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dinner was tendered to him by fifty of his 

 ' scientific friends and admirers in Greater 

 New York.' 



It appears from the Year Book of the Car- 

 negie Institution that Dr. William H. Welch, 

 Dr. Henry S. Pritchett and the Hon. William 

 H. Taft have been elected trustees. Mr. Wil- 

 liam Wirt Howe and the Hon. Wayne Mac- 

 Veagh have resigned from the board. Dr. 

 John S. Billings was re-elected chairman, the 

 Hon. Elihu Root, vice-chairman, and Mr. 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, secretary for three years. 

 Appropriations for the ensuing year were made 

 as follows: 

 Publication fund, to be continuously 



available $70,000 



Administration 50,000 



Grants for departments and large 



projects 443,200 



Grants for previously implied in vea Liga- 

 tions, new minor investigations, and re- 

 search associates and assistants 98,100 



Total $661,300 



At the annual banquet of the National 

 Geographic Society the first award of its gold 

 medal was made to Commander Peary. 



The international cup balloon race will be 

 held at St. Louis on October 19. It is also 

 announced that an aeronautic congress has 

 been arranged in connection with the James- 

 town exposition with Dr. Alexander Graham 

 Bell as president. 



Dr. Willum Duahe, professor of physics 

 in the University of Colorado, at Boulder, 

 has resigned to accept a position in the Curie 

 Radium Laboratory at Paris. The fund pro- 

 viding for Dr. Duane's work is the gift of 

 Mr. Andrew Carnegie. 



Dr. W. W. Keen has been made professor 

 emeritus of surgery in the Jefferson Medical 

 College, Philadelphia, and expects to spend a 

 year abroad. Dr. Keen will celebrate his 

 seventieth birthday on January 19. 



There was recently given at the Chemists' 

 Club, New York City, a dinner to celebrate 

 the twenty-fifth anniversary of the receipt of 

 the doctorate of the University of Wiirzburg 

 by Dr. William Hallock, professor of physics 

 at Coltmibia University and dean of the fac- 

 ulty of pure science. 



Dr. Bashpord Dean, professor of vertebrate 

 zoology in Colmnbia University and honorary 

 curator of fishes in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, has been elected president 

 of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Economic Association, Professor J. W. Jenks, 

 of Cornell University, was elected president. 



Dr. E. W. Benecke, professor of geology 

 at Strasburg, and Dr. A. von Koenen, pro- 

 fessor of geology at Gottingen, have retired 

 from active service. 



Fritz Zerban, Ph.D. (Munich), has suc- 

 ceeded to the place of Dr. C. A. Browne, Jr., 

 as chemist at the Louisiana sugar station. 



Mr. J. B. MowRY has been appointed com- 

 missioner of forestry in Ehode Island. 



A Russian expedition for the exploration 

 of the Arctic regions is being equipped under 

 the leadership of Lieutenant-Colonel Sergeyeff. 

 The expedition, which will last for several 

 years, will start from Yeniseisk and try to 

 reach Bering Strait. 



Dr. Ritz Romer has been appointed director 

 of the Museum of the Senckenberg Natural 

 History Society of Frankfort. 



Professor F. Cavara has been appointed 

 director of the Botanical Garden at Naples. 



Dr. H. R. Mill has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Vienna Geographical Society. 



The sixth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course will be delivered by Professor Francis 

 G. Benedict, of Wesleyan University, on 

 January 12, at 8:30 p.m., at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine. Subject : ' Metabolism 

 during fasting.' The celebrated professional 

 faster, Succi, who has been the subject of 

 many classical experiments on metabolism, 

 will be present. 



Miss Clara Eaton Cummings, Hunnewell 

 professor of cryptogamic botany in Wellesley 

 College, died in Concord, N. H., on December 

 28. Professor Cummings had been long iden- 

 tified with the history of the college. Enter- 

 ing as a student in 1876, a year after the first 

 opening, she at once showed so marked a talent 

 for the study of botany, especially for the 

 identification of cryptogamic flora, that she 

 was retained as a permanent member of that 



