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Butler, Ph.D., president of Columbia Uni- 

 rersity. 



Dr. Philip IIeney Pye-Smith, F.E.S., of 

 London, known for his researches in anatomy 

 and physiology, has been given an honorary 

 doctorate of medicine at the University of 

 Dublin. 



The Norwegian Storting has voted the sum 

 of 40,000 Kroner to Mr. Eoald Amundsen in 

 recognition of his services to science in tra- 

 versing the northwest passage and relocating 

 the magnetic North Pole. 



Dr. Otto Zaohaeias, director of the Bio- 

 logical Station at Plon, and Dr. 0. G. Schil- 

 lings, the African traveler, have been given 

 the title of professor by the German govern- 

 ment. 



The Nettleship gold medal of the Ophthal- 

 mological Society of the United Kingdom has 

 been awarded to Dr. J. Herbert Parsons, for 

 his work on " The Pathology of the Eye." 



The Eoyal Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 

 has elected James Henry Breasted, professor 

 of Egyptology and Oriental history at the 

 University of Chicago, a corresponding mem- 

 ber. 



We learn from Terrestrial Magnetism that 

 Dr. Doberck, having reached the age limit for 

 colonial service, will retire from, the director- 

 ship of the Hongkong Observatory next Sep- 

 tember and wiU be succeeded by Mr. F. G. 

 Figg. 



Nature states that the vacancy in the tidal 

 and optical departments of the National 

 Physical Laboratory, occasioned by the ap- 

 pointment of Mr. J. de Graaf Hunter to the 

 post of mathematical expert on the Indian 

 Survey, has been filled by the appointment of 

 Mr. T. Smith, formerly scholar of Queens' 

 College, Cambridge. 



Dr. Hermann Munk, professor of physi- 

 ology in the veterinary school of Berlin, has 

 retired from active service. 



With the death of Professor James M. 

 SafFord, formerly state geologist of Tennessee, 

 and the decease within the present year of 

 Professor E. T. Cox and Dr. Carl Eominger, 

 Dr. Charles A. White becomes the oldest liv- 



ing geologist of North America. Dr. White 

 is now in his eighty-second year, and is still 

 engaged in scientific work, his latest article 

 being a historical one, on the " Archaic Mone- 

 tary Terms of the United States," published 

 by the Smithsonian Institution. 



According to Nature, those who have ac- 

 cepted invitations to be present at the Lei- 

 cester meeting of the British Association, 

 which opens nest week, are as follows : Sec- 

 tion A: Professors L. Natanson, D. J. Korte- 

 weg, H. G. van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Dr. 

 Oskar Backlund, Professor Donner, M. Ch. 

 Eery ; Section B : Professors E. Abegg, A. 

 Tschitschibabin, T. W. Eichards, A. Werner, 



E. M, Jaeger ; Section C : Professors H. 

 Sjogren, E. Freeh, C. Diener, J. P. Iddings; 

 Section D : Professor H. Simroth ; Section E : 

 Professors P. Vidal de la Blache, Max Eckert; 

 Section H: Professor E. Naville; Section I: 

 Professor N. Zuntz; Section K: Professors 

 J. P. Lotsy, E. Chodat, H. Conwentz, O. Uhl- 

 worm; Section L: Dr. Otto Anderssen, Dr. F. 

 Eonning, Professor M. L. Morel. Cor- 

 responding members. Baron D. Kikuchi, Pro- 

 fessors P. H. Schoute, E. Nasini and George 



F. Barker have also expressed their intention 

 of being present. 



Professor E. W. D. Holway and Mr. F. K. 

 Butters, of the University of Minnesota, are 

 spending the summer in the Canadian Eocky 

 Mountains and the Selkirk Mountains, col- 

 lecting botanical specimens, especially the 

 rusts (Vredinece) and other fungi. 



In connection with the cooperative investi- 

 gations of the Atlantic Coastal Plain stratig- 

 raphy. Dr. H. B. Kummel, state geologist of 

 New Jersey, and Mr. M. L. Fuller, supervising 

 geologist of the investigations for the United 

 States Geological Survey, have taken the field 

 for the purpose of reviewing the Cretaceous, 

 Tertiary, and Pleistocene succession in New 

 Jersey. 



The following course of public lectures is 

 being given in connection with the summer 

 session of Cornell University. The general 

 topic treated is Public Health and Preventive 

 Medicine : 



