September 16, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



367 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



On the occasion of the meetings of the Con- 

 gresses of Zoology and Physiology at Cam- 

 bridge the University conferred its honorary 

 degree of Doctor of Science on Professor H. P. 

 Bowditch, of Harvard University; on Professor 

 Anton Dohrn, Director of the Zoological Station 

 at Naples ; on Professor Alphonse Milne-Ed- 

 wards, Director of the Museum of Natural His- 

 tory at Paris; on Professor Camillo Golgi, pro- 

 fessor of general pathology in the University 

 of Pavia; on Dr. Ernst Haeckel, professor of 

 zoology in the University of Jena; on Dr. A. A. 

 W. Hubrecht, professor of zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of Utrecht; on Dr. Hugo Kronecker, 

 professor of physiology in the University of 

 Berne; on Dr. Willy Kiihne, professor of phys- 

 iology in the University at Heidelberg, and on 

 Professor E. J. Marey, professor of natural 

 history at the College de France. 



General S^bert has been elected Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and, in accordance with the 

 custom of the Association, will be President at 

 the Paris meeting of 1900. M. Brouardel will 

 preside at the meeting next year, which will be 

 held at Boulogne. 



Dr. W. McM. Woodworth has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in charge of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, of Harvard University. 



Professor Robert Helmert, Director of 

 the Geodetic Institute at Potsdam, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Got- 

 tingen Academy of Sciences. 



De. H. Kiepert, professor of geography at 

 Berlin, has celebrated his eightieth birthday. 



Dr. K. Goebel, professor of botany at 

 Munich, has gone to Australia for purposes of 

 botanical research. 



Professor Adolf Bastian, of Berlin, has 

 returned from his expedition to southeastern 

 Asia, where, during the last two and a-half 

 years, he has been carrying on important eth- 

 nological investigations. 



Dr. W. F. Hume will, during the coming 

 year, make surveys in the peninsula of Sinai, 

 under the auspices of the Egyptian Geological 

 Survey. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer, of the University of Cin- 

 cinnati, was made an honorary member of the 

 Society Scientifique ' Antonio Alzate,' Mexico, 

 at its meeting of July 5, 1898. 



M. PiLLiET has been appointed Director of 

 the Mus^e Dupuytren, which contains the ana- 

 tomical collections of the medical faculty at 

 Paris. 



A monument to Gui Patin, in the middle of 

 the seventeenth century professor of surgery 

 and Dean of the Paris faculty of medicine, was 

 unveiled atd' Hodenc- en-Bray, his native place, 

 on August 22d. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. Paul 

 Glan, associate professor of physics in the Uni- 

 versity at Berlin, at the age of fifty-two years ; 

 of Dr. E. J. Bonsdorf, formerly professor of 

 anatomy and physiology in the University of 

 Helsingfors, at the age of eighty-eight years ; 

 and of Professor L. von Dittel, formerly profes- 

 sor of surgery at the University of Vienna, at 

 the age of eighty-three years. 



The Nineteenth Congress of French Geo- 

 graphical Societies will meet at Marseilles 

 from the 18th to the 25th of September. 



We learn from Nature that a Congress of the 

 Astronomische Gesellschaft will be opened at 

 the Academy of Sciences at Budapest on Sep- 

 tember 24th. Meetings will also be held on 

 Monday and Tuesday, September 26th and 27th. 

 The Hungarian members of the Society have 

 prepared a cordial reception for the astronomers 

 who attend the Congress, among the hospitable 

 features being a luncheon to be given by the 

 Minister of Public Instruction (Dr. Julius von 

 Wlassitz), a dinner by the town of Budapest, 

 visits to places of interest in the town and neigh- 

 borhood and excursions to the O'Gyalla Observ- 

 atory and the Danube Cataracts — the Iron 

 Doors. The Congress will certainly give a 

 prominent place to the discussion of questions 

 concerning the international zone catalogue of 

 the Astronomische Gesellschaft ; and the reso- 

 lutions of the Paris Conference, which have 

 given rise to a large amount of criticism, will 

 also be dealt with. Professor F. Porro will 

 present a preliminary report on the revision of 

 the Piazzi Catalogue of Stars, undertaken by 

 Dr. H. S. Davis and himself. 



