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cial connection with the college is severed, 

 desii-e to put on record their recognition of 

 his long service to the college and the distinc- 

 tion he has conferred upon it by his eminence 

 as a scientific investigator." 



According to Nature, the honors conferred 

 by King Edward on the occasion of his sixty- 

 fifth birthday appear to be mainly for political 

 services, and there is little recognition of the 

 claims of science. Mr. John Tweedy, presi- 

 dent of the Eoyal College of Physicians, has 

 received the honor of knighthood; Colonel R. 

 C. Hellard, director-general of the Ordnance 

 Survey, and Mr. F. G. Ogilvie, principal as- 

 sistant secretary (Technology and Higher 

 Education in Science and Art) Board of Edu- 

 cation, have been appointed Companions of 

 the Order of the Bath; Colonel D. A. John- 

 ston, formerly drector-general of the Ord- 

 nance Survey, has been appointed a Knight 

 Commander of the Order of Saint Michael 

 and Saint George; Professor R. W. Boyce, 

 F.R.S., has received the honor of knighthood; 

 and Dr. J. M. Lang, vice-chancellor and prin- 

 cipal of the University of Aberdeen, has been 

 appointed a Commander of the Royal Vic- 

 torian Order. 



Dr. William Osier, of Oxford University, 

 will sail for America on November 28, to visit 

 Toronto, Baltimore and other cities. 



Dr. W. a. Kellerman, of the Ohio State 

 University, will shortly make his third collect- 

 ing trip to Guatemala for the purpose of col- 

 lecting parasitic fungi, returning next March 

 or April, He will be accompanied by two 

 student assistants, and will be glad to execute 

 any minor commissions of specialists so far 

 as possible. 



Dr. Mel. T. Cook, who recently resigned 

 his position as chief of the department of 

 plant pathology of the Central Agricultural 

 Experiment Station of Cuba, expects to devote 

 several months to studies at the New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Dr. J. C. W. Erazer, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been appointed head of the 

 research department of the United States 

 Fuel-testing Plant, temporarily located at St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



Dr. E. B. Copeland, who has been connected 

 with the government laboratories at Manila, 

 has been elected horticulturist of the West 

 Virginia station and will enter on his work 

 about the middle of November. He is a grad- 

 uate of Leland Stanford University, and 

 previous to going to Manila was instructor in 

 botany in this university. 



Dr. J. K. Small, of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, left for Southern Florida, on 

 October 23, accompanied by Mr. J. J. Carter. 

 Dr. Small will continue his investigations of 

 the flora of this region. 



Dr. W. Morris Travers, F.R.S., late pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Bristol University Col- 

 lege, left Marseilles, on November 2, in the 

 mail steamer Victoria^ for Bangalore, to take 

 up his work as first director of the Indian 

 Institute of Science, to which he has been 

 appointed by Mr. Morley, on the recommenda- 

 tion of the Royal Society. 



The Gedge prize of Cambridge University 

 has been awarded to Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, 

 B.A., of St. John's College, for his essay en- 

 titled, ' Some Observations on Blood Pig- 

 ments.' 



Dr. E. a. Minchin, professor of proto- 

 zoology in the University of London, delivered 

 his inaugural address at the university on 

 November 15. The subject was ' The Scope 

 and Problems of Protozoology.' 



Dr. William H. Chandler, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Lehigh Univeraity, died 

 on November 23, aged sixty-five years. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on December 12-13, to fill a vacancy in the 

 position of miscellaneous piecework computer 

 in the Naval Observatory. The department 

 states that miscellaneous computers are paid 

 by the hour, and earn from $800 to $1,000 per 

 annum. An examination will also be held 

 for the position of forest assistant in the 

 Forest Service at a salary of $900 a year. 



The nineteenth annual meeting of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America will be held in 

 New York City on December 26-29. The 

 opening session on Wednesday will take place 

 at Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, 

 and will be called to order at 2 o'clock p.m.. 



