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D. Scudder, also well known as a writer, is a 

 daughter of David C. Scudder. 



T. D. A. COCZEEELL 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. E. a. Schapee, professor of physiology 

 at Edinburgh, has been elected president of 

 the British Association, for the meeting to be 

 held next year at Dundee, beginning on Sep- 

 tember 4. The meeting of 1913 will be held 

 at Birmingham. 



As part of the celebration of the centenary 

 of the University of Christiania a number of 

 honorary degrees were conferred upon the fol- 

 lowing American men of science: William 

 Morris Davis, of Cambridge, geographer and 

 geologist ; William Lewis Elkin, of New Haven, 

 astronomer; Albert Abraham Michelson, of 

 Chicago, physicist; Henry Fairfield Osborn, 

 of New York, paleontologist; Theodore Wil- 

 liam Richards, of Cambridge, chemist; 

 Charles Doolittle Walcott, of Washington, 

 geologist, and Ludvig Hektoen, of Chicago, 

 pathologist. 



The Prussian gold medal for science has 

 been conferred on Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer, 

 professor of anatomy in the University of 

 Berlin. 



Dr. S. J. Meltzer, head of the department 

 of physiology and pharmacology at the Eoeke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, has 

 been elected a member of the Imperial Leo- 

 poldina Carolina Academy of Naturalists, at 

 Krakau. 



We regret to learn that Dr. Thomas 

 Dwight, professor of anatomy at Harvard 

 University, is seriously ill at his summer 

 home at Nahant. 



Dr. Charles L. Parsons, professor of 

 chemistry in New Hampshire College since 

 1892, has accepted the position of chief min- 

 eral chemist in the Bureau of Mines, Wash- 

 ington, in charge of miscellaneous mineral 

 technology. In the same bureau, Professor F. 

 G. Cottrell, of the University of California, 

 has been appointed chief physical chemist, in 

 charge of the western metallurgical field. 



The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 



search announces the election of Dr. Theo- 

 dore C. Janeway as a member of its board of 

 scientific directors, to fill the vacancy caused 

 by the death of Dr. C. A. Herter. This board 

 has the entire control of the scientific work 

 done by the institute. Its other members are 

 Dr. William H. Welch, of Baltimore, Dr. 

 Theobald Smith, of Boston, and Drs. L. Em- 

 mett Holt, Herman M. Biggs, T. Mitchell 

 Prudden and Simon Flexner, of New York. 



Professor Gies, Columbia University, was 

 recently elected a scientific director of the 

 New York Botanical Garden to succeed Pro- 

 fessor Charles F. Chandler. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that a committee has been or- 

 ganized to do honor to the one who has been 

 so largely responsible for the progress realized 

 in the knowledge of diseases of tropical coun- 

 tries. Sir Patrick Manson, the movement for 

 the international manifestation having been 

 started in France. It is proposed to present 

 him with a portrait medal, in gold, the work 

 of Dr. Paul Richer, professor of anatomy at 

 the Beaux- Arts in Paris. The forty-five mem- 

 bers of the committee represent the leading 

 countries of the globe; the list includes Drs. 

 W. H. Welch, G. N. Calkins, F. G. Novy, 

 C. W. Stiles and H. B. Ward of this country. 



A delegation named by Professor Alexander 

 Smith, head of the department of chemistry 

 of Columbia University, to represent the 

 American Chemical Society at the National 

 Conservation Congress in Kansas City the 

 last of the month has been announced. It is 

 composed of Professor E. H. Keiser, Washing- 

 ton University, St. Louis; Chancellor Samuel 

 Avery, University of Nebraska; Professor 

 Herman Schlundt, University of Missouri; 

 Professor H. S. Bailey, University of Kansas, 

 and Dr. H. E. Barnard, State Laboratory of 

 Hygiene, Indianapolis. 



The president of the British Board of Edu- 

 cation has appointed Dr. Francis Grant Ogil- 

 vie to the post of director of the Science 

 Museum, which he will hold in addition to 

 his present ofiice of secretary for the Science 

 Museum and Geological Survey and Museum. 



