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of State, acting on the nomination of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, has issued the neces- 

 sary credentials appointing Dr. H. W. Wiley, 

 chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, the official repre- 

 sentative of the United States at the Fifth 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry, 

 to be held at Berlin on June 8, 1903. Dr. 

 Wiley has acted in this capacity at each of 

 the four preceding congresses and his wide 

 acquaintance with European men of science, 

 as well as his international reputation as a 

 chemist, fit him preeminently to discharge the 

 obligations of this post with honor to the 

 United States. The details of organization 

 of this congress are to be found in Science 

 for February 20, on page 315. 



It is expected that Dr. Walter Nernst, pro- 

 fessor of electrochemistry at the University 

 at Gottingen, will visit the United States this 

 month. 



The Bessemer gold medal of the Iron and 

 Steel Institute of Great Britain has been 

 awarded to Sir James Kitson, M.P., past- 

 president, in recognition of his great services 

 to the iron and steel industry of Great Britain. 

 The presentation of the medal will be made 

 by Mr. Andrew Carnegie at the annual meet- 

 ing on May 7. 



Professor Woodhead and Dr. Anningson 

 have been appointed representatives of Cam- 

 bridge University at the congress of the Royal 

 Institute of Public Health to be held at Liver- 

 pool in July next. 



Mr. William Weber Coblentz, graduate 

 scholar in physics, at Cornell University, has 

 been appointed to a research assistantship by 

 the Carnegie Institution. Mr. Coblentz will 

 continue his investigations, already well ad- 

 vanced, of absorption spectra in the infra-red. 

 The work will be done in the Physical Labo- 

 ratory of Cornell University. 



Dr. F. S. Wrinch, at present demonstrator 

 in experimental psychology at Princeton Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed' to a research as- 

 sistantship in psychology by the Carnegie In- 

 stitution. 



Sebastian Albeecht, graduate student in 

 the University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 



pointed to a fellowship in astronomy at the 

 Lick Observatory. 



The coming commencement season will 

 complete the twenty-fifth year of President G. 

 Stanley Hall's philosophical doctorate, taken 

 at Harvard in 18Y8. It has seemed to a num- 

 ber of his colleagues and former students that 

 this occasion should not be allowed to pass 

 unnoticed, but on the contrary, should be 

 marked in a manner commensurate, in some 

 degree, with President Hall's service to 

 psychology and its teaching in this country. 

 The form which will accomplish this end in 

 a way most agreeable to President Hall him- 

 self is the publication of a worthy Festschrift 

 in his honor. Professor E. C. Sanford, of 

 Clark University, and Professor E. B. 

 Titchener, of Cornell University, as co-editors 

 with President Hall of the American Journal 

 of Psychology, which he founded in 1887, have, 

 therefore, decided to invite contributions from 

 a number of his colleagues and the more ac- 

 tively productive of his past students, and will 

 see the collection of papers through the press. 



Mr. G. T. Walker, a recent senior wrangler 

 at Cambridge, has been appointed head of the 

 Indian Meteorological Department. 



Dr. James J. Dobbie, professor of chemistry 

 and geology in the University College of 

 North Wales, has been appointed director 

 of the Museum of Science and Art, Edin- 

 burgh, in succession to F. Grant Ogilvie, Esq., 

 who has been appointed a principal assistant 

 secretary under the Board of Education at 

 South Kensington. 



At the monthly general meeting of the Lon- 

 don Zoological Society on March 20, Mr. W. 

 L. Solater was officially proposed as secretary 

 in succession to his father. Dr. Sclater, who 

 retired in January. At the instance of those 

 opposed to Mr. Sclater's election a meeting of 

 the fellows was held on March 20, at which 

 Mr. Chalmers Mitchell was nominated for 

 secretary. The election will take place on 

 April 29. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, gave the principal address at the ex- 

 ercises commemorating the thirty-fourth anni- 

 versary of the University of California, his 



