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Meldola, Eaphael, F.E.S., professor of chemistry 

 in Finsbury Technical College (City and Guilds of 

 London Institute). 



Minot, Charles Sedgwick, professor of histology 

 and human embryology, Harvard Medical School, 

 Boston. 



Mittag-Lefler, Gosta, professor of mathematics, 

 University of Stockholm, Djursholm u. Stockholm, 

 Eosenbad, 2. 



Nathorst, Alfred Gabriel, Intendent Naturhis- 

 toriska Eiksmuseum (plant-paleontological depart- 

 ment), Stockholm (delegate, Eoyal Swedish Acad- 

 emy of Science, Stockholm). 



Nijland, Albert Antonie, professor of astron- 

 omy. University of Utrecht (delegate, University 

 of Utrecht). 



Perkin, William Henry, F.E.S., professor of 

 chemistry, Victoria University of Manchester. 



Pope, William Jackson, P.E.S., professor of 

 chemistry. University of Cambridge. 



Praia, Lt.-Col. David, P.E.S., director, Eoyal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew (delegate, Linnean Society, 

 London). 



Prince, Edward E., P.E.S., Dominion Commis- 

 sioner of Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada. 



Eeddingius, Eutger Adolf, professor of patho- 

 logical anatomy, rector. University of Grijningen 

 (delegate. University of Groningen). 



Eoyce, Josiah, professor of history of philos- 

 ophy, Harvard University. 



Saundby, Eobert, professor of medicine. Uni- 

 versity of Birmingham (president-elect British 

 Medical Association). 



Schafer, Edward Albert, F.E.S., professor of 

 physiology, Edinburgh University. 



Schuster, Arthur, P.E.S., formerly professor of 

 physics, University of Manchester. 



Teall, Jethro Justinian Harris, director H.M. 

 Geological Survey, London. 



Thomson, Sir Joseph John, F.E.S., professor of 

 physics, Cambridge. 



Veit, Johann, professor of gynecology. Univer- 

 sity of Halle (delegate. University of Halle- 

 Wittenberg). 



Voigt, Woldemar, professor of physics. Univer- 

 sity of Gottingen. 



Watts, William Whitehead, F.E.S., professor of 

 geology. Imperial College of Science and Technol- 

 ogy) South Kensington (president and delegate. 

 Geological Society of London). 



Woodward, Arthur Smith, F.E.S., keeper geolog- 

 ical department, British Museum. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 We regret to record the death of Dr. 

 Thomas Dwight, Parkman professor of anat- 

 omy in the Harvard Medical School. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Stan- 

 ford University, who is at present in Japan, 

 has been decorated by the Japanese emperor. 

 Dr. Eduard Sdess, emeritus professor of 

 geology in the University of Vienna, who has , 

 celebrated his eightieth birthday, has retired 

 from the presidency of the Vienna Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Dr. Gottlieb Haberlandt, professor of bot- 

 any in the University of Berlin, has been 

 elected a member of the Berlin Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Mr. Wm. Paul Gerhard, of New York, has 

 been awarded the honorary degree of doctor 

 of engineering by the Technical Institute of 

 Darmstadt, in recognition of his services to 

 public health and sanitation. 



Dr. Shigeo Yamanouohi, professor of bot- 

 any in Tokyo Teachers' College (now in the 

 University of Chicago), received in July from 

 the Japanese government the honorary degree 

 of " Eigakuhakushi " (doctor of science). 



Professoe Gaetano Lanza, head of the de- 

 partment of mechanical engineering at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 

 past twenty-seven years, has retired and is 

 now with the Baldwin Locomotive Works. 



Dr. William H. Brown has resigned his 

 position as research assistant in plant physiol- 

 ogy at the Michigan Agricultural College to 

 become plant physiologist of the Bureau of 

 Science at Manila, P. I. He sailed from San 

 Francisco for the latter point on September 6. 

 Dr. E. P. Hibbard, of the Mississippi Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, has been chosen as 

 his successor. 



Dean Melvin A. Brannon, formerly of the 

 College of Medicine at the University of 

 North Dakota but now of the College of Lib- 

 eral Arts at the same institution, will spend 

 the year at the University of Chicago engaged 

 in advanced research work in plant morphol- 

 ogy with special reference to bryophytes and 



