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cine in general. This expression of appreciation 

 and esteem should be one of permanent value and 

 to the educator and investigator nothing can be 

 more acceptable than the dedication of a volume 

 which contains the researches of friends and co- 

 workers. Such a volume, or Festschrift, is an 

 appropriate honor to the recipient and is itself a 

 valuable contribution to medical science. The sug- 

 gestion that on this occasion the testimonial 

 should take this form met with the cordial favor 

 and ready approval of the committee. At an 

 early date steps were taken to secure adequate 

 and representative contributions and it will be 

 a source of pleasure and pride to all friends of 

 the movement to know that the project is near- 

 ing its realization. The commemorative volume, 

 which will be of about seven hundred pages, is 

 now in press and is expected to be ready for 

 distribution by the end of June. 



The price to subscribers, in advance, has been 

 fixed at five dollars for cloth binding, six dollars 

 for half morocco. After publication the price of 

 the volume will be raised. 



Subscriptions may be sent to Dr. F. G. No^'y 

 or to Mr. George Wahr, publisher, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Professor J. Peter Lesley, the eminent 

 geologist, died at Milton, Mass., on June 1, 

 aged eighty-three years. 



Victoria University, as part of the celebra- 

 tion at Manchester in commemoration o£Dal- 

 ton's publication of the atomic theory, has 

 conferred the degree of D.Sc. on Professor P. 

 W. Clarke, of Washington, and Professor J. 

 H. Van't Hoff, of Berlin. 



The University of Wales will confer -the 

 degree of Doctor of Science on Lord Kelvin 

 ' on the ground of his eminent services to 

 physical science,' and upon Lord Lister, ' on 

 the ground of' his long-continued scientific 

 research, which, by establishing a system of 

 antisepsis, has revolutionized the practice of 

 surgery throughout the world.' The degrees 

 will be conferred at a congregation of the 

 university next November at Cardiff. 



Dr. H. M. Reese, of the Lick Observatory, 

 has accepted an appointment in the Terkes 

 Observatory. His place at Lick Observatory 

 will be iilled by Mr. J. H. Moore, assistant 



in the department of physics of Johns Hop- 

 kins University. 



The German Chemical Society has con- 

 ferred its gold Hofmann medals on Professor 

 Henri Moissan and Sir William Eamsay. 



Mr. Bion J. Arnold has been elected presi- 

 dent and Messrs. Calvin W. Eice, W. S. Bar- 

 stow and Ralph D. Mershon, vice-presidents 

 of the American Institute of Electrical En- 

 gineers. 



Mr. Henry L. Ward has been elected cus- 

 todian of the Milwaukee Public Museum for 

 a period of five years. 



Dr. W. J. Holland, the director of the Car- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburgh, gave the com- 

 mencement address before the University of 

 North Carolina at Chapel Hill on June 3. 



Professor Hugo MiJNSTERBERG, of Harvard 

 University, sailed on May 30 for Germany, 

 where he will represent the St. Louis Exposi- 

 tion in an effort to secure the cooperation of 

 the German government and educational in- 

 stitutions in the International Congress of 

 Arts and Sciences to be held in connection 

 with the exposition next year. Professor 

 Albion W. Small, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, will undertake a similar mission to 

 Prance. Professor Simon Newcomb, chair- 

 man of the committee, is also abroad, partly 

 in the interests of the congress. 



Professor W. F. Willcox, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been requested by the director of 

 the census to prepare a report on the census 

 work of other countries, and will spend the 

 present summer in Eiu-ope. , 



Professor C. S. Sargent, director of the 

 m Arnold Arboretum, accompanied by his son, 

 itt. A. R. Sargent, and Dr. John Muir sailed 

 for Europe on May 29. After traveling 

 through France, Holland and Germany the 

 botanists will go to St. Petersburg and Mos- 

 cow, and thence over the Transsiberian Rail- 

 way to Pekin. They will make numerous 

 stops on the way to collect seed and herbarium 

 specimens in Siberia and northern China. 

 From Pekin they will go to Java and Hong 

 Kong. 



