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sity, presented to this board by his letter of 

 resignation at the meeting held on April 27 last, 

 be and the same is hereby accepted, to take effect 

 on August 31, 1910. 



Resolved, That in accepting the resignation of 

 Dr. Needham, the trustees desire to express their 

 high*- appreciation of his intelligent and laborious 

 services in upbuilding the university and raising 

 its standards, and their regret that it has now 

 become necessary, in his opinion, for him to relin- 

 quish into other hands the guidance of the affairs 

 of the institution, in the management of which 

 he has for the past eight years participated 

 jointly with the other members of the several 

 boards of trustees. In all these years he has 

 If.bored with an eye single to the liighest good of 

 tne university and with a clear conception of its 

 usefulness to the national capital and therefore 

 to the nation. He has shown great intelligence, 

 unselfish devotion, fine courage, patience and 

 manly courtesy even under the most trying cir- 

 cumstances. They extend to him as he is laying 

 down the heavy burdens of the high office which 

 he has held, their sincere good wishes. 



They further desire to place on record their 

 concurrence in the policy of keeping the institu- 

 tion up to the rank of a university, and their 

 belief that the educational organization formed 

 under his direction is a substantial foundation 

 upon which to establish a university adapted to 

 conditions at the seat of government. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The subject of Mr. Eoosevelt's Eomanes 

 lecture, to be given at Oxford, will be " Bio- 

 logical Analogies in History." 



Dr. Edward M. Gallaudet, for the past 

 fifty-three years president of the Columbian 

 Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, com- 

 monly known as Gallaudet College, has re- 

 signed as president of the institution, his 

 resignation to take effect on September 15. 

 Dr. Gallaudet was born on February 5, 1837. 



A TESTIMONIAL dinner in honor of Dr. James 

 Tyson was given in Philadelphia on May 5, 

 on the occasion of his retirement from the 

 professorship of medicine of the University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



De. Willmm H. Park, professor of bacteri- 

 ology and hygiene in the University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College, has been 



given the degree of doctor of laws by Queen's 

 University at Kingston, Ont. 



The Samuel D. Gross prize of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Surgery for 1910, 

 amounting to $1,500, has been awarded to Dr. 

 A. P. C. Ashhurst, of Philadelphia, for an 

 essay entitled, " An Anatomical and Surgical 

 Study of Fractures of the Lower End of the 

 Humerus.'' 



We learn from Nature that the Geological 

 Society of France has this year awarded its 

 Danton prize to M. Gosselet. The prize is 

 given to the geologist whose discoveries are 

 likely to benefit industry most, and was 

 awarded to M. Gosselet for the part he has 

 taken in the development of coal-mining in 

 the north of France. The Viquesnel prize, in- 

 tended to encourage geological research, has 

 been awarded to M. Robert Douville for his 

 stratigraphical work on the geology of Spain 

 and his paleontological researches on the 

 foraminifera and ammonites. 



The Medical Record calls attention to the 

 fact that with the assumption by General 

 Leonard Wood, of the office of chief of staff 

 of the U. S. Army and the advancement of 

 Major-General F. C. Ainsworth to become 

 ranking major-general, the two highest posi- 

 tions in the army are held by physicians who 

 entered the line from the medical service. 

 General Wood was graduated from the Har- 

 vard Medical School in 1884. General Ains- 

 worth was graduated from the medical de- 

 partment of the New York University in 

 1874. 



The association medal of the National 

 Association of Cotton Manufacturers was 

 awarded at its eighty-eighth meeting, on April 

 27, to Dr. C. J. H. Woodbury for his Bib- 

 liography on the Cotton Manufacture, and 

 also for services to this industry. This medal 

 was established in 1895, and the act governing 

 its award states : It is the purpose of the 

 board of government that this medal may be 

 given to any person whose work has been, in 

 their opinion, and advantage of sufficient im- 

 portance to the purposes to which this organ- 

 ization is devoted in its broadest sense, in- 



