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because of your acknowledged thoroughness in 

 the teaching of the same, because of your 

 happy solution of perplexing and important 

 problems in inorganic and synthetic organic 

 chemistry. Arthur Newell Talbot — Master of 

 engineering in its relations to railway, hy- 

 draulic and sanitary construction, eminent as 

 a teacher of theoretical and applied mechanics, 

 prolific and respected writer on these subjects. 



Tale University has conferred its doctorate 

 of science on Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles. In pre- 

 senting the degree Professor Woolsey said: 

 " Charles Wardell Stiles, zoologist — -Five years 

 of foreign study, arduous research and the 

 spur of visible suffering have fitted and im- 

 pelled Dr. Stiles to attack the obscurities of 

 parasitic disease. Both brutes and men owe 

 him gratitude. He is the discoverer of the 

 American hookworm, that widespread and 

 dreadful scourge of the south. By his investi- 

 gation and through his propaganda an entire 

 people is being lifted to a higher plane of 

 physical and economic being." 



Dr. David White, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has been elected a corresponding fellow 

 of the Royal Society of Canada. 



The Osiris prize of $20,000, which the Insti- 

 tute of France gives every three years for the 

 most remarkable work in science, art, letters 

 or industry, was awarded on June 2 jointly to 

 Professors Widal and Chantemesse and Dr. 

 Vincent, of the University of Paris, for their 

 work in the development of anti-typhoid vac- 

 cination. As this prize can only be given to 

 Frenchmen, the institute has awarded a special 

 prize to Sir Almroth Wright, for his discovery 

 of this means of protection from typhoid. 



Ten Philadelphia surgeons and four nurses 

 sailed from New York on the steamship St. 

 Louis, on June 12, for the war zone in France. 

 They will have charge of a floor in the Ameri- 

 can Ambulance Hospital, and will make an 

 exhaustive study of the treatment of wounded 

 soldiers. The Philadelphia doctors, most of 

 whom are making the trip at their own ex- 

 pense, wiU have charge of about 200 wounded 

 men. Of the general expenses about $Y,000 of 

 the $10,000 needed has been subscribed. The 

 unit wiU be abroad three months. Dr. J. Wil- 



liam White, emeritus professor of surgery at 

 the University of Pennsylvania, is in charge 

 of the party. Besides Dr. White, the mem- 

 bers of the party on the St. Louis are Dr. 

 James P. Hutchinson, who will be the man- 

 aging head of the unit; Dr. Daniel J. Mc- 

 Carthy, neurologist; Dr. Edmund B. Piper; 

 Dr. Walter EsteU Lee; Dr. Arthur E. Bill- 

 ings; Dr. Peter M. Keating; Dr. Samuel Gold- 

 schmidt, bacteriologist; Dr. Thomas C. AUer 

 and Dr. David M. Davis, of Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Dr. Clifford Eichardson, of New York, 

 was elected president of the Association of 

 Harvard Chemists at the fourth annual din- 

 ner, held recently, at Young's Hotel, Boston. 

 Other officers are: Vice-presidents, Professor 

 W. D. Bancroft, of Cornell University, and 

 Dr. F. W. Clark, of Washington; Secretary 

 and Treasurer, Professor S. B. Forbes. About 

 thirty-five members were present with these 

 speakers: Professors T. W. Eichards and G. 

 P. Baxter, of Harvard University, and George 

 B. Leighton, of Boston. 



Mr. N. G. Nelson, of the department of 

 anthropology of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, is engaged in excavating 

 the prehistoric and early historic ruined vil- 

 lages in the neighborhood of Santa Fe. Dr. 

 Eobert H. Lowie has left for field work among 

 the Kiowa Indians of Oklahoma, the Hopi of 

 Arizona and the Painte of Nevada. 



George B. Roorbach, instructor of geog- 

 raphy in the Wharton School, University of 

 Pennsylvania, has received an appointment 

 from the Carnegie Endowment for the Ad- 

 vancement of International Peace to carry 

 on investigations this summer in Venezuela 

 on the effect of the war on industrial, com- 

 mercial and financial conditions in that 

 country. Mr. Eoorbach sailed for Venezuela 

 June 16, to be gone during the vacation. 



Mr. Frank Collins Baker has resigned his 

 position as acting director and curator of the 

 Chicago Academy of Sciences. Mr. Baker 

 has held the office of curator for twenty-one 

 years, during which time he has built up large 

 study collections, many of which have formed 

 the basis for extensive monographs. The 



