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SCIENCE. 



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cial scientific papers and more general ad- 

 dresses, to meet friends and form acquaint- 

 ances, than the meeting of the American 

 Association and the affiliated societies which 

 begins at Ithaca informally on Thursday even- 

 ing of nest week and formally on the follow- 

 ing day. 



SCIE'NTIPIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Ordre pour le Merite has been con- 

 ferred on Professor Robert Koch by the Ger- 

 man Emperor. 



The Society of Arts has awarded its Albert 

 medal to Sir Joseph W. Swan, F.E.S., 'for 

 the important part he took in the invention 

 of the incandescent electric lamp, and for his 

 invention of the carbon process of photo- 

 graphic printing.' 



Professor F. E. Nipher has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Physical Society of 

 France. 



Columbia University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Daniel Giraud Elliot, 

 curator of zoology. Field Museum of Natural 

 History, and on Baron Kanehiro Takaki, sur- 

 geon-general (reserve) of the Japanese navy. 



Syracuse University has conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of laws on Professor Lucien M. 

 Underwood, professor of botany at Columbia 

 University. 



St. Lawrence University has conferred its 

 doctorate of science on Mr. Willis L. Moore, 

 chief of the Weather Bureau. 



At its recent commencement. Union College 

 conferred the honorary degree of doctor of 

 science on C. J. H. Woodbury, of the Amer- 

 ican Bell Telephone Company, Boston, Mass.; 

 on E. W. Rice, Jr., of the General Electric 

 Company, Schenectady, N. T., and on Charles 

 S. Prosser, professor of geology in the Ohio 

 State University. 



The Western University of Pennsylvania, 

 at its commencement on June 12, conferred 

 the honorary degree of Sc.D. upon Mr. Will- 

 iam T. Hornaday, the director of the New 

 York Zoological Garden at Bronx Park. 

 Owing to recent illness Mr. Hornaday was 



not able to be present, and the degree was 

 received for him by Dr. W. J. Holland, the 

 director of the Carnegie Museum, who said: 

 " Mr. Hornaday is to-day one of the very 

 foremost men in his calling. He it was who 

 first suggested the establishment of the Na- 

 tional Zoological Park in Washington, and 

 from the very beginning until the present 

 hour he has watched over and guided the 

 development of the Zoological Garden in New 

 York until it is to-day the most perfect, the 

 most beautiful and most generously supported 

 institution of its kind upon the globe. His 

 aim has been to popularize knowledge of the 

 animal world. His latest work, ' The Amer- 

 ican Natural History,' is a splendid book. In 

 honoring Mr. Hornaday the univereity is hon- 

 oring herself." 



The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 which has subsidized the horticultural work 

 of Mr. Luther Burbank for a term of years, 

 has recently taken additional measures to ex- 

 tend and facilitate the development of this 

 project. Dr. George PI. Shull, of the depart- 

 ment of experimental evolution, has been sent 

 to Santa Rosa to begin a study of Mr. Bur- 

 bank's horticultural operations. It is pro- 

 posed to prepare a volume descriptive of note- 

 worthy products and to examine all available 

 results of breeding experiments with respect 

 to their bearing on questions of hybridization, 

 selection, heredity and variation. The entire 

 investigation is in charge of a committee con- 

 sisting of President Woodward; Dr. C. B. 

 Davenport, director of the department of ex- 

 perimental evolution; Dr. D. T. MacDougal, 

 director of the department of botanical re- 

 search, and Dr. A. G. Mayer, director of the 

 department of marine biology. The commit- 

 tee has recently returned from a conference 

 with Mr. Burbank, during the course of which 

 an inspection was made of the breeding 

 grounds and plantations at Santa Rosa and 

 Sebastopol. 



Professor R. S. Tarr, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, will conduct an expedition to Alaska 

 during the coming summer, with four assist- 

 ants and a number of packers. This expedi- 

 tion will study the Malaspina and Bering 



