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an honorary doctor of applied science by the 

 Vienna Technical Institute. 



The University of Bologna has conferred 

 an honorary doctorate of philosophy on Pro- 

 fessor Augusto Eighi, the physicist, on the 

 occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his 

 doctorate. 



Dr. H. 0. VoGEL, of the Astrophysical Ob- 

 servatory at Potsdam, has been awarded the 

 Maximilian order for art and science of the 

 Bavarian government. 



Dr. George F. Kunz, of New York City, has 

 received the decoration of Knight of the 

 Legion of Honor of the Prench Government 

 in recognition of his scientific work. 



Professor Theodore W. Eiohards, of 

 Harvard University, began his lectures at the 

 University of Berlin on May 4. 



Dr. W. C. Farabee, who is in direction of 

 an anthropological expedition from Harvard 

 University, has left Arequipa for explorations 

 among the Indian tribes at the headwaters of 

 the Amazon. 



Professor Henry E. Orampton, of Colum- 

 bia University, has left New York this week 

 for a second visit to the Island of Tahiti, 

 where he will spend four months in the study 

 of certain terrestrial molluscs. 



Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan Cornish, who were 

 at Kingston at the time of the recent earth- 

 quake, sailed on May 4 for Jamaica to study 

 the physical effects of the seismic shock and 

 the problem of reconstruction. Dr. Cornish 

 will give an account of his experiences to the 

 British Association and the Eoyal Geograph- 

 ical Society. 



Capt. J. Francis LeBaron will return to 

 the United States in May and resume his 

 practise as a consulting engineer. Capt. Le- 

 Baron has been two years in Eastern Nica- 

 ragua engaged in a study of the water powers 

 and water supplies. 



The class day address to the graduating 

 class of the Michigan College of Mines was 

 delivered by Dr. Ira Eemsen, president of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, on May 3, 1907. 



President C. S. Howe, of the Case School 

 of Applied Science, will give the commence- 



ment address at the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, from which he graduated in 

 1878. 



Professoe James F. Kemp, head of the de- 

 partment of geology of Columbia University, 

 has been appointed non-resident lecturer in 

 economic geology next year at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology. He will 

 deliver a course of twenty lectures. 



Dr. E. E. Brown, United States Commis- 

 sioner of Education, is to deliver five lectures 

 on the historical development of Connecticut 

 education at the Yale Summer School. 



The Croonian lecture of the Eoyal Society 

 was delivered by Professor J. B. Farmer, 

 F.E.S., on April 25, ' On the Essential Con- 

 stituents of the Nucleus and their Eelation 

 to the Organization of the Individual.' 



The Cambridge Historical Society will cele- 

 brate the birth of Louis Agassiz on May 27. 

 Brief addresses will be made by President 

 Eliot, Professor A. Lawrence Lowell, Professor 

 W. H. Niles, of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, and others. Letters will be 

 read from surviving pupils of Agassiz, who 

 are unable to be present. 



Charles H. Hinton, examiner in the Patent 

 Office and known for his publications in math- 

 ematics and logic, died suddenly in Washing- 

 ton, on April 30. Mr. Hinton was born in 

 London; graduated from Oxford University, 

 and was sixty-three years old at the time of 

 his death. 



M. AiME Laussedat, member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences and formerly director of 

 the Conservatory of Arts and Trades, has died 

 at the age of eighty-seven years. 



Dr. N. Wagener, emeritus professor of zool- 

 ogy at the University of St. Petersburg, has 

 died at the age of seventy-seven years. 



Dr. Harmee, the superintendent of the mu- 

 seum of zoology of Cambridge University, 

 announces the receipt of a cast of a skeleton 

 of Diprotodon Australis, presented by Dr. E. 

 C. Stirling F.E.S., director of the South Aus- 

 tralian Museum at Adelaide. Dr. Harmer 

 also records the gift of a valuable consignment 



