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ern State Normal School and the Southeastern 

 State Normal School We are tempted to 

 print as a roll of dishonor the names of the 

 Democrats who have accepted these positions, 

 but this might be unjust in special cases. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. William H. Walker, professor of 

 technical chemistry at the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology, has been presented by 

 the New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society with the Nichols medal. 



The Eumford medal of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences has been 

 awarded to Dr. Edward G. Acheson, of 

 Niagara Falls, for his work with the electric 

 furnace. The Eumford committee of the 

 academy has made the following grants. To 

 Dr. Lawrence J. Henderson, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, $200 — in aid of his investi- 

 gation upon the direct determination of phys- 

 iological heats of reaction. To Professor Joel 

 Stebbins, of the University of Hlinois, $100— 

 for his investigation on the use of selenium in 

 photometry. To Mr. Willard J. Fisher, of 

 Cornell University, $100— for his investigation 

 on the viscosity of gases. 



We noted last week the banquet at the 

 Hotel Astor on April 9, to celebrate the silver 

 jubilee of Dr. H. W. Wiley as chief chemist 

 of the IJ. S. Department of Agriculture. On 

 the following day in Washington a banquet 

 was tendered Dr. Wiley by the chemists and 

 scientific assistants who have been associated 

 with him in the work of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry in expression of their loyalty and 

 good .will. 



Professor Kaymond A. Pearson has re- 

 signed the chair of dairy industry at Cornell 

 University to become New York state com- 

 missioner of agriculture. 



The Ohservatory states that Mr. E. H. 

 Tucker, now of Lick, has been offered the 

 directorship of the proposed Southern Ob- 

 servatory to be established by the Carnegie 

 Institution either in New Zealand, South 

 America or South Africa, for the purpose of 

 making observations of position of stars of 



the southern hemisphere, according to a 

 scheme suggested by Professor Lewis Boss, of 

 the Dudley Observatory. The Pistor and 

 Martins meridian circle of that observatory is 

 to be transferred to the new establishment. 



The directorship of the Toulouse Observa- 

 tory, vacant by the appointment of M. 

 Baillaud to the National Observatory, has 

 been filled by the election of M. E. Cosserat. 



M. Henri Deslandres, who since 1897 has 

 been assistant director of the observatory at 

 Meudon, has been appointed director to suc- 

 ceed the late Dr. Janssen. 



The Town Council of West Ham, London, 

 has passed a resolution authorizing the placing 

 of a bronze tablet on the house in Upton 

 Lane, Forest Gate, now St. Peter's Vicarage, 

 where Lord Lister was born. 



We have noted the election of Professor A. 

 A. Michelson as honorary member of the 

 Eoyal Irish Academy. The other honorary 

 members elected at the same time in the divi- 

 sion for natural science are: Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, Professor J. C. Kapteyn, Professor J. 

 D. van der Waals and Dr. A. E. Wallace. 



Dr. C. F. Brackett, Henry professor of 

 physics at Princeton University since 18Y3, 

 has resigned the chair and has been appointed 

 professor emeritus. 



Professor Boyd Dawkins has resigned the 

 chair of geology at the Victoria University, 

 Manchester, which he has held since the year 

 1S74. In accepting the resignation the 

 council expressed the great regret its members 

 felt at the professor's retirement from the 

 chair, which he had held with such distinc- 

 tion and with such benefit to the university. 

 It was gratifying to the council to know that 

 Professor Dawkins would retain his associa- 

 tion with the Manchester Museum, where he 

 had done valuable work, and would also con- 

 tinue his popular lectures and special courses 

 of lectures. 



We learn from Nature that Professor P. J. 

 White having been granted leave of absence 

 for six months on account of ill-health, the 

 senate of the University College of North 

 Wales has appointed Dr. W. A. Cunnington 



