July 6, 1906.] 



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pital Service; on Edward Dennett Eowe, of 

 the National Bureau of Standards, and on 

 Dr. A. C. True, of the Office of Experiment 

 Stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Harvard University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of laws on Professor G. H. Palmer, 

 professor of ethics at the university. 



At the recent commencement of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan the honorary degree of 

 doctor of science was conferred upon Professor 

 William A. Locy, of Northwestern University. 



Professor Ernest Eutherford has received 

 the degree of doctor of laws from the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin. 



Dartmouth College has conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of science on Dr. Warren 

 Upham, librarian of the Minnesota Historical 

 Society. 



Mr. E. C. S. Schiller, tutor at Corpus 

 Christi College, has received the degree of 

 D.Sc. from Oxford University. 



The University of Dublin will confer the 

 honorary degree of Sc.D. on Colonel David 

 Bruce, C.B., professor of tropical medicine at 

 the Army Medical College; Professor J. H. 

 Poincare, professor of mathematics and as- 

 tronomy at the Sorbonne; Mr. E. T. Whit- 

 taker, E.E.S., fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, astronomer royal of Ireland; and Dr. 

 A. E. Wright, F.E.S., pathologist and bac- 

 teriologist at St. Mary's Hospital, London. 



The University of Manchester will confer 

 the degree of D.Sc. on Dr. Emil Fischer, pro- 

 fessor of organic chemistry in the University 

 of Berlin, and on Dr. Adolf von Baeyer, pro- 

 fessor of organic chemistry in the University 

 of Munich. 



Professor Simon Newcomb has been elected 

 a member of the board of overseers of Har- 

 vard College. 



Dr. Wm. McMurtrie, vice-president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in 1895 and president of the American 

 Chemical Society in 1900, has been elected a 

 trustee of Lafayette College. 



During commencement week at Harvard 

 University, the research students of Professor 

 E. H. Hall presented him with a silver loving 



cup. The occasion was the completion of 

 twenty-five years of service in the department 

 of physics of the university. The cup bore 

 the following inscription: 



"To 



Edwin Herbert Hall 



From his research students 



In testimony 



of their esteem and gratitude; 



In appreciation 



of his work in the field of discovery; 



his quarter-century of service 



in behalf of Harvard University. 



His life an inspiration." 



Dr. George Mackloskie, from 1875 pro- 

 fessor of biology at Princeton University, has 

 been appointed professor emeritus. 



The prize of the Peter Wilhelm Miiller 

 foundation at Erankfort, consisting of a gold 

 medal and 9,000 Marks, and awarded for the 

 most important contributions to science, has 

 been given to Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann, pro- 

 fessor of theoretical physics at Vienna. 



Dr. Stutzer, assistant in the geological in- 

 stitute of the Ereiburg (Saxony) Mining 

 School, has been awarded a grant of 2,000 

 Marks by the committee of the Carnegie fund, 

 to enable him to continue his investigations 

 on iron deposits in Lapland. 



Professor E. B. Crocker, of Columbia 

 University, has sailed for England. He will 

 attend the meeting of the Institution of Elec- 

 trical Engineers of Great Britain. 



Dr. Alexander Hill, master of Downing 

 College, Cambridge, has gone to West Aus- 

 tralia to give university extension courses and 

 to awaken interest in the establishment of a 

 university in the colony. 



Professor A. Bergt has been made acting 

 director of the Leipzig Museum of Ethnology, 

 in the room of the late Professor Obst. 



Dr. Erancesco Porro, professor at the Uni- 

 versity of Genoa, has been appointed director 

 of the National Observatory at La Plata. 



At the Institute for the Experimental In- 

 vestigation of Cancer at Heidelberg, Ereiherr 

 von Dungern, M.D., has been appointed head 

 of the scientific department, and Privatdocent 



