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the Stratigraphy," by Professor Gushing'; 

 " Lake Champlain," by Dr. Clarke ; " Blastoi- 

 docrinus and its Type," by Professor Hud- 

 son ; " The Lower Siluric Paleography of 

 the Champlain Basin," by Dr. Euedemann; 

 " The Iroquois Beach and Related Features 

 Northeast of Watertown, N. Y.," by Mr. 

 Taylor ; " The Adirondack Iron Ores De- 

 posits," by Professor Kemp. 



Those who attend the meeting may pur- 

 chase local excursion tickets to Plattsburg. 

 From many places these tickets are as low as 

 one and one third single fare. The Trunk 

 Line and New England Associations, Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway, Grand Trtink Railway, 

 and Canada Atlantic Railway have made a 

 special rate on the certificate plan of one full 

 fare going and one third full fare returning 

 plus 25 cents for certificate fee, which shall 

 be paid to the agent when purchasing return 

 ticket. Tickets for the going journey may be 

 bought and certificate procured from June 11 

 to September .30. Tickets returning will be 

 good to October 2. In this case tickets should 

 be purchased to Clifi Haven, and the certi- 

 ficates should be procured for " The Catholic 

 Summer School of America." In order to 

 take advantage of this one and one third fare 

 the sum of $1.50 must be paid for member- 

 ship in the Catholic Summer School. Rooms 

 may be secured at $1.00 a day in the build- 

 ings of the Summer School. Members may 

 take their meals at the Champlain Club;, 

 breakfast, lunch or supper, 50c. ; dinner, 75e. 

 At the Hotel Champlain the rate will be $4.00 

 a day and upward. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. E. H. Sellaeds, for three years geolo- 

 gist and zoologist to the Florida University, 

 has been appointed state geologist of Florida 

 by Governor Broward. The vacancy at the 

 university will probably be filled by the ap- 

 pointment of a zoologist. 



Db. E. a. Ruddiman, professor of materia 

 medica and pharmacy at Vanderbilt Univer- 

 sity, Nashville, has been appointed chief food 

 and drug inspector of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Tale University has conferred the degree 

 of doctor of science on Professor Joseph P. 

 Iddings, who holds the chair of petrology in 

 the University of Chicago, a graduate of the 

 class of '77; and on Dr. A. B. MacaUum, who 

 holds the chair of physiology in the University 

 of Toronto. The university has conferred the 

 doctorate of laws on Dr. Herbert Putnam, 

 librarian of congress. 



At the fifth annual commencement of the 

 College of Medicine of the University of Ne- 

 braska, the address was made by Dr. Nicholas 

 Senn, of Chicago. The doctorate of laws was 

 conferred on Major James Carroll, U. S. A. 



Professoe Charles S. Denison, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has received the degree 

 of doctor of science from the University of 

 Vermont, from which institution he received 

 the degree of civil engineer in 1871. 



Amherst College has conferred its doc- 

 torate of laws on Mr. Percival Lowell, the 

 astronomer and author. 



Oxford University has conferred honorary 

 doctorates of science as follows : Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., director of the Solar 

 Physics Observatory, South Kensington; Sir 

 Richard Douglas Powell, K.C.V.O., physician 

 extraordinary to the king, president of the 

 Royal College of Physicians; Sir William 

 Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., professor of chemistry 

 at University College, London; Sir "William 

 Henry Perkin, F.R.S. ; William Watson 

 Cheyne, C.B., F.R.S. , professor of surgery at 

 King's College, London, and Ludwig Mond, 

 Ph.D.„F.R.S. 



Cambridge University has conferred the 

 degree of doctor of science on Sir Clements 

 Robert Markham, until recently president of 

 the Royal Geographical Society; on Sir 

 Thomas Hungerford Holdich, known for his 

 explorations in India, and on Sir Thomas 

 Eraser, professor of materia medica in the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



The Academy of Sciences of Vienna has 

 elected as honorary member Dr. A. von 

 Baeyer, professor of chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Munich; and, as corresponding 

 members, Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer, professor of 



