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of Milling and Metallurgy has been awarded 

 to Sir Julius Wernher, in recognition of his 

 services to technological education and in the 

 promotion of the interests of the mining and 

 metallurgical professions. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer was made an honorary 

 member of the Eoyal Cornwall Polytechnic 

 Society of England at its recent annual gen- 

 eral meeting. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has elected Dr. Walter Rothschild, of 

 Tring, England, a correspondent. 



Professor Bier, director of the surgical 

 clinic at Berlin, has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Mr. Norman Taylor, editor of Torreya, and 

 assistant curator at the New York Botanical 

 Garden, has been appointed curator of plants 

 in the newly established Brooklyn botanic 

 garden. 



Dr. Clarence J. Marshall, professor of 

 veterinary medicine at the University of 

 Pennsylvania, has been appointed veterinarian 

 of the state of Pennsylvania. 



David Albert Molitor, professor of topo- 

 graphic and geodetic engineering in the Col- 

 lege of Civil Engineering of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has resigned from the faculty and 

 returned to active practise. 



Dr. Henry C. Taylor, professor of agricul- 

 tural economies at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, has been elected associate editor of The 

 American Economic Review, published by the 

 American Economic Association. Dr. Taylor 

 will have charge of the subject of agricultural 

 economics. 



Dr. Alice Hamilton, of the Memorial Insti- 

 tute for Infectious Diseases, of Chicago, who 

 investigated the lead industries of Chicago 

 and Illinois with reference to lead poisoning 

 for the Illinois Commission on Occupational 

 Diseases, is undertaking similar work for the 

 federal government. 



The Frederick Sheldon traveling fellowship 

 of Harvard University has been awarded to 

 Latham Clarke, Ph.D., instructor in indus- 

 trial chemistry. 



Professor Giuseppe Meroalli has been ap- 

 pointed director of the observatory on Mt. 

 Vesuvius, to succeed Professor Matteucci. 



Professor E. B. Wilson lectured on 

 " Heredity and the Cell " before the Society 

 of Sigma Xi of Columbia University on Feb- 

 ruary 23. 



Dr. L. H. Bailey, director of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, delivered a lecture under the auspices 

 of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Society 

 of the Sigma Xi on February 27, on the sub- 

 ject of " The Country Life Situation." 



Two Sigma Xi lectures, one on " Atten- 

 tion " and one on " Types of Mind," were 

 given at the University of Minnesota, on Feb- 

 ruary 9 and 10, by Professor E. B. Titchener, 

 Sage research professor at Cornell University. 



The Columbia chapter of the Phi Lambda 

 Upsilon, the honorary chemical fraternity, was 

 addressed by Dr. H. W. Wiley, of Washington, 

 D. C, on February 18. In his address on the 

 "Eelation of Chemistry to the Public Wel- 

 fare" Dr. Wiley showed the moral influence 

 which a chemist exerts on the community and 

 the position which a chemist will assume in 

 the fight against disease. An informal recep- 

 tion to Dr. Wiley was tendered by the society 

 after the address to welcome him as a member. 



The annual meeting of the Illinois State 

 Academy of Science was held at the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago on February 17 and 18. Pro- 

 fessor J. M. Coulter, head of the department 

 of botany of the university, delivered the 

 presidential address on " The Problems of 

 Plant Breeding." 



On January 21 the Oregon Academy of 

 Sciences met in regular monthly meeting, the 

 address being by W. N. Ferrins, president of 

 Pacific University and one of the Ehodes 

 scholarship committee for the northwest. His 

 subject was " The Rhodes Scholarships and 

 Oxford University." On February 18 Wm. T. 

 Foster, president of the new Reed College, of 

 Portland, spoke on " The American College," 

 giving a brief review of the history of Euro- 

 pean colleges. At the March meeting Pro- 



