May 16, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Sheffield Scientific School. President Hadley 

 in conferring the degree said: "You have 

 joined the different regions of the earth by 

 your investig'ations of the submarine telegraph ; 

 you have joined the different realms of human 

 thought by your contributions to physical 

 theory." Lord Kelvin last week paid various 

 visits, especially to the electrical laboratories 

 of !N"ew York City, and sailed for England on 

 May 10. 



The Bavarian Maximillian Order for Sci- 

 ence and Art has been conferred on Professor 

 J. H. van't Hoff, professor of general chem- 

 istry in the University of Berlin. 



The seventieth birthday of Professor von 

 Leyden, the eminent pathologist, known es- 

 pecially for his work on diseases of the spinal 

 cord and on tuberculosis, was celebrated at 

 Berlin on April 20. In addition to the presen- 

 tation of a Festsclirift and other marks of es- 

 teem, a fund for research was established 

 amounting to about $11,000. 



Dr. Alexander Agassiz has been appointed 

 director of the Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy of Harvard University. 



The Geographical Society of Philadelphia 

 has awarded to Lieutenant Robert E. Peary 

 the Elisha Kent Kane medal. It was received 

 by Mrs. Peary on her husband's behalf. 



Dr. Abraham Jacobi, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, has been elected as chairman of the Amer- 

 ican Committee of the Fourteenth Interna- 

 tional Medical Congress to be held at Madrid 

 a year hence. Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of Johns 

 Hopkins University, will deliver the address 

 at one of the general meetings of the Congress, 

 and has chosen for his subject 'The Passing of 

 a Specialty.' 



Dr. J. L. Wortman", of the Peabody Museum 

 of Yale University, will be in the West until 

 September, exploring the fields in Dakota, 

 Wyoming, and the Bad Lands, where the late 

 Professor Marsh made his important paleon- 

 tologieal discoveries. 



Ernst A. Bessey, in charge of the Section of 

 Seed and Plant Introduction in the United 

 States Department of Agriciilture, has been 

 detailed to proceed to Russia, the Caucasus, 



and Turkestan for the purpose of securing cer- 

 tain seeds of forage and cereal plants. He 

 is to sail on July 2. 



An expedition to northern Brazil will be 

 sent out by the Austrian Government in the 

 autumn under the direction of Dr. M. Stein- 

 dachner, curator in the Vienna Museum of 

 Natural History. 



A BRONZE tablet in memory of Professor 

 James H. Cofiin, the eminent meteorologist, 

 for many years professor of mathematics at 

 Lafayette College, has been presented to the 

 College by the class of 1866. 



We regret to record the death of Henry Mor- 

 ton, the eminent engineer, president of Stevens 

 Institute of Technology since its foundation in 

 1870. We hope to publish a notice of Presi- 

 dent Morton's life and work. 



Colonel Malcolm Willl^m Rogers, who 

 carried on important engineering work in 

 India, died on April 25 at the age of sixty 

 years. 



M. Henri Filhol, professor of paleontology 

 at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, and the 

 author of numerous important contributions to 

 this science, has died at the age of sixty years. 



Immanuel Lazarus Fuchs, since 1884 pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in the University of 

 Berlin, died on April 26 at the age of sixty- 

 eight years. 



Dr. E. von Pfleiderer, professor of philos- 

 ophy at Tiibingen, has died at the age of sixty 

 years. 



The mineralogist, Friedr. Baron Rosen, has 

 died at Kassan at the age of sixty-eight years. 



The seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 Association of American Physicians was held 

 in Washington on April 29 and 30, Dr. J. C. 

 Wilson presiding. Officers for next year were 

 elected as follows : President, James Stewart, 

 Montreal ; Vice-President, William T. Council- 

 man, of Boston; Secretary, Henry Hun, of Al- 

 bany, N. Y. : Treasurer, J. P. C. Griffith, Phil- 

 adelphia, smA Recorder, S. Solis Cohen, Phil- 

 adelphia. A proposition was made that will 

 be voted on next year to increase the member- 

 ship of the Association from 125 to 150. 



