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In a convoeation at Oxford on March 15 a 

 decree was passed unanimously, on the motion 

 of Professor Elliott, conferring the title of 

 professor emeritus on Edward Burnett Tylor, 

 M.A., Hon. D.C.L., honorary fellow of Balliol 

 College, who on December 31 last resigned the 

 office of professor and reader in anthropology 

 after a tenure of twenty-six years. 



Dr. Alexander C. Abbott, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, has been selected as a dele- 

 gate to the International Congress of Hygiene 

 and Medicine, which meets in Buenos Ayres, 

 Argentine Republic, next month. 



Dr. E. E. Southard, of the Harvard Med- 

 ical School, has been appointed by President 

 W. C. Gorgas a member of the council on 

 medical education of the American Medical 

 Association, to fill the unexpired term of Dr. 

 W. T. Councilman. 



At the annual meeting of the Eay Society 

 held in London on March 10, Lord Avebury, 

 F.R.S., was reelected president; Dr. S. F. 

 Harmer, E.E.S., was elected a vice-president; 

 Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., was reelected 

 treasurer, and Mr. John Hopkinson was elected 

 secretary. 



Dr. Sambon has been sent to Italy by the 

 Pellagra Investigation Committee. Captain 

 Siler, U. S. A., has been officially welcomed as 

 a member of the field commission, and two as- 

 sistants, Messrs. Baldini and Amoruso, have 

 been appointed. 



Dr. Henry S. Pratt, professor of zoology at 

 Haverford College, will spend next year in 

 foreign zoological laboratories. 



It is reported that Captain Amundsen has 

 modified his plans to the extent of postponing 

 his departure from Norway till June of this 

 year, and his final passage of Bering Strait till 

 August, 1911, devoting most of the intervening 

 period to oceanographical research in the 

 South Atlantic during the outward voyage. 

 He also proposes to carry out extensive investi- 

 gations of the upper atmosphere during the 

 drift across the Polar basin. 



Dr. Maurice Vejux Tyrode, faculty in- 

 structor in pharmacology in the Harvard 



Medical School, has presented his resignation 

 to take effect on September 1, 1910. 



Professor Leonard P. Kinnicutt, of the de- 

 partment of chemistry of the Worcester Poly- 

 technic Institute, on February 18, gave a talk 

 to the students of Union College and the 

 Engineering and Chemical Societies of Sche- 

 nectady on the " Bacterial Methods of Sewage 

 Disposal." 



Professor G. H. Parker, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, lectured on March 4, before the Buffalo 

 Society of Natural History on " The Structure 

 and Origin of Coral Islands." 



Mr. Cyrus C. Adams, of the American Geo- 

 graphical Society, gave a lecture on " Arctic 

 Exploration," before the geological department 

 of Colgate University, on March 21. 



There was on March 25 and 26 at the State 

 University of Iowa a joint meeting of the 

 Western Philosophical Association, the North 

 Central Section of the American Psychological 

 Association and the Teachers of Psychology in 

 Iowa. The address of the president of the 

 Western Philosophical Association, Professor 

 Carl E. Seashore, was on the "Role of Play 

 in Religion." 



At the annual general meeting of the So- 

 ciety of Dyers and Colorists held at Manches- 

 ter, on March 18, the retiring president, Pro- 

 fessor R. Meldola, F.R.S., delivered an address 

 on " Tinctorial Chemistry — Ancient and Mod- 

 ern." Sir Frederick Cawley has been elected 

 to the presidency. 



At the annual meeting of the Chemical So- 

 ciety, London, on March 18, the president. Pro- 

 fessor Harold B. Dickson, E.R.S., made an ad- 

 dress on " The Union of Hydrogen and 

 Oxygen in Flame." 



The fourth annual meeting of the British 

 Science Guild was held at the Mansion House, 

 London, on March 18, under the presidency of 

 the Lord Mayor. Addresses were delivered by 

 the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, F.R.S., and 

 others. 



The seventieth birthday of Ernst Abbe, who 

 died five years ago, has been celebrated at 

 Jena, where it is planned to erect a monument 



