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SCIENCE 



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on Professor Henry S. Graves, chief forester 

 of the U. S. Forest Service, and on Major W. 

 V. Judson, of the corps of engineers of the 

 U. S. Army. 



Dartmouth College has conferred its doc- 

 torate of science on Professor Edwin B. 

 Frost, of the class of '86, director of the 

 Yerkes Observatory and formerly professor of 

 astronomy at Dartmouth College. 



Amherst College has conferred its doc- 

 torate of laws on Dr. Walter Wyman, of the 

 class of '70, surgeon general of the TJ. S. 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. 



The degTee of doctor of engineering has 

 been conferred by the University of Illinois 

 upon Mr. Ralph Modjeski, bridge engineer. 



Dr. R. a. Millikan, professor of physics in 

 the TJniversity of Chicago, has been given a 

 doctorate of science by Oberlin College. 



The JefPerson Medical College has con- 

 ferred the degree of Sc.D. on Dr. Victor G. 

 Heiser, class of 1896, director of health in the 

 Philippine Islands. 



The Royal Society of Arts has awarded its 

 Albert medal for the current year to the 

 Hon. Charles A. Parsons, F.R.S., for his ex- 

 perimental researches on steam engines of the 

 turbine type. 



Dr. L. Hektoen, of the Memorial Institute 

 for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, has been 

 elected foreign member of the Norwegian 

 Medical Society of Copenhagen. 



Dr. p. Walden, professor of chemistry at 

 Riga, has been elected a member of the St. 

 Petersburg Academy of Sciences, with the 

 privilege of retaining for the present his chair 

 in the Polytechnic School at Riga. 



Dr. Sven" Hedin", the Swedish explorer, has 

 been elected a member of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Professor v. Esmarch, of Gottingen, has 

 resigned the direction of the hygienic insti- 

 tute on account of illness and has been re- 

 lieved from giving lectures. 



Dr. Albert Eclenburg, professor of dis- 

 eases of the nervous system at Berlin, cele- 



brated the semi-centennial of his doctorate 

 on May 31. 



The eighth volume of the " Contributions 

 from the Jefferson Physical Laboratory " is 

 dedicated to Professor John Trowbridge, the 

 director emeritus. The volume contains 

 twenty-six papers, and has the following dedi- 

 cation to Professor Trowbridge: 

 To John Trowbridge 



who projected a great physical laboratory for 

 Harvard University and found the means to build 

 and equip it, who by his foresight, invention and 

 care has kept this laboratory among the foremost 

 in opportunities for scientific achievement, and by 

 his magnanimity has made it a place proverbial 

 for good feeling, this volume is gratefully and 

 affectionately dedicated by those who have profited 

 by his labors and enjoyed his friendship. 



Under authority recently given by congress. 

 Surgeon General Wyman has designated the 

 U. S. Marine Hospital at Wilmington, N. C, 

 as a special research hospital for zooparasitic 

 diseases. Professor 0. W. Stiles, of the 

 Hygienic Laboratory, has been ordered to 

 divide his time between Washington, D. C, 

 and Wilmington. He will have charge of the 

 biological side of the investigations while 

 Surgeon Charles H. Gardner will have charge 

 of the more strictly medical side of the work. 

 The new law permits the hospital to take in 

 free patients, not to exceed ten in number at 

 any one time, for study of infectious and 

 contagious diseases. Dr. Stiles takes three 

 assistants to Wilmington. A camp of six 

 tents has been erected in the hospital grounds 

 for quarters. 



Dr. Oskar Hecker, observer in the Geo- 

 detic Institute at Potsdam, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the bureau of the Inter- 

 national Seismological Association at Strass- 

 burg. 



Dr. Louis Simonin, assistant director of the 

 Nice Observatory, has been appointed astron- 

 omer in the Paris Observatory. 



Dr. Otto Klotz, of the Dominion Observa- 

 tory, will attend the Manchester meeting, 

 July 18-22, of the International Seismolog- 

 ical Association as delegate for Canada. 



