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SCIENCE 



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of "The Golden Bough"; Dr. W. P. Herring- 

 ham, vice-chancellor of London University, 

 physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Dr. 

 W. H. St. John Hope, archeologist ; Dr. W. 

 Milligan, known by his investigation into the 

 connection of human and animal anthrax; 

 Lieut.-Colonel Leonard Rogers, Indian Med- 

 ical Service, professor of pathology, Medical 

 College, and bacteriologist to the government, 

 Calcutta; Dr. T. Kirke Eose, chemist and as- 

 sayer to the Eoyal Mint; Dr. S. J. Sharkey, 

 lecturer on medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, 

 and Mr. J. F. C. Snell, president-elect of the 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers. The honor 

 of knight bachelor has been conferred upon 

 Dr. Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic explorer, 

 and Professor T. P. Anderson Stuart, dean of 

 the faculty of medicine at Sydney University. 

 Mr. E. Meredith, director of telegraphs, India ; 

 Mr. A. Howard, imperial economic botanist at 

 Pusa, Bengal; Major E. D. W. Greig, assist- 

 ant director, Central Research Institute, 

 Kasauli ; Dr. T. Summers, late Bombay Public 

 Works Department, and Mr. E. H. Tickell, 

 chief engineer. Central Provinces, have re- 

 ceived the honor of CLE. Dr. H. R. D. 

 Spitta, bacteriologist to his Majesty's house- 

 hold, has been appointed M.V.O. (fourth 

 class). 



Dr. Erwin Baue, director of the Institut 

 fiir Vererbungsforschung of the Konigliehen 

 Landwirtschaftlichen Hoehschule in Berlin, 

 has been appointed Carl Schurz memorial 

 professor in the University of Wisconsin for 

 the first semester of 1914-15. Dr. Baur will 

 take up his residence in the university about 

 the first of November, and will remain until 

 the end of the semester. 



Professor F. E. Austin, during the past six 

 years head of the department of electrical 

 engineering at Norwich University, has re- 

 signed to engage in engineering education ex- 

 tension work and the publication of several 

 engineering books. During the present sum- 

 mer Professor Austin has charge of special 

 classes in electrical engineering at the Thayer 

 School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. 



The disastrous fire at Salem, Mass., spared 

 the Peabody Museum and the Essex Institute. 

 The house of Dr. E. S. Morse, with its valu- 

 able papers, drawings, books and collections, 

 also narrowly escaped. 



Sir David Gill left the Royal Astronomical 

 Society of London the sum of £250 to be em- 

 ployed by the council of the society in aid 

 of astronomical research in grateful remem- 

 brance of the like sum paid out of the funds 

 of the society in aid of his expedition to Ascen- 

 sion in 1876. He expressed the wish that the 

 sum be devoted to some expenditure of a simi- 

 lar character, or to complete some work, such 

 as the computation of new tables of the 

 satellites of Jupiter. 



Sir James Key Oaird, of Dundee, has given 

 $120,000 toward the expenses of the Shackle- 

 ton Antarctic expedition. 



M. Ole Olsen has offered to place at the 

 disposal of M. Knud Rasmussen, the Arctic 

 explorer, sufficient funds (about $Y5,000) for 

 the fitting out of a North Pole expedition. 

 The expedition, which will take provisions for 

 two years, will be provided with aU modern 

 appliances and will be accompanied by staffs 

 of scientists. The base wiU be at Cape York, 

 in Greenland. 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Soci- 

 ety will meet at Northwestern University, 

 Evanston, Illinois, August 25-28. 



Ajf International Congress of School Hy- 

 giene will be held at Brussels in 1915, under 

 the presidency of M. Gorman, director-general 

 of the ministry of public instruction, and Dr. 

 Demoor, rector of the University of Brussels. 



According to a resolution of the interna- 

 tional executive committee chosen at the last 

 congress in Paris, the Fifth International 

 Congress of Genetics will be held in Berlin in 

 1916. The committee consists of representa- 

 tives of the various German agricultural and 

 horticultural societies. Wirkl. Geheim. Dr. 

 Thiel is chairman. The congress wiU convene 

 during the first week in September, 1916. The 

 address of the subcommittee in charge of pre- 

 liminary arrangements. Professors von Riimker 



