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herst College in 18S9. Williams College, 

 Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. 

 E. A. Birge, professor of zoology in the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, who graduated from 

 Williams College in 1873. Wooster Univer- 

 sity, Dr. J. H. Hyslop, formerly professor of 

 philosophy in Columbia University. The 

 University of Illinois has conferred the de- 

 gree of Doctor of Engineering on S. W. 

 Stratton, chief of the Bureau of Standards. 

 and on Professor Ira O. Baker, of the uni- 

 versity; it has conferred the degree of Doctor 

 of Agriculture on Professor T. F. Hunt, of 

 the Ohio State University. 



President Ira Reiisex, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, gave the commencement ad- 

 dress at Mount Holyoke College on June 24. 



Professor James M. Crafts has resigned 

 his position as one of the trustees of the 

 Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund, and Pro- 

 fessor Theodore W. Richards has been elected 

 to fill the vacancy. 



Mr. W. W. Stockberger, instructor in 

 botany in Denison University, has resigned 

 to accept a post as special research assistant 

 in the Department of Agriculture. Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



E. S. Lea, who has been professor of civil 

 engineering and lecturer in mathematics in 

 the faculty of applied science at McGill Uni- 

 versity during the past eleven years, has re- 

 signed to devote himself to professional 

 pursuits. 



Dr. Wilfred Xewsome Stull has been 

 appointed Carnegie research assistant to Pro- 

 fessor Theodore W. Richards, at Harvard 

 University. 



The Stevens' Triennial Prize of Columbia 

 University for original research has been 

 awarded to Drs. L. Pierce Clark and Thomas 

 P. Prout, of Xew York, for their ' Status Epi- 

 leptieus: A Clinical and Pathological Study 

 of Epilepsy.' 



MiiE. Sklodowska Curie has received the 

 degree of Doctor of Science from the Uni- 

 versity of Paris, her thesis being based on 



her well-known researches on radio-active sub- 

 stances. 



A press despatch from Tacoma reports that 

 the expedition which recently started north 

 on the Fish Commission steamer Albatross, 

 under the leadership of Dr. David Starr 

 Jordan, president of Stanford University, has 

 been forced to return after the vessel had 

 reached Fort Rupert on her way to Arctic 

 waters, where conditions of fish and seal life 

 were to have been investigated. The return 

 was due to the discovery of smallpox aboard, 

 the disease afflicting one of the crew. The 

 vessel will be cleaned and fumigated and the 

 party held for observation for nine days. 



Professor Charles E. Bessey, of the Uni- 

 versity of Xebraska, was given a short leave 

 of absence by the regents of the university 

 at a recent meeting. He intends to sail for 

 Europe early in July, going directly to Ger- 

 many, where he is to be joined by his son 

 Ernst A. Bessey, and together they are to 

 proceed to southeastern Russia, in the Cau- 

 casus region. Here they are to investigate 

 the vegetation on both sides of the mountain 

 range, returning by way of the Black Sea, 

 on whose northern coast they intend to work 

 for some time. Professor Bessey intends to 

 return to America late in the autumn. 



W. D. Halliburtox, M.D., F.R.S., professor 

 of physiology, King's College. London, has 

 accepted an invitation extended by the faculty 

 of the University and Bellevue Hospital Med- 

 ical College to deliver a course of twelve lec- 

 tures on pathological chemistry, beginning on 

 Monday, January 4, and continuing daily until 

 January 16, 1904. The funds are provided 

 from an endowment given by the retiring pro- 

 fessor of pathological chemistry. Dr. Christian 

 A. Herter. Dr. Herter has also endowed a 

 research fellowship in pathological chemistry. 

 l[r. Louis C. Tiffany has furnished a fund for 

 a research fellow in physiology for the ensuing 

 year. 



Changes in the stations and duties of of- 

 ficers of the Signal Service have been ordered 

 as follows: Colonel H. H. C. Dunwoody, re- 

 lieved from duty at headquarters. Department 

 of the East, and ordered to duty at Fort 



