ApBn, 3, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



559 



De. a. a. Michelson, professor of ptysics 

 in the University of Chicago, has been elected 

 an honorary member of the Royal Irish 

 Academy. 



Among those on whom the University of 

 Aberdeen has decided to confer the honorary 

 degree of LL.D., at the graduation ceremony 

 in April, is Professor W. D. Halliburton, 

 P.E.S., of King's College, London. 



Dr. Leo S. Eowe, of the faculty of the 

 Wharton school of finance and economy of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, has received 

 the honorary degree of doctor of laws from 

 the National University of La Plata. 



Dr. D. p. Penhallow, professor of botany 

 in McGill University, has been elected a gov- 

 ernor's fellow, to serve on the corporation in 

 the place of the late Dr. Harrington. 



Dr. and Mrs. IST. L. Britton and Dr. Arthur 

 Hollick, of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 sailed for Kingston, Jamaica, on February 

 22. They planned to make collections at the 

 western end of the island, and a Bahamian 

 schooner has been chartered for this purpose. 

 It is expected that a stop will be made in 

 eastern Cuba on the return voyage early in 

 April. 



Professor V. L. Kellogg, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, will be in Europe from April to De- 

 cember of this year. His address is care 

 French, Lemon and Co., Florence, Italy. 



Professor Herbert F. Egberts, of the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College and Ex- 

 periment Station, leaves for Europe in May, 

 returning about the middle of September. He 

 is commissioned from the Kansas Experiment 

 Station to inspect the wheat regions of central 

 and southern Europe in search of superior 

 sorts of hard wheats for introduction into 

 Kansas. 



Dr. J. E. Clark, professor of chemistry in 

 the Central University of Kentucky, sailed on 

 March 14 for Naples, to remain abroad till 

 next fall. He expects to spend three months 

 at the University of Berlin. 



Dr. a. S. Alexander, professor of veter- 

 inary science in the College of Agriculture 

 of the University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 



pointed a member of the committee which will 

 arrange a proper representation at the Ninth 

 International Veterinary Congress, which is 

 to meet this year at The Hague. 



Professor J. J. Green, formerly in charge 

 of the electrical engineering department of 

 Notre Dame University, has gone abroad to 

 make a tour of the more notable electrical 

 plants of Europe, and to attend the Marseilles 

 International Electrical Exposition. 



Alexander C. Lanier, assistant professor of 

 electrical engineering in the University of 

 Cincinnati, has resigned and will proceed with 

 higher studies in the Harvard Graduate School 

 of Applied Science. 



Joseph W. Hayward, assistant professor of 

 mechanical engineering at McGill University, 

 has resigned in order to enter outside engi- 

 neering work. 



The Bakerian lecture of the Eoyal Society 

 was delivered on March 26, by Professor C. 

 H. Lees, F.E.S., his subject being " The 

 Thermal Conductivities of Solids." 



The Ohio State University chapter of 

 Sigma Xi will conclude its annual lecture 

 course on April 9 with a lecture by Professor 

 Francis E. Nipher, of Washington University, 

 St. Louis. Professor Nipher will speak on 

 "The Limits of Scientific Thinking." On 

 January 7 Professor Wallace C. Sabine ad- 

 dressed the society and its friends on " Optical 

 Eesolving Power in its Application to Biolog- 

 ical Problems." Dr. H. G. Wells, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, delivered a lecture on 

 March 24. The title of his lecture was " The 

 Present Status in the Search for the Cause 

 of Tumor Formations." 



The Syracuse chapter of Sigma Xi held an 

 open meeting in the new Lyman Hall of Nat- 

 ural History on March 20, when Professor 

 Clement D. Child, of Colgate University, gave 

 a lecture on " Some Phenomena connected 

 with the Electric Arc." 



The Eoyal Society, the Eoyal Geographical 

 Society and Trinity House have undertaken 

 the expense of a memorial to the late Sir 

 Leopold McClintock in Westminster Abbey, 

 with the consent of the dean and chapter. 



