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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 589. 



At Christ Church Burying Ground, Fifth 

 and Arch Streets, 3 p.m. 



Ceremonies at the grave of Franklin under the 

 auspices of the Grand Lodge of F. & A. M., of 

 Pennsylvania. The delegates and members will 

 assemble in the hall of the society, on Independ- 

 ence Square, at 2 : 30 o'clock and proceed to the 

 grave of Franklin. 



At the Bellevue-Stratford, Broad and Wal- 

 nut Streets, 9 p.m. Reception. 



Friday, April 20, at the American Academy 

 of Music, Broad and Locust Streets, 11 a.m. 

 The delegates, invited guests and members 

 will meet in the foyer of the academy at 

 10:45 A.M. 



Addresses in Commemoration of Benjamin Frank- 

 lin. 

 HoKACE HowAED FuENESS, D.Litt. ( Cantab. ) : 



' As Citizen and Philanthropist.' 



Charles William Eliot, LL.D. : 'As Printer 



and Philosopher.' 



Joseph Hodges Choate, LL.D., D.C.L. : ' As 



Statesman and Diplomatist.' 



Presentation of the Franklin Medal to the Re- 

 public of France (in accordance with the Act 

 of Congress), by the Honorable Elihu Koot, 

 secretary of state {by direction of the Presi- 

 dent). 



7 P.M., dinner at the Bellevue-Stratford. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The National Academy of Sciences will 

 hold its annual meeting at Washington, be- 

 ginning on April 16. 



Dr. a. Graham Bell has sailed for Eng- 

 land; he will return in time to attend the 

 meeting of the regents of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution on May 10. 



Professor Ira N. Hollis has been ap- 

 pointed delegate of Harvard University at the 

 fiftieth anniversary meeting of the Society of 

 German Engineers, to be held at Berlin from 

 June 11 to 14, 1906. 



Professor Eugen Kuhnemann, of the Uni- 

 versity of Bonn and at the same time rector 

 of the Royal Academy organized at Posen in 

 1903, will lecture at Harvard University next 

 year, representing Germany in the inter- 



change of professors between Harvard Uni- 

 versity and the German government. Pro- 

 fessor Kiihnemann is known for his contribu- 

 tions to philosophy and literature. 



The students of Edinburgh University 

 propose to honor Sir William Turner, prin- 

 cipal of the university and formerly professor 

 of anatomy, on the occasion of his having com- 

 pleted fifty years of active official academic 

 connection with the university. 



Dr. C. J. Keyser, Adrain professor of 

 mathematics at Columbia University, has been 

 elected a member of the Circolo Matematico 

 di Palermo. 



Dr. G. a. Schwalbe, professor of anatomy 

 at Strasburg, has been elected a foreign mem- 

 ber of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. a. Heim, professor of geology at Zurich, 

 has been elected a corresponding member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



The council of the Anthropological Insti- 

 tute of Great Britain and Ireland has ap- 

 pointed Professor F. W. Putnam, as its senior 

 honorary fellow in America, to represent the 

 institute at the meeting of the American 

 Philosophical Society which is to be held next 

 week in celebration of the bi-centenary of 

 Benjamin Franklin. Dr. George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy, of Yale University, will represent the 

 Paris School of Anthropology and the Paris 

 Society of Anthropology on the same occasion. 



Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, medical officer of 

 the Board of Health of New York City, is to 

 leave shortly to make a three months' official 

 tour of inspection of the European hospitals 

 and water filtration plants. 



Dr. Duncan S. Johnson, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, sailed for Jamaica on April 

 5 to spend two months at the Cinchona sta- 

 tion of the New York Botanical Garden. He 

 will be joined there by Messrs. W. D. Hoyt 

 and I. F. Lewis, students at Johns Hopkins 

 University. Dr. Forrest Shreve, Bruce fel- 

 low of the same institution, is spending the 

 year at Cinchona in work on the physiology 

 and ecology of the forest of the Blue Moun- 

 tains. 



