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Alan M. Chesney, M.D., assistant resident physi- 

 cian and assistant in medicine. 



Harold Kniest Faber, M.D., fellow in pathology. 



Boss Alexander Jamieson, M.D., assistant resi- 

 dent physician and assistant in medicine. 



Benjamin Schonbrun Kline, M.D., fellow in 

 physiology and pharmacology. 



John Jamieson Morton, Jr., M.D., fellow in 

 pathology. 



James Kuhn Senior, M.A., fellow in chemistry. 



Joseph Kichard Turner, M.D., fellow in pathol- 

 ogy- 



Dr. Paul Franklin Clark, formerly asso- 

 ciate in pathology and bacteriology has been 

 appointed assistant professor of bacteriology 

 in the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Homer 

 F. Swift, formerly resident physician in the 

 hospital and associate in medicine, has been 

 appointed associate professor of Medicine at 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- 

 lumbia University, and associate attending 

 physician, Presbyterian Hospital. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Society of Chemical Industry has 

 awarded its medal to Sir Henry Eoscoe, its 

 first president, for his services to science. 



Mr. Douglas Freshfield has been elected 

 president of the Eoyal Geographical Society 

 in succession to Lord Curzon. 



The technical school at Dantzig has con- 

 ferred the honorary degree of doctor of engi- 

 neering on Dr. Walther Nernst, professor of 

 physical chemistry at the University of 

 Berlin. 



In addition to the honorary degrees already 

 noted in Science as conferred at the tercen- 

 tenary celebration of Groningen University, 

 there were conferred degrees in the sciences 

 on two other Americans ; on Professor Edward 

 B. Van Vleck, professor of mathematics at the 

 University of Wisconsin, and on Mr. Edward 

 Phelps AUis, the zoologist, who resides at 

 Mentone, France. 



Dr. Henry Winston Harper, professor of 

 chemistry in the University of Texas, received 

 the degree of doctor of laws, from Baylor 

 University, at its recent commencement. 



On the recommendation of the committee 

 on awards of the scientific exhibit, of which 

 Professor Richard M. Pearce of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania was chairman, at the 

 recent Atlantic City meeting of the American 

 Medical Association, the first prize, the gold 

 medal for the best scientific exhibit, was 

 awarded to Miss Maude Slye of the Otho S. A. 

 Sprague Memorial Institute of Chicago, for 

 her exhibit of charts, diagrams, specimens and 

 tables on the transmission of hereditary cancer 

 and other diseases in mice. 



Dr. Camillo Golgi, professor of pathology 

 at Pavia, known especially for his investiga- 

 tions on the minute structure of the brain, 

 celebrated his seventieth birthday on July 7. 



Dr. Myles Standish, Williams professor of 

 ophthalmology in the Harvard Medical School, 

 has been appointed professor emeritus. 



A COMPLETE list of American scientific men 

 who have accepted invitations to attend the 

 Australasian meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion as the guests of the New Zealand govern- 

 ment, is as follows: 



Dr. L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mr. Lyman J. 

 Briggs, Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C; Professor A. P. Coleman, Toronto Univer- 

 sity, Toronto; Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, Princeton 

 University, Princeton, N. J.; Dr. Charles B. 

 Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, 

 N. T. ; Professor William M. Davis, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Mass. ; Dr. George A. Dorsey, 

 Curator of Anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago; 

 President G. C. Creelman, Ontario Agricultural 

 College, Guelph, Ontario; Professor R. T. Ely, 

 Madison, Wisconsin; Professor E. C. Franklin, Le- 

 land Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal. ; Pro- 

 fessor P. H. Hanus, Harvard University, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass.; President E. F. Nichols, Dartmouth 

 College, Hanover, N. H. ; Dr. Ira Eemsen, Presi- 

 dent, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Pro- 

 fessor William M. Wheeler, Bussey Institution, 

 Forest Hills, Boston. 



Phofessoe F. p. Leavenworth, of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, is spending the summer 

 at the Terkes Observatory in working with 

 the micrometer and the forty-inch telescope. 



Professor C. H. Eigenmann has been ap- 

 pointed research professor of zoology in Indi- 



