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its commencement on June 12. A week later 

 the University of Michigan conferred upon 

 him the honorary degree of doctor of science. 



Among the recipients of the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor of laws, at the commencement 

 commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 foundation of Washington University, was 

 Professor William Trelease, who has held the 

 chair of botany in the institution since 1885. 



The Western University of Pennsylvania 

 has conferred its doctorate of laws on Daniel 

 Webster Hering, professor of physics in New 

 York University, and its doctorate of science 

 on Arthur Arton Hamerschlag, director of the 

 Carnegie Technical Schools at Pittsburgh. 



Me. John Fritz, pioneer in the iron and 

 steel industry in the United States, has re- 

 ceived the degree of doctor of engineering at 

 the Stevens Institute of Technology. 



On the occasion of the sixty-third annual 

 commencement of the University of Michigan 

 the honorary degree of doctor of laws was 

 conferred upon the Count de Montessus de 

 Ballore, the distinguished French seismologist. 



On the occasion' of the celebration of the 

 seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation of 

 Lafayette College, the addresses were made by 

 Professor J. McKeen Cattell, of Columbia 

 University, Professor W. B. Owen, of the col- 

 lege, and Professor Hugo Miinsterberg, of 

 Harvard University. The degree of doctor of 

 letters was conferred on Professor Miinster- 

 berg, and the degree of doctor of laws on Pro- 

 fessor Cattell. The degree of doctor of laws 

 was also conferred on Dr. E. W. Morley, 

 formerly professor of chemistry at Western 

 Reserve University, and the degree of doctor 

 of science on Dr. Frederick Starr, associate 

 professor of anthropology in the University of 

 Chicago. 



Beginning on Monday, June 24, Professor 

 Louis Kahlenberg will deliver a course of 

 fifteen lectures on modern chemistry at the 

 University of Washington, Seattle. In addi- 

 tion he will also give two lectures of a popular 

 nature on the subjects, ' The Human Side of 

 Some Great Chemists ' and ' The Pure Food 

 Movement.' 



Dr. Fbidtjof Nansen, the president for the 

 current year of the Social and Political Edu- 

 cation League, delivered his presidential ad- 

 dress, in the botanical theater of University 

 College, Gower Street, on June 26, his subject 

 being ' Science and Ethical Ideas.' Sir Oliver 

 Lodge presided. 



In accordance with the standing agreement 

 between Harvard University and the Cultus- 

 ministerium of the German government the 

 university has designated as visiting professor 

 at Cambridge, for the year 190Y-8, Paul 

 Clemen, Ph.D., professor of the history of 

 art at the University of Bonn, and provincial 

 conservator of the Ehine Province. 



Chancelor E. B. Andrews, of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, has been given a leave of 

 absence for four months, during which he will 

 travel in Europe. Dean Charles E. Bessey 

 will again be the acting chancelor. 



Dr. L. 0. Howard, chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology of the Department of Agriculture 

 and permanent secretary of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 

 who has been in Europe to secure parasites to 

 prey on the gypsy and brown-tail moths, has 

 sailed from Liverpool to New York. 



Professor Charles Schuchert, of Yale 

 University, curator of the geological collection 

 and head of Peabody Museum, will spend the 

 summer, with two assistants, in an extensive 

 geological excursion. The party will start 

 early in July and will examine, in order, the 

 coast formations and marl beds of New Jer- 

 sey, the Appalachian Mountain formations in 

 Western Maryland, above Harper's Ferry, and 

 the fossil formations of the Devonian and 

 Silurian Age in Western Tennessee. The last 

 part of the summer vvill be spent in the Ar- 

 buckle Mountains of Oklahoma, tracing the 

 sequence of the geological formations. 



Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, pathologist in the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, in charge 

 of the Subtropical Laboratory at Miami 

 Florida, has been making an extended tour of 

 inspection through the gulf states, and across 

 Texas, New Mexico and Arizona to California, 

 Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas and Ne- 



