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laboratories of Vanderbilt University, INasli- 

 ville, Tenn., had conferred upon him the degree 

 of LL.D., by the University of Cincinnati, 

 at its recent commencement. 



Miss Ellen Churchill Semple, of Louis- 

 ville, Ky., author of works on anthropogeog- 

 raphy, has received the Cullom Medal of the 

 American Geographical Society. 



The University of Paris has approved the 

 nomination of Professor James Eowland 

 Angell, head of the department of psychology, 

 and dean of the faculties of arts, literature 

 and science in the University of Chicago, as 

 lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1915. 



A Martin Kellogg fellowship in the Uni- 

 versity of California has been awarded to 

 Mr. C. E. Adams, government astronomer of 

 New Zealand, who will carry on research work 

 at the Lick Observatory. 



Norman E. Blatherwick, Ph.D. (Yale), 

 has been appointed assistant chemist at the 

 Montefiore Home in New York City. 



Mr. C. M. Means, electrical engineer, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., has been appointed consulting 

 electrical engineer with the U. S. Bureau of 

 Mines. 



Professor H. Hergesell, of Strassburg, has 

 been appointed director of the Royal Prussian 

 Aeronautical Observatory at Lindenberg, near 

 Berlin. 



Dr. Edward A. Spitzka has resigned as 

 professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical 

 College. He plans to take up the practise in 

 New York City of his father, the late Dr. 

 Charles Edward Spitzka, who died last 

 January. 



Professor J. Miller Thomson, E.E.S., is 

 retiring at the end of this session from his 

 position as vice-principal of King's College, 

 London, and head of the chemical department 

 of the college, after a service of forty-three 

 years. 



The Museum of Zoology, University of 

 Michigan, will have a field party in the Davis 

 Mountains, Texas, during July and August. 

 The members of the party, Miss Crystal 

 Thompson, of the museum, and Miss Myra M. 

 Sampson, Smith College, will study the eco- 



logical distribution of the reptiles, amphibians 

 and certain groups of invertebrates, principally 

 the butterflies, molluscs and crustaceans. 



Dr. Frederick W. True, assistant director 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, known for his 

 contributions to zoology, especially of the 

 Cetacea, died on June 25 in Washington at 

 the age of fifty-five years. 



Dr. George Dean, professor of pathology in 

 the University of Aberdeen, died on May 30 

 at the age of fifty years. 



Professor Hugo Kronecker, of Bern, dis- 

 tinguished for his contributions to physiology, 

 died on June 6, at the age of seventy-five years. 



Professor Adolph Lieben, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of general and pharmaceutical chemis- 

 try in the University of Vienna, died on June 

 6, aged seventy-eight years. 



The International Congress of Anatomy 

 will hold its next meeting at Amsterdam in 

 August, 1915. 



The interest of Lady Huggins, the widow 

 of the late Sir William Huggins, in the 

 higher education of women in science as devel- 

 oped in the United States has been shovm by 

 her gift to Whitin Observatory of Wellesley 

 College of certain of her more personal astron- 

 omical possessions. The gift includes two 

 stained glass windows once in Tulse Hill 

 Observatory House, a beautifully wrought 

 Arabian astrolabe, pocket sun dials of the 

 eighteenth century, several exquisite portable 

 instruments especially made for Lady Hug- 

 gins, and a grating ruled and presented to 

 Sir William Huggins by Eutherford, of New 

 York, and used in his earlier work. There are 

 also interesting pictures, drawings and books. 

 These are properly placed in the Whitin Ob- 

 servatory to form a Huggins memorial collec- 

 tion. The astronomers from Harvard College 

 Observatory and the Astronomical Laboratory 

 were present at the formal presentation and 

 Professor E. C. Pickering made an address. 



The Smith-Lever bill, an act to "provide 

 for cooperative agricultural extension work 

 between the agricultural colleges in the sev- 

 eral states receiving the benefits of an Act of 

 Congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts 



