Januaet 14, 1910] 



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Dr. r. W. Putnam, emeritus professor of 

 American arclieology and ethnology at Har- 

 vard University, has been appointed honorary 

 academician of the Museum of the National 

 University of La Plata in the section of the 

 natural sciences. 



Professor Karl Runge, of the University 

 of Gottingen, Kaiser Wilhelm professor at 

 Columbia University, and Professor Otto Jes- 

 persen, visiting professor from the University 

 of Copenhagen, have been given the degrees of 

 D.Sc. and D.Litt., respectively, by Columbia 

 University. 



In recognition of the services rendered by 

 him in the reform of medical education in 

 Hungary, and of the active interest taken by 

 liim in the International Medical Congress 

 held last year at Budapest, the medical fac- 

 ulty of the university of that city has con- 

 ferred on Count Albert Apponyi, the minister 

 of education, the honorary degree of doctor 

 of medicine. 



Mr. John A. Vogelson has been appointed 

 ■chief of the Philadelphia Bureau of Health in 

 succession to Dr. A. C. Abbott, who resigned 

 some months ago. 



Mr. C. H. T. Townsend has been given 

 leave of absence by the Department of Agri- 

 culture for eighteen months to inaugurate an 

 entomological service for the Peruvian gov- 

 ernment. 



The American Nature-study Society has 

 elected Professor O. W. Caldwell, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, president of the society, 

 and Professor P. L. Charles, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, secretary and editor of The 

 Nature-study Review. The office of that jour- 

 nal will be removed from New York City to 

 Urbana, 111. 



Dr. Austin M. Patterson was elected editor 

 and M. John J. Miller associate editor, of 

 Chemical Ahstracts at the Boston meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society, Professor W. 

 A. Noyes, of the University of Illinois retir- 

 ing. The office of this publication was re- 

 moved last August from Illinois to Ohio State 

 University, where it has since been in charge 

 of Dr. Patterson as associate editor. 



Dr. Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather 

 Bureau, delivered a lecture on December 27 in 

 the assembly room of the Automobile Club of 

 America, New York City, on " The Work of 

 the Weather Bureau in Relation to Aero- 

 nautics." 



Dr. E. L. Thorndike, professor of educa- 

 tional psychology in Teachers College, Co- 

 lumbia University, gave on January 11 an ad- 

 dress before the Middletown Scientific Asso- 

 ciation on " Experimental Studies in Animal 

 Intelligence." 



Sir Ernest Shackleton lectured in Rome 

 on his Antarctic expedition on January 3. 

 Among those present were the king and queen. 



Dr. G. Bowdler Sharpe, assistant keeper 

 in the department of zoology of the British 

 Natural History Museum, and eminent as an 

 ornithologist, died on December 25, at the age 

 of sixty-two years. 



Professor H. H. Giglione, director of the 

 Royal Museum of Natural History and pro- 

 fessor of zoology at Florence, known as an 

 ethnologist as well as a zoologist, died on De- 

 cember 20, at the age of sixty-six years. 



Dr. Edguard Brissaud, professor in the 

 Paris School of Medicine and well known for 

 his work in pathological anatomy and medi- 

 cine, has died at the age of fifty-two years. 



A bill has been introduced into the house 

 of representatives making the present Bureau 

 of Education a Department of Education with 

 a secretary in the Cabinet. 



The offices of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology were on January 1, 1910, trans- 

 ferred from the Adams Building on F Street 

 to quarters in the Smithsonian building. Mr. 

 F. W. Hodge on that date assumed charge of 

 the bureau with the title of ethnologist-in- 



The path of Halley's comet has been added 

 to the planetarium in the Foyer of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, and its 

 position in the solar system will be indicated 

 daily during the next few months, while the 

 comet is visible to the unaided eye. 



The New York Aquarium had a greater 

 number of visitors during the year 1909 than 



