November 24, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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seientious discharge of the official trust con- 

 fided to him. 



The daily papers announce that the Mexi- 

 can Astronomical Society has awarded the 

 prize offered by the Bishop of Leon for some 

 notable astronomical discovery to William H. 

 Pickering, of Harvard College Observatory, for 

 the discovery of the tenth satellite of Saturn. 

 Another prize was awarded to Professor C. D. 

 Perrine, of Lick Observatory, California, for 

 the discovery of the sixth and seventh satel- 

 lites. 



The French Academy of Moral and Political 

 Sciences has decided to award the Frangois- 

 Joseph Audiffred prize, of the value of $3,000, 

 which is given in recompense of the most 

 beautiful and greatest acts of self-devotion of 

 whatever kind they may be, to Professor Cal- 

 mette, director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille. 



Medical journals state that medals were 

 awarded by the recent Congress of Tuberculosis 

 to Drs. Koch, of Berlin; Brouardel, of Paris; 

 Bang, of Copenhagen; Biggs, of New York; 

 Broadbent, of London; and von Schroetter, of 

 Vienna. 



President Eliot, of Harvard University, 

 gave, on November 13, the first lecture under 

 the foundation recently given to Yale Uni- 

 versity by a Harvard alumnus ' to promote 

 friendly feelings between the two universities.' 

 Dr. Eliot spoke on ' Resemblances and Dif- 

 ferences among American Universities.' 



Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, professor of 

 medicine in the Johns Hopkins University, de- 

 livered an address before the Library and His- 

 torical Society of the University of Maryland, 

 Baltimore, October 26, on ' The Ordering of 

 Life.' 



Professor K. Klein has been appointed 

 director of the Museum of Natural History 

 of the University of Berlin, in which position 

 he succeeds Dr. Karl Mobius. 



Mr. G. W. Smith, New College, Oxford, 

 has been appointed to the biological scholar- 

 ship at Naples for the year 1905-6. 



Dr. Maurits Snellin has resigned the di- 

 rectorship of the section of terrestrial mag- 



netism and seismology at the Royal Dutch 

 Meteorological Institute. 



Sir Frederick Treves, the well-known sur- 

 geon, has agreed to be nominated on non- 

 political and academic grounds for the lord 

 rectorship of Aberdeen University. 



Dr. John Dyneley Prince, professor of 

 Semitic languages and literature in Columbia 

 University, has been elected to the New Jersey 

 State Assembly from Passaic County. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that King Edward on the occasion of his 

 birthday has conferred the honor of knight- 

 hood upon Dr. James Barr, physician to the 

 Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, and lecturer on 

 clinical medicine in University College, Liver- 

 pool, and upon Mr. Arthur Chance, president 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 

 Dr. Theodore Thomson, one of the medical 

 inspectors of the Local Government Board, 

 has been made a C.M.G. in recognition of 

 services rendered in connection with sanitary 

 matters to the Foreign Office and Colonial 

 Office. The same honor is conferred upon 

 Dr. Marc Armand Rufi^er, president of the 

 Egyptian Sanitary Board, distinguished for 

 his researches in bacteriology and pathology; 

 and upon Dr. Featherston Cargill, resident in 

 the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria. Sir 

 Felix Semon, C.Y.O., physician extraordinary 

 to the king, has been advanced to be a knight 

 of the Royal Victorian Order. The honor of 

 knighthood has also been conferred upon Mr. 

 John McFadyean, professor of comparative 

 pathology and bacteriology. Royal Veterinary 

 College, London. 



At a recent meeting of the directors of the 

 Christian Association of the LTniversity of 

 Pennsylvania it was resolved to send Dr. 

 Josiah C. McCracken to China for a period 

 of one year in order to study the situation on 

 the field and arrange details for the estab- 

 lishment of the proposed medical school in 

 Canton. 



Dr. C. LI. Gordon, until recently professor 

 of geology in the New Mexico School of 

 Mines, has been engaged for several months 

 in the study of the geology and ore occur- 



