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York; Albreeht Penek, Berlin, and Charles D. 

 Walcott, Washington. 



De. W. J. Holland, director of the Car- 

 negie Institute, Pittsburgh, has received from 

 the Czar of Russia, the insignia of a knight 

 of the order of St. Stanislas, second class, in 

 recognition of his services to science ; and Mr. 

 A. S. Coggeshall, the chief preparator in the 

 section of paleontology in the same institu- 

 tion, has had conferred upon him by the same 

 sovereign knighthood in the order of St. Anne. 



Dr. Henry Prentiss Armsby, director of 

 the Institute of Animal Nutrition of the 

 Pennsylvania State College, has been elected 

 a member of the Eoyal Society of Arts of 

 Great Britain. 



Dr. H. Loeenz, professor of physics at 

 Leyden, and Dr. E. Strasburger, professor of 

 botany at Bonn, have been elected members of 

 the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Henry Fairfield Osboen, president of 

 the American Museum of Natural History 

 and Da Costa professor of zoology at Co- 

 lumbia University, was given a dinner by his 

 former students at the Faculty Club of Co- 

 lumbia University, on February 18, in cele- 

 bration of his thirtieth anniversary as a 

 teacher. About forty-five guests and former 

 students under Professor Osborn at Columbia 

 and Princeton Universities were present. 

 Speeches were made by Professors E. B. Wil- 

 son, W. B. Scott and C. F. W. McClure. 



De. Henry M. Hurd has retired from the 

 superintendency of the Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital, and is succeeded by Dr. W. H. Smith, 

 superintendent of Bellevue Hospital, New 

 York City. 



Dr. Andrew W. Phillips, since 1891 pro- 

 fessor of mathematics in Yale College and 

 since 1895 dean of the graduate school, will 

 retire from active service at the close of the 

 present academic year. 



Charles Joyce White, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Harvard University from 1885 to 

 1894, has been appointed emeritus professor, 

 and William Barker Hills, associate pro- 

 fessor of chemistry from 1889 to 1904. has 

 been appointed emeritus associate professor. 



The University of La Plata and the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan have arranged for co- 

 operation in the work of their astronomical 

 observatories. Professor W. J. Hussey has 

 been appointed director of La Plata Observa- 

 tory, but is still to remain director of the ob- 

 servatory of the University of Michigan. He 

 will divide his time equally between the two 

 institutions, spending the second semester of 

 each year at Ann Arbor. Mr. R. P.' Lament, 

 of Chicago, is furnishing a 24-inch refracting 

 telescope for the University of Michigan. It 

 is the intention to take this instrument, when 

 completed, to a favorable site in Argentina, 

 and while it is there to have it used under the 

 joint auspices of the two universities. 



Professor Gilbert N. Lewis, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver 

 eight lectures on " The Principle of Rela- 

 tivity," on Monday and Thursday afternoons, 

 beginning on March 6, in the Jefferson Phys- 

 ical Laboratory of Harvard University. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 In the Massachusetts senate on February 21 

 the committee on education reported a resolve, 

 on the petition of Richard C. Maclaurin, 

 president, and others, for an increase in the 

 state appropriation for the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology. The resolve provides 

 that there shall be paid annually, for ten 

 years, to the institute the sum of $100,000, 

 from January 1, 1912, to be expended under 

 the direction of the corporation for the gen- 

 eral purposes of the institute; the institute 

 shall maintain forty free scholarships in addi- 

 tion to those already maintained. 



Mr. Carnegie recently virote the board of 

 trustees of the Carnegie Institute that he is 

 prepared to increase the endowment income 

 $50,000 or $100,000 a year if it can be shown 

 that any department is hampered from lack 

 of funds. The founder expects to visit Pitts- 

 burgh about May 1 to receive the report of 

 the board. 



An alumnus, who wishes to remain anony- 

 mous, has given to Phillips Exeter Academy 

 $18,744, with which to complete the Went- 

 worth mathematical fund of $50,000. William 



