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struggle naught availeth ' when your own hest 

 admirers seem unable to think for themselves ? 



John Perry. 



SCIEXTIFW NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. Willia:m J. Mayo, surgeon of the St. 

 Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minn., has been 

 elected president of the American Medical 

 Association. 



Dr. William H. JSTichols, of New York, 

 gave the presidential address before the So- 

 ciety of Chemical Industry at its general 

 meeting in London on July 10. Dr. Edward 

 Divers, F.E.S., was elected president of the 

 society for the ensuing year. 



Frederic S. Lee, Ph.D., professor of physi- 

 ology in Columbia University; Martin H. 

 Fischer, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiol- 

 ogy in the University of California, and 

 George T. Kemp, Ph.D., professor of physiol- 

 ogy in the University of Illinois, have been 

 elected associate members of the American 

 Medical Association. 



The Revue de medecine et d'hygiene trop- 

 icales announces that Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles, 

 of the Public Health and Marine Hospital 

 Service, has been elected an honorary member 

 of the Societe de Medecine et d'Hygiene 

 Tropicales of Paris, France. 



Dr. George T. Moore, physiologist and al- 

 gologist, in charge of the laboratory of plant 

 physiology of the Department of Agriculture, 

 has resigned. 



Dr. Gisbert Kapp, who has accepted a pro- 

 fessorship in electrical engineering at the 

 University of Birmingham, has resigned as 

 general secretary of the German Association 

 of Electrical Engineers and as editor of the 

 Elehtrotechnische Zeitschrift. His successor 

 as general secretary is Dr. Georg Dettmar, 

 and his successor as editor of the EleJctro- 

 technische Zeitschrift is Dr. E. C. Zehme. 



We learn from the Bulletin of the American 

 Mathematical Society that Professor H. Taber, 

 of Clark University; Professor H. F. Blich- 

 feldt, of Stanford University, and Professor 

 W. D. Cairns, of Oberlin College, will spend 

 next year at Euroipean universities. 



M. M. J. Dybowski, French inspector gen- 

 eral of agriculture for the colonies, has been 

 made an officer of the French legion of honor. 



On the occasion of the recent celebration of 

 the fourth centenary of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, Edinburgh, the honorary fellowship 

 of the college was conferred upon the follow- 

 ing: Professors Anton, Freiherr von Eiselberg 

 and Eimst Fuchs, Vienna; Professor Sylvester 

 Saxtough, Copenhagen; Professor Felix Guy- 

 on Just Lucas Camponniere, Paul Segond and 

 Lou,is Felix Terrier, Paris ; Professor a Poucet, 

 Lyons; Professors Ernst von Bergmann and 

 Franz Konig, Berlin; Professor August Bier, 

 Bonn; Professor Vincenz Czerny, Heidelberg; 

 Professor Francesco Duranti, Rome; Baron 

 Yosuzumi Saneyoshi, Japanese navy; Maxim 

 Semenovic Subbotin, chief of the surgical 

 clinic. Military Hospital, St. Petersburg; Pro- 

 fessor Lennauder, Upsala; Professor Kronlein, 

 Ziirieh; Professors William Stewart Halstead 

 and Howard Kelly, Baltimore; Professor Keen, 

 Philadelphia; Dr. William J. Mayo, Minne- 

 sota; Professor Charles McBurney, Columbia 

 University, and Professor J. C. Warren, Har- 

 vard University. 



At the recent commencement of Amherst 

 College the degree of master of arts was con- 

 ferred by President Harris on Mr. Lundin. 

 He said : " Carl Axel Robert Lundin, scien- 

 tific expert in cutting and fashioning glasses 

 of great telescopes. He has done important 

 work on the large objectives of Russia, of the 

 Lick and Yerkes observatories, and lately on 

 the 18-inch objective of the Amherst College 

 observatory, which is wholly his work. In 

 1854 Amherst conferred the degree of master 

 of arts on Alvan Clark, who had built our 

 first telescope. The same degree, for a similar 

 service, is conferred on his successor, who has 

 kept pace with the progress of astronomical 

 science." 



The seventieth birthday of Professor G. 

 Merkel was celebrated at Nuremberg, on June 

 29. He was presented with a Festschrift, 

 and with a portrait bust by his former students 

 and the Erlangen medical faculty. 



Dr. Swale Vincent, Winnipeg, professor 

 of physiology in the medical faculty of the 



