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they teach and illustrate. Public and private 

 philanthropy have developed them with a 

 rapidity almost phenomenal, for they are all 

 yet in their infancy, and on a scale com- 

 mensurate with the dignity of the metropolis 

 of America. The cordial cooperation of a 

 municipality with public-spirited citizens to 

 build and maintain such institutions for the 

 welfare of the people and of science, finds here, 

 in New Tork, its maximum evolution, which 

 has as yet, however, by no means reached its 

 complete development nor its maximum use- 

 fulness. What shall be said of their position 

 and importance when after fifty years the 

 New Tork Historical Society opens the tablet 

 which we now place upon this bridge? And, 

 what discoveries will science have made for 

 the benefit of the human race during these 

 nest fifty years? 



The selection of this bridge recently con- 

 structed by the park department, as a per- 

 manent memorial of Linnaeus, is most appro- 

 priate. It is situated just outside the New 

 York Zoological Park, with the New York 

 Botanical Garden a short distance to the 

 north, being thus between the two institu- 

 tions which teach the subjects on which the 

 fame of Linnseus chiefly rests. The sug- 

 gestion that it be known hereafter as the 

 Linnaeus Bridge came from the Director of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



On behalf of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences I now unveil this tablet and present 

 it to the city of New York, there having been 

 placed in it copies of to-day's program and 

 other documents befitting the occasion. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Frederick L. Dunlap, instructor in the 

 University of Michigan, has been appointed 

 associate chemist in the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 and will be a member of the board of food and 

 drug inspection. The other members of this 

 board are Dr. H. W. Wiley, chairman, and 

 George P. McGabe, solicitor of the department. 



The Vienna Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded its Baiimgarten prize (2,000 Kr.) to 

 Dr. Egon Hitter v. Schweidler, professor of 

 physics in Vienna, for his work on the phe- 



nomena of dielectrics; the Lieben prize 

 (2,000 Kr.) to Dr. H. Benndorf, associate 

 professor of physics at Graz, for his work on 

 the transmission of earthquake-waves in the 

 interior of the earth, and the Haitinger prize 

 (2,500 Kr.) to Dr. Robert Kremann, docent 

 at Graz, for his work on the esters. 



Dr. E. Bay Lankester, retiring director of 

 the natural history department of the British 

 Museum, has been knighted on the occasion 

 of the birthday of King Edward. 



CAMBRrocE University proposes to confer, 

 in connection with the celebration of the cen- 

 tenary of the Geological Society, London, in 

 September next, the degree of doctor of sci- 

 ence upon Waldemar Oristopher Brogger, pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy and geology in the Uni- 

 versity of Christiania; Geheimrath Hermann 

 Credner, director of the Geological Survey of 

 Saxony, professor of geology in the University 

 of Leipzig, Professor Louis Dollo, curator in 

 the Royal Museum of Natural History, Brus- 

 sels ; Albert de Lapparent, professor of geology 

 and mining in the Catholic Institute, Paris; 

 Professor Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, keeper of 

 the department of fossil plants in the State 

 Museum of Sweden, Stockholm; and Geheim- 

 rath Professor Heinrich Rosenbusch, professor 

 of geology and mineralogy in the University 

 of Heidelberg. 



The University of Michigan has conferred 

 the honorary doctorate of science on Mr. 

 Carlos B. Cochran, professor of physical sci- 

 ence of the West Chester Normal School and 

 state analyst of Pennsylvania. 



At the seventy-third annual meeting of the 

 Royal Statistical Society, its Guy medal in 

 gold was awarded to Professor F. Y. Edge- 

 worth for his special services to statistical sci- 

 ence, and for his many important and valuable 

 contributions to the transactions of the so- 

 ciety. A Guy medal in silver was awarded to 

 Mr. N. A. Humphreys for his recent paper on 

 " The Alleged Increase of Insanity." The 

 subject of the essays for the Howard medal 

 competition, 1907-8, was announced to be 

 " The Cost, Conditions and Results of Hos- 

 pital Relief in London." 



