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SCIENCE 



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The institutions that may be eligible with 

 certain data in regard to them as compiled by 

 Dr. Henry S. Pritehett, president of the 

 foundation, are given above. These institu- 

 tions will only be eligible if their entrance 

 requirements are based on a high school prep- 

 aration counted at 14 points on the table. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the recent Founder's Day celebration at 

 the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. S. Weir 

 Mitchell presented to the university a portrait 

 of the late Fairman Kogers, first professor of 

 engineering and for many years a trustee of 

 the university, given by Mrs. Rogers. 



Dr. Charles E. St. John has resigned the 

 chair of physics and astronomy in Oberlin 

 College and the deanship of the College of 

 Arts and Sciences to accept the position of 

 research associate in the Mount Wilson Solar 

 Observatory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. 



Dr. T. H. Krumbach, assistant in the 

 zoological laboratory at Breslau, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Zoological Station at 

 Eovigno. 



Here Emil Ehrensberger, technical di- 

 rector of the Krupp works, at Essen, has 

 been given the honorary degree of doctor of 

 philosophy by the University of Gottingen. 



On the occasion of its commencement in 

 June, Hobart College will confer the honorary 

 degree of doctor of letters upon Professor E. 

 M. Wenley, of the University of Michigan. 



Professor W. B. Scott, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, in presenting Grove Karl Gilbert, for 

 the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the 

 University of Pennsylvania last month, said: 

 " For nearly forty years one of the most dis- 

 tinguished of those brilliant investigators 

 who have adorned the successive organizations 

 culminating in the present U. S. Geological 

 Survey, you have enriched geology by a series 

 of studies and contributions of striking origi- 

 nality and importance, which have led to new 

 conceptions of the earth's history and opened 

 new fields of investigation. As a pioneer in 

 what may almost be called the American sci- 



ence of physiography, your work is recogaized 

 and valued the world over as being of the 

 highest significance. Therefore, at the request 

 of the trustees of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, I ask the provost to confer upon you. 

 Grove Karl Gilbert, the degree of doctor of 

 laws." 



President Roosevelt has appointed Presi- 

 dent Van Hise, of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, to represent the National Association of 

 State Universities at the conference on the 

 conservation of natural resources, to be held at 

 the White House on May 13-15. 



Dr. Heinrich Rosenbusch, professor of 

 mineralogy and geology at Heidelberg, will 

 retire from active service on October 1. 



The officers of the Southern Society for 

 Philosophy and Psychology, elected at the re- 

 cent meeting of the Society at Washington, 

 D. C, are : President, Professor J. MacBride 

 Sterrett, George Washington University; 

 Vice-president, Professor Albert Lefevre, 

 University of Virginia; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 Professor Edward Franklin Buchner, Uni- 

 versity of Alabama. 



Dr. Michael F. Gutee, professor of 

 zoology in the University of Cincinnati, has 

 been granted one year's leave of absence, be- 

 ginning on June 1, 1908, for study in Europe. 

 The same privilege has been granted to Asso- 

 ciate Professor George Morey Miller, English. 

 Professor Marco F. Liberma, romance 

 languages, will spend the summer only in 

 France. 



Professor W. H. Hobbs, of the University 

 of Michigan, accompanied by two assistants, 

 will make a special study of the glacial forma- 

 tion of the Alps during the summer. 



The board of managers of the Museum of 

 Science and Art at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, announces that D. Randall Maclver, 

 curator of the Egyptian sections of the 

 museum, will return to this country with a 

 valuable collection of Nubian statues, tablets, 

 vases, bronzes and other curios, dug from 

 Egyptian ruins. 



Professor J. B. Woodworth, of Harvard 

 University, will take charge of the Shaler Me- 



