June 12, 1908] 



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Skifi, director of the Field Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, Chicago. 



Sir Frank Lascelles, the British ambas- 

 sador in Berlin, attended on May 23 the cele- 

 bration of the eightieth anniversary of the 

 foundation of the Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde 

 zu Berlin and received, on behalf of Captain 

 R. F. Scott, R.N., commander of the British 

 National Antarctic Expedition, 1900-^, the 

 gold medal which the society has conferred 

 upon him. 



Dr. B. H. Scott, botanical secretary of the 

 Linnean Society, has been elected president 

 to succeed Professor W. A. Herdman. The 

 gold medal of the society has been conferred 

 on the Eev. T. E. R. Stebbing, F.E.S. 



Mr. Alfred Marshall, vpho recently re- 

 signed the professorship of political economy 

 at Cambridge, and with it his professorial 

 fellowship at St. John's College, has been 

 elected an honorary fellow at that college. 



Dr. Hermann Kobold has become editor of 

 the Astronomische Nachrichten. 



Professor Robert DeC. Ward, of Harvard 

 University, sails for Rio de Janeiro on June 

 20, as a member of the Shaler Memorial Ex- 

 pedition to South America. Professor Ward 

 will spend about seven weeks in Brazil, where 

 he intends to make certain climatological and 

 geographical studies. He returns to the 

 United States at the end of September. 



Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, who visited the 

 West Indies immediately after the eruptions 

 of Mt. Pele and La Soufriere in 1902, is now 

 making an extended tour of the islands with 

 a view to supplementing his studies in vul- 

 canologj'. It is expected that he will return 

 to New York about July 23. 



Professor Collier Cobb, of the University 

 of North Carolina, has joined Professor W. 

 M. Davis for geographical work in Italy. 



Dr. James H. Woods, who occupies the posi- 

 tion of assistant professor of philosophy at 

 Harvard University, is at the present time 

 continuing his studies of the several Hindu 

 systems at Maha-Baleshwara, a hill-station in 

 the Western Ghauts, about one hundred miles 

 southeast of Bombay. 



At the first annual meeting of the Wor- 

 cester Polytechnic Institute Chapter Sigma 

 Xi, on June 8, Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, 

 professor of physics at Clark University, gave 

 the address on " The Object of Scientific In- 

 vestigation." 



The annual address before the Colorado 

 Chapter of the Sigma Xi, at the University 

 of Colorado, was delivered on May 30, by Dr. 

 Florian Cajori, of Colorado College. Dr. 

 Cajori took as his subject the history of the 

 theory of the conservation of energy. 



Dr. 0. P. Steinmetz delivered a lecture in 

 the Engineering Societies' Building, New 

 York, on Sunday, May 17, before the stu- 

 dents and friends of the New York Electrical 

 Trade Schools, his subject being " The Future 

 of Electricity." 



The address at the ninth annual commence- 

 ment of the Clarkson Memorial School of 

 Technology on June 12 will be given by Dr. 

 Henry Taylor Bovey, dean of the Faculty of 

 Applied Science of McGill University. 



The British Association of Technical In- 

 stitutions has decided to make the following 

 awards : Prize for the best essay on " The 

 Bearing of Technical Education on Industrial 

 Progress " to Dr. John Ryan, Grove-house, 

 Milltown, county Dublin, £25; and for the 

 best essay on " The Bearing of Technical 

 Education on Agriculture and Industries of a 

 Rural Character" to Mr. Edgar Chamber- 

 lain, Municipal Technical School, Monk's- 

 road, Lincoln, £25. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Neurological Association, held recently in 

 Philadelphia, the following ofiicers were 

 elected: President, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, 

 Philadelphia; vice-presidents, Drs. Pearce 

 Bailey, New York, and Frank W. Langdon, 

 Cincinnati; secretary and treasurer, Dr. 

 Graeme M. Hammond, New York City, and 

 councilors, Drs. Henry M. Thomas, Baltimore, 

 and Charles W. Burr, Philadelphia. 



At the annual meeting of the Department 

 of Microscopy of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences the following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year: President, John 



