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government of Japan, and also several stations 

 in the southern part of the Chinese empire. 

 S. T. Tamura. 

 Washington, D. C, 

 January 22, 1906. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor A. A. Michelson, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, and Professor F. Kohlrausch, 

 of Berlin, have been elected honorary fellows 

 of the Physical Society of London. 



Eear Admiral Colby M. Chester, siiper- 

 intendent of the U. S. Naval Observatory, 

 was placed on the retired list on February 28. 

 He will be retained in temporary active duty 

 in the Bureau of Navigation. Eear Admiral 

 Chester will be succeeded in charge of the 

 Naval Observatory by Eear Admiral Asa 

 Walker. 



The fiftieth anniversary of the connection 

 of Professor Frederic Ward Putnam with 

 Harvard University has been celebrated by the 

 presentation of a volume, handsomely bound, 

 containing autograph greetings from forty of 

 his former students, who are now actively en- 

 gaged in scientific work, most of them in the 

 field of anthropology. Dr. H. C. Bumpus, 

 director of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has been authorized by President 

 Jesup to offer Professor Putnam ethnological 

 material sufficient to illustrate fully the life 

 of the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, 

 leaving him to make such disposition of the 

 collection as he may think best. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed in Great 

 Britain to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of 

 the discovery, by Dr. W. H. Perkin, of mauve 

 dye, the first of the coal tar products. 



We learn from Nature that Sir Alexander 

 B. W. Kennedy, F.E.S., has been elected a 

 member of the Athenseum Club under the 

 provisions of the rule which empowers the an- 

 nual election by the committee of three per- 

 sons ' of distinguished eminence in science, 

 literature, the arts, or for public services.' 



Professor J. C. Arthur and Mr. F. D. 

 Kern, -of Purdue University, held research 

 scholarships at the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den for the month of January. Their atten- 



tion was devoted to the collection of plant 

 rusts in the cryptogamic herbarium. 



A. J. Cox, A.B., A.M. (Stanford), Ph.D. 

 (Breslau), has resigned an instructorship in 

 chemistry at Stanford University to accept 

 the position of physical chemist in the gov- 

 ernment laboratories at Manila. 



Dr. J. W. Beede, of Indiana University, 

 who has studied the upper Carboniferous and 

 Permian formations from Nebraska to Texas, 

 has been engaged to take charge of the detailed 

 mapping of the Permian formations of Kan- 

 sas next summer for the University Geological 

 Survey of Kansas. 



Among German men of science who have 

 signified their intention of attending the Bos- 

 ton meeting of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation are Professor Trendelenburg, Leipzig; 

 Professor von Eosthorn, Heidelberg; Professor 

 Diihrssen, Berlin, and Professor von Frey, 

 Wiirzburg. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn has been selected to 

 deliver the oration on surgery at the Interna- 

 tional Medical Congress, Lisbon. 



The Middleton-Goldsmith lecture of the 

 New York Pathological Society was delivered, 

 on February 23, by Dr. Ludwig Hektoen, of 

 the University of Chicago and the Memorial 

 Institute for Infectious Diseases, the subject 

 being ' Phagocytosis.' 



M. L. Fuller, of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, will give a course of lectures 

 in April at the University of Chicago on the 

 hydrologic work of the government. 



Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, gave a lecture on ' Prehistoric Scan- 

 dinavia ' before the Ethnological Society of 

 America at the American Museum of Natural 

 History on February 28. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Judge McEwen, of the 

 Superior Court, has rendered a decision 

 against the Chicago Medical Society in its 

 efforts to maintain in Grant Park a boulder 

 placed there in memory of Dr. Charles Guthrie 

 and his pioneer work on chloroform. 



On June 29, 1903, a meeting was held at 

 the Mansion-house, under the presidency of 



