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self-aggrandizement obscured his judgment, 

 ■which was guided solely by his desire for sci- 

 entific honesty and truth. Small wonder that 

 he became a progressive and a radical in sys- 

 tematic zoology, so much so that when he first 

 published his classificatory arrangement of 

 fishes and other vertebrates he was almost a 

 generation ahead of his time. True, his ideas 

 were taken up and carried out by his pupils, 

 the American ichthyologists with David Stan- 

 Jordan at their head, but it is only recently 

 that he had the satisfaction of learning that 

 the European fish specialists have finally ac- 

 cepted his views, giving him unstinted praise 

 for their originality and intrinsic worth. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 M. Paul de Saint Maroeaux has completed 

 the monument which is to be dedicated in 

 memory of Pierre Berthelot, the great French 

 ■chemist, in front of the College de France, 

 iParis. 



■On the occasion of the Australian meeting 

 of the British Association, the University of 

 Adelaide conferred the degree of doctor of 

 science on Professor W. J. Sollas, Professor 

 A. Penck, Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, 

 Professor E. W. Brown, Sir Oliver Lodge, 

 Professor H. Jungersen, Professor G. W. O. 

 Howe, Dr. 0. F. Juritz and Professor von 

 Luschan. 



Dr. Eugen Obeehummer, professor of geog- 

 raphy at the University of Vienna, was ap- 

 pointed visiting Austrian professor to Co- 

 lumbia University for the academic year. 

 Despite the war Professor Oberhummer is ex- 

 pected to be in residence during the second 

 half-year. The visiting professors appointed 

 from Russia and France, Professors Theodor 

 Niemeyer and M. Paul Hazard, are said to 

 have been called to military service. 



Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin, of the U. S. 

 Health Service, has been appointed health 

 commissioner for Massachusetts. 



The Quadrennial Fellowship of $1,000 of 

 the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association for 

 the year June 15, 1915, to June 15, 1916, has 



been awarded to Miss Margaret Harwood, 

 A.B., Eadcliffe College, 1907, who has been 

 for three years astronomical fellow of the as- 

 sociation. Miss Harwood has elected to work 

 at the University of California. The second 

 fellowship of $500 has been awarded a year in 

 advance, in order that the candidate may pre- 

 pare herself for the special work undertaken 

 by the Maria Mitchell Observatory. Miss 

 Susan Raymond, A.B., Smith College, 1913, 

 has received the appointment. 



Dr. Johan Nordal Fischer Wille, professor 

 of botany and director of the Botanical Gar- 

 den of the University of Christiania, is visit- 

 ing the botanical institutions of the United 

 States. He is one of the foreign delegates to 

 the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniver- 

 sary of the Missouri Botanical Garden to be 

 held at St. Louis on October 15 and 16. 



The following members of the Western Re- 

 serve University medical faculty have re- 

 turned from abroad: T. N. Stewart, professor 

 of experimental medicine; J. J. R. MacLeod, 

 professor of physiology; G. W. Todd, pro- 

 fessor of anatomy and P. J. Hanzlik, instruc- 

 tor in pharmacology. 



The first meeting of the new session of the 

 Royal Geographical Society, London, will be 

 held on November 9, when Mr. Belloc will 

 lecture on " The Geography of the War." On 

 November 23, Lord Bryce will deal with " The 

 Mental Training of a Traveler," and on De- 

 cember 7, Miss Lo-wthian Bell wiU give an 

 account of her recent journey in Arabia. 



The death is recorded in Nature of George 

 Gresswell, formerly lecturer in physical sci- 

 ence, under the government of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, at the Diocesan College, Ronde- 

 bosch, and demonstrator of practical physiol- 

 ogy and histology at Westminster Hospital. 



A MEETING of the Society for the Promotion 

 of Industrial Education will be held at Rich- 

 mond, Va., December 9—12. 



We learn from the Los Angeles Tribune of 

 September 29, that the collection of Mr. Henry 

 Hemphill, recently referred to in Science, was 



