December 6, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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Dr. R. W. Wood, professor of experimental 

 physics in the Johns Hopkins University, has 

 been awarded the John Scott legacy premium 

 and medal for his discoveries in color photo- 

 graphy by the Franklin Institute of Phila- 

 delphia. The institute has avfarded Mr. H. 

 E. Ives of the physics department the Edward 

 Longstreth medal for improvements on the 

 method. 



The Walsingham medal of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity for 1907 has been awarded to E. Mel- 

 lanby, formerly research student at Emmanuel 

 College, for his essay on the metabolism of 

 creatinin and creatin. 



At a meeting of the London Mathematical 

 Society on November 14, the following officers 

 were elected : President, Professor W. Burn- 

 side; vice-presidents. Professor A. E. Forsyth 

 and Professor H. M. Macdonald; treasurer. 

 Professor J. Larmor; secretaries. Professor A. 

 E. H. Love and Mr. J. H. Grace. 



Dr. George T. Ladd, emeritus professor of 

 philosophy in Yale University, has returned 

 from Japan to his home in New Haven. 



The Journal of the New York Botanical 

 Garden states that Professor C. F. Baker, for 

 three years past chief of the department of 

 botany in the Estaoion Central Agronomica, 

 at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, has been ap- 

 pointed curator of the herbarium and botanic 

 garden at the Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil. 

 His special work there will be the further 

 development of the herbarium and garden at 

 Para, and the botanical exploration of some 

 of the most interesting parts of the Amazon 

 valley. 



Dr. C. B. Robinson, assistant curator of the 

 N. Y. Botanical Garden, has been appointed 

 economic botanist of the Bureau of Science 

 of the Government of the Philippine Islands. 



Professor C. L. De Muralt, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has returned from Eu- 

 rope, where he has been supervising the elec- 

 trification of the Altberg tunnel beneath the 

 Tyrolean Alps. 



Professor Albert Perry Brigham is on 

 leave during the present year. He has spent 

 the summer and autumn in geological field 



work under Dr. John M. Clarke, of the New 

 York State Museirm, and sailed on November 

 28 for Genoa, to join his family in Geneva. 

 He will spend the winter in Geneva, and the 

 rest of the year in travel in southern Europe, 

 attending the International Geographical Con- 

 gress in Geneva in July, and returning to 

 college duties in September. 



Professor G. D. Harris, of Cornell Uni-' 

 versity and state geologist of Louisiana, has 

 begun this season's field work in the south. 

 He plans to make a large collection of the 

 recent and Quaternary shells of the gulf 

 border and will collect at Cedar Keys, Tampa, 

 Biloxi, New Orleans and Galveston. Then 

 visiting Jennings and Beaumont and passing 

 westward into Texas, he will complete last 

 winter's study of the Louisiana and Texas oil 

 fields. 



Dr. Raymond H. Pond, who has been study- 

 ing at the New York Botanical Garden during 

 the past year, sailed for Europe on November 

 7 to spend several months in visiting German 

 botanical laboratories. 



The Hamburg Institute for Ship and Trop- 

 ical Diseases is sending Drs. Keysselitz and 

 Mayer to German East Africa to study proto- 

 zoan diseases in man and animals. Their 

 headquarters are to be at Amani. 



King Edward has granted to Sir Frederick 

 Treves, Bart., serjeant-surgeon. Thatched 

 House Lodge as a residence. The house is 

 one of the three lodges in Richmond Park. 



The address of the retiring president of the 

 Philosophical Society of Washington will be 

 given by Mr. John F. Hayford, of the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, on December 7. 

 His subject is " The Earth, a Failing Struc- 

 ture." 



At a meeting of the fern class of the Bo- 

 tanical Society of Pennsylvania, on November 

 23, the members present signed appropriate 

 resolutions containing an appreciation of the 

 earnest and fruitful labors of the late Pro- 

 fessor Lucien M. Underwood, and the same 

 have been forwarded to Professor N. L. Brit- 

 ton, of the New York Botanical Garden. 



We regret to record the death of Professor 

 Asaph Hall, one of the most distinguished of 



