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SCIENCE. 



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medicine in the University of Pennsylvania; 

 Dr. C. S. Hastings, professor of physics in the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University ; 

 Dr. W. F. Hillebrand, chemist in the U. S. 

 Geological Survey; Charles Eockwell Lan- 

 man, LL.D., professor of Sanskrit and com- 

 parative philology in Harvard University; 

 Dr. F. P. Mall, LL.D., professor of anatomy 

 in the Johns Hopkins University; the Hon. 

 Elihu Eoot, LL.D., secretary of state; Dr. E. 

 F. Nichols, professor of experimental physics 

 in Columbia University; T. D. Seymour, 

 LL.D., professor of Greek in Tale University; 

 Dr. E. B. Titchener, professor of psychology 

 in Cornell University; O. H. Tittmann, super- 

 intendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, and Dr. A. G. Webster, professor of 

 physics in Clark University. 



The University of Pennsylvania conferred 

 the degree of doctor of science on William P. 

 Hemszey, the engineer, and on James Gayley, 

 the analytic chemist and trustee of Lafayette 

 College. The degree of doctor of lavrs veas 

 conferred on King Edward VII.; Guglielmo 

 Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy; 

 Andrew Carnegie; George H. Darwin, pro- 

 fessor of astronomy in Cambridge University; 

 Edgar F. Smith, professor of chemistry in the 

 University of Pennsylvania and president of 

 the American Philosophical Society ; Hampton 

 L. Carson, attorney general of Pennsylvania; 

 J. W. Mallet, professor of chemistry in the 

 University of Virginia; Wm. B. Scott, pro- 

 fessor of geology and paleontology at Prince- 

 ton University; E. C. Pickering, professor of 

 astronomy and director of the Harvard Col- 

 lege Observatory; Hugo de Vries, professor 

 of plant anatomy and physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Amsterdam; A. A. Michelson, pro- 

 fessor of physics in the University of Chicago ; 

 Ernest Rutherford, professor of physics in 

 McGill University; E. L. Nichols, professor 

 of physics in Cornell University; W. K. 

 Brooks, professor of zoology in the Johns 

 Hopkins University; W. P. Patterson, pro- 

 fessor of divinity in Edinburgh University; 

 Professor H. A. Lorentz, professor of mathe- 

 matical physics in the University of Leiden; 

 Alois Brand!, professor of philology in the 



University of Berlin; Samuel Dickson, chan- 

 cellor of the Law Association of Philadelphia. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The appalling disaster on the Pacific Coast 

 has completely spared the University of Cali- 

 fornia and the Lick Observatory. The build- 

 ings of Leland Stanford Junior University 

 have suffered severely, the loss being estimated 

 at $4,000,000. The building of the California 

 Academy of Sciences and its valuable collec- 

 tions were destroyed. 



A DINNER in honor of Professor H. A. 

 Lorentz, of the University of Leiden, was 

 given by the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington, on the evening of April 21. 



The University of St. Andrews has con- 

 ferred its doctorate of laws on Dr. A. C. L. G. 

 Giinther, formerly keeper of the Zoological 

 Department of the British Museum, and on 

 Dr. A. H. Young, professor of anatomy at 

 Manchester. 



The United States ambassador to Great 

 Britain, Mr. Whitelaw Eeid, presented the 

 gold medal of the American Geographical So- 

 ciety to Captain E. N. Scott, commander of 

 the National Antarctic Expedition, on April 9. 



Dr. Hobart Amory Hare and Dr. Francis 

 Xavier Dercmn entertained recently as guests 

 of honor at dinner at the Art Club, Philadel- 

 phia, Drs. E. Anthony Spitzka and George 

 McClellan, recently appointed professors of 

 anatomy in Jefferson Medical College. 



Me. H. H. Clayton, meteorologist of the 

 Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, has ac- 

 cepted the position of professor in the U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, and will assume his duties 

 in Washington on about July 1. 



Mr. a. F. Crider, of the United States 

 Geological Survey, has been appointed state 

 geologist of Mississippi and professor of geol- 

 ogy in the university of the same state. The 

 line of work first undertaken by the state sur- 

 vey will be an investigation of the cement 

 resouvces, the clays and the lignites. 



Dr. Alfred W. G. Wilson has resigned his 

 appointment as demonstrator in geology at 



