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The University of Cambridge has conferred 

 the honorary degree of M.A. upon Mr. Sidney 

 Herbert Ray, assistant master at St. Olga 

 Street Council Schools, Bethnal Green, in 

 recognition of his study of Oceanic languages. 



The Vienna Academy of Sciences has made 

 an appropriation of $300 to Dr. Robert Falta 

 for his work on diabetes. 



Professor W. A. Kellerman, of the Ohio 

 State University, is now in the republic of 

 Guatemala prosecuting his fourth mycological 

 expedition to that country, assisted by stu- 

 dents H. E. Barber, S. B. Stowe and J. F. 

 Zimmer. The party will collect parasitic 

 fungi and material in related branches of 

 natural history, returning about April 1. 



Dr. George A. Dorsey, curator of An- 

 thropology in the Field Museum of Natural 

 History of Chicago since 1897, has begun a 

 long trip in the interests of the museum. He 

 visits first the leading museums on the con- 

 tinent and then proceeds to Ceylon by way of 

 Egypt. In Ceylon he will study the Rock 

 Veddahs, considered the lowest in culture of 

 all the inhabitants of the earth. He then 

 crosses to Southern India and on to Siam, 

 Sumatra and Java. From Java he proceeds to 

 Australia and then to New Zealand where he 

 will study the Maoris. His next objective will 

 be various islands of the Melanesian group. 

 On his way home he will stop at the Philip- 

 pine Islands to explore some of the little 

 known parts of Mindanao and Mindoro. 



The Herbert Baxter Adams prize of $200.00 

 offered biannually by The American Historical 

 Association for the encouragement of his- 

 torical research and offered in 1907 for the 

 best unpublished monograph in the field of 

 European history, has been awarded to Wil- 

 liam Spence Robertson, of Western Reserve 

 University, and Edward B. Krehbiel, of the 

 University of Chicago. The prize is to be 

 divided between them. The prize-winning 

 theses will be published by The American 

 Historical Association both as separate pub- 

 lications and as parts of the annual report of 

 the association. Dr. Robertson's thesis was 

 on " Francisco de Miranda and the Revolu- 

 tionizing of Spanish America." Professor 



George L. Burr, of Cornell University, was 

 acting chairman of the committee on award. 



The secretary of the Lamarck memorial, 

 adding to his former report, records that he 

 has received contributions from the follow- 

 ing institutions and societies: Philadelphia 

 Academy of Sciences, N. T. Zoological So- 

 ciety, American Paleontologists, American 

 Zoologists, American Naturalists, American 

 Museum of Natural History, Washington 

 Biological Society; and from the following 

 individuals : Messrs. W. S. Marshall, George 

 F. Eaton, Metcalf, Townsend, Hargitt, C. W. 

 Dodge, Davenport, Conklin, Hussakof and 

 BaU. 



The funeral of Lord Kelvin at West- 

 minster Abbey, on December 23, was im- 

 pressive in character. The pall-bearers were: 

 The Lord Rayleigh, O.M., president of the 

 Royal Society; The Right Hon. J. Morley, 

 O.M., secretary of state for India; Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie, K.C.B., president of the Geo- 

 logical Society; Professor A. Crum Brown, 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh; The Master of 

 Peterhouse, Cambridge; Sir J. Wolfe Barry, 

 K.C.B., Institution of Civil Engineers; Sir 

 Edward H. Seymour, O.M., admiral of the 

 fleet; M. Gaston Darboux, perpetual secretary 

 of the Academy of Sciences of France; The 

 Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, high 

 commissioner for Canada ; Sir George Darwin, 

 K.C.B., University of Cambridge; Dr. Mc- 

 Alister, principal of the University of Glas- 

 gow; Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, Institution of 

 Electrical Engineers. 



A MEMORIAL meeting in honor of Lord 

 Kelvin was held at the United Engineers 

 Building, New York City, on January 12, 

 under the auspices of the American Institute 

 of Electrical Engineers. Mr. Henry G. Stott 

 presided, and among those who made addresses 

 were Dr. Elihu Thomson, Rear Admiral 

 George W. Melville and Professor E. L. 

 Nichols, of Cornell University. 



Professor Boeckh, an eminent medical 

 statistician and emeritus director of the Berlin 

 Statistical Bureau, has died at the age of 

 eighty-three years. 



