June 29, 190G.] 



SCIENCE. 



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1889 and has, perhaps, had a larger and more 

 intimate connection with the whole body of 

 teachers than any other man. The offer to 

 him of this retiring allowance was an act of 

 the highest regard for his work and places his 

 name at the head of the list of distinguished 

 men who have accepted such retiring allow- 

 ances from the Carnegie Foundation. 



Dr. W. W. Bailey, professor of botany at 

 Brown University, has retired from active 

 service. His colleagues have presented to 

 him a loving cup bearing the following in- 

 scription : " Presented to William Whitman 

 Bailey, A.M., LL.D., professor of botany, by 

 his associates in the faculty, in loving recog- 

 nition of twenty-nine years of honorable serv- 

 ice in Brown University, June, 1906." 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the de- 

 partment of botanical research of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Hollandsche Matschap- 

 pij van Wetenschappen. 



Princeton University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Mr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., 

 lecturer in zoology at the University of Cam- 

 bridge. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the University of 

 Chicago, has accepted a position in the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, New 

 York, and Dr. C. C. Guthrie, also of the 

 physiological department of the University 

 of Chicago, has accepted a call to St. Louis 

 University. 



' Mr. Howard S. Reed has resigned his posi- 

 tion as instructor in botany in the University 

 of Missouri and has taken an appointment in 

 the Bureau of Soils of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. He will be engaged in study- 

 ing problems in plant physiology in connection 

 with the fertility investigations of the Bureau 

 of Soils. 



Mr. Harold A. Whittaker, A.B. (Wiscon- 

 sin), has been appointed assistant bacteriolo- 

 gist for the state of Ohio. 



Professor J. G. McKendrick has resigned 

 the chair of physiology at Glasgow, which he 

 has held for thirty years. 



Dr. E1\rl von den Steinen has retired from 

 an associate professorship of ethnology in the 

 University of Berlin^ and the curatorship of 

 the museum of ethnology in order to devote 

 himself to scientific exploration. 



Mr. Haldane, M.P., British secretary of 

 state for war, opened the electrical laboratory 

 of the National Physical Laboratory on June 

 25. 



Major Leonard Darwin will lecture next 

 winter at Harvard University on ' Municipal 

 Ownership and Public Service Industries.' 



The course of Lane medical lectures of the 

 Cooper Medical College of San Francisco, be- 

 ginning on August 20, 1906, will be given by 

 John C. McVail, M.D., of Glasgow, Scotland. 

 The subjects of the lectures will be ' Practical 

 'Hygiene, Epidemics and Preventive Medicine.' 



Dr. W. H. Manwaring, of Indiana Univer- 

 sity, has been invited to give a paper before 

 the British Medical Association at its meeting 

 in Toronto in August. 



Professor K. Birkeland, of Christiania, 

 will read a paper before the Faraday Society, 

 London, this month, entitled ' Oxidation of 

 Atmospheric Nitrogen by Means of the Elec- 

 tric Arc' 



We learn from Nature that Dr. Bernhard 

 Mohr, of London, recently presented to the 

 museum of the German Chemical Society 100 

 letters written by the famous Liebig to Dr. 

 Mohr's father, the late Professor Friedrich 

 Mohr, of Bonn, during the years 1834 to 1869. 



Dr. Harrison Edwin Webster, formerly 

 professor of natural history at Union College, 

 professor of geology and natural history at the 

 University of Rochester and president of 

 Union College, died on June 16, at the age 

 of sixty-five years. 



George J. Snellus, F.R.S., a British metal- 

 lurgist, known for his improvements in the 

 manufacture of steel, died on June 20, at the 

 age of sixty-nine years. 



Dr. Rudolf Knietsch, the director of the 

 Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik, who ren- 

 dered important service in developing the 

 preparation of synthetic indigo, died on May 

 28 at the age of fifty-two years. 



