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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XL. No. 1020 



The preceding list shows the estimates of 

 population for July 1, 1914, and tte popula- 

 tion in 1910, for cities having an estimated 

 population July 1, 1914, of at least 100,000. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. David Staer Jordan, chancellor of 

 Leland Stanford University, has heen elected 

 president of the National Education Associa- 

 tion. 



Dr. F. W. Dyson, astronomer royal of Great 

 Britain, has been elected a correspondent of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences, in the section 

 of astronomy. 



On May 13, the Daly medal for geographical 

 research of the American Geographical Soci- 

 ety, vfrhich had been awarded by the council 

 to Dr. A. Penck, professor of geography, 

 Berlin, was formally presented to him by the 

 Hon. James W. Gerard, ambassador of the 

 United States to Germany, at the embassy in 

 Berlin. 



The trustees of the American Medicine Gold 

 Medal Award announce that the medal for 

 1914 has been conferred upon Dr. George W. 

 Crile, of Cleveland, O., as the American physi- 

 cian, who, in their judgment, has performed 

 the most conspicuous and noteworthy service in 

 the domain of medicine and surgery during the 

 past year. 



The London Mathematical Society has 

 awarded its de Morgan medal to Sir Joseph 

 Larmor of the University of Cambridge. 



Professor W. P. Bruck has received the 

 Askenasy prize of the Senckenberg Scientific 



Society of Prankfort for his botanical re- 

 searches. 



Dennison University has conferred the 

 degree of LL.D. on Dr. Richard 0. Maclaurin, 

 president of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology; Dr. Ernest F. Nichols, president 

 of Dartmouth College; Dr. W. H. P. Paunce, 

 president of Brown University, and Professor 

 William E. Castle, of Harvard University. 



On the occasion of the tercentenary of the 

 founding of Groningen University the follow- 

 ing honorary degrees have been conferred: 

 Doctor of Medicine on Sir Edward Schaefer, 

 Edinburgh, and Professor J. N. Langley, Cam- 

 bridge; Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy on 

 Dr. A. L. Day, of the Carnegie Institution; 

 Doctor of Botany and Zoology on Professor 

 S. J. Hickson, Manchester. 



At its recent commencement the Birming- 

 ham Medical College and Graduate School of 

 Medicine of the University of Alabama con- 

 ferred the honorary degree of doctor of medi- 

 cine upon Dr. A. Richard Bliss, Jr., professor 

 of chemistry and pharmacology in the univer- 

 sity. 



The University of Toronto has conferred the 

 degree of doctor of science on Mr. Frank T. 

 Shutt, Dominion chemist and assistant di- 

 rector of experimental farms. 



Professor James Geikie, professor of geol- 

 ogy in the University of Edinburgh since 

 1882, when he succeeded his brother. Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie, is about to retire from the active 

 duties of the chair. 



Professor T. R. Lyle, F.R.S., is shortly to 

 resign the professorship of natural philosophy 

 in the University of Melbourne. 



Dr. Alois Riehl, professor of philosophy at 

 Berlin, has given the seventeen thousand 

 marks presented to him on his seventieth 

 birthday for the establishment of Dozenten- 

 haus, intended to be a hall of residence for 

 lecturers at the university. 



At the request of many organizations 

 throughout Louisiana the Treasury Depart- 

 ment has ordered Surgeon-General Rupert 

 Blue, of the Public Health Service, to take 



