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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 494. 



On May 28 the delegates to the Interna- 

 tional Association of Academies were divided 

 into two groups, one of which visited Oxford 

 and the other Cambridge, where honorary de- 

 grees were conferred. We have already noted 

 the degrees conferred at Cambridge; the re- 

 cipients of the D.Sc. degree at Oxford were 

 Professor Flechsig, Leipzig; Professor E. 

 Ehlers, Gottingen; M. A. Giard, Paris; Dr. 

 Victor von Lang, Vienna; Professor H. Mohn, 

 Christiania, and Professor H. Ohersteiner, 

 Vienna. 



On June 22 Oxford will confer further 

 doctorates of science as follows: The Hon. 

 C. A. Parsons, St. John's College, Cambridge; 

 M. Pierre Curie, professeur de physique gen- 

 erale de I'Ecole Municipale de Physique et 

 de Chimie Industrielles ; Sir W. S. Church, 

 president of the Eoyal College of Physicians; 

 Sir Andrew Noble; Sir William Crookes; Sir 

 David Gill, astronomer royal. Cape of Good 

 Hope; Sir John Murray; Professor Alfred 

 Marshall, professor of political economy at 

 Cambridge; Professor J. J. Thomson, Caven- 

 dish professor of experimental physics at Cam- 

 bridge; Professor Horace Lamb, professor of 

 mathematics, Victoria University of Man- 

 chester; Professor A. E. Porsyth, Sadlerian 

 professor of pure mathematics at Cambridge; 

 Professor Dewar, Jacksonian professor of ex- 

 perimental philosophy, Cambridge, Pullerian 

 professor of chemistry in the Eoyal Institu- 

 tion; and Professor Larmor, secretary of the 

 Eoyal Society, Lucasian professor of mathe- 

 matics at Cambridge. 



W. F. M. Goss, dean of the Schools of En- 

 gineering of Purdue University, has received 

 the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering 

 from the University of Illinois. 



Professor J. M. Van Vleck, who holds the 

 chair of mathematics and astronomy at Wes- 

 leyan University and has been a member of 

 the faculty for fifty-one years, has been made 

 professor emeritus, and at his ovm request 

 relieved from obligation of further service. 



Medical exchanges state that on his return 

 from America recently. Professor Ehrlich 

 was presented with a portrait medallion, by a 

 group of sixty-five pupils and co-workers. He 



has been given the title of privy councilor, 

 and is entitled to write ' von ' before his name. 

 The occasion of the presentation was his fif- 

 tieth birthday, which occurred on May 15. 



Professor Svante Aerhenius, of Stock- 

 holm, lectured before the Royal Institution, 

 London, on June 3, on electrolytic dissocia- 

 tion. He sailed for America on the American 

 liner St. Louis on June 11. 



Professor Paul Hanus, of the Department 

 of Education of Harvard University, will 

 spend next year abroad. 



Dr. Heinrich Ries, professor of economic 

 geology in Cornell University, will spend the 

 summer studying the clays of Wisconsin. 

 Mr. F. L. Gallup of the senior class will ac- 

 company him as assistant. 



Wm. W. Coblentz has been reappointed re- 

 search assistant by the Carnegie Institution 

 to continue his work on infra-red radiation at 

 Cornell University. 



Miss Eose Maria Logan, and Miss Mary J. 

 Hogue, of the Women's College of Baltimore, 

 have been awarded scholarships admitting 

 them to tables at the Marine Laboratory, at 

 Woods Hole, Mass., and Miss Mary Gillespie 

 Webb and Miss Carrie S. Bird, to tables at 

 the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 

 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, IST. Y. 



The British Medical Journal states that Mr. 

 T. J. Britten, formerly manager of the 

 Wolhuter Gold Mines, has been awarded the 

 first prize of £500 and the gold medal offered 

 by the Transvaal Chamber of Mines for the 

 best appliance for the prevention of miners' 

 phthisis. The suggested remedy is damping 

 the dust by means of a water jet while drilling 

 is in progress and while the blasting is taking 

 place. 



Mlle. Joteyko, lecturer on psychology in 

 the University of Brussels, has been elected 

 vice-president of the Neurological Society of 

 Belgium. 



The eighty-seventh annual meeting of the 

 Societe helvetiques des sciences naturelles will 

 be held at Winterhour from July 30 to August 

 2, luider the presidency of Professor J. Weber. 



