May 1, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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award is made once in five years under the 

 terms of the will of the late William Johnson. 

 Walker, a benefactor of the society, " for such 

 scientific investigation or discovery in natural 

 history as the council may think deserving 

 thereof; provided such investigation or dis- 

 covery shall have first been made known and 

 published in the United States of America." 

 The previous recipients of the Walker grand 

 prize have been: Alexander Agassiz, Joseph 

 Leidy, James Hall, James D. Dana, Samuel 

 H. Scudder and Joel A. Allen. 



The bill providing a pension of $125 

 monthly each to the widows of Drs. James 

 Carroll and Jesse W. Lazear has passed the 

 senate by a unanimous vote. 



Professor E. A. Schafee, of Edinburgh 

 University, is giving this week the Herter 

 lectures at the Johns Hopkins University, the 

 subject being " The Pituitary Body." On 

 April 23 he lectured on " Internal Secretions " 

 at the George Washington University. The 

 lecture was followed by a smoker given by the 

 Medical Society of the University. 



Dr. M. p. Ravenel, professor of bacteri- 

 ology in the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been appointed director of the State Hygienic 

 Laboratory. 



Professor Bashford Dean, of Columbia 

 University, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Paris Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. 



The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, F.R.S., has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the 

 French Academy of Moral and Political Sci- 

 ences in succession to Lord Reay, who has 

 been elected an associate. 



M. Maurice Hamy, of the Paris Observa- 

 tory, succeeds the late Dr. Janssen as a mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. J. IsT. Langley, professor of physiology 

 at Cambridge, has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Royal Danish Scientific 

 Society. 



The Back bequest for 1908 has been awarded 

 by the Royal Geographical Society to Lieu- 

 tenant George Mulock, R. N., on account of 

 the survey work which he did on the National 

 Antarctic Expedition. 



Professor A. L. Kboeber, of the University 

 of California, has returned from an ethnolog- 

 ical visit to the Mohave Indians of Arizona 

 and California. His investigations continued 

 previous studies of the mythology, rituals and 

 music of the tribe. A survey of nearly three 

 hundred shellmounds on the northern shores 

 of San Erancisco Bay has recently been com- 

 pleted by the department of anthropology of 

 the university. 



At the request of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, the Department of State has appointed 

 Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, of Tale Univer- 

 sity, a delegate on the part of the United 

 States to the sixteenth International Congress 

 of Americanists, to be held at Vienna, Sep- 

 tember 9 to 14, 1908. 



Mr. HIarlan I. Smith, of the department of 

 anthropology of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, will continue his archeolog- 

 ical reconnoissance of Wyoming, begun in 

 1907. A trip across the northeastern part of 

 the state, possibly reaching western Dakota 

 and southern Montana, is planned for the 

 coming field season. The work is to begin to 

 locate fields for future detailed cooperative ex- 

 plorations in this portion of the country which 

 lies near the center of a very great area, re- 

 garding the archeology of which there is 

 scarcely any literature and from which there 

 are very few specimens in museimis or else- 

 where readily available for study. 



The Swedish government has proposed a 

 grant for a scientific expedition to Spitzbergen 

 this coming summer for geological and geo- 

 graphical research. Professor Gerard de Geer, 

 the rector of the University of Stockholm, will 

 be the leader of the expedition. 



Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, president of the 

 University of Wisconsin, will give the address 

 to the graduates of the Michigan College of 

 Mines on May 1. 



The Hon. James Bryce, British ambassador 

 to the United States, will give the baccalau- 

 reate address to the graduating class of the 

 University of Wisconsin on June 14. 



Dr. Edgar F. Smith, vice-provost of the 

 University of Pennsylvania and professor of 



