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[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 598. 



Oxford XjNn'ERSiTv will, on June 20, confer 

 the degree of doctor of science on Dr. Alex- 

 ander Graham Bell. 



Preliminary announcements have been sent 

 out by the secretary in regard to the joint 

 meeting of Section B of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science and 

 the American Physical Society, which will 

 be held at the time of the summer meet- 

 ing of the Association at Ithaca, June 29 

 to July 3. The announcement calls attention 

 to the fact, already noted here, that the formal 

 opening, with appropriate ceremonies, of the 

 new physical laboratory of Cornell University 

 will take place on the evening of Friday, June 

 29. 



At the celebration of the twentieth anni- 

 versary of the founding of the society of 

 Sigma Xi, which is to be held at Ithaca on 

 July 2, during the meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Dr. J. C. Branner, vice-president of Stanford 

 University, is to give an illustrated lecture 

 under the auspices of the society. His sub- 

 ject will be 'The Great California Earth- 

 quake.' 



The committee appointed by Governor 

 Pardee to investigate the causes of the recent 

 earthquake has presented a preliminary re- 

 port. The committee includes Professor 

 Andrew C. Lawson, of the State University; 

 Professor G. E. Gilbert, of the United States 

 Geological Survey; Professor Harry Fielding 

 Eeid, of the Johns Hopkins University; Pro- 

 fessor J. C. Branner, of Stanford University; 

 Professor Charles Burekhalter, of the Chabot 

 Observatory, and Professor W. W. Campbell, 

 director of Lick Observatory. 



Mr. William M. Chase has undertaken to 

 paint the portrait of President Angell, which 

 will be presented to the University of Mich- 

 igan. 



We learn from The Botanical Gazette that 

 Dr. E. ]Sr. Transeau, Alma College, Michigan, 

 has been appointed a member of the staff 

 of the Station for Experimental Evolution, at 

 Cold Spring Harbor. He will work at evolu- 

 tionary problems from the ecological side. 



Dr. E. von Dungern, professor of bacteriol- 

 ogy and hygiene at Freiburg, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the scientific section of the 

 Krebs Institute, Heidelberg. 



Professor Fridiana Cavara has been made 

 director of the Botanical Gardens at Naples. 



Dr. J. E. Payne, Harveian librarian of the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians, has been elected 

 to an honorary fellowship at Magdelene Col- 

 lege, Oxford. 



M. Paul Bruardel, professor of medical 

 jurispriidence at the University of Paris, has 

 presented his resignation in view of the fact 

 that he will shortly be seventy years of age. 



Professor D. E. Smith, of Teachers Col- 

 lege, Columbia University, has sailed for 

 Spain, where he will spend the summer in 

 seeking for early mathematical manuscripts 

 and text-books. 



After January 1, 190Y, the collection of 

 copper statistics for the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey will be in the hands of Mr. L. 

 C. Graton. During the coming summer Mr. 

 Graton will visit the principal copper camps 

 of the country, including those of the Lake 

 Superior, Bingham and Butte districts, as 

 well as the four great camps of Arizona at 

 Clifton, Bisbee, Globe and Jerome, and the 

 district about Redding, Cal. 



Dr. a. S. Warthin and Dr. F. G. Novy, of 

 the University of Michigan, have been invited 

 to give papers before the British Medical 

 Association at its meeting in Toronto in 

 August. 



President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton 

 University, and Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of 

 The Review of Reviews, have agreed to lec- 

 ture on American politics at Columbia Uni- 

 versity in the academic year 1906-7. The 

 lectures are made possible by the gift of $150,- 

 000 by Mr. George Blumenthal, to establish a 

 chair of politics. 



Dr. W. H. R. Rivers will deliver the 

 Croonian lectures before the Royal College of 

 Physicians of London on June 12, 14, 19 and 

 21, the subject selected being the action of 

 drugs on fatigue. 



In order to perpetuate the memory of the 

 late Professor Charles Emerson Beecher, who 



