Apbil 22, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



615 



On the occasion of the retirement of Dr. 

 Charles F. Chandler, head of the Department 

 of Chemistry of Columbia University, a testi- 

 monial is to be tendered in his honor under 

 the auspices of the Chemists' Club, the Society 

 of Chemical Industry, the American Chemical 

 Society, the American Electro-Chemical So- 

 ciety, the American Institute of Chemical 

 Engineers and the Verein Deutscher Chem- 

 iker. The form of the testimonial has been ar- 

 ranged as follows : first, a banquet at the Wal- 

 dorf-Astoria, on Saturday, April 30, at T p.m.; 

 second, the presentation of a bronze bust in 

 heroic size, to be executed by Mr. J. Scott 

 Hartley, which bust it is expected will finally 

 be presented to the Chandler Museum of 

 Columbia University, while a replica will be 

 presented to Mrs. Chandler, and third, the 

 creation of a Chandler testimonial fund for 

 the purpose of purchasing books for the library 

 of the Chemists' Club. Subscriptions for the 

 dinner (five dollars) and to the testimonial 

 may be sent to the treasurer of the committee 

 of arrangements. Dr. Morris Loeb, 273 Madi- 

 son Avenue, New York City. 



Sir William Eamsay will be president of 

 the British Association for the meeting to be 

 held next year at Portsmouth. 



On" the occasion of the installation of the 

 Duke of Devonshire as chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity of Leeds, on June 11, the degree of 

 doctor of science will be conferred on Lord 

 Eayleigh, Sir Clements Markham and Dr. 

 Osier. 



The Royal College of Surgeons of England 

 has awarded a gold medal to Dr. Robert 

 Fletcher, principal assistant librarian of the 

 library of the surgeon general's office in 

 Washington, in recognition of his services in 

 connection with the indexing of the catalogue 

 of that library. 



The Philadelphia Geographical Society has 

 conferred its gold medal on Commander 

 Robert E. Peary, who lectured before it. 



Sir H.uiRY Johnston, G.C.M.G., has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Italian 

 Geographical Society. 



A Malacological Club has been formed at 

 Boston, with Professor E. S. Morse as the 

 first president. 



President Charles R. Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin, will attend the In- 

 ternational Geological Congress at Stockholm, 

 Sweden, this summer, sailing from Quebec on 

 July 1 for Liverpool. He may be accom- 

 panied by Professor C. K. Leith of the geo- 

 logical department. 



Dr. George Grant MacCurdy has been ap- 

 pointed to represent Yale University at the 

 International Congress of Americanists to be 

 held in the City of Mexico, September 8 to 14, 

 1910. 



Professor Poulton, F.R.S., Dr. Dixey, fel- 

 low of Wadham College, and Dr. Malcolm 

 Burr, JSTew College, have been appointed as 

 representatives of Oxford University at the 

 International Congress of Entomology to be 

 held at Brussels in August next. 



Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, president of 

 Yale University, has accepted an invitation to 

 deliver the golden jubilee address before the 

 University of California on May 17. 



The council of the Institute of Metals, 

 London, has initiated an annual series of May 

 lectures. The first will be given on May 24 by 

 Professor W. Gowland, F.R.S., on " The Art 

 of Working Metals in Japan." 



Professor William Graham Sumner, of 

 Yale University, eminent for his contributions 

 to sociology and economics, died on April 12, 

 at the age of sixty-nine years. 



The Rev. Jeremiah Lott Zabriskie, known 

 for his work in entomology and microscopy, 

 died at his home in Brooklyn, on April 2, at 

 the age of seventy-five years. 



Sir Robert Giffen, the eminent British 

 statistician, died on April 12, at the age of 

 seventy-three years. 



Professor Julien Fraipont, rector of the 

 University of Liege, well known for his 

 writings on anthropology and geology, died on 

 March 22 in his fifty-third year. 



Mr. Adolph Lewisohn has given $130,000 

 to Mt. Sinai Hospital for the erection of a 

 pathological laboratory. 



