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candidate must present evidence of ciualifiea- 

 tions under the following heads : (1) A letter 

 from the candidate addressed to the secretary 

 of the committee, giving an account of previ- 

 ous educational opportunities and training, 

 and of plans for future work. (3) College 

 diploma or a certificate from the registrar of 

 her college, and if she has already held a posi- 

 tion as instructor or teacher in any college or 

 other institution, a clear statement of the 

 work done, together with a certificate as to the 

 quality of work. (3) Examples of work al- 

 ready accomplished. (4) Testimonials as to 

 ability and character. (5) Satisfactory evi- 

 dence of thoroughly good health. The fellow- 

 ship at all times must be used for purposes of 

 serious study, and the fellow should be as free 

 as possible from other responsibilities. 



Application for the year beginning June 

 15, 1912, should be made under the above 

 heads, and must be in the hands of the secre- 

 tary of the committee, Mrs. Charles S. Hinch- 

 man, 3635 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 on or before March 1, 1912. The committee 

 consists of Professor Mary W. Whitney, di- 

 rector of Vassar College Observatory, chair- 

 man; Annie J. Cannon, A.M., Harvard Ob- 

 servatory, vice-chairinan; Professor Anne S. 

 Young, Ph.D., Mt. Holyoke Observatory; Dr. 

 Edward C. Pickering, director of Harvard 

 Observatory; Elizabeth E. Coffin, A.B., Vassar 

 College, '70; Florence M. Cushing, A.B., Vas- 

 sar College, '74; Lydia S. Hiuchman, Phila- 

 delphia, secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Vienna Academy of Sciences has 

 elected as honorary members Professor Svante 

 Arrhenius, of Stockholm; Professor Archibald 

 Geikie, of London, and Professor E. Metchni- 

 koff, of Paris. 



Professor E. Cosserat, director of the ob- 

 servatory at Toulouse, has been elected a cor- 

 responding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine has elected 

 as national associates Dr. de Brun, professor 

 of pathology at Beirut, and Dr. Herrgott, pro- 

 fessor of clinical obstetrics at Nancy. 



The celebration of the seventieth birthday 

 of the Konigsberg pharmacologist, Professor 

 Jaffe, took place on July 25. 



The Middlemore prize of the British Medi- 

 cal Association has been presented to Mr. C. 

 W. 6. Bryan in recognition of his essay on 

 serum and vaccine therapy, in connection with 

 disease of the eye. 



Mr. Harlas" I. Smith, of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, has been appointed 

 archeologist of the Geological Survey of Can- 

 ada, with an ofiice in the Victoria Memorial 

 Museum, the national museum of Canada, at 

 Ottawa. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Ophthalmologic Society at New London, Dr. 

 Edward Jackson, of Denver, was elected presi- 

 dent. 



The following honorary degrees were con- 

 ferred at the ninety-first commencement of 

 Colgate University: L.H.D. on John Bur- 

 roughs, the naturalist; Sc.D. on H. E. 

 Slaught, Ph.D., professor of mathematics. 

 University of Chicago, and John B. Ekeley, 

 Ph.D., professor of chemistry. University of 

 Colorado. 



The Dutch geologist. Dr. Molengraaf, has 

 lately undertaken an investigation of the in- 

 terior of Timor. 



The eighteenth Congress of Americanists 

 will be held next year in London, the invita- 

 tion issued by the Royal Anthropological In- 

 stitute, through .its president, Mr. A. P. 

 Maudslay, having been accepted by the con- 

 gress. The president-elect is Sir Clements 

 Markham. 



The fourteenth annual session of the Amer- 

 ican Mining Congress is called to meet at 

 Chicago, 111., on September 26, 27, 28 and 29. 



The Michigan Health Board of Exhibit 

 started on its first trip over the state on, Au- 

 gust 1, promulgating facts regarding typhoid 

 fever, tuberculosis, infant mortality and gen- 

 eral sanitation to the people of the state. 



By the will of the late Dr. J. Smith, of 

 Hanover, Pa., he devised his entire estate. 



