March 8, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



397 



Mr. r. Darwin has been nominated to rep- 

 resent Cambridge University at the celebra- 

 tion of the two hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Linnsens, to be held at Upsala in May. 



Mr. H. F. Newall, of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, assistant director of the observatory, 

 has been elected president of the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society, in succession to Mr. W. H. 



The Carnegie Institution has renewed its 

 grant of $2,000 to Dr. A. A. Noyes, professor 

 of physical chemistry at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



At the celebration of Washington's Birth- 

 day at Lehigh University, the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor of science was conferred on 

 Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, director of the 

 Carnegie Technical Schools of Pittsburg, Pa. 

 The orator of the day was the Hon. W. U. 

 Hensel, of Lancaster, Pa., ex-attorney general 

 of Pennsylvania. 



Professor G. Cantor, of Halle, has been 

 made an honorary member of the Russian 

 Mathematical Society. 



Professor H. M'Leod, F.R.S., director of 

 the Royal Society's catalogue of scientific 

 papers, will receive the honorary degree of 

 LL.D. from the University of St. Andrews on 

 April 2. 



The administration of the new president of 

 Brazil, Dr. Affonso August Moreira Penna, 

 who was inaugurated on the fifteenth of 

 November last, promises to open a new era 

 for science in that country. For the portfolio 

 of Industry, Highways and Public Works, he 

 has called Dr. Miguel Calmon du Pin e Al- 

 meida, formerly secretary of agriculture of 

 the state of Bahia where he fully justified his 

 reputation as one of the most able and far- 

 sighted of the younger generation of Brazilian 

 engineers and administrators. One of the first 

 acts of Dr. Calmon was to initiate a general 

 geological investigation of the country under 

 the direction of the well-known geologist Mr. 

 Orville A. Derby who organized and for many 

 years directed the geographical and geological 

 survey of the state of Sao Paulo. Mr. Derby 

 will be assisted by such native and foreign 



resident geologists as have made valuable con- 

 tributions to the geology of Brazil. The new 

 department is denominated Servigo Oeologico 

 e Mineralogico do Brazil and will be located 

 in Rio de Janeiro. The leading feature of its 

 program is the rapid reconnaissance of the 

 general geology of the country with detailed 

 investigation of the districts that on account 

 of their mineral wealth, deficiencies of water 

 supply or other reasons offer special scientific 

 and economic interest for investigation. Ow- 

 ing to the lack of proper topographic maps, no 

 systematic map work will for the present be 

 attempted. 



Mr. W. R. Buttenshaw, a scientific as- 

 sistant in the imperial department of agricul- 

 ture for the British West Indies, has been ap- 

 pointed botanist in the agricultural depart- 

 ment of India. 



The tenth lecture in the Harvey Society 

 course will be given at the New York Academy 

 of Medicine on March 8, at 8:30 p.m., by Dr. 

 Friedrich Miiller, professor of medicine at the 

 University of Munich, Germany, on ' Neuroses 

 of the Heart.' This is the last lecture of the 

 present year's series. All interested are in- 

 vited to be present. 



Professor Andrew C. Lawson, of the Uni- 

 versity of California, presented an address 

 before the Washington Academy of Sciences 

 on January 31, 1907, on ' The Dominant Tec- 

 tonic Lines of California.' It was discussed 

 by Drs. G. F. Becker, Waldemar Lindgren 

 and Ralph Arnold. Dr. Charles B. Daven- 

 port, director of the Laboratory for Experi- 

 mental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., 

 addressed the Washington Academy of Sci- 

 ences on February 26, 1907, on ' Heredity and 

 Mendel's Law.' The address was illustrated 

 by lantern slides and was discussed by Pro- 

 fessors 0. F. Cook and W. J. Spillman. 



Professor Charles Palache, of Harvard 

 University, delivered in February a course of 

 six lectures in the Geological Department of 

 the University of Wisconsin on the subject, 

 'Recent Developments in the Study of Crys- 

 tals.' 



