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LN. S. Vol. XXXIII. No. 856 



the academy for the purpose of founding an 

 Alexander Agassiz gold medal which shall be 

 awarded to scientific men in any part of the 

 world for original contributions to the sci- 

 ence of oceanography. 



At the twentieth annual commencement of 

 ■Stanford University, to be held from May 17 

 to 22, a portrait of President Jordan will be 

 •presented to the university. 



Colonel William Gorgas, U.S.A., head of 

 ■the sanitary forces on the Isthmus of Pan- 

 ama, received the honorary degree of doctor of 

 laws from Tulane University at its annual 

 vcommencement on May 17. 



Professor Paul H. Hanus, head of the 

 department of education at Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has been chosen to take general charge of 

 the investigation of the New York public 

 school administration conducted by the 

 School Inquiry Committee. 



Professor C. P. Mabery has resigned the 

 professorship of chemistry in Case School of 

 Applied Science, which he has occupied since 

 1883. 



Dr. J. Rein, professor of geography at 

 Bonn, has celebrated the fiftieth anniversary 

 of his doctorate. 



Dr. R. Pick, professor of anatomy at Inns- 

 bruck, has been elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Royal Society of Physicians of 

 Vienna. 



The Pharmaceutical Society has elected the 

 following honorary members : Professor W. E. 

 Dixon, F.R.S., professor of pharmacology. 

 King's College, London; Dr. Adolph Engler, 

 director. Botanical Museum, Berlin; Pro- 

 fessor Percy P. Frankland, F.R.S.; M. Eugene 

 Leger, pharmacien en chef de I'Hopital St. 

 Louis, Paris; Lieutenant-Colonel D. Prain, 

 F.R.S., director of Royal Gardens, Kew; and 

 Dr. Ludwig Radlkofer, professor of botany. 

 University of Munich. 



The Bulletin of the American Mathemat- 

 ical Society states that the eminent mathe- 

 matician. Professor Gaston Darboux, of the 

 University of Paris, being about to complete 

 his fiftieth year of service as a teacher in the 



system of public instruction of France, it is 

 proposed by a large international group of his 

 mathematical co-workers, friends and former 

 pupils to commemorate this anniversary by 

 presenting to Professor Darboux a gold medal 

 bearing his portrait, and an appropriate ad- 

 dress signed by the participants. All mathe- 

 maticians are invited to share in rendering 

 this honor to Professor Darboux. Copies of 

 the medal, in reduced size, will be struck. 

 Subscribers of twenty-five francs will receive 

 a copy in bronze, subscribers of fifty francs a 

 copy in silver. Subscriptions should be sent 

 to Professor CI. Guichard, secretary of the 

 Faculte des Sciences. 



Dr. Johannes Hartmann, professor of as- 

 tronomy at Gottingen and director of the 

 university observatory, has been called to be 

 director of the Argentine Observatory at La 

 Plata. 



Professor C. H. Hitchcock, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of geology at Dartmouth College, has 

 come east from Hawaii for the purpose of 

 completing his field work for the Geological 

 Survey of Vermont. Some attention will also 

 be paid by him to ichnological studies. His 

 address will be at Hanover, N. H., for the 

 summer. 



Professor Alexander Graham Bell re- 

 turned on May 8 from a trip around the world. 



Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, formerly of the 

 Ohio State University and later president 

 of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is on a 

 visit to Japan, where from 1878 to 1881 he 

 occupied the chair of physics in Tokyo Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. John C. Branner, of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, is the head , of a scientific expedition to 

 the coast of Brazil, which sailed from New 

 York on April 18 for Para. 



Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood, of the Field Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, has returned from 

 three months work in Venezuela and Co- 

 lumbia, having obtained important collections 

 of birds and mammals, including a small 

 series of the rare marsupial, Ccenolestes, a liv- 

 ing representative of the family Epanorthidse. 



