August 2, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Sm Henry Eoscoe lias been elected a foreign 

 member of the Accademia dei Lincei in 

 Eome. 



In connection with the celebration of the 

 centenary of the Geological Society, London, 

 Oxford University will, on September 30, con- 

 fer the degree of doctor of science on Pro- 

 fessor Charles Barrois, Lille; Professor A. 

 Heim, Ziirich; Professor A. Lacroix, Paris; 

 Professor A. Penek, Berlin; Dr. Hans H. 

 Eeusch, Norway; Professor F. Zirkel, Leip- 

 zig. 



The University of Liverpool has conferred 

 its doctorate of science on Professor A. E. 

 Forsyth, of Cambridge; Professor Francis 

 Gotch and Professor Osier, of Oxford; Sir 

 Oliver Lodge; Sir John Murray, the natu- 

 ralist ; Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, of Leipzig ; 

 Professor Sir William Eamsay; and Sir H. 

 E. Eoscoe; also Dr. C. L. A. Laveran, of the 

 Pasteur Institute (in absentia). The degree 

 of doctor of engineering has been conferred 

 on Sir A. B. W. Kennedy. 



Professor Anders Donner, director of the 

 Eoyal Astronomical Observatory, Helsingfors, 

 Finland, has been elected an Associate of the 

 Eoyal Astronomical Society. 



On the occasion of the last lecture of Pro- 

 fessor G. Lunge, whose retirement from the 

 chair of technical chemistry at the Ziirich 

 Polytechnic we have noticed, addresses from 

 the teaching staff and from the students were 

 presented by Professor Treadwell. 



Professor W. J. van Bebber has retired 

 from his position as departmental head in the 

 Deutsche Seewarte at Hamburg. 



The Mississippi Valley Laboratory of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture has 

 been abolished, and the work in forest pathol- 

 ogy will from this time be carried on at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. The Laboratory of Forest 

 Pathology, as now organized, is under the 

 charge of Dr. Haven Metcalf. With him are 

 associated Drs. George G. Hedgcock and 

 Perley Spaulding, who were formerly at the 

 Mississippi Valley Laboratory. 



The Alvarenga prize of the College of 

 Physicians of Philadelphia, for 1907, has been 

 awarded to William Louis Chapman, M.D., 

 Providence, E. I., for investigations on " Post- 

 operative Phlebitis, Thrombosis and Embol- 

 ism." 



The Mackinnon studentship of the Eoyal 

 Society in physical science has been awarded 

 for a second year to Mr. W. Geoffrey DufSeld, 

 for a research on the influence of pressure on 

 spectra, being conducted at the University of 

 Manchester; and the studentship in biology to 

 Dr. H. M. Woodcock, to aid him in working 

 out the life histoi-y of certain hematozoa of 

 birds, an investigation which will be carried 

 on at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medi- 

 cine. The income of the Gunning fund ac- 

 crued during the past three years has been 

 placed at the disposal of Dr. F. H. Scott for 

 the continuation of his investigations into the 

 metabolic processes in nerve cells. 



Dr. Eeid Hunt, of the U. S. Public Health 

 and Marine Hospital Service, will take part 

 in a discussion on the physiological and thera- 

 peutic uses of alcohol before the section of 

 physiology of the British Association, now 

 meeting in Leicester. 



The British Medical Association is holding 

 its seventy-fifth annual meeting this week at 

 Exeter, under the presidency of Dr. Henry 

 Davy. The address in medicine will be de- 

 livered by Dr. William Hale White, the ad- 

 dress in surgery by Dr. Henry Trentham But- 

 lin and a popular lecture by Sir John William 

 Moore. 



The tercentenary of the death of Ulisse 

 Aldrovandi, the celebrated naturalist, was cele- 

 brated at Bologna, from June 11 to 13, in the 

 presence of numerous delegates from foreign 

 countries. A memorial tablet was unveiled, 

 while a medal and several volumes compiled 

 for the occasion were presented to the dele- 

 gates. 



Professor Angelo Heilprin, the eminent 

 naturalist and explorer, died on July lY. 

 He was born in Hungary in 1853 and 

 was brought to this country when he was 

 three years old. Professor Heilprin has been 



