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haps, to still further increase the salary of the 

 president. Nor shall I object to the attendance 

 of ' Taxpayer ' before the Board of Estimate to 

 oppose, if he see fit, but there in the open that 

 we may know what interest he represents. 



Edwaed M. Shepabd, 

 Chairman, Board of Trustees, College of 

 the City of Ifeiv York 

 New Yoek, 

 June 10, 1907 



SCIENTIFIC KOTES AND NEWS 



Princeton University has conferred its 

 doctorate of laws on President Alexander 

 Humphreys, of the Stevens Institute of Tech- 

 nology, and Dr. Edward G. Janeway, pro- 

 fessor of medicine and dean of the University 

 and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. 



Columbia University has conferred the 

 doctorate of laws on Dr. Elmer E. Brown, 

 U. S. commissioner of education, and on Dr. 

 Henry F. Osborn, Da Costa professor of 

 zoology in the university and curator of verte- 

 brate paleontology in the American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Medical Association at Atlantic City officers 

 were elected as follows : President^ Dr. Her- 

 bert L. Burrell, Boston; first vice-president. 

 Dr. Edwin Walker, Evansville, Ind. ; second 

 vice-presidentj Dr. Hiram R. Burton, Lewes, 

 Del. ; third vice-president. Dr. George W. 

 Crile, Cleveland; fourth vice-president. Dr. J. 

 Blair Stewart, Atlantic City; secretary. Dr. 

 George H. Simmons, Chicago; treasurer. Dr. 

 Frank Billings, Chicago. Drs. T. J. Happel, 

 Trenton, Tennessee, W. W. Grant, Denver, 

 and Philip Marvel were reelected to the board 

 of trustees. 



Dr. Thomas E. Davis, of Pittsburg, has 

 been elected president of the American Aca- 

 demy of Medicine. 



Aided by another grant from the Hodgkins 

 Fund, held by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 Professor A. Lawrence Botch, director of the 

 Blue Hill Observatory, will execute at St. 

 Louis a sixth series of experiments with 

 hallons-sondes next October, a season when 

 observations at great heights in the free air 

 are lacking in America. 



Dr. Frank M. Andrews, who has been pro- 

 moted to an associate professorship of botany 

 at the University of Indiana, has been given 

 leave of absence, and will spend the coming 

 year at the German universities and the 

 Naples Zoological Station. 



Dr. N. a. Cobb, formerly pathologist to the 

 government of New South Wales, Australia, 

 more recently director of the division of 

 pathology and physiology, Sugar Planters' 

 Experiment Station, Honolulu, Hawaii, is 

 now connected with the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Mr. H. a. Buehler, assistant state geolo- 

 gist of Missouri, has resigned to engage in 

 professional work. His resignation will take 

 effect on July 1, 1907. Mr. Buehler's suc- 

 cessor has not been selected. 



Professor Charles N. Gould, of Norman, 

 Oklahoma, reports the discovery, in the Ar- 

 buekle Mountains, of immense deposits of 

 glass sand. Analyses made in the laboratories 

 of the State University of Oklahoma indicate 

 that the sand is more than 99 per cent, pure 

 silica with no trace of iron. The discovery 

 of this sand so near the extensive gas fields 

 now being developed in that region is a matter 

 of economic as well as of scientific interest. 



Assistant Professor George A. Reisner, 

 now on leave of absence from Harvard Uni- 

 versity during archeological investigations in 

 Palestine and Egypt, has been appointed by 

 the Egyptian government archeologist-in- 

 charge of the government excavations which 

 are being commenced in the Nile Valley to 

 the south of Aswan. The work will consist 

 essentially in carrying out the excavations 

 necessary to insure the thorough subterranean 

 examination of that portion of the territory 

 which will be submerged by the Aswan Reser- 

 voir when at its full height of 113 meters 

 above sea level. 



At a meeting of the Jackson County Med- 

 ical Society, held in Jefferson, Ga., on April 

 10, a monument to the memory of Dr. Craw- 

 ford W. Long was presented by the society to 

 the city of Jefferson and Jackson County. 



