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[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 441. 



Lady Huggins and Miss A. M. Gierke liave 

 been elected honorary members of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society. 



The commencement address at the gradua- 

 ting exercises of the Worcester Polytechnic In- 

 stitute is to be given by O. H. Tittmann, 

 director of the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey. 



At a special meeting of the Physical So- 

 ciety, London, held on Jime 5, at University 

 College, Professor E. Rutherford, of McGill 

 University, read a paper on radioactive proc- 

 esses. 



Me. Andrew Graham, who has for nearly 

 forty years held the office of chief assistant at 

 the Cambridge Observatory, is retiring at the 

 age of eighty-eight. 



Dr. Otto BiJTSCHLi, professor of zoology and 

 paleontology at Heidelberg, has celebrated the 

 termination of his twenty-fifth year of ser- 

 vice as professor at the university. 



• Dr. William Osler, professor of medicine 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, sailed on 

 May 29 to England, where he will remain 

 until the end of September. 



The National Geographic Magazine states 

 that Dr. A. Graham Bell resigned the presi- 

 dency of the National Geographic Society at 

 a meeting of the board of managers, on May 

 15. Dr. Bell stated that owing to the pressure 

 of work he found it impossible to give to the 

 society the thought that the position of presi- 

 dent demanded. The resignation of President 

 Bell was accepted by the board with profound 

 regret, to take efiect on the election of his 

 successor. Dr. Bell was appointed chairman 

 of a committee of three to consider and nom- 

 inate a successor. The other two members of 

 the committee, appointed by the president, 

 are Dr. Willis L. Moore, chief U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, and Mr. G. K. Gilbert, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey. As no election will be made 

 until the fall. Dr. Bell will continue as presi- 

 dent of the society for some months. 



A statue of the chemist, Kekule, by the 

 sculptor Heinz Everding, has been unveiled 

 this month at Bonn. 



John F. Hicks, assistant botanist of the 

 Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station, died 

 at Wooster, Ohio, on June 1. 



Dr. Milan Sachs, a young Viennese physi- 

 cian, has died from plague at Berlin. He had 

 studied the disease at Agram and other Bal- 

 kan cities, and went to Berlin a few weeks ago 

 to continue his researches at the Bacteriolog- 

 ical Institute, where he became infected. 



M. Gaston Dubois Desaulle, who was on 

 a voyage of exploration to the West Coast of 

 Africa, has been killed by the Galadils. 



We regret also to record the deaths of Dr. 

 Friedrich Deichmiiller, professor of astronomy 

 at Bonn, and of M. Frangois Crepin, director 

 of the Botanical Garden at Brussels. 



There will be a civil service examination 

 on July 15 for the position of chief of the 

 Division of Pharmacology, Bureau of Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, the sal- 

 ary of which is $3,600. There will be no 

 scholastic tests, and competitors will not be 

 required to be assembled for examination, 

 which will be based on technical training, 

 professional experience and publication. 



There will also be a civil service examina- 

 tion on June 3 for the position of illustrator 

 in agrostology in the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, Department of Agriculture, with a 

 salary of $720. 



Me. Carnegie's gift of $1,000,000 to the four 

 national engineering societies and the Engi- 

 neers' Club for a building has been accepted at 

 a meeting of the representatives of the five 

 organizations, and plans have been made for 

 a joint committee consisting of three mem- 

 bers from each organization. This commit- 

 tee will prepare plans for a building to be 

 erected on Thirty-ninth St. Efforts are being 

 made to secure funds for the purchase of the 

 land, and we learn from The Electrical World 

 that a number of subscriptions have been re- 

 ceived by the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers including $5,000 from Dr. Elihu 

 Thomson and the Westinghouse Electrical 

 Company, $2,000 from Mr. Frank S. Sprague 

 and $1,000 with a contingent $1,500 from Mr. 

 J. G. White. 



