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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXIII. No. 861 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



AitONG the honorary degrees conferred by 

 Yale University are doctorates of laws on 

 Dr. Josiah Eoyce, professor of philosophy at 

 Harvard University, and Dr. George E. Vin- 

 cent, president of the University of Min- 

 nesota ; the doctorate of science on Professor 

 W. H. Howell, professor of physiology in the 

 Johns Hopkins University, and the doctorate 

 of letters on Mr. John Muir, naturalist and 

 author. 



Dr. Edgar F. Smith, provost of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, has been given the 

 doctorate of laws by Rutgers College. 



The doctorate of science has been conferred 

 by Wesleyan University on Dr. F. G. Bene- 

 dict, director of the Nutrition Laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution and by Tufts Col- 

 lege on Dr. A. P. Wills, professor of mathe- 

 matical physics in Columbia University. 



The University of Pennsylvania has con- 

 ferred an honorary doctorate of veterinary 

 medicine on Dr. Veranus A. Moore, of the 

 State Veterinary Department of Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



Brown University has given a doctorate of 

 science to Dr. H. J. Wheeler, director of the 

 Experiment Station of the Ehode Island Col- 

 lege, and the master of arts to Mr. F. E. Sea- 

 grave, astronomer, of Providence. 



Professor Franklin W. Hooper, director 

 of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 

 ences, has received the doctorate of laws 

 from Middlebury College. 



The London Mathematical Society has 

 awarded the De Morgan medal for 1911 to 

 Professor H. Lamb, F.E.S., for his work in 

 mathematical physics. 



Mr. Leonhard Stejneger has been ap- 

 pointed head curator of the department of 

 biology in the U. S. National Museum to suc- 

 ceed Dr. F. W. True. 



The board of scientific directors of the 

 Eockefeller Institute for Medical Research 

 announce the following appointments to the 

 staff of the institute : 



Alfred E. Cohn, M.D., associate in medicine. 



Arthur N. M. Ellis, M.B., assistant resident 

 physician. 



Alphonse E. Doehez, M.D., assistant resident 

 physician. 



Frank W. Bancroft, Ph.D., associate in experi- 

 mental biology. 



Eeinhard H. Beutner, Ing.D., assistant in ex- 

 perimental biology. 



James B. Murphy, M.D., assistant in pathology. 



J. J. Bronfenbrenner, fellow in pathology. 



Frederick B. La Forge, Ph.D., assistant in 

 chemistry. 



Henry K. Marks, M.D., assistant in pathology. 



Helen L. Pales, research scholar in chemistry. 



Angelia M. Courtney, assistant in chemistry. 



Professor F. W. Sardeson, of the depart- 

 ment of geology of the University of Minne- 

 sota, has been appointed geologist on the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. He has been di- 

 rected to complete the areal, stratigraphic, 

 and glacial geology of Minneapolis, St. Paul, 

 Anoka and White Bear quadrangles and to 

 prepare a folio descriptive of this region for 

 publication. 



Professor Herbert E. Gregory, of Yale 

 University, has gone to Arizona in the inter- 

 ests of the United States Geological Survey 

 in order to continue his study of the water 

 supply and economic resources of the Navajo 

 Reservation. He will be assisted in this work 

 by Professor W. R. Barrows, Mr. K. C. Heald, 

 of Colorado College, and Mr. H. F. Robin- 

 son, irrigation engineer of the Indian Serv- 

 ice. 



The International Seismological Associa- 

 tion will hold its regular meeting in Man- 

 chester, England, from July 18 to 22. The 

 United States is a member of this association, 

 and will be represented at the meeting by 

 Professor Harry Fielding Eeid, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



Dr. L. Murbach, head of the department of 

 biology in the high school of Detroit, Mich., 

 has been given a year's leave of absence. His 

 address will be Castleton, Vermont. 



Dr. John Milne, F.R.S., has been ap- 

 pointed Halley lecturer at Oxford for the 

 year 1912. 



On June 13, Professor Ernst Cohen, of the 

 University of Utrecht, gave an illustrated 

 lecture before the Faraday Society on " AUo- 

 tropic Forms of Metals." Professor T. W. 



