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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 549. 



Dr. Julius Wiesner, professor of botany at 

 Vienna, has been elected a member of the 

 Danish Academy of Sciences. 



Professor H. S. Graves, of the Forest 

 School of Yale University, has returned to 

 New Haven after his trip around the world. 

 I-Ie paid special attention to forest condi- 

 tions in India. 



Dr. Arthur Schuster, professor of physics 

 at the University of Manchester, has been 

 nominated by the council of the Royal Society 

 as one of their representatives on the commit- 

 tee of management appointed by the treasury 

 for the Meteorological Office in London. He 

 has also been elected as a representative of 

 the council of the Royal Society on the coun- 

 cil of the International Association of Acad- 

 emies. 



By a unanimous vote of the board of trus- 

 tees of the University of Pennsylvania the 

 Rev. Dr. Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht, research 

 professor of assyriology and professor of 

 Semitic philology and archeology of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, w-as on June 27 ac- 

 quitted of the charges recently brought against 

 him concerning his integrity in the matter of 

 his explorations in Babylonia. 



M. Perrier has been reappointed for five 

 years director of the Paris Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Mr. J. J. Lister, M.A., Fellow of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, has beeen nominated to 

 occupy the university table at the laboratory 

 of the Marine Biological Association at 

 Plymouth. 



Sir John Wolfe Barry has been elected to 

 succeed the late Mr. James Mansergh as chair- 

 man of the British Engineering Standards 

 Committee. 



At the recent commencement at Union Col- 

 lege, Schenectady, N. Y., the honorary degree 

 of doctor of science was conferred on Olin H. 

 . Landreth, professor of engineering at that in- 

 stitution and consulting engineer of the New 

 York State Board of Health. 



At its thirty-eighth annual commencement 

 Muhlenberg College conferred the degree of 

 doctor of science on Professor Lewis M. 



Haupt, formerly of the U. S. Corps of Civil 

 Engineers and late of the Nicaragua and Pan- 

 ama Canal Commission. 



The degree of doctor of laws was conferred 

 upon Professor John C. Hemmeter of Balti- 

 more by St. John's College, Annapolis on 

 June 21. In his address at the convocation 

 exercises. Professor ELemmeter advocated the 

 affiliation of St. John's College with the pro- 

 fessional schools (medicine, law, dentistry, 

 pharmacology) of the University of Maryland. 

 In 1Y84 both these institutions formed a fed- 

 eration into the University of Maryland, which 

 ceased to exist by the act of 1825. Professor 

 Hemmeter is also in favor of including the 

 Maryland Agricultural College (already large- 

 ly owned and administered by the state) in 

 the affiliation as the ' School of Agriculture 

 and Technology ' of the University of Mary- 

 land. 



Mr. W. R. Sorley, M.A., of King's College, 

 Cambridge, Knightbridge professor of moral 

 philosophy, has been approved by the general 

 board of studies for the degree of doctor in 

 letters. 



The De Morgan medal of the London Math- 

 ematical Society has this year been awarded 

 to Dr. H. F. Baker, F.R.S., for his researches 

 in pure mathematics. 



The Hamburg prize for promoting progress 

 in chemistry and pharmacognosy has been 

 awarded this year to Professsor E. Schmidt 

 of Marburg. The presidents of the British 

 Pharmaceutical Society, the Chemical Society 

 and the Linnean Society are members ex officio 

 of the committee in charge of this biennial 

 prize. 



Mr. James Mansergh, F.R.S., a British 

 engineer, well-known for his work on water- 

 supply and sewage, died on June 15. 



The University of the State of New York 

 held its forty-third annual convocation at Al- 

 bany on June 28, 29 and 30. The meeting 

 was devoted to a discussion of industrial, com- 

 mercial and agricultural education. Among 

 those who took part were President Edmund 

 J. James, of the University of Illinois ; Mr. 

 Robert T. Ogden, of New York; Mr. Frank 

 A. Vanderlip, of New York; Professor J. W. 



