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lege on May 13, tlie program being as follows : 

 Biographical, J. A. Udden, Ph.D., of Augus- 

 tana College ; ' The Place of Linne in the Sci- 

 entific World,' Charles E. Bessey, Ph.D., of 

 the University of Nebraska ; ' Varsang ' 

 (spring song) by Prince Gustaf, the Wenner- 

 berg Chorus ; ' Linne and the Love for Na- 

 ture,' E. K. Putnam, A.M., of Davenport 

 Academy of Sciences; remarks by Josua 

 Lindahl, Ph.D., of Cincinnati Museum of 

 Natural History, and P. A. Eydberg, Ph.D., 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. 



A SECOND series of tablets was unveiled in 

 the Hall of Fame of New York University on 

 Memorial Day, May 30. Addresses were made 

 by Governor ECughes of New York and Gov- 

 ernor Guild of Massachusetts. Among the 

 twelve tablets unveiled was one in memory of 

 Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, and one in 

 memory of Louis Agassiz. The tablet in 

 honor of Agassiz was unveiled under the 

 auspices of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science with brief addresses 

 by Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and Dr. Edward S. 

 Morse, director of the Peabody Institute of 

 Science. 



The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 

 ences commemorated the hundredth anniver- 

 sary of the birth of Agassiz by a meeting on 

 May 28. The principal address was made by 

 Dr. Eranklin W. Hooper, director of the insti- 

 tute. 



Sir Benjamin Baker, F.K.S., the eminent 

 British engineer, known among other im- 

 portant works for the Forth Bridge in Scot- 

 land and the Assouan Dam, died on May 19, 

 at the age of sixty-seven years. 



Dr. Alexander Buchan, F.E.S., the emi- 

 nent Scottish meteorologist, died on May 13, 

 at the age of seventy-eight years. 



Lieut. Gen. Zachariae, vice-president of the 

 International Geodetic Commission, died at 

 Copenhagen, on May 16, at the age of seventy- 

 two years. 



Dr. Guy Davenport Lombard, instructor in 

 histology in Cornell Medical College, died in 

 New York on May 22, at the age of thirty- 

 five years. 



Guy Warner Eastman, assistant in physics 

 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 was killed by a train in Boston on May 17. 

 Mr. Eastman was engaged in researches under 

 Professor A. A. Noyes and completed the work 

 for the degree of doctor of philosophy. He 

 was twenty-six years of age. 



Three Paris medical societies — the Societe 

 de Medecine et de Chirurgie Pratique, the 

 Societe de Medecine de Paris and the Societe 

 Medico-Chirurgicale— have combined together 

 under the title of Societe de Medecine. The 

 first meeting of the new society was held on 

 May 14 under the presidency of Dr. Paul 

 Coudray. 



The Seismological Observatory, erected at 

 the expense of the pope, was inaugurated on 

 May 19 at Valla di Pompeii, near Naples. 

 Father Alfani, director of the Florence Ob- 

 servatory, made the inaugural speech. Di- 

 rector Hagan and Vice-director Mannucci of 

 the Vatican Observatory were present. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 The University of Maryland will celebrate 

 from May 30 to June 2 the centennial of its 

 foundation. On Thursday, May 30, there will 

 be a reception of representatives from other 

 universities, alumni and invited guests and in 

 the afternoon an inspection of the buildings. 

 On the following day there will be addresses 

 by President Francis L. Paton, of Princeton 

 Theological Seminary, and by President G. 

 Stanley Hall, of Clark University, followed 

 by the conferring of regular and honorary 

 degrees. On Saturday there will be a recep- 

 tion at St. John's College, the academic de- 

 partment of the University of Maryland, when 

 a large shield with the seals of the two insti- 

 tutions and the coat of arms of the University 

 of Maryland will be presented to the college. 



The Michigan Agricultural College cele- 

 brated the semi-centennial of its foundation 

 from May 26 to 31. On May 28 and 29 the 

 annual meeting of the American Association 

 of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions was held at Lansing. On the twenty- 

 ninth addresses were made on the ' College 



