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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XX. No. 497. 



Yale University has conferred the degree 

 of doctor of laws on President Charles E. 

 Van Hise, of the University of Wisconsin, 

 and on Dr. W. S. Halsted, professor of sur- 

 gery in the Johns Hopkins University. 



Amherst College has conferred the degree 

 of doctor of laves on Dr. J. H. Tufts, of the 

 class of 1884, now head of the department of 

 philosophy of the University of Chicago. 



Hamilton College has conferred the doc- 

 torate of science on Dr. E. S. Burgess, the 

 botanist, professor of natural science in the 

 Normal School, New York City. 



Dr. a. W. Harris, president of the Jacob 

 Tome Institute and formerly director of the 

 Office of Experiment Stations of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, has been given the 

 doctorate of science by Wesleyan University, 

 where he graduated in 1880. 



Mr. Theodore N. Ely, chief of motive 

 power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been 

 made a doctor of science by Hamilton College. 



Dr. E. Pfluger, the eminent physiologist 

 of the University of Bonn, recently celebrated 

 his seventy-fifth birthday. 



Dr. Rodx has been elected director of the 

 Pasteur Institute in the room of the late M. 

 Duclaux. Drs. Chamberland and Metchnikoff 

 have been elected sub-directors of the institute. 



Dr. Michelerhana, of the Observatory at 

 Milan, has been made director of the Observa- 

 tory at Bologna. 



President Roosevelt has appointed Rear 

 Admiral Robley D. Evans, Rear Admiral 

 Henry N. Manney, Brigadier-General A. W. 

 Greely, Lieutenant-Commander Joseph L. 

 Jayne and Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of 

 the Weather Bureau, a board to consider the 

 question of wireless telegraphy in the service 

 of the government. 



De. Robert ' Koch has returned to Berlin 

 after his investigati.ons in southwest Africa, 

 where he has been engaged for nearly a year 

 and a half. 



It is reported that Captain Bernier will 

 start in a fortnight for the polar regions. 

 The arctic steamer Gauss, recently purchased 



from the German government, is now being 

 refitted and provisioned at Quebec, and she will 

 probably go to Halifax to secure part of her 

 crew. She will then proceed around Cape 

 Horn to Vancouver, and thence to Herschell 

 Island, at the mouth of McKenzie River, with 

 a party of Northwest mounted police to relieve 

 the party stationed at that post.. From that 

 point Captain Bernier will make an effort to 

 reach the pole. 



Professor F. W. Rane, of the New Hamp- 

 shire College of Agriculture, is spending the 

 summer studying forest conditions in the 

 northwest. 



The address on ' The Continuous Advance 

 of Electrochemistry,' by Professor Joseph W. 

 Richards, published in the issue of Science 

 for June 17, was the presidential address be- 

 fore the Electrochemical Society, delivered at 

 Washington on April 8, 1904. 



It is hoped that the statue of Pasteur 

 on the Place de Breteuil, Paris, will be un- 

 veiled on the thirteenth of July, the day of 

 the national fete. 



The Berlin municipal council has decided 

 to erect, at the cost of the city, a monument 

 in honor of Rudolf Virchow. 



Dr. Frederick Knapp, for many years pro- 

 fessor of applied chemistry in the Chemical 

 Institute at Brunswick, died on June 8, in 

 his ninety-first year. Dr. Knapp was a former 

 student and a son-in-law of Liebig's. 



The deaths are also announced of M. Victor 

 de Luynes, professor of the Paris Conserva- 

 tory of Arts and Measures; of Professor Carl 

 Weibrecht, director of the Technological In- 

 stitute of Stuttgart, and of Dr. Albert Rilliet, 

 associate professor of physics in the Univer- 

 sity of Geneva. 



A NEW museum of anthropology has been 

 established at Hamburg. 



M. Charles E. Potron has bequeathed 

 20,000 francs to the French Geographical 

 Society. 



The American Institute of Electrical En- 

 gineers held a meeting at Chicago under the 

 presidency of Mr. Bion J. Arnold. The meet- 

 ing was devoted to a discussion of high tension 

 transmission. 



