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Aitliur B. Lamb, of Harvard University. 

 Specific Heat of Salt Solutions $200 



John A. Parkhurst, of the Yerkes Observatory. 

 For the purchase of a Hartmann photom- 

 eter ■. . 225 



Professor Charles B. Thwing, of Syracuse 

 University. Thermo-electric Power of 

 Metals (second appropriation) 400 



Professor Edwin H. Hall, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. Thermo-electric Properties of Metals 125 



Professor Frederic E. Kester, of the Ohio 

 State University. Joule-Thomson Effect 

 in Gases 50 



Dr. Henry Pickering Bowditch, George 

 Higginson professor of physiology in the Har- 

 vard Medical School, has sent in his resigna- 

 tion to take effect at the end of the current 

 academic year. Dr. Bowditch graduated from 

 Harvard College in 1861 and from the Medical 

 School in 1868. He was appointed assistant 

 professor of physiology in 18Y1 and professor 

 in 1876. We regret to learn that Dr. Bow- 

 ditch's resignation is due to ill health. 



Professor W. Ostwald, of Leipzig, has 

 been elected a foreign member of the Danish 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Professor Lewis M. Haupt, A.M., Sc.D., 

 delivered a lecture on ' The Panama Problem,' 

 on May 3, before the students of Muhlenberg 

 College and the citizens of Allentown, Pa. 

 He will address the Engineering Department 

 of the University of Michigan on the subject 

 of ' The Emancipation of the Waterways and 

 Conunercial Highways ' the latter part of this 

 month. 



Professor Israel Cook Eussell, head of 

 the Department of Geology at the University 

 of Michigan, died on May 1, of pneumonia 

 after a brief illness. He was born at Gar- 

 rattsville, N. Y., in 1852, and studied at New 

 York University and Columbia University. 

 He was for a short time assistant professor of 

 geology at Columbia University and became 

 geologist in the U. S. Geological Survey in 

 1880. This position he subsequently retained. 

 In 1893 he became professor of geology in the 

 University of Michigan. Professor Russell 

 was vice-president of the American Associa- 

 tion in 1904 and was president of the Amer- 



ican Geological Association at the time of his 

 death. 



Professor Gabriel Oltramare, formerly 

 professor of mathematics at Geneva Univer- 

 sity, died on April 10, in his ninetieth year. 



The House Committee on coinage, weights 

 and measures on April 27 voted down a mo- 

 tion to report the Littauer bill establishing 

 the metric system of weights and measures. 



Dr. Nathan C. Sohaeffer, president of the 

 National Educational Association, writes from 

 the executive committee in session at the 

 Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, 111., on April 28, 

 " In view of the appalling calamity which has 

 visited San Francisco it is impossible for the 

 National Educational Association to hold its 

 meeting this year in that city. After fully 

 considering all the letters and telegrams 

 which have been received from all parts of the 

 United States, and after carefully weighing 

 what is due the people of San Erancisco, the 

 executive committee, under the authority con- 

 ferred upon it by the board of directors at its 

 last meeting — the board of trustees, now in 

 session, concurring — decides to postpone the 

 annual convention of the National Educa- 

 tional Association for one year, to a place yet 

 to be determined. They join in the hope that 

 the association may meet in San Francisco 

 as soon as feasible." 



The annual meeting of the South African 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 will be held at Kimberley on July 9-14, under 

 the presidency of Mr. G. F. Williams. 



The eighty-ninth annual meeting of the 

 Swiss Scientific Society will be held this year 

 at St. Gall from July 29 to August 1, under 

 the presidency of Dr. Ambiihl. 



Before the adjournment of the New York 

 legislature Governor Higgins signed a bill 

 creating the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Com- 

 mittee, and appropriating $25,000 to be ex- 

 pended by it for celebrating the tercentenary 

 of the discovery of the Hudson Eiver in 1609, 

 and of the first use of steam in the navigation 

 of the river by Robert Fulton in 1807. 



The spring lectures given in the lecture 

 hall of the museum building of the New York 



