Apkil 15, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



637 



president of the American Association of 

 Pathologists and Bacteriologists. 



A COMMITTEE appointed in connection with 

 the celebration of President Eliot's seventieth 

 birthday has decided to invite Mr. John Sar- 

 gent to paint a portrait of President Eliot. 



A OOMPLIMENTAEY dinner is to be given this 

 week to Rear Admiral George W. Melville, 

 U.S.N., by the Institute of Naval Architects 

 of Great Britain. The organizing committee 

 includes the Earl of Glasgow, Lords Brassey 

 and Inverclyde, Admiral the Right Hon. Lord 

 John Hay, dean of the British Navy; Sir 

 WiUiam White, chief constructor; Admiral 

 Durston, engineer-in-chief, and Admiral Hop- 

 kins. 



De. L. O. Howard, chief of the division of 

 entomology and permanent secretary of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, has been elected a foreign mem- 

 ber of the Societe Nationale d' Agriculture de 

 Prance. 



General Bassot has been appointed director 

 of the Observatory at Nice, in the place of 

 the late M. Perrotin. 



Dr. J. N. Langley, F.R.S., professor of 

 physiology at Cambridge University, has been 

 given the degree of doctor of laws by St. 

 Andrew's University. 



The coimcil of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons in Ireland has adopted the following 

 resolutions : "That the president, vice-presi- 

 dent and council express their gratification at 

 the appointment for the first time of a medical 

 man to the ofiice of provost of Trinity College, 

 and congratulate Dr. Anthony Traill on his 

 appointment to that distinguished position." 



Professor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, will spend the summer at the Naples 

 ■ Zoological Station. 



Professor C. S. Sherrington, of Liverpool 

 University, will open his course' of Silliman 

 lectures at Yale University on April 22. 



The subjects of the Herter lectures being 

 given this week at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity by Professor Paul Ehrlich are : (1) ' The 

 mutual relations between toxine and anti- 

 toxine'; (2) 'Physical chemistry versus biol- 

 ogy in the doctrines of immunity'; (3) 

 ' Cytotoxines and cytotoxic immunity.' 



United States Ambassador Tower, on April 

 7, presented the New York Geographical So- 

 ciety's Cullom medal to Dr. George von 

 Neumayer, director of the Hamburg Nautical 

 Observatory, for distinguished services to sci- 

 ence and especially for the discoveries which 

 he made in his expeditions to Australia. 



The Council of the Royal Geographical 

 Society has decided to award the two Royal 

 Medals for this year to Sir Harry Jolinston, 

 well-known for his discoveries in Africa, and 

 to Commander R. P. Scott, R.N., who is re- 

 turning from the Antarctic regions. Two of 

 the other honors at the disposal of the council 

 have been awarded for Antarctic work. One 

 of these, the Murehison grant, has been 

 awarded to Lieutenant Colbeck for his ser- 

 vices while in command of the relief expedi- 

 tion. It will probably take the form of a 

 silver globe, designed by the president, show- 

 ing the route of the expedition. It has been 

 decided to present the Gill memorial to Cap- 

 tain Irizar, of the Argentine navy, for his 

 rescue of the Nordenskjold Antarctic expedi- 

 tion. The Cuthbert Peek grant will be pre- 

 sented to Don Juan Villalta for geographical 

 discoveries to the east of the Andes while in 

 command of a Peruvian exploring expedition; 

 and the Back grant to Dr. M. A. Stein for his 

 geographical work in Central Asia, and es- 

 pecially for his mapping in the Mustaghata 

 and Kuen Lun ranges. 



The Carnegie Institution has made a grant 

 of $500 to Professor Henry S. Carhart, of 

 the University of Michigan, to be used for 

 the determination in absolute measure of the 

 electromotive force of Clark and Weston 

 standard cells, and for the determination of 

 the electrochemical equivalent of silver. Pro- 

 fessor Geo. W. Patterson, Jr., is engaged with 

 Professor Carhart in this work. 



Mr. William Campbell, of the department 

 of metalhirgy of Columbia University, has 

 been granted $1,500 by the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion for a study of the effect of heat treat- 

 ment on the microstrueture and on the phys- 

 ical properties of iron and steel. 



The legislature of Porto Rico has appro- 

 priated the sum of $5,000 to defray the ex- 

 penses of an investigation into the prevalence 



