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town University, and Dr. L. O. Howard, per- 

 manent secretary of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



In late March, this committee sent out an 

 appeal to members urging contributions to aid 

 in the erection of the memorial building. The 

 committee reports that to April 19, contribu- 

 tions had been received to the amount of 

 $4,050. The committee still hopes to receive 

 a considerably larger sum and the general 

 committee of the George Washington Memor- 

 ial Association is much pleased with the gen- 

 erous and immediate response from the 

 members of the American Association. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Members of the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences have been elected as follows : Forest Eay 

 Moulton, assistant professor of astronomy in 

 the University of Chicago; William Albert 

 Noyes, professor of chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois; Thomas Burr Osborne, re- 

 search chemist in the Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station; Charles Schuchert, 

 professor of paleontology in Yale University; 

 Douglas Houghton Campbell, professor of 

 botany in Stanford University; Jacques Loeb, 

 professor of physiology in the University of 

 California, who wiU become head of a depart- 

 ment in the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Eesearch, and John Dewey, professor of phi- 

 losophy in Columbia University. Dr. George 

 E. Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Solar 

 Observatory of the Carnegie Institution, has 

 been elected foreign secretary of the academy, 

 to succeed the late Mr. Alexander Agassiz. 

 The Draper medal has been conferred on Dr. 

 C. G. Abbot, director of the Astrophysical 

 Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Dr. John Trowbridge, Eumford professor 

 and lecturer on the application of science to 

 the useful arts, at Harvard University, and 

 director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 

 will retire from active service at the close of 

 the present academic year. 



Dr. Leo Loeb has resigned his position as 

 assistant professor of experimental pathology 

 in the University of Pennsylvania and will 



take up the directorship of the pathological 

 department of the St. Louis Skin and Cancer 

 Hospital on September 1 of the present year. 

 Dr. Moyer S. Fleisher, of Philadelphia, ac- 

 companies him as one of his assistants. 



Professor Robert Koch, who has been seri- 

 ously ill with pneumonia at Berlin, is now ma- 

 king favorable progress. 



Dr. Bashford Dean, Columbia University, 

 has lately received a silver cup from the Em- 

 peror of Japan in recognition of his services 

 to Japanese zoology. 



The Linnean Society will award the Lin- 

 nean gold medal to Professor Georg Ossian 

 Sars, professor of zoology in the University of 

 Christiania. 



Professor F. W. Putnam, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Societa Eomana di Anthropologia, 

 of Rome. 



M. Charles Lallemand has been elected a 

 member of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 

 the section of geography and navigation in the 

 place of the late Bouquet de la Grye. 



Sm Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic ex- 

 plorer, was presented with a gold medal by the 

 Geographical Society of Pennsylvania at a 

 dinner given in his honor at Philadelphia on 

 April 22. Rear Admiral George Melville and 

 Amos Bonsall, a survivor of the Kane Arctic 

 expedition, were among the speakers. 



MoGiLL UNn'ERSiTY will Confer on Professor 

 Louis A. Herdt, head of the department of 

 electrical engineering, the degree of doctor of 

 science. 



Dr. M. p. Ravenel, head of the department 

 of bacteriology of the University of Wisconsin, 

 and of the State Hygienic Laboratory, is a 

 member of the American committee to report 

 at the Second International Congress of Ali- 

 mentary Hygiene at Brussels, Belgium, Oc- 

 tober 4, on bacteriological aspects of the 

 hygiene of nutrition. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has appointed Professor J. C. Arthur, 

 of Purdue University, a delegate to represent 

 it at the third international Botanical Con- 



