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has been appointed in his place. Sr. Batres, 

 inspector of antiquities, is succeeded by Sr. 

 Rodriguez. 



Professor Clyde Furst, secretary of 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, since 

 1902, has become secretary of the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 

 succeeding Mr. John G. Bowman, who has 

 become president of the University of Iowa. 



The Society of German Chemists has 

 awarded the Adolf Baeyer plaque in gold and 

 the interest of the Duisberg foundation to 

 Professor Paul Friedlander, of Darmstadt, 

 and the Liebig medal to Professor Paul Ehr- 

 lich, of Frankfort. 



The South African medal and fund has 

 been awarded by the South African Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science to Dr. 

 F. Peringuey, director of the museum at 

 Capetown. 



The fiftieth anniversary of the connection 

 of Dr. Carlo Eeymond, professor of ophthal- 

 mology, with the medical faculty of the Uni- 

 versity of Turin, was celebrated on May 18, 

 when a Festschrift was presented to him. 



A PRIZE, to be known as the Professor Van 

 Amringe mathematical prize, has been estab- 

 lished at Columbia University, in honor of 

 Professor Van Amringe, who last year retired 

 from the head of the department of mathe- 

 matics, after a service of fifty years. The 

 prize has been endowed with $2,500 by Mr. 

 George G. De Witte, '67, and is to be awarded 

 to the student who is most proficient in math- 

 ematics during the first two years of the col- 

 lege course. 



The gasolene schooner Polar Bear arrived 

 at Nome, Alaska, on July 12, having picked 

 up on the way north A. C. Bent, Rolla H. 

 Beck and Fred McKenzie, members of an 

 expedition sent out by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution to gather specimens in the Aleutian 

 Islands. 



The governor of Pennsylvania has ap- 

 pointed the following persons as the commis- 

 sion for the investigation and control of the 

 chestnut tree blight in Pennsylvania: Mr. 

 Samuel T. Bodine, of Villa Nova, Pa., vice- 



president of the United Gas Improvement 

 Co.; Mr. George F. Craig, of Rosemont, Pa., 

 of the firm of George F. Craig & Co., Phila- 

 delphia; Mr. Theodore N. Ely, of Bryn Mawr, 

 Pa., superintendent of motive power of the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad; Harold Peiree, of 

 Haverford, Pa., agent New York Life Insur- 

 ance Co., and Mr. Winthrop Sargent, of 

 Haverford, Pa. 



A NOTABLE addition to the facilities offered 

 by Paris as a center of anthropological re- 

 search is the Institute of Human Paleontol- 

 ogy recently founded by the Prince of Monaco. 

 In the new institute the Abbe H. Breuil, 

 formerly of the University of Fribourg, occu- 

 pies the chair of prehistoric ethnography and 

 Dr. H. Obermaier, a former colleague of Pro- 

 fessor Hoernes at Vienna, that of geology in 

 its relation to prehistory. Professor M. Boule, 

 of the Museum of Natural History, Jardin 

 des Plantes, is the director. 



The South African Association for the 

 Advancement of Science held its ninth annual 

 meeting at Bulawayo from the third to the 

 eighth of July, under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor P. D. Hahn. The association meets in 

 four sections as follows: Section A: Astron- 

 omy, mathematics, physics, meteorology, geod- 

 esy, surveying, engineering, architecture and 

 irrigation — president. Rev. E. Goetz. Sec- 

 tion B: Chemistry, geology, metallurgy, min- 

 eralogy and geography — president A. J. C. 

 Molyneus. Section 0: Bacteriology, botany, 

 zoology, agriculture, forestry, physiology, 

 hygiene and sanitary science — president E. A. 

 Nobbs. Section D : Anthropology, ethnology, 

 education, history, mental science, philology, 

 political economy, sociology and statistics — 

 president, G. Duthie. 



The fortieth meeting of the French Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science will, as 

 we have noted, be held this year at Dijon 

 from July 31 to August 5, with M. Charles 

 Lallemand as president. The sections of the 

 association and their presidents are given in 

 Nature. They are as follows: M. E. Belot, 

 mathematics, astronomy, geodesy, mechanics; 

 M. Galliot, navigation (civil and military), 

 engineering; Professor Hurion, physics; Pro- 



