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cester, beginning on July 31. The meeting 

 the following year will be in Dublin, and in 

 1909 the association will for the third time 

 visit Canada and meet in Winnipeg. 



The University of Leeds hag conferred the 

 degree of D.Sc. on the following in connection 

 with the York meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation: Professor Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 

 president of the association; l^ofessor Alfred 

 Grandilier, of Paris; Professor Paul Pelsen- 

 eer, of Ghent; and Professor Heinrich Rue- 

 bens, of Berlin. It has further conferred the 

 degree on the following in connection with the 

 meeting of the association and also with the 

 coal-tar color jubilee: Sir W. H. Perkin; Dr. 

 Heinrich Caro, of Mannheim; Professor Albin 

 Haller, of Paris; Professor C. Liebermann, of 

 Berlin, and Dr. C. A. von Martins, of Berlin. 



The London correspondent of the New 

 York Evening Post cables: " The sudden com- 

 pulsory retirement of Ray Lankester from the 

 directorship of the Museum of Natural His- 

 tory on an inadequate pension arouses general 

 condemnation. Mr. Lankester, as testified by 

 his presidency this year over the British Asso- 

 ciation, has rendered conspicuous services to 

 science. The Times says that in any country 

 but this it would be thought grotesque that a 

 distinguished man of science should be treated 

 on the same footing as an ordinary civil serv- 

 ice clerk. No explanation has yet been 

 vouchsafed of the cavalier treatment which 

 Mr. Lankester has received." 



We learn from Nature that Sir William 

 Orookes, Professor Eduard Suess, Professor 

 Luigi Palazzo and Professor Orazio Marucchi 

 were elected honorary members of the Royal 

 Academy of Acireale (Sicily) at a meeting 

 on July 24. 



Professor Charles Flahaut, of Montpelier, 

 has been elected an honorary member of the 

 Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna. 



Dr. Gustav Tsohermak, professor of min- 

 eralogy and petrography at Vienna, has re- 

 tired from active service. 



Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., assistant curator, 

 division of mammals, U. S. National Museum, 

 has been granted a year's furlough from the 



museum in order to engage in a biological 

 survey of Bouthwestera Europe. Dr. M. W. 

 Lyon, Jr., has been appointed temporarily 

 assistant curator during Mr. Miller's absence. 



Db. Aethub Holuck, of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, and Professor Edward C. 

 Jeffrey, of Harvard University, have been 

 making studies of the Cretaceous fossil flora 

 of New Jersey and Marthas Vineyard for a 

 joint work on the subject. 



Dr. Franb: P. Whitman, professor of phys- 

 ica at Western Reserve University, will repre* 

 sent the university at the celebration of the 

 University of Aberdeen in September. He 

 attended the York meeting of the British 

 Association. 



Mr. Alfred Mosely will sail for New York 

 on October 10, to assist in making arrange- 

 ments for the reception of the parties of Eng- 

 lish teachers that will come to this country 

 during the winter under his auspices. The 

 first party of teachers, numbering about thirty, 

 will sail for the United States on November 

 30, and thereafter similar parties will sail 

 weekly. 



Professor Samuel Lewis Penfield, head of 

 the Department of Mineralogy in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University, died at 

 Woodstock, Conn., on August 14, aged fifty 

 years. 



Mr. Gustav William Lehmann, chemist of 

 the U. S. government since 1878 and chief 

 chemist of the Baltimore Board of Health 

 since 1896, died on August 5. Mr. Lehmann 

 was bom in Wiesbaden in 1844, and was 

 known for his work on the electrolytic deposit 

 tion of copper and on the chemistry and bac- 

 teriology of food products. He was a fellow 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and a member of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society and the American In- 

 stitute of Mining Engineers. 



Dr. Walter Ngon Fong, president of the 

 Li Shing Scientific and Industrial College of 

 Hongkong, died of the plague at Hongkong 

 on May 12 of this year. Dr. Fong was the 

 first Chinese graduate of Stanford University, 

 and was for a time instructor in the Univer- 

 sity of California. He was one of the ablest 



