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from the Johns Plopkins University in 1906, 

 in which year he was appointed assist- 

 ant geologist to the Geological Survey, being 

 made geologist in 1901. He has had charge 

 of the geological work in New England, and 

 is now geologist in charge of petrology. 



On March 13, a banquet was tendered to 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, by the members of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, on the occasion 

 of his resignation as director to become secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution. Two 

 hundred and forty-four persons were present. 

 Colonel H. C. Rizer presided, and addresses 

 were made by the following men : Mr. Bailey 

 Willis for the geologic branch, Mr. W. M. 

 Beaman for the topographic branch, Mr. M. 

 O. Leighton for the water resources branch, 

 Mr. S. J. Kiibel for the division of engraving, 

 and Mr. F. H. Newell for the reclamation 

 service. Dr. Charles B. Dudley spoke of the 

 fuel-testing work of the Geological Survey. 

 A letter from Mr. Arnold Hague was read, 

 as also a telegram from Mr. Henry Gannett. 

 Mr. Gifford Pinchot paid a tribute to Mr. Wal- 

 cott in relation to the forestry work of the 

 government. The closing address was by the 

 Hon. James E. Garfield, secretary of the in- 

 terior. 



Lord Lister celebrated his eightieth birth- 

 day on April 5. Congratulations were re- 

 ceived from all parts of the world, and a com- 

 mittee acquainted him with the plan to re- 

 publish his scientific papers. 



M. Jules Tannery, professor of differential 

 and integral calculus at the Sorbonne, has 

 been elected a member of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Professor J. Burkitt Webb, of the chair of 

 mathematics and mechanics, and Professor 

 William E. Geyer, of the chair of physics, of 

 the Stevens Institute of Technology, will re- 

 tire from active service at the close of the 

 present academic year. 



Professor W. O. Crosby, in charge of the 

 work in economic geology in the Massfichu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, will retire from 

 active teaching at the end of this year on the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching. As student and teacher. Professor 



Crosby has been connected with the Institute 

 of Technology continuously for a period of 

 thirty-six years, and the connection is to con- 

 tinue ; but the time heretofore given to routine 

 instruction will now be devoted to research. 



Officers of the Michigan Academy of Sci- 

 ences have been elected as follows: President, 

 Mark S. W. Jefferson, State Normal School, 

 Ypsilanti; secretary and treasurer, E. E. 

 Bogue, Michigan Agricultural College; assist- 

 ant secretary, Walter G. Sackett, Michigan 

 Agricultural College; librarian, G. P. Burns, 

 Ann Arbor; vice-president, hotany section, W. 

 E. Praeger, Kalamazoo; zoology, A. G. Euth- 

 ven, Ann Arbor; geology. Professor E. H. 

 Krauss, Ann Arbor; sanitary science, J. G. 

 Cummings, Ann Arbor. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of the department 

 of geology and geography and dean of the 

 graduate school, will represent Harvard Uni- 

 versity at the dedication of the new building 

 of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburg. 



Professor Carl Hess, of Wiirzburg, will be 

 a guest of the section on ophthalmology of the 

 American Medical Association at the Atlantic 

 City meeting in June. He comes in April to 

 deliver lectures before the universities of 

 Pennsylvania, Chicago and New York. 



Dr. Herbert J. Webber, chief of the Divi- 

 sion of Plant Breeding Investigations of the 

 Department of Agriculture, assumed last week 

 the duties of the chair of plant biology at Cor- 

 nell University. 



Dr. J. W. Blankinship, recently professor 

 of botany at the Montana Agricultural Col- 

 lege, is now connected with the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 



Mr. C. W. Gilmore, of the National Mu- 

 seum, under a grant just approved by the sec- 

 retary of the Smithsonian Institution, will be 

 sent to Alaska to undertake paleontological 

 explorations with a special view to securing 

 specimens of fossil mammals. Continuing his 

 work over two seasons, 1907 and 1908, he will 

 confine his explorations mainly to the Yukon 

 Basin region southeast of Norton Sound, and 

 to the Buckland Eiver region southeast of 

 Kotzebue Sound. Mr. Madren, who was Mr. 



