July 20, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



95 



Dr. E. Anding, professor in the TJniversity 

 of Munich, has been appointed director of the 

 Ducal Observatory in Gotha. 



M. Janssen, director of the Astrophysical 

 Observatory of Meudon, Paris, will represent 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences on the occa- 

 sion of the celebration of the fourth centenary 

 of the University of Aberdeen, on Septem- 

 ber 25. 



Professor Noah K. Davis, who is now 

 seventy-six years of age, has retired from the 

 active duties of the chair of moral philosophy 

 in the University of Virginia. 



At an assembly of the faculties of Univer- 

 sity College, London, on July 4, Dr. Carey 

 Poster, emeritus professor of physics and 

 former principal of the college, was presented 

 with his portrait, painted by Mr. Augustus 

 John. 



The former pupils of Dr. Hallaran Bennett, 

 professor of surgery in the School of Physic, 

 Trinity College, Durham, and for forty-five 

 years a member of the teaching staff, have 

 established a medal to be awarded in his honor, 

 and will place a bronze life-size relief portrait 

 in the school and in Sir Patrick Dun's Hos- 

 pital. 



At a meeting of the officers and council 

 of the Norwegian Geographical Society, in 

 Christiania, on May 19, the gold medal of the 

 society was awarded to Dr. Carl Lumholtz for 

 his scientific explorations. The medal will be 

 presented to Dr. Lumholtz in September, on 

 his arrival in Christiania. 



The Longstaff medal of the London Chem- 

 ical Society has been awarded to Professor 

 W. N, Hartley, P.R.S., in recognition of his 

 spectrochemical investigations. 



Sir Lauder Brunton, Dr. J. C. McYail, 

 medical officer of health for the counties of 

 Stirling and Dumbarton, Dr. A. Macfadyen, 

 of the Lister Institute, and Dr. T. A. Starkey, 

 professor of hygiene, McGill University, have 

 been elected fellows of the Royal Sanitary 

 Institute. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Professor C. P. Schatz, the 

 eminent German obstetrician and professor 



of gynecology at Eostock, was accused of mis- 

 appropriating several thousand dollars of hos- 

 pital funds. He insisted on a thorough in- 

 vestigation, and the trouble was found to be 

 the result of a clerical error in auditing the 

 accounts of the hospital. He has resigned 

 his connection with the university and will 

 devote himself to private practise. 



Dr. C. S. Pringle, keeper of the herbarium 

 of the University of Vermont, has started on 

 his twenty-sixth annual journey to Mexico for 

 botanical exploration. He expects to return 

 to the university in the autumn and make a 

 distribution of the plants collected during the 

 past year. 



An expedition has been sent by the Peabody 

 Museum of Archeology of Harvard University 

 to northern New York to explore an ancient 

 Iroquois site, in continuation of the work of 

 the past two years in that state. Mr. M, R. 

 Harrington, of Columbia University, who re- 

 ceived his archeological training under Pro- 

 fessor Putnam, will be in charge of the expedi- 

 tion. Mr. Irwin Hayden, a graduate student 

 in the division of anthropology, will be Mr. 

 Harrington's assistant. Mr. Ernest Volk will 

 be engaged for a portion of this season to con- 

 tinue the investigations relating to the an- 

 tiquity of man in the Delaware Valley, where 

 a careful examination will be made of the 

 glacial deposits near Trenton, N. J. Eor the 

 past seventeen years Mr. Volk has been asso- 

 ciated with Professor Putnam in carrying on 

 this research. 



Nature announces that it is proposed to 

 establish some permanent memorial of the late 

 Professor W. E. R. Weldon, not only of the 

 man himself, but also of the movement with 

 which his name is especially associated, the 

 application, that is, of exact methods of statis- 

 tical inquiry to the study of variation and 

 kindred problems in zoology. It has been 

 suggested that the memorial should consist of 

 a portrait — medallion or bust — in the museum 

 at Oxford, a cast of which might be placed 

 in University College, London, and of a prize 

 to be awarded periodically to the author of the 

 most valuable biometric publication of recent 

 date. The committee will arrange that sub- 



