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The University of Loudon conferred hon- 

 orary degrees for the first time on June 24, 

 the degree of Doctor of Laws being given to 

 the Prince of Wales, of Doctor of Music to 

 the Princess of Wales and of Doctor of Sci- 

 ence to Lord Kelvin and Lord Lister. The 

 chancellor. Lord Rosebery, stated that the 

 conferring of honorary degrees would not be 

 an annual celebration, and that it was in- 

 tended to make the degree of the University 

 of London ' the most rare and the most 

 precious in the annals of any university.' 



Dr. Joseph Larmor, Lucasian professor of 

 mathematics at Cambridge, received the de- 

 gree of Doctor of Science from Dublin LTni- 

 versity on June 30. 



Professor C. J. M.vrtix, F.R.S., of the Uni- 

 versity of Melbourne, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Jenner Institute of Preventive 

 Medicine, London. 



Dk. Luther H. Gulick, director of physical 

 training of the public schools of New York 

 Citj', has been elected president of the Na- 

 tional Physical Education Association. 



Dr. O. H. Tittmanx, superintendent of the 

 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, will 

 sail for Europe on the steamship Bliicher on 

 July 2.3, to represent this government at the 

 conference of the International Geodetic Asso- 

 ciation, which will meet this year in the 

 Danish Parliament building at Copenhagen, 

 on August 4. After the adjournment of the 

 conference Dr. Tittmann will go to London 

 and hold himself in readiness to assist the 

 members of the Alaskan boundary tribunal, 

 consisting of Secretary Root, Senator Lodge 

 and ex-Senator Turner. 



Professor F. W. Putnam is now on his way 

 to California, where he is chairman of the 

 committee on anthropology in the University 

 at Berkeley. He has recently been made hon- 

 orary member of the Royal Academy of Lit- 

 erature, History and Antiquities of Stock- 

 holm ; corresponding member of the Berlin 

 Anthropological Society; honorary member of 

 the California Academy of Sciences and of 

 the Missouri Historical Society. 



II. 0. TiMBERLAKE has bccu appointed a 

 research assistant in botany in the Carnegie 

 Institution for the coming year. He has been 

 granted a year's leave of absence by the regents 

 of the University of Wisconsin, where he was 

 promoted to an assistant professorship in June. 



Lerov Abrams, of the Stanford department 

 of systematic botany, is doing field work in 

 southern California for the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden. 



Du. F. W. Cragix, of the department of 

 geology of Colorado College, has received from 

 some public-spirited citizens of Colorado and 

 other western states a grant of funds to enable 

 him to conduct special researches in the early 

 history of the Rocky Mountains and Great 

 Plains; a subject in which, during the past 

 five or six years, he has built up quite an e.x- 

 tensive library. Intending to lay aside, for 

 several years at least, the profession of teach- 

 ing, he has resigned his chair in the college, 

 and will give his chief energies to the his- 

 torical work. He will devote a considerable 

 part of the coming year to travel in the inter- 

 est of these researches. He states that in 

 appointing his successor, it is the desire of the 

 trustees of Colorado College to secure, if pos- 

 sible, a man who combines a thorough knowl- 

 edge of metallurgy with that of geology. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the friends and pupils of 

 the recently deceased Professor E. Bottini had 

 planned a ' Festschrift ' in his honor with a 

 gold medal and souvenir copy of his diploma 

 on the occasion of his jubilee anniversary. 

 The anniversary came soon after his death, 

 and the University of Pavia was made the 

 recipient of the honors in his name, the 

 medal, diploma and ' Festschrift ' to be duly 

 preserved among the archives of the institu- 

 tion with the list of subscribers. 



Professor S. W. Williston, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, president of the Sigma Xi 

 Society, addressed the chapter of the society 

 at the Ohio State University on June 22. 



Governor Lanham, of Texas, has issued a 

 proclamation offering a reward of $50,000 

 from the state to any person who discovers 



