July 1, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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A man can get a new position far more 

 easily at thirty or thirty-five than he can at 

 forty. The diificulties in making- the change 

 are less; the possibilities open to him after 

 the change are on the whole greater. He can 

 more easily adapt himself to new conditions; 

 he has more years in which to build up an 

 independent reputation. No such man should 

 be compelled to leave Yale's service with in- 

 adequate notice. That would be unfair to 

 him and suicidal to Yale. But it is, I believe, 

 in the interests of all parties, and conspic- 

 uously in the interest of the assistant pro- 

 fessor himself, that he should be encouraged 

 to go elsewhere rather than kept at home by 

 an advance in salary which, however attrac- 

 tive for the moment, is bound to be unsatis- 

 factory in the long run. 



In the case of assistant professors whom 

 we have for one reason or another kept at 

 Yale until they have become to all intents 

 and purposes permanent ofiicers, an increase 

 of salary to $3,000 is probably wise and justi- 

 fiable. But a salary scale which should in- 

 crease the number of ofiicers of this kind does 

 not appear to be wise. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor Theodore W. Eichards, of Har- 

 vard University, has accepted the invitation 

 of the Chemical Society (London) to deliver 

 the next Faraday Lecture, at a date to be an- 

 nounced later. This will be the tenth Fara- 

 day Lecture, the others having been given 

 by the following chemists and physicists; 

 Dumas, 1869 ; Cannizzaro, 1872 ; Hofmann, 

 1875; Wurtz, 1879; Helmholtz, 1881; Men- 

 ■ deleef, 1889; Eayleigh, 1895; Ostwald, 1904; 

 Emil Fischer, 1907. 



Princeton University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of laws on Dr. William H. Welch, pro- 

 fessor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Yale University has conferred its doctorate 

 of laws on Dr. C. D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Listitution; its doctorate of let- 

 ters on Mr. John Burroughs, and its doctorate 

 of science on Dr. T. B. Osborne, chemist at 

 the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta- 



tion, and on Dr. Simon Flexner, director of 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search. 



HoBART College has conferred the degree 

 of doctor of science on Dr. Warren P. Lom- 

 bard, professor of physiology at the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan and Dr. Henry Rutgers 

 Marshall, of New York. 



Rutgers College has conferred the degree- 

 of doctor of science on Dr. Egbert LeFevre, of 

 the class of 1^880, dean of the medical faculty 

 of the University of New York, and Professor 

 Francis Cuyler Van Dyck, of the class of 

 1865, professor of physics and dean at Rutgers. 



St. John's College, at its commencement 

 on June 15, conferred the degrees of LL.D.- 

 on Dr. Marcus Benjamin, of the U. S. Na-- 

 tional Museum. 



At the meeting of the trustees of Cornell 

 University, June 23, Professor Burt G, 

 Wilder, the last active member of the orig- 

 inal faculty, having resigned after a service 

 of forty-two years, was made emeritus pro- 

 fessor of neurology and vertebrate zoology. 



Professor Wesley Mills is retiring from 

 the chair of physiology at McGill University 

 after twenty-five years' service. 



Dr. Alfred G. Mayer, director of the de- 

 partment of marine biology of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, has been appointed 

 lecturer in biology at Princeton University 

 for next year. 



Dr. W. H. Boynton, instructor in pathology 

 in the New York State Veterinary College, 

 has left for the Philippine Islands, where he 

 has accepted the position of pathologist of the 

 veterinary service. 



Mr. p. H. Cowell, first assistant in the 

 Greenwich Observatory, has been appointed 

 director of the Nautical Almanac. 



Dr. William Edward Story, professor of 

 mathematics at Clark University since 1889, 

 was presented with a loving cup and a volume 

 of letters from rnany of his mathematical 

 friends at a banquet given in his honor at the 

 Worcester Club on the evening of Monday, 

 June 13. The book of letters contained one 



