June 17, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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by-law whicli empowers it to elect annually 

 not more than five persons wlio have distin- 

 tinguished themselves by the promotion of the 

 society's objects. 



New York TJNn'EESiTy has given its doc- 

 torate of laws to Dr. Henry Mitchell Mac- 

 Cracken, who retires from the chancellorship 

 of the University. 



Professor William James Bead, of the 

 Agricultural College of Michigan, has an- 

 nounced his intention of resigning the chair 

 of botany at the end of the current school 

 year, when he will complete forty years of 

 continuous service. 



Dr. Louis H. During has resigned from the 

 chair of dermatology in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, after a service of forty years. 



Me. H. C. Beyer, a student in the Graduate 

 School of Harvard University, is now an eth- 

 nologist in the Bureau of Science at Manila. 



Dr. Wolferstan Thomas, assistant lecturer 

 in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 

 has been appointed director of the new labora- 

 tories supported by business firms at Manaos, 

 in the state of Amazonas. 



Dr. John M. Macfarlane, professor of bot- 

 any in the University of Pennsylvania and 

 director of the botanic garden, has been 

 granted a leave of absence for a year, which 

 he proposes to utilize in study at several of 

 the European botanical centers. 



Professor Hatsune Nakano, who holds the 

 chair of electrical engineering in the College 

 of Engineering of the University of Tokyo, is 

 at present visiting this country. He received 

 degrees from Cornell University in 1888 and 

 1889. 



Professor Frederick Keeble, dean of the 

 faculty of science of University College, Eead- 

 ing; Dr. R. V. O. Hart-Synnot, director of the 

 department of agriculture, with three other 

 representatives of the college, have been visit- 

 ing Canada and the United States, to examine 

 our universities and colleges, and especially 

 the agricultural departments. 



Professor George R. McDermott, who 

 holds the chair of naval engineering at Cor- 

 nell University, having leave of absence for 



next year, will superintend the erection and 

 equipment of ship yards and dry docks at 

 Rio de Janeiro. He will sail in July for a 

 tour of inspection of shipbuilding works in 

 Europe, and after a similar examination of 

 American ship yards, he will go to Brazil in 

 October. 



On June 3 Professor A. Lawrence Rotch 

 gave an illustrated lecture, " The Aerial Ocean 

 and its Navigation," at the annual Convention 

 of Pennsylvania Engineers in Harrisburg. 



Professor Theobald Smith, of Harvard 

 University, delivered a lecture on " The Rela- 

 tion between Human and Bovine Tubercu- 

 losis," at the University of Illinois, on May 19. 



The following minute on the death of Dr. 

 George Frederick Barker was adopted by the 

 board of trustees of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania on June 7 : 



That the board has heard with deep regret of 

 the death of George Frederick Barker, for twenty- 

 eight active and for ten years emeritus professor 

 of physics in the university. His lofty character 

 won for him the respect and affectionate regard 

 alike of officer, teacher and student, while the 

 distinguished honors accorded him and his con- 

 tributions to science added luster to the name of 

 the university which he served so long and so 

 faithfully. 



Mr. Joseph S. Harris, an officer of the 

 U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1854 

 to 1864 and assistant astronomer of the north- 

 western boundary survey, later prominent as 

 president of the Philadelphia and Reading 

 Railway and other companies, a trustee of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, has died at the 

 age of seventy-four years. 



Mr. Michael Carteighe, for many years 

 president of the Pharmaceutical Society of 

 Great Britain, died on May 28, at the age of 

 sixty-eight years. 



Dr. Emil Zuckerkandl, professor of anat- 

 omy at the University of Vienna, died on 

 May 28 at the age of sixty-one years. 



The death is announced of Dr. Paulin Tro- 

 lard, professor of anatomy in the Algiers Col- 

 lege of Medicine. 



The second session of the seventeenth In- 

 ternational Congress of Americanists will be 



