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LoED LiSTEE was on June 28, at the Guild- 

 hall, presented with the freedom of the City 

 of London in a gold casket, in recognition of 

 " the invaluable services rendered to humanity 

 by his discovery of the antiseptic system of 

 treatment in surgery." 



Pbofessoe William James has been elected 

 a corresponding member of the British 

 Academy. 



At its recent comjnencement. Brown Uni- 

 versity conferred its doctorate of laws on Dr. 

 C. Barus, professor of physics and dean of 

 the graduate department, and the degree of 

 doctor of science on Dr. Wallace C. Sabine, 

 professor of physics at Harvard University 

 and dean of the Lawrence Scientific School. 



Lafayette College has conferred the degree 

 of doctor of science on President F. W. Mc- 

 Nair, of the Michigan College of Mines. 



The University of Manchester has con- 

 ferred the doctorate of science on Dr. George 

 E. Hale, director of the Solar Observatory of 

 the Carnegie Institution and the degree of 

 doctor of laws on Baron Kikuehi, lately min- 

 ister of education in Japan. 



De. Oscae Loew, since 1901 professor of 

 agricultural chemistry in the University of 

 Tokyo, has accepted the position of chemist 

 in the Porto Eico Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



Dr. W. a. Henry, professor of agriculture 

 in the University of Wisconsin since 1880, 

 director of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion since 1887 and dean of the College of 

 Agriculture since 1892, has been made pro- 

 fessor emeritus. Lie proposes to make his 

 home in Wallingford, Conn. 



Mr. ',W. p. Pyecraft has been appointed 

 assistant on the permanent staff of the zoo- 

 logical department of the British Museum. 



Sir E. Maunde Thompson, director of the 

 British Museum, has been elected president 

 of the British Academy. 



De. Wilfred H. Manwaring, head of the 

 Department of Pathology in Indiana Uni- 

 versity, sailed from New York on July 14, to 

 spend two years in research in European 

 laboratories, under the auspices of the Rocke- 



feller Institute for Medical Research. His 

 address will be: Care of Dresdener Bank, 

 Berlin. 



The cooperative studies of the Atlantic 

 Coastal Plain stratigraphy being conducted 

 by the LTnited States and the various State 

 Geological Surveys were begun in South 

 Carolina on July 1. Several parties will be 

 in the field during the summer and autumn 

 under the supervision of M. L. Fuller of the 

 United States Geological Survey, acting in 

 cooperation with Dr. Earle Sloan, state 

 geologist of South Carolina. 



Dr. John M. Clarke, director of the New 

 York Geological Survey, will attend the cen- 

 tenary of the Geological Society of London as 

 delegate from the state survey and from the 

 Section of Geology, American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. The organiza- 

 tion of the London society stimulated in very 

 large measure that interest in geological sci- 

 ence in America which gave birth to the 

 earliest state surveys and the influence of its 

 membership was particularly manifested in the 

 original conception and execution of the New 

 York Survey, which was organized in 1836 

 and has had an uninterrupted existence of 

 seventy-one years. William Smith, Bigsby, 

 De la Beche and Conybeare molded the ideas 

 of early American geologists, and the personal 

 influence of Murchison and Lyell upon James 

 Hall was largely responsible for the classifica- 

 tion of the New York series of geological 

 formations. Dr. Clarke also attends the meet- 

 ing of the Geological Society of Germany in 

 Basel, whence a two weeks' trip across the 

 Alps will be made under the guidance of the 

 German and Swiss Geologists. 



Dr. Hermann von Scheenk has resigned 

 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 with which he has been connected for the last 

 eleven years, and, with two of his former as- 

 sistants, has opened an office as consulting 

 timber engineer at St. Louis. The name of 

 the firm is von Schrenk, Fullvs and Kam- 

 merer. Dr. von Schrenk has been appointed 

 pathologist of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 where he will have a fully-equipped patho- 

 logical laboratory with one or more assistants. 



