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at the office of the permanent secretary at 

 College Hall from 10 a.m. on that day. 



The American Physical Society and the 

 Geological Society of America meet on June 

 30 and on July 1 in affiliation with the cor- 

 responding sections of the association. On 

 the evenings of these days there will be lec- 

 tures on " The Spoliation of Niagara," and 

 on " The American Bison." 



On July 2 there will be an excursion to the 

 Blue Mountain Forest Park, stocked with 

 buffalo, moose and other game by the late Mr. 

 Austin Corbin. Elaborate and interesting 

 excursions, both preceding and following the 

 meeting, have been arranged by the Section 

 of Geology and Geography. 



Professor Robert Fletcher is chairman and 

 Professor H. H. Horn, secretary, of the local 

 committee. The official headquarters and 

 social rendezvous will be in College Hall. 

 The hotel headquarters will be in Hanover 

 Inn, and room accommodations will be pro- 

 vided in the dormitories, with meals in the 

 large dining-room of College Hall. 



Most of the railways have offered a rate of 

 a fare and a third on the certificate plan. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Colonel W. C. Gorgas, eminent for his 

 work on yellow fever at Havana and as chief 

 sanitary officer of the Isthmian Canal Zone, 

 has been elected president of the American 

 Medical Association. 



At the University of Maine, the degree of 

 doctor of laws was conferred on Dr. A. A. 

 Noyes, acting president of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, and on M. C. 

 Femald, for forty years connected with the 

 university, formerly as president, who re- 

 tired this year from the professorship of phi- 

 losophy. The degree of doctor of science was 

 conferred on L. H. Merrill, professor of bio- 

 logical and agricultural chemistry and on J. 

 N. Hart, professor of mathematics and as- 

 tronomy and dean. 



The University of Liverpool has conferred 

 its doctorate of science on Mr. Francis Dar- 

 win and Professor J. L. Todd, and its doc- 

 torate of engineering on the Hon. C. A. Par- 

 sons. 



The gold Karl Hitter medal of the Berlin 

 Geographical Society has been conferred on 

 Professor Hermann Wagner, of Gottingen. 



Professor J. E. Sinclair, for the past 

 thirty-nine years professor of mathematics at 

 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has re- 

 tired under the terms of the Carnegie Foun- 

 dation. 



Dr. George I. Adams, formerly in the U. S. 

 Geological Survey and lately with the Corps 

 of Engineers of Mines of Peru, has been ap- 

 pointed geologist in the Bureau of Mines of 

 the Philippine Islands and will sail from San 

 Francisco on the Mongolia on June 30. His 

 address will be Bureau of Mines, Manila, 

 P. I. 



Dr. Perot has been appointed physicist in 

 the Astrophysical Observatory at Meudon. 



Dr. Arthur Bohm has been appointed 

 chemist in the Geological Bureau at Berlin. 



Professors Bang and Fibiger, of the Uni- 

 versity of Copenhagen, and Dr. Eoerdam, a 

 noted military surgeon, have been appointed 

 delegates from Denmark to the tuberculosis 

 congress to be held in Washington in Sep- 

 tember. 



Professor Charles Schuchert, curator of 

 the geological collection in Peabody Museum, 

 Tale University, started on May 30 on an ex- 

 ploring and collecting excursion for inverte- 

 brate fossils to Anticosti Island. Anticosti is 

 an island 150 miles long by fifty miles wide, 

 lying at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, 

 about twenty miles off the Labrador coast. 



Dr. George P. Merrill, head of the depart- 

 ment of geology of the United States National 

 Museum, has returned from Meteor, Arizona, 

 where he went several weeks ago for the 

 Smithsonian Institution to make additional 

 studies of a peculiar crater-form depression in 

 the plain, about three quarters of a mile 

 across and nearly six hundred feet deep. Dr. 

 Merrill witnessed the boring of wells reaching 

 a depth of 842 feet below the bottom of the 

 depression. These and other studies have 

 tended to confirm the conclusion, reached by 

 him last year, that the crater was caused by 

 a meteor. 



