July 4, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ler, of Columbia University, and on Dr. Eos- 

 well Park, director of the New York State 

 Pathological Laboratory at Buffalo. 



MiDDLEBUEY College has given its LL.D. to 

 Professor Brainard Kellogg, of the Brooklyn 

 Polytechnic Institute. 



Dr. John M. Clarke, New York state pale- 

 ontologist, has been given the degree of LL.D. 

 by Amherst College. 



The Alabama Polytechnic Institute has re- 

 cently conferred the degree of M.A. on Pro- 

 fessor P. S. Earle, assistant curator in the 

 New York Botanical Garden, in recognition 

 of his extensive researches in the fungi and 

 in plant pathology. 



The Accademia dei Lincei has awarded 

 Mr. Marconi a prize of the value of about 

 $2,000 for his work in wireless telegraphy. 



The degree committee of the special board 

 for medicine of Cambridge University are of 

 opinion that the works, stibmitted by Thomas 

 Henry Jones, Trinity-hall, advanced student, 

 on (1) the experimental bacterial treatment 

 of Cambridge sewage; (2) the bacteriological 

 test for sewage-pollution in drinlcing water; 

 (3) notes on the oxidizing bacteria of sewage, 

 are of distinction as records of original re- 

 search. 



Professor A. W. Evans, of Yale University, 

 and Mr. Percy Wilson, of the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, have gone to Porto Rico to 

 make some further investigations and collec- 

 tion of the flora of the island for the New 

 York Botanical Garden. Special attention 

 will be given to the small area of primitive 

 forest yet remaining on the island. 



SIr. George V. Nash, of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, has recently returned from 

 an extensive trip to England, France, Ger- 

 many and Holland made for the purpose of 

 completing some botanical studies and secur- 

 ing material for the collections of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



The Botanical Gazette states that Dr. B. E. 

 Livingston and Mr. H. N. Whitford, assistants 

 in botany, and Mr. C. D. Howe, fellow in bot- 

 any, of the University of Chicago, have been 



appointed collaborators in the Bureau of For- 

 estry, Department of Agriculture, for the year 

 beginning July 1, 1902. Dr. Livingston will 

 work on some forestry problems in the north- 

 ern part of the southern peninsula of Michi- 

 gan ; Mr. Whitford will continue some investi- 

 gations already begun in the forests of the 

 Rocky mountains in the northwestern part of 

 Montana, and Mr. Howe will do similar work 

 in the vicinity of Burlington, Vermont. 



The work in irrigation provided for by Con- 

 gress will be under the direction of the Direc- 

 tor of the Geological Survey, Dr. Charles D. 

 Walcott, and of Mr. F. H. Newell, chief of the 

 Hydrographic Bureau. 



Dr. Heber D. Curtis has been appointed 

 assistant in the Lick Observatory for three 

 years, dating from the departure of the Mills 

 Expedition to Chili, with principal duties in 

 spectroscopy. Dr. Curtis is a graduate of 

 Michigan University, A.B., '92, and A.M., '93; 

 was professor of mathematics and astronomy 

 in the University of the Pacific 1896-1900 ; was 

 an eclipse observer in Georgia, 1900, and Su- 

 matra, 1901 ; and has this year taken his Ph.D. 

 degree at the University of Virginia. 



The election of two American members of 

 the Executive Council of the Association In- 

 ternationale des Botanists by votes of the 

 American members of the Association took 

 place on June 1. Professors C. E. Bessey and 

 W. F. Ganong were elected. 



Mr. George Grant MacCuedy has been 

 chosen to represent the Paris Society of An- 

 thropology at the coming International Con- 

 gress of Americanists to be held in New York, 

 October 20-25, 1902. 



At the meeting of the American Clima- 

 tologic Association at . Los Angeles the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year : President^ Dr. Norman Bridge, Los 

 Angeles; Vice-Presidents, Drs. J. C. Wilson, 

 Philadelphia, and H. S. Orme, Los Angeles. 



At the recent commencement exercises of 

 the Stevens Institute of Technology, an ad- 

 dress commemorative of the late President 

 Henry S. Morton was made by the Rev. Ed- 

 ward Wall. 



