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a permanent memorial of his work. They 

 have thought that a suitable memorial would 

 be a boulder carved so as to form a seat and 

 bearing an inscription. If a boulder is found 

 that can be brought to the campus it will 

 probably be placed on the brow of the hill 

 near McGraw Hall, where Professor Tarr 

 taught physical geology for twenty years. 



Lord Avebury has bequeathed one thousand 

 pounds to the University of London to found 

 a prize in mathematics or astronomy in mem- 

 ory of his father, Sir John William Lubbock, 

 first vice-chancellor of the university. 



A NUMBER of the friends of the late Samuel 

 Pranklin Emmons have presented to Colum- 

 bia University a memorial fund for the en- 

 dowment of the " Emmons Geological Fellow- 

 ship," the purpose being to continue, through 

 investigations and publications, the scientific 

 research carried on by Mr. Emmons during 

 his lifetime, more particularly in the field of 

 economic geology. The fellowship will be 

 awarded from time to time to graduates of 

 any college or university who show excep- 

 tional capacity, by a committee consisting of 

 Professor James F. Kemp, professor of geol- 

 ogy in Columbia University; Professor John 

 D. Irving, of the Sheffield Scientific School, 

 Yale University, and Professor Waldemar 

 Lindgren, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. The recipient will be at liberty 

 to travel and to conduct his investigations 

 either in this country or abroad. 



By the will of the Rev. L. C. Chamberlain, 

 who died at Pasadena, Cal., on May 9, $25,- 

 OQO is bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion for its mineralogical collections, and 

 $10,000 for its collection of mollusks. There 

 was also bequeathed $5,000 to the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for increas- 

 ing and maintaining the Isaac Lea collection 

 of Eocene fossils. These bequests were made 

 for the benefit of the scientific work in which 

 Isaac Lea was interested, Mrs. Chamberlain 

 having been the daughter of Isaac Lea and 

 having inherited the money from him. Mr. 

 Chamberlain also bequeathed $100,000 and his 



residual estate to the Thessalonica Agricul- 

 tural and Industrial Institute, Turkey. 



Among the degrees conferred by the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan at its recent commencement 

 was the degree of doctor of laws on Dr. John 

 Dewey, professor of philosophy at Columbia 

 University, and the degree of doctor of science 

 on Dr. Ludwig Hektoen, professor of pathol- 

 ogy at the University of Chicago; on Dr. 

 Lafayette B. Mendel, professor of physiolog- 

 ical chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Yale University, and on Dr. Armin 

 O. Leuschner, professor of astronomy and 

 dean of the graduate school of the University 

 of California. 



St. Andrews University has conferred its 

 doctorate of laws on Dr. G. A. Boulenger, of 

 the natural history department of the British 

 Museum. 



Dr. Harry C. Jones, professor of physical 

 chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University, 

 has been awarded the Edward Longstreth 

 medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadel- 

 phia for his work on the nature of solutions. 



Professor von Wassermann has been ap- 

 pointed head of the newly-established Kaiser 

 Wilhelm Institute for Experimental Thera- 

 peutics, one of the laboratories founded by 

 the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for Scientific 

 Research. 



Mr. C. W. Mason, of Wye, England, and 

 Mr. Donald McGregor, of Oxford, have been 

 appointed Carnegie scholars in entomology 

 under the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. 

 Mr. Mason arrived in the United States early 

 in July and is now studying at the laboratory 

 of parasitology of the Bureau of Entomology 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture at 

 Melrose Highlands, Mass. He will study in 

 this country for one year. Mr. McGregor 

 will arrive in New York soon and will prob- 

 ably join Mr. Mason at Melrose Highlands. 



In accordance with the decision of the 

 council of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Dr. Robert M. 

 Ogden, of the University of Tennessee, has 

 been appointed by the committee in charge of 

 making the selection of the temporary asso- 



