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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXII. No. 810 



can Institute, established as a clearing house 

 for intellectual relations between Germany 

 and America. 



The trustees of Cornell University have 

 passed resolutions on the retirement of Pro- 

 fessor Wait and Professor Wilder, and their 

 appointment as emeritus professors as f oUovs's : 



Resolved, that on the retirement at the end of 

 the academic year 1909-10 of Professor Lucien 

 Augustus Wait, who has faithfully served the 

 university in the department of mathematics for 

 forty years and has been in charge of its admin- 

 istration for a third of a century, the members of 

 the board of trustees hereby place upon record 

 their high appreciation of his services to the uni- 

 versity as a devoted professor and efficient admin- 

 istrator in one of its largest departments; and 

 that this board (many of whose members have 

 been among Professor Wait's pupils) join with 

 hundreds of Cornell alumni in paying hearty 

 tribute to his worth as an educator and a man, 

 and in wishing for him many years of health and 

 happiness. 



Resolved, that on the retirement at the close 

 of the present academic year of Burt Green 

 Wilder, professor of neurology and vertebrate 

 zoology, the trustees record their appreciation of 

 his long and devoted service, beginning with the 

 day that the university first opened its doors to 

 receive students and continuing through two and 

 forty years until the present time, a lifetime 

 freely and unselfishly given to the cause of science, 

 and an inspiring example to hundreds of his 

 students of that eager love for the truth charac- 

 teristic of him as it was of his own masters, Gray, 

 Holmes, Wyman and Agassiz. Recalling the fact 

 that he is the last of the original faculty in active 

 service, the trustees wish him many years of 

 health and continued activity in the chosen field 

 of his labors. 



Among the honorary degrees conferred by 

 Harvard University at its recent commence- 

 ment exercises were the doctorate of laws on 

 President E. C. Maelaurin, and the doctorate 

 of science on Sir John Hurray, Professor 

 Theodore W. Richards and Professor Theo- 

 bald Smith. The characterizations used by 

 President Lowell in conferring these degrees 

 ■were as follows : Richard Coekburn Maelaurin, 

 a scholar distinguished in three continents for 

 his knowledge of the laws of nature and of 

 man, whom we welcome as a friend, and honor 



for his own talents and as president of our 

 most celebrated school for engineers ; Sir John 

 Murray, one of the pioneers in the Challenger, 

 who searched the bed of the ocean, year by 

 year, more famous as an explorer into the 

 depths of its silence and its mystery ; Theodore 

 William Richards, a chemist who has weighed 

 the atoms in his balance; an explorer to whom 

 the elements of the universe have told their 

 secret; a modest seer of things invisible to 

 man. Theobald Smith, discoverer of the 

 cause of Texas fever, who taught men to seek 

 in insects the source of human plagues; he 

 stands among the great benefactors of man- 

 kind. 



Cambridge Uxitersity has conferred its 

 doctorate of science on Sir Oliver Lodge, 

 principal of the University of Birmingham, 

 and Professor William Henry Perkin, pro- 

 fessor of organic chemistry in the University 

 of Manchester. 



Senator Blaserxa, professor of physics at 

 Rome, has been elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Wilhelm Roux, professor of anatomy 

 at Halle, has been elected an honorary mem- 

 ber of the Royal Academy of Medicine at 

 Turin. 



Graf \ots Zeppelin has been appointed a 

 knight of the Prussian order pour le merite. 



The Baumgartner prize of the value of 

 2,000 crowns, of the Vienna Academy of Sci- 

 ences, has been awarded to Dr. Stark, for his 

 work on electrons. 



The statement that Professor Oscar Bolza, 

 who becomes non-resident professor in the 

 University of Chicago, and will hereafter live 

 in Freiburg, Germany, will receive his salary 

 from the university, is incorrect. 



Dr. Truman Michelson and Dr. Paul 

 Radin, both of whom have been working at 

 Columbia University under Professor Franz 

 Boas, have been appointed ethnologists in the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Dr. Oskar C. Gruner, clinical pathologist 

 to the General Infirmary, Leeds, has been ap- 

 pointed pathologist to the Royal Victoria Hos- 

 pital, Montreal, and lecturer on pathology at 

 McGill University. 



