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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 614. 



HONOEAEY DOCTOR OF SCIENCE. 



Simon Flexner, born and brought up to the 

 standing of a physician at Louisville, Kentucky, 

 trained as a student and professor of pathology 

 chiefly at the Johns Hopkins University; pro- 

 ductive investigator and author in bacteriology 

 and pathology; since 1904 director of the labo- 

 ratories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, and there the competent master of great 

 resources for the immediate and constant advance- 

 ment of Medical Science. 



DOCTOES OF LAWS. 



John Collins Warren, instructor and professor ■ 

 of surgery in Harvard University for thirty-five 

 years; author, and eminent practitioner in sur- 

 gery; the enthusiastic, winning and indefatigable 

 promoter of the great undertaking of the Medical 

 School, who knew how to inspire others with his 

 own well-grounded hopefulness and ardor. 



Henry Pickering Bowditch, for thirty-five years 

 chief teacher of physiology in Harvard University; 

 for ten years dean of the Medical School; investi- 

 gator, as well as teacher and administrator ; whose 

 imagination conceived, whose faith foresaw the 

 new Medical School, and who contributed to the 

 realization of his vision by diligent labor in the 

 cause and through the confidence which others 

 felt in his foresight and sagacity. 



Jose Ramos, professor of pathology and chief of 

 the clinical stafi" in the Medical School of Mexico, 

 officer of the Medical Institute of Mexico, senator 

 from the state of San Luis Potosi, in whose wel- 

 come presence Harvard University gladly remem- 

 bers that the University of Mexico was her elder 

 sister on the American continent. 



Franz Keibel, professor of anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity of Freiburg, eminent investigator in anat- 

 omy and embryology, worthy representative of 

 German genius for medical research and teaching. 



Charles Scott Sherrington, lecturer and pro- 

 fessor at the University of London, St. Thomas's 

 Hospital and the University of Liverpool; distin- 

 guished experimental physiologist, and especially 

 neurologist; public-spirited and active member of 

 famous scientific societies and serviceable medical 

 organizations. 



Francis John Shepherd, professor of anatomy in 

 McGill University; Canadian by birth, education 

 and service; distinguished surgeon; active con- 

 tributor to professional literature; ready sharer 

 in the public functions of the profession, and in 

 its works of charity and good will. 



Sir Thomas Barlow, professor of Clinical Medi- 



cine, physician to His Majesty's Household and to 

 University College Hospital; eminent general 

 practitioner and consultant. 



Abraham Jacobi, a medical graduate of Bonn 

 University in 1851, and a practising physician in 

 New York since 1853; professor of the diseases of 

 children since 1860; officer in many hospitals and 

 medical societies; productive author; alert, ener- 

 getic, progressive practitioner; honored medical 

 veteran. 



And in the name of this society of scholars 

 I declare that they are entitled to the rights 

 and privileges pertaining to their several de- 

 grees, and that their names are to be forever 

 borne on its roll of honorary members. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The University of Aberdeen celebrated last 

 week the four hundredth anniversary of its 

 foundation with some three thousand delegates 

 in attendance. According to a cablegram to 

 the daily papers, the degree of doctor of laws 

 was conferred on 110 of the delegates, in- 

 cluding Professor F. W. Clarke, chief chemist 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey; Dr. Arnold 

 Hague, geologist of the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey; Dr. J. William White, professor of sur- 

 gery in the University of Pennsylvania, and 

 Professor Howard A, Kelly, professor of 

 gynecology in the Johns Hopkins University. 



Professor E. L. Nichols, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, and Professor Wm. T. Sedgwick, of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 will make the addresses at the formal dedica- 

 tion of the new Eastman science building at 

 Rochester University, which will house the 

 departments of physics and biology. It is 

 expected that the dedication will take place 

 during the month of October. 



Sir William Perkin has arrived in this 

 country. As has already been announced, the 

 jubilee of the foundations of the coal-tar in- 

 dustry by the discovery of roauve will be 

 celebrated at a banquet at Delmonico's on 

 Saturday evening. Other entertainments have 

 been arranged for Sir William Perkin, in- 

 cluding a smoker at the Chemists' Club, New 

 York City, and a dinner at Boston. 



Dr. Charles E. Chandler, professor of 

 chemistry in Columbia University, has re- 



