Apeil 17, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The Laboratory of the United States Fish 

 Commission at Woods Hole, Mass., will be 

 opened on June 15 for the nineteenth season 

 of its existence. The privileges of the labo- 

 ratory, including the services of the staff of 

 collectors and use of the commission's fleet 

 of vessels, are as usual extended free of charge 

 to those competent to carry on research in 

 marine biology. Applications for tables 

 should be sent to the director of the laboratory. 

 Dr. F. B. Sumner, lY Lexington Ave., New 

 York City. 



Mr. Otto H. Tittmann, superintendent of 

 the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, has 

 been appointed commissioner for the United 

 States to mark the boundary line between this 

 country and Canada. 



The subject of the Silliman lectures to be 

 given at Yale University by Professor J. J. 

 Thomson, of Cambridge University, will be 

 ' The Present Development of Our Ideas of 

 Electricity.' The lectures, eight in number, 

 will begin May 14. 



The Prince and Princess of Wales, will 

 receive the honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws 

 and Doctor of Music respectively from the 

 University of London on Wednesday evening, 

 June 24. 



The British Academy has elected new fel- 

 lows increasing the membership from forty- 

 eight to seventy. Among those elected were 

 Professor P. Y. Edgeworth, professor of polit- 

 ical economy, Oxford University; Professor 

 B. Bosanquet, professor of moral philosophy, 

 St. Andrew's University; and Dr. G. F. Stout, 

 Wilde reader in mental philosophy, at Oxford 

 University. 



Dh. Fkederick C. Newcombe, professor of 

 botany at the University of Michigan, has 

 been elected president of the Michigan Acad- 

 emy of Science. 



Professor W. S. Jackman, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, has been elected president of 

 the Natonal Society for the Scientific Study 

 of Education. 



The Hon. Andrew D. White, recently am- 

 bassador to Germany and formerly president 



of Cornell University, will return to the 

 United States in June and will spend the 

 summer at Ithaca. 



Dr. Waldemar Koch, assistant in pharma- 

 cology, at the University of Chicago, leaves, 

 at the end of the quarter, for six months' work 

 in Schmiedeberg's laboratory in Strassburg. 

 Dr. Koch will also visit the' leading physiolog- 

 ical and pharmacological laboratories in 

 Europe, including Pawlow's iii St. Petersburg. 



Dr. K. a. Ewald, professor of medicine in 

 the University of Berlin, expects to visit the 

 United States in May. 



Professor H. L. Bolley, botanist of the 

 North Dakota Agricultural College and Ex- 

 periment Station has been appointed special 

 agent for the investigation of the flax crop 

 and flax diseases in Europe. Mr. Bolley will 

 sail the first of June, spend some time in the 

 Netherlands and then proceed to eastern Rus- 

 sia, where an extensive study will be made 

 upon the Russian crop, with a view to procur- 

 ing types of seed which will be valuable for 

 use in this country. Professor Bolley has 

 lately made some very interesting discoveries 

 concerning the cause of flax-sick soil. He 

 seems to have shown that the reason flax can 

 not be grown continuously on the same 

 ground is due to the presence of a wilt dis- 

 ease caused by a species of Fusarium. 



Mr. Ellsworth Huntington has lately been 

 appointed research assistant by the Carnegie 

 Institution and will go with Professor Davis 

 to join Professor Pumpelly in Turkestan. 

 Mr. Huntington graduated at Beloit College, 

 Wisconsin, in 189Y; he then spent four years 

 as science teacher in Euphrates College, Har- 

 put, Turkey, and while there made an adven- 

 turous journey through the canons of the 

 Euphrates, for which he has lately received 

 the Gill memorial from the Eoyal Geograph- 

 ical Society of London. For the past two 

 years he has been attending the Graduate 

 School of Harvard University, and last sum- 

 mer he was one of Professor Davis's party 

 in Utah and Arizona. 



Dr. Herbert S. Jennings, assistant pro- 

 fessor of zoology at the University of Mich- 



