May 31, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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ableness. It must prove most useful in the 

 better class of tigli schools. 



Charles E. Besset 

 The Univebsitt of Nebraska 



LINN^US AND THE NEW YORK ACADEMY 

 OP SCIENCES 

 The commemoratioii on May 23 by the 

 New York Academy of Sciences of the two- 

 hundredth anniversary of the birth of Lin- 

 nseus took place in accordance with the pro- 

 gram that has already been printed in Sci- 

 ence. In the morning exercises were held in 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 

 where there was an exhibition of animals and 

 minerals known to Linnaeus; a presentation 

 of letters by delegates from other societies, 

 and an address by Dr. J. A. Allen on ' Lin- 

 naeus and American Zoology.' After luncheon 

 had been served to invited guests, the exercises 

 were resumed in the New York Botanical 

 Garden, where there was an exhibition of 

 American plants known to Linnseus; an ad- 

 dress by Dr. P. A. Eydberg on ' Linn£eus and 

 American Botany,' and lantern slides of 

 American flowers known to Linnaeus were 

 exhibited by Dr. H. H. Eusby. In a walk 

 through the garden, trees known to Linnaeus 

 were pointed out by Dr. W. A. Murrill. Later 

 the bridge over the Bronx River on Pelham 

 Parkway between the Botanical Garden and 

 the Zoological Park was dedicated in memory 

 of Linnaeus and a bronze tablet was unveiled. 

 The tablet was presented by Dr. N. L. Brit- 

 ton, president of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences, and was accepted by the commis- 

 sioner of parks of the Bronx. Addresses were 

 also made by Dr. George P. Kunz, president 

 of the American Scenic and Historic Preser- 

 vation Society, and by Mr. Emil P. Johnson, 

 president of the United Swedish Societies of 

 New York. There was singing by the Amer- 

 ican Union of Swedish Singers, and the 

 Swedish minister to this country and the 

 Swedish consul of New York City were 

 present. Subsequently there was an exhibit 

 of animals known to Linnasus in the New 

 York Zoological Park. In the evening the 

 exercises were continued at the Museum of 

 the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 



addresses being made by Mr. P. A. Lucas and 

 Mr. E. L. Morris. There was a reception at 

 the New York Aquarium given by the New 

 York Zoological Society to the New York 

 Academy of Sciences. The committee of the 

 New York Academy in charge of the celebra- 

 tions was: Nathaniel L. Britton, Hermon 0. 

 Bumpus, William T. Hornaday, Frederic A. 

 Lucas, Charles H. Townsend, William Mor- 

 ton Wheeler. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES ATTD NEWS 

 M. DouviLLE has been elected a member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences in the section 

 of mineralogy in the place of Bertrand. 



Professor A. S. Wahthin, of the University 

 of Michigan, has been elected president of the 

 American Association of Pathologists and 

 Bacteriologists. 



Professor Charles P. Burgess, of the de- 

 partment of chemical engineering of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, was elected to the presi- 

 dency of the American Electro-chemical So- 

 ciety at the fifth annual meeting held in 

 Philadelphia. 



On the occasion of the centennial of the 

 University of Maryland honorary degrees will 

 be conferred as follows : Doctor of science — 

 Dr. Henry D. Fry, Baltimore; Dr. Alexander 

 C. Abbott, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. 

 Henry J. Berkley, Johns Hopkins University; 

 Edwin S. Faust, Strassburg; Dr. Isaac Stone, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Dr. Charles P. Noble, 

 Philadelphia; J. Homer Wright, Harvard 

 University; Dr. J. Whitridge Williams, Johns 

 Hopkins University; Dr. N. G. Xeirle, Balti- 

 more. Doctor of laws — ^Dr. Wm. T. Council- 

 man, Harvard University; Major-surgeon 

 James Carroll, U. S. A., Washington, D. C; 

 Dr. Simon Flexner, Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research; Professor W. D. Halli- 

 burton, King's College, London; President G. 

 Stanley Hall, Clark University; Dr. Francis 

 L. Patton, Princeton, N. J. ; Judge James Mc- 

 Sherry, Frederick, Md. ; Surgeon General 

 Walter Wyman, U. S. N., Washington, D. C; 

 Dr. S. J. Meltzer, New York City; Professor 

 William T. Porter, Harvard Medical School; 

 Dr. William J. Mayo, Rochester, Minn.; Pro- 



