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of the region. Two courses upon algffi will 

 be given by Miss Josepbine E. Tilden and a 

 course upon licbens by Dr. Albert Schneider, 

 the author of the leading American text-book 

 upon this subject. Dr. Schneider will also give 

 some lectures upon bacteria and nitrogen as- 

 similation. The name of the instructor in 

 zoology, who will have charge of the zoological 

 laboratory, can not be announced until later. 

 Such coiu'ses as are provided are believed to 

 be of the most value to the inland student 

 visiting the seashore. 



By special arrangement with the authorities 

 of the University of Minnesota it is possible to 

 accept work done at the seaside station by 

 graduates of colleges as counting for credit 

 towards the degree of master of arts. 



The station fee which covers board, lodg- 

 ing, laboratory space, instruction, etc., at the 

 station is $75 for the month. Those who ex- 

 pect to join the party are urged to send in 

 their names as soon as possible in order that 

 the director may know for how many to pro- 

 vide. 



Descriptions of the station may be found in 

 The Popular Science Monthly for January, 

 1902; the Journal of Geography for June, 

 1902 ; and Nature for December 18, 1902. 



To those who join the party full instructions 

 concerning all matters of detail will be fur- 

 nished by letter. 



Conway MacMillan, 

 Professor of Botany, 



University of Minnesota, 



Minneapolis, Minn. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific has been awarded to Sir 

 "William Huggins for distinguished services to 

 astronomy. 



Principal C. Lloyd Morgan, of University 

 College, Bristol, has been offered the honorary 

 degree of LL.D. by the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, but has been unable to accept the honor 

 because he can not attend the ceremonies 

 connected with the celebration of the fiftieth 

 anniversary on June 9. 



Congratulatory addresses will be presented 

 on April 22 to Sir Henry Roscoe, the eminent 



chemist, on the occasion of the fiftieth anni- 

 versary of receiving the doctorate from Heidel- 

 berg University. The presentation will be at 

 Manchester, Sir Henry Eoscoe having been 

 professor of chemistry at Owen's College from 

 1857 to 1887. 



The following new members were elected by 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 of Boston, at the meeting of April 13, 1904: 

 As resident fellows: Edward S. Sheldon and 

 Herbert W. Smyth, both of Cambridge, Mass. 

 As associate fellows: Eugene W. Hilgard, of 

 Berkeley, Cal. ; James D. Hague, of New York ; 

 Israel C. Eussell, of Ann Arbor; Abraham 

 Jacobi, of New York; and T. Mitchell Prud- 

 den, of New York. As foreign honorary mem- 

 bers: Felix Klein, of Gottingen; Adolph Har- 

 nack, of Berlin; Pasquale Villari, of Florence; 

 and M. L. Gaston Boissier, of Paris. 



Cambridge University has resolved to con- 

 fer the honorary degree of doctor of science 

 on Wilhehn Ostwald, professor of chemistry 

 in the University of Leipzig. 



Lord Kelvin has been unanimously elected 

 chancellor of the University of Glasgow in 

 the room of the late Lord Stair. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 the following corresponding members: Pro- 

 fessor Volterra in the section of geometry in 

 the place of the late Professor Cremona; 

 Dr. W. C. Brogger, professor of mineralogy 

 and geology in the University of Christiania, 

 in the section of mineralogy, in succession to 

 the late Professor Karl von Zittel, and M. 

 Charles Flahault, professor of botany in the 

 University of Montpellier, in the section of 

 botany, to succeed the late M. Millardet. 



M. Santos Dumont has been made a cheva- 

 lier of the legion d'honeur by the French 

 government for his experiments with dirigible 

 balloons. 



Dr. Carl Duisberg, director ol the Elber- 

 feld Dyeworks, has been given the title of 

 professor. 



It is announced that Professor A. Graham 

 Bell will give an exhibition of his tetrahedral 

 kites before the National Geographic Society 

 on April 30. 



