endeavor to ex- 

 plore Jones sound. He will be accompanied 

 by Mr. Albert Operti, the artist, who will take 

 casts of the Cape York natives for the purpose 

 of making models for the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York. 



In connection with the the Millenial Cele- 

 bration at Buda-Pesth the University conferred 

 the following honorary degrees on May 13th: 

 The degree of Doctor of Medicine on Prof. J. S. 

 Billings, of New York; Sir. Joseph Lister, 

 London; Prof. R. Virchow, Berlin; Prof. Than, 

 Buda-Pesth; Prof. Anders-Retzuis, Stockholm; 

 Prof Guido Baccelli, Rome; Prof EduardRoux, 

 Paris: The degree of Doctor of Philosophy, on 



Prof P. Berthelot, Paris; Mr. Herbert Spencer, 

 London ; Lord Kelvin, Glasgow ; Prof. W. 

 Wundt, Leipzig; Prof. Max Mliller, Oxford; 

 Prof Grimm, Berlin; Prof. Lajos L6czy, Buda- 

 Pesth; Prof R. W. Bunsen, Heidelberg; Prof. 

 J. Bryce, Oxford; Prof W. R. v. Hartel, 

 Vienna ; Prof. Hugo Schuchardt, Graz. 



In the last part issued of Engle und Prantl's 

 Naturliche Pflanzenfamilien, Prof. Britton has 

 been honored by the dedication to him of 

 another genus, BrUtonastrum, Briquet, in the 

 Family Labiatse. There are six or seven species 

 in the group, natives of the southwestern United 

 States and Mexico. 



Peof. J. J. Thompson was announced to 

 give the Reade lecture at Cambridge Univer- 

 sity on June 10th, the subject being the Rontgen 

 rays. 



At a meeting of the Paris Academy, on May 

 4th, M. Guinkoff stated that he had succeeded 

 in photographing the retina. The experiments 

 were made on himself, and he had obtained a 

 photograph of the retina of his left eye with an 

 exposure of two seconds. The process is not 

 more trying to the patient than the ordinary ex- 

 amination with the ophthalmoscope and leaves 

 a permanent record. 



UmVEBSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



The University of Pennsylvania has received 

 $100,000 from Mr. Alfred C. Harrison, and 

 $10,000 each from Mr. John H. Converse, Mr. 

 William P. Henszey and an anonymous donor. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Regents 

 of the University of Michigan reductions were 

 made in some of the salaries, and several in- 

 structors were dismissed. A resolution was 

 adopted that where any department has two or 

 more full pi'ofessors, only the senior by date of 

 appointment shall at any time receive a salary 

 of more than $2,500. Law and medical pro- 

 fessors, if they practice their respective profes- 

 sions, are to receive $2,000, and if they do not, 

 $2,500. The psychological laboratory has been 

 discontinued for one year. 



It is expected that Rev. George L. Perin will 

 succeed Rev. Orello Cone as President of Buch- 

 tel College. Dr. John Clarence Lee has been 



