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[N. S. Vol.. XVIII. No. 464. 



Mu. Henry Kutgers Marshall, the archi- 

 tect of the library given by Mr. Ralph Voor- 

 hees to Eutgers College, and well known for 

 his contributions to psychology, was given the 

 degree of Doctor of Literature on the occasion 

 of the dedication of the library. 



Professor Hugo de Vries celebrated the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of his professorship 

 in the University of Amsterdam on October 

 25, 1903. On this occasion he was presented 

 with the sum of 4,250 Gulden by his colleagues 

 and admirers in Holland, with the request 

 ttat this sum be used in prosecuting further 

 researches on mutation in plants. Cooperative 

 experiments in this subject are being carried 

 on in the New York Botanical Garden by 

 Dr. D. T. MacDougal. 



Arrangements have been made for a Sigma 

 Xi dinner and address during convocation 

 week at St. Louis. President D. S. Jordan 

 will deliver the address before the society. 

 The society now numbers more than two 

 thousand members in the United States, and a 

 large attendance is expected. Professor A. S. 

 Langsdorf, of "Washington University, is 

 secretary of the committee on arrangements. 



The Eoyal Scottish Geographical Society 

 has bestowed honorary membership and its 

 Livingstone gold medal on Commander Robert 

 E. Peary, U.S.N. 



It is reported, though perhaps on inade- 

 quate authority, that the Nobel prize in phys- 

 ics will be awarded to Mr; G. Marconi; in 

 chemistry to Professor Arrhenius, and in 

 medicine to Professor Pinsen. 



Professor von Zittel, of Munich, who met 

 with a serious accident recently, is rapidly re- 

 covering and hopes to begin his winter sem- 

 ester lectures soon. 



Dr. George T. Moore, of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, is spending a 

 month in Dr. Winogradsky's laboratory at the 

 Imperial Institute for Experimental Medicine, 

 St. Petersburg. He is studying the various 

 soil bacteria, especially those that fix atmos- 

 pheric nitrogen, and the nitrite and nitrate 

 organisms. Dr. Moore is conducting the in- 

 vestigations of soil bacteria being carried on 

 in the Division of Pathology and Physiology 



of the Bureau of Plant Industry, and has 

 already accomplished some important work in 

 this field. He will probably not return to 

 Washington before the middle of January. 



Dr. E. B. Copeland, A.B. (Stanford, '95), 

 who has been instructor in bionomics at Stan- 

 ford University for the past two years, will 

 sail this week for Manila to take up his work 

 as chief botanist of the U. S. Philippine com- 

 mission. Miss Mary Isabel McCracken, A.B. 

 (Stanford, '03), will have charge of Dr. Cope- 

 land's work in bionomics. 



Professor John W. Toumey, of the faculty 

 of the Yale University Forest School, has been 

 elected director of the Yale botanical garden. 



Dr. G. p. Merrill, curator of geology at 

 the U. S. National Museum, has returned 

 from a visit to the petrified forests of Mon- 

 tana. 



The daily papers state that Dr. W. G. 

 Tight, president of the University of New 

 Mexico, and Miss Annie S. Peck have re- 

 turned after explorations in Peru. They 

 failed to reach the summit of Mount Sorata, 

 the highest summit in the Andes. 



Professor C. F. Chandler, of Columbia 

 University, gave a lecture before the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Society on November 6, 

 his subject being * The Electro-chemical In- 

 dustries of Niagara Falls.' 



Professor R. E. Dodge, Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, began on the twelfth 

 instant a course of lectures on climate and 

 mankind given at the American Museum of 

 Natural History under the auspices of the 

 Board of Education. 



On October 2, the winter course of lectures 

 before the American colony in Munich was 

 opened by Professor Plartzell, his subject be- 

 ing ' Volcanic Phenomena.' He was followed 

 by Professor Fullerton on the sixteenth and 

 thirtieth, his subject being ' Psychic Phe- 

 nomena.' It is proposed to have lectures on 

 the fii'st and third Fridays of each month 

 dviring the winter. 



Sir William White gave the presidential 

 address before the British Institute of Civil 

 Engineers on November- 3. 



Commander Robert E. Peary, U.S.N., lee- 



