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more intelligent than the people on the coast. 

 Considerable ethnological collections were 

 made, a few skulls of the mountain people 

 were obtained and numerous photographs 



The extensive zoological collections comprise 

 some 1,300 birds, 150 mammals, a large number 

 of snakes and other reptiles, and several thou- 

 sand insects. Among the birds is a very 

 beautiful bird-of-paradise, which may prove to 

 be new to science. A. C. Haddox 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. John H. Finley, president of the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York, was appointed 

 State Commissioner of Education by the State 

 Board of Eegents on July 2. Dr. Finley suc- 

 ceeds the late Dr. Andrew S. Draper. 



Northwestern University has conferred 

 the degree of doctor of science on Dr. Robert 

 Andrews Millikan, professor of physics in the 

 University of Chicago. 



Professor Alexander Graham Bell has 

 received the honorary degree of doctor of laws 

 from Dartmouth College in recognition of his 

 invention of the telephone. 



The University of Michigan has conferred 

 the honorary degree of doctor of science on 

 Dr. Otto BUotz, astronomer of Ottawa, Canada. 



The Eoyal Agricultural Society of England 

 has awarded its honorary diploma of member- 

 ship to James Wilson, lately U. S. Secretary 

 of Agriculture. 



On June 4 a number of former pupils of 

 Professor W. E. Byerly, Perkins professor of 

 mathematics, emeritus, at Harvard Univer- 

 sity, gave an informal dinner in his honor at 

 the Union Club, Boston. Professor E. H. 

 Hall was toastmaster, and the speakers were 

 Professor Byerly, President Lowell, President 

 Eliot, Professor Bocher and Professor E. B. 

 Wilson, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. At the close of the dinner Pro- 

 fessor Byerly was presented with a gold watch 

 as a gift from over 250 of his former pupils. 



We learn from The Electrical World that 

 at the annual meeting of the Verein Deutsche 



Ingenieure, held at Leipzig, Germany, on 

 June 23, and attended by the visiting mem- 

 bers of the American Society of Mechanical 

 Engineers, the Grashofl' gold medal was 

 awarded to Mr. George Westinghouse. The 

 medal was established by the Verein in 1894 

 in honor of one of its founders, Frank Gras- 

 hoff, who died in 1893. Each year the me- 

 morial is presented to an engineer who has 

 rendered distinguished service to technology. 

 Mr. Westinghouse is the first American to 

 receive the medal. Others to whom it has 

 been awarded are Sir Charles A. Parsons, 

 England; Mr. Gustav de Laval, Sweden; 

 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany, and 

 Mr. Aurel Stodola. 



Dr. C.-E. a. Winslow has been appointed 

 chairman of a commission on the experimental 

 study of ventilation problems, with an appro- 

 priation of $50,000 to be expended during the 

 next four years. The other members of the 

 commission are : Professor F. S. Lee, of the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia 

 University; Professor E. L. Thorndike, Teach- 

 ers College, Columbia University; Professor, 

 E. B. Phelps, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology; Dr. James Alexander Miller and Mr. 

 D. D. Kimball. The fund is part of a gift 

 made by Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson to 

 the Association for Improving the Condition 

 of the Poor. 



M. Debove, professor of clinical medicine 

 in the University of Paris, has been elected 

 permanent secretary of the Academie de 

 Medicine, in the place of the late Professor 

 Jaccoud. 



Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, professor of botany in 

 the State College of Washington, has been 

 appointed director of the Washington Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, has been working at the 

 British Museum during the past six weeks on 

 the mammals of Korea and South America. 

 His work is particularly complete on South 

 American squirrels, the material which Mr. 

 Chapman's expedition secured in Colombia 

 and the large unidentified collections of the 



