June 3, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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original letters, will they kindly have copies 

 made at the expense of G. E. Agassiz, and 

 send them to him at their convenience? 



Sir Aechibald Geikie has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Danish Academy of 

 Sciences at Copenhagen. 



Oxford University has conferred the degree 

 of doctor of science on Mr. P. H. Cowell, 

 F.E.S., and on Mr. A. C. Crommelin, both of 

 the Eoyal Observatory, Greenwich. They 

 have also been awarded jointly the Jannsen 

 medal of the Societe Astronomique de France. 



Professor W. T. Porter, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been elected a corresponding- 

 member of the Eoyal Society of Physicians in 

 Vienna. 



The University of Edinburgh has conferred 

 its doctorate of laws on Commander Eobert 

 E. Peary. 



Dr. Otto Klotz and Mr. J. S. Plaskett have 

 been elected fellows of the Eoyal Society of 

 Canada. 



Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer, instructor in an- 

 thropology at Harvard University, and Mr. 

 R. E. Merwin have returned from an expedi- 

 tion to British Guatemala and Honduras. 

 They bring back a collection of antiquities 

 from the four ruined cities which they dis- 

 covered during the winter's work, and also a 

 collection of entomological specimens for the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Dr. Philip P. Calvert, assistant professor 

 of zoology in the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and Mrs. Calvert arrived in Philadelphia on 

 May 17, from Costa Eica, after a year's resi- 

 dence in that country. They were in Cartago, 

 their headquarters, at the time of the earth- 

 quake of May 4, which totally destroyed that 

 town, but escaped unhurt. A brick partition 

 wall fell into the room in which they were 

 sitting, burying and destroying the living 

 insect larvse which were in rearing, some of 

 the experiments having run for eleven months. 

 On the following day they were able to recover 

 from the ruins nearly all their other collec- 

 tions, notes, photographs, instruments, etc., 

 and later to bring them home in safety. 

 Many data on the seasonal distribution. 



larval forms and habits of Costa Eican 

 Odonata (the principal objects of their in- 

 vestigations) have been secured. 



Dr. J. W. Spencer sailed on the Hellig Olaf 

 to spend the summer in Norway, to continue 

 physiographic researches, commenced during 

 earlier visits to that country. He will also 

 attend the International Congress of Geolo- 

 gists in Stockholm. 



Dr. M. p. Eavenel, professor of bacteriol- 

 ogy, will represent the University of Wiscon- 

 sin at the centennial celebration of the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin from October 10 to 13. Dr. 

 Eavenel is also American delegate to the In- 

 ternational Conference on Tuberculosis at 

 Berlin in October, and the International Con- 

 gress on Alimentary Hygiene and the Rational 

 Feeding of Man, in Belgium. 



Professor G. F. Swain, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, attended the dedication of the Car- 

 negie Engineering Building at Union Uni- 

 versity, Schenectady, N. Y., and delivered an 

 address on " Limitations of Efficiency in 

 Engineering Education." 



On May 16, Dr. E. L. Hewett lectured be- 

 fore the University of Colorado Scientific So- 

 ciety at Boulder, on his recent work on the 

 ancient monuments at Copan in Honduras 

 and Quirigua in Guatemala. He has been 

 able to determine the order of development of 

 the art, his results according perfectly with 

 the dates worked out independently from the 

 glyphs by his colleague Mr. Morley. 



The Croonian lecture of the Royal Society 

 was delivered on May 26, by Dr. G. Klebs, 

 professor of botany at the University of Halle, 

 his subject being " Alterations of the Devel- 

 opment and Forms of Plants as a Result of 

 Environment." 



Dr. George Frederic Barker, emeritus 

 professor of physics in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia on May 

 24, at the age of seventy-five years. 



Professor William P. Blake, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of metallurgy, geology and mining and 

 director of the School of Mines of the Uni- 

 versity of Arizona and territorial geologist, 

 has died at the age of eighty-four years. 



