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rest almost witliin sight of the laboratory 

 which he greatly loved, and which is his en- 

 during monument. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. E. W. Wood, professor of experimental 

 physics at the Johns Hopkins University, has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the 

 Eoyal Society of Sciences of Gottingen. 



During Dr. T. C. Mendenhall's recent visit 

 to Japan, where he held the chair of physics 

 in the Imperial University from 1878 to 1881, 

 the Emperor bestowed on him the decoration 

 of the Sacred Treasures, 2d class, and the Na- 

 tional Educational Society conferred on him 

 its gold medal. 



At the recent centenary celebration of the 

 University of Breslau, an honorary degree was 

 conferred upon Dr. Theobald Smith, professor 

 of comparative pathology at Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



The Eoyal Statistical Society of London 

 has awarded a Guy medal in gold to Mr. G. 

 Udny Yule. 



Dr. Edward Schaper, professor of physi- 

 ology at Edinburgh, has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at 

 Halle. 



The Imperial Academy of Japan has 

 awarded a medal and testimonial to Dr. 

 Kimura for his discovery of the term in the 

 variation of latitude known by his name. 



Professor A. A. Michelson, head of the de- 

 partment of physics at the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been the exchange professor at the 

 University of Gottingen during the summer 

 semester of 1911. 



Among Americanswho hadexpressed their in- 

 tention to be present at the meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Association beginning this week in Ports- 

 mouth are: Professor Cleveland Abbe and W. 

 J. Humphreys, U. S. Weather Bureau; Pro- 

 fessor Carl Barus, Brown University; Pro- 

 fessor A. A. Michelson, the University of 

 Chicago; Professor E. W. Clarke, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey; Professor J. W. Spencer, 

 Washington; Professor H. Webster, Univer- 



sity of Nebraska; Dr. A. Goldenweiser, Co- 

 lumbia University; Professor H. C. Cowles, 

 University of Chicago, and Professor A. A. 

 Noyes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Provost Edgar E. Smith, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, is on his way to Europe as 

 the representative of his university at the 

 celebration of the five hundredth anniversary 

 of the founding of the University of St. 

 Andrews in Scotland and the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the founding of King Ered- 

 erick University in Christiania, Norway. By 

 August 17 he hoped to reach the University 

 of Gottingen in order to celebrate on that day 

 the thirty-fifth anniversary of his receiving 

 the degree of doctor of philosophy at this uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. L. H. Bailey, whose resignation as di- 

 rector of the New York State College of Agri- 

 culture was announced last month, states that 

 he will remain at Cornell until his successor 

 is chosen. 



Mr. E. W. Taylor, of Denver, has been ap- 

 pointed director of agriculture in the Philip- 

 pines. 



Dr. Pitting, associate professor at Halle, has 

 been appointed director of the Hamburg Bo- 

 tanical Institute. 



It is announced in Nature that Mr. C. E. 

 Adams, of the Department of Lands, New 

 Zealand, has been appointed astronomical ob- 

 server at Wellington in succession to Mr. T. 

 King, who has resigned. Mr. T. Southwell, 

 scientific adviser to the Ceylon Company of 

 Pearl Eishers, Ltd., and inspector of pearl 

 banks, Colombo, has been appointed deputy 

 director of fisheries, Bengal. 



Mr. Arthur A. Allen, instructor in neu- 

 rology and vertebrate zoology in Cornell Uni- 

 versity, will spend the next year in South 

 America as chief of an expedition organized 

 by the American Museum of Natural History. 

 The expedition will go to Colombia, its im- 

 mediate object being to explore ruins and col- 

 lect antiquities. 



The death is announced of Dr. Erank P. 

 Poster, for more than thirty years editor of 



