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the geological surveys of Michigan and Ohio. 

 It woTild indeed be worth while to know if the 

 germs which impelled this noble pair of 

 brothers into the same paths may really not 

 have been picked up on the old home farm in 

 Dutchess county, N. T. Supervening all these 

 early influences and regulating all their im- 

 pulses, there was in the home, as is well known 

 to many American geologists, a wise and 

 gentle adviser in all the enterprises of his 

 manhood, the unseen hand that kept the harp 

 in tune. 



John M. Clarke 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Ira Remsen, es-president of +he Johns 

 Hopkins University; Dr. L. H. Bailey, form- 

 erly director of the State College of Agricul- 

 ture of Cornell University; Professor T. C. 

 Chamberlin, of the University of Chicago; 

 Professor Edwin G. Conklin, of Princeton 

 University ; Professor William M. Wheeler, of 

 Harvard University, and Dr. Charles D. Daven- 

 port, director of the station of experimental 

 evolution of the Carnegie Institution, planned 

 to sail from San Francisco on the steamer 

 Tahiti on July 22, to attend the Australasian 

 meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science as guests of the New 

 Zealand government. 



Officers of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union elected for the coming year are as 

 follows: Albert K. Fisher, president; Henry 

 W. Henshaw and Witmer Stone, vice-presi- 

 dents; John H. Sage, secretary; Jonathan 

 Dwight, Jr., treasurer; Euthven Deane, 

 William Dutcher, Frederic A. Lucas, Wilfred 

 H. Osgood, Chas. W. Richmond, Thos. S. 

 Roberts, and Joseph Grinnell, members of the 

 council. 



Dr. George H. Whipple, associate professor 

 of pathology in Johns Hopkins Medical School, 

 has been appointed director of the Hooper 

 Institute, San Francisco. 



Dr. Oscar Teague, of the Cornell Univer- 

 sity Medical School, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the new bacteriological laboratory 

 of New Tork City at Quarantine. 



The trustees of the Albert Kahn Travelling 

 Fellowships have appointed Mr. Alan G. 

 Ogilvie, of the School of Geography, Oxford 

 University, a fellow of the British Foundation 

 for 1914^15. 



Captain J. F. Parry has been appointed to 

 succeed Eear-Admiral Herbert E. P. Oust, 

 C.B., as hydrographer of the British navy. 



The University of Liverpool has conferred 

 on Dr. T. F. Wall, lecturer on electrical engi- 

 neering at the University of Birmingham, the 

 degree of doctor of engineering. 



Dr. Lemoine, professor of clinical medi- 

 cine at Lille, on the occasion of the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of his teaching was presented 

 with a picture of himself, painted by M. 

 Pharaon de' Winter. 



The Mackinnon studentship of the Royal 

 Society on the biological side has been awarded 

 to Mr. G. Matthai, of Emmanuel College, 

 Cambridge, for a research on the comparative 

 anatomy of the Madreporaria. 



The Emile Chr. Hansen prize for 1914 has 

 been awarded to Professor Jules Bordet, 

 director of the Institut Pasteur of Brabant. 



The committee has awarded the Alvarenga 

 Prize of $180 to Dr. Herman B. Sheffield, of 

 New York, for his essay entitled " Idiocy and 

 the AUied Mental Deficiencies in Infancy and 

 Early Childhood." 



The American Anthropologist states that 

 the Cayuga County Historical Society of Au- 

 burn, New Tork, conferred the " Cornplanter 

 Medal for Iroquois Research " on Mr. J, N. B. 

 Hewitt of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 Washington, D. C, for his work in the field of 

 Iroquois anthropological study. The Corn- 

 planter medal was founded in 1901 largely 

 through the efforts of Professor Frederick 

 Starr, of the University of Chicago, and a 

 number of his friends who aided in providing 

 the necessary means. The administration of 

 the Cornplanter medal for Iroquois Research 

 was then imdertaken by the Cayuga County 

 Historical Society. Four classes of workers 

 are eligible to receive it, namely: (a) Ethnol- 

 ogists making worthy field-study or other inves* 



