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SCIENCE 



[N. 8. Vol. XXXIII. No. i 



No account has been taken in the above 

 items of the appropriations made for the 

 State Laboratory of Natural History, for the 

 State Entomologist's OiEce, for the State 

 Geological Survey and the State Water Sur- 

 vey, whose activities are closely allied vrith 

 the vcork of the university. 



B. E. Powell 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The University of Gottingen has conferred 

 the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy 

 upon Professor Albert A. Michelson, head of 

 the department of physics at the University 

 of Chicago, and retiring president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. 



The George Washington University has 

 conferred the honorary degree of doctor of 

 medicine on Dr. L. O. Hovsrard, chief of the 

 Bureau of Entomology and permanent secre- 

 tary of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, for " distinguished 

 services to science in relation to preventive 

 medicine." 



Cambridge University has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Dr. George E. Hale, 

 director of the Solar Observatory of Mt. Wil- 

 son, and on Dr. T. W. Richards, of Harvard 

 University. 



Dr. Allen J. Smith, dean of the Medical 

 School of the University of Pennsylvania, re- 

 ceived the degree of LL.D. at the exercises at- 

 tending the opening of the Medical School 

 Building of McGill University. 



Sdegeon-General Charles F. Stokes, U. S. 

 Navy, delivered the valedictory address at the 

 commencement exercises of Jefferson Medi- 

 cal College, Philadelphia, on June 5. On this 

 occasion the college conferred on him the de- 

 gree of LL.D. and on the following day Co- 

 lumbia University, from which he graduated 

 in medicine, gave him the degree of D.Sc. 



Under the auspices of the president and 

 council of the Chemical Society, the Earaday 

 lecture was delivered in London on June 14 by 

 Professor Theodore W. Richards, of Harvard 

 University. At the conclusion of the lecture 



the Faraday medal was presented to Professor 

 Richards. 



Dr. W. M. Davis, Sturgis-Hooper professor 

 of geology at Harvard University, has been ap- 

 pointed visiting professor at Paris under the 

 new arrangement between Harvard and the 

 Ministry of Public Instruction. 



At the annual meeting of the London In- 

 stitution of Electrical Engineers, Mr. S. Z. 

 de Ferranti was elected president. 



Professor Pohl, of Prague, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the institute of pharma- 

 cology at Breslau in place of Professor 

 Filehne. 



There have retired from active service Dr. 

 Rudolf Nietzki, professor of chemistry at 

 Basle; Dr. Louis Isely, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Neuchatel, and Dr. Bernhard Tol- 

 lens, associate professor of agricultural chem- 

 istry at Gottingen. 



Professor Chas. W. Haegitt, of Syracuse 

 University, has recently returned from a 

 seven-months' sojourn in Europe as a part of 

 his sabbatic year. After brief visits to the 

 laboratories at Plymouth, London University, 

 Munich, Vienna and Paris, four months were 

 spent at the Naples Zoological Station, occu- 

 pying the Smithsonian table. Several Amer- 

 ican laboratories have also been visited. 



Professor Burton E. Livingston, of the 

 Johns Llopkins University, will continue his 

 researches at the Desert Laboratory, Tucson, 

 Ariz., during the present summer. He will 

 be assisted by Professor J. S. Caldwell, of the 

 University of Nashville. 



Mr. Frederick G. Clapp has been investi- 

 gating the geological occurrence of petroleum 

 in the Mexican oil fields. 



The first two incumbents of the Kahn 

 traveling fellowships for American teachers 

 are Professor John H. T. McPherson, pro- 

 fessor of history and political science in the 

 University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., and Pro- 

 fessor Francis Daniels, professor of romance 

 languages in Wabash College, Crawfordsville, 

 Ind. 



On May 29 Professor Herbert N. McCoy, 

 of the University of Chicago, delivered the 



