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in my hands the high oifice of chancellor 

 would be an absolute sinecure." 



S. H. Gage, professor of histology and em- 

 bryology at Cornell University, will retire at 

 the close of the present academic year from 

 teaching to devote himself to research, under 

 the provision of the Carnegie Foundation for 

 the Advancement of Teaching, which provides 

 for an allowance after twenty-five years of 

 service. Dr. James Law, director of the New 

 York Veterinary College, having reached the 

 age of seventy years, will retire with an allow- 

 ance from the foundation. He will be suc- 

 ceeded by Dr. V. A. Moore, professor of com- 

 parative pathology. Professor Gage will be 

 succeeded by Dr. B. F. Kingsbury, now as- 

 sistant professor of physiology. 



Mr. Chaeles F. Choate, Jr., a Massachu- 

 setts lawyer, who graduated from Harvard 

 College in 1888, has been made a regent of the 

 Smithsonian Institution to succeed the Hon. 

 Eichard Olney. 



Dr. Philip Lenaed, professor of physics at 

 Heidelberg, has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Eoyal Institution of Great 

 Britain. 



The following have been elected honorary 

 and foreign members of the Chemical Society : 

 A. E. J. Gautier, Paris; A. Haller, Paris; 

 J. W. Hittorf, Miinster; J. A. Le Bel, Paris; 

 H. L. Le Chatelier, Paris; T. W. Eichards, 

 Harvard University; and O. Wallaeh, Got- 

 tingen. 



The Hon. James Bryce, British Ambas- 

 sador at Washington, has accepted the ap- 

 pointment to be the nest Dodge lecturer on 

 the " Eesponsibilities of Citizenship," at Yale 

 University. The lectures will be delivered 

 next fall; 



Dr. C. B. EoBiNSOisr, for the past sixteen 

 months assistant curator in the New York 

 Botanical Garden, has sailed for the Philip- 

 pine Islands, where he has been appointed 

 economic botanist in the Bureau of Science. 



Mr. Egbert Eidgwat has recently left 

 Washington for a six months' ornithological 

 expedition to Costa Eica, in the interests of 

 the U. S. National Museum. 



Mr. J. C. Simpson, advanced student, of 

 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, has been ap- 

 pointed to occupy the university table at the 

 laboratory of the Marine Biological Associa- 

 tion at Plymouth. 



Me. W. W. Eggleston has been assigned a 

 research scholarship for two months in the 

 New York Botanical Garden to aid him in 

 continuing his work upon North American 

 Thorns. 



De. Hall-Edwaeds, of Birmingham, has 

 had his left hand amputated, owing to his 

 having contracted the disease known as " X- 

 ray dermatitis." Dr. Hall-Edwards was the 

 pioneer operator with the Eontgen rays in 

 Great Britain. He was senior radiographer 

 with the Imperial Yeomanry in the South 

 African war, and he is surgeon radiographer 

 to the General Hospital. His right hand is 

 affected, but it is hoped that this will be saved. 

 In spite of his great suffering and the heavy 

 sacrifice. Dr. Hall-Edwards declares his inten- 

 tion of resuming his special work as soon as 

 he is able to do so. 



The Special Board for Biology and Geol- 

 ogy at Cambridge University reports that the 

 Gordon Wigan income for biology and geol- 

 ogy has been applied during 1907 as follows : 



(a) a grant of £50 a year to Dr. D. Sharp for 

 a period of three years, or such part of it dur- 

 ing which he holds the curatorship in zoology; 



(b) a grant of £50 for one year to Professor 

 Seward to enable the Botanic Gardens Syndi- 

 cate to offer greater facilities for plant-breed- 

 ing experiments; (c) a grant of £50 to Pro- 

 fessor Hughes to enable Mr. E. A. N. Arber, 

 of Trinity College, to continue his researches 

 into the stratigraphical and geographical dis- 

 tribution of fossil plants. 



The Smith's prizes at Cambridge Univer- 

 sity have been adjudged as follows: W. J. 

 Harrison, B.A., Clare College, for his essay, 

 " Problems in the Wave-motion of Viscous 

 Liquids " ; J. E. Littlewood, B. A., Trinity 

 College, for his essay, " On the Asymptotic 

 Behavior of Integral Functions of Zero Order, 

 and Allied Problems " ; J. Mercer, B. A., Trin- 

 ity College, for his essay, " On the Solution 

 of Ordinary Linear Differential Equations 

 having Doubly Periodic Coefiicients." The 



