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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XII. No. 309. 



SCIENTIFIC KOTES AND NJEWS. 



The degree of Doctor of Science, established 

 last summer by Oxford University, will soon 

 be conferred in ordinary course for the first 

 time. Those to whom it is to be granted are 

 Professors E. B. Poulton, W. F. R. Weldon, 

 H. A. Miers, A. E. H. Love and H. Turner ; 

 Mr. W. Hatchett Jackson, RadclifFe Librarian 

 and the re-writer of Rolleston's Forms of 

 Animal Life ; Mr. F. A. Bather, of the Brit- 

 ish Museum (Natural History), and H. W. L. 

 Tanner, professor in the University of South 

 Wales. 



President Eliot, of Harvard University, 

 having been detained at Cambridge during the 

 summer, has now been given leave of absence 

 and has sailed for Europe. During his absence 

 the duties of president will be performed by Dr. 

 Henry P. Walcott, a member of the Corporation 

 and chairman of the Massachusetts State Board 

 of Health. Dr. Walcott graduated from Har- 

 vard in 1858 and received the M.D. from Bow- 

 doin in 1861. 



Professor Benjamin O. Peiece, of Harvard 

 University, has been given a year's leave of 

 absence and has sailed for Europe. 



We regret to learn that Professor John P. 

 Marshal, emeritus Pearson professor of geology 

 at Tufts College, is seriously ill. 



Professor Louis Dyee, of Oxford, is at 

 present in the LTnited States, having been in- 

 vited by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst to give a course of 

 eight lectures at the University of California. 

 His subject is 'Mycensean Greek Art,' and the 

 lectures will be delivered from the 1st to the 

 9th of November. 



The Hughl in gs Jackson Lecture of the 

 Neurological Society of London for 1900 was 

 delivered by Dr. Eduard Hitzig, professor of 

 psychiatry and nervous diseases at Halle, on 

 November 29th. Professor Hitzig took as his 

 subject, ' Hughliugs Jackson and the Cortical 

 Motor Centers in the Light of Physiological 

 Research.' This triennial lectureship was 

 founded by the Neurological Society in honor 

 of Dr. Hughlings-Jackson, its first President, 

 who three years ago delivered the first lecture. 



The annual course of Christmas lectures, 



specially adapted to young people, at the Royal 

 Institution will be delivered by Sir Robert Ball, 

 F.R.S., Lowndean professor of astronomy in 

 the University of Cambridge, whose subject is 

 ' Great Chapters in the Book of Nature. ' The 

 first lecture will take place on December 27th, 

 and the remaining lectures will be delivered on 

 December 29, 1900, and on January 1, 3, 5 and 

 8, 1901. 



Peofessoe Macalistbe, M.D., has been 

 elected president, and Professor Woodhead, 

 M.D., W. H. R. Rivers, M.D., and G. Elliot 

 Smith, M.D., have been elected fellows, of the 

 Philosophical Society of Cambridge University. 



The sum of £200 has been granted from the 

 Craven Fund of Oxford University to Mr. 

 Grenfell and Mr. Hunt for expenses of a jour- 

 ney to Egypt in search of papyri. 



Me. a. J. Debxel Biddle, of Philadelphia, 

 has been elected a fellow of the Royal Meteor- 

 ological Society of Great Britain. 



De. Edwaed D. Jones, of the School of 

 Economics of the University of Wisconsin, re- 

 ceived a grand prize at the Paris Exposition 

 for an exhibit of charts and monographs deal- 

 ing with the resources and industries of the 

 United States. 



The King of Denmark has forwarded to 

 Lieutenant Amdrup for his recent exploration 

 of the hitherto unknown east Greenland coasts 

 the ' gold medal for brilliant service.' 



We regret to record the death, at the age of 

 69 years, of Dr. Eugene Janssen, member of 

 the Superior Council of Hygiene and of the 

 Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, well- 

 known for his work in hygiene. 



We have already described the jDlans for the 

 erection of a building at Berlin for the German 

 Chemical Society and as a center for chemical 

 science. The first step was taken on the occa- 

 sion of Professor A. W. Hofmann's seventieth 

 birthday in 1888, and the work was continued 

 after his death in 1892. The building called 

 the Hofmannhaus was formally opened on Oc- 

 tober 20th. 



A PARTY from the United States Geodetic and 

 Coast Survey has sailed for Manila to chart the 

 Philippine Archipelago. 



