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SCIENCE. 



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James Wilson — From the presidency of 

 Iowa Agricultural College you were called to 

 the cabinet by William McKinley. By Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt you were retained as the head 

 of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 , ture. Under your solicitous care scientific 

 work has risen to first place in the greatest 

 bureau of agricultural research in the world. 

 Upon you, for the encouragement and foster- 

 ing of agricultural education and research, 

 and thus helping to dignify the great funda- 

 mental vocation of agriculture, this univer- 

 sity confers the degree of doctor of laws. 



Egbert Simpson Woodward — As a mathe- 

 matician you have departed from the beaten 

 paths and have applied your art with unusual 

 power to new fields in the border-land between 

 astronomy, geodesy and geology. In recogni- 

 tion of your important contributions to knowl- 

 edge in this department of learning, the uni- 

 versity confers upon you its honorary degree 

 of doctor of laws and welcomes you to its 

 fellowship. 



SGIETS'TIFIG NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. W. H. Maxwell, superintendent of 

 schools in New York City, has been elected 

 president of the National Educational Asso- 

 ciation. 



The honor of knighthood has been con- 

 ferred on Professor James Dewar by King 

 Edward. 



Professor Robert Koch has been elected a 

 member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, 

 filling the vacancy caused by the death of 

 Professor Virchow. 



Oxford University proposes to confer the 

 degree of D.Sc, honoris causa, upon the fol- 

 lowing persons, on the occasion of the visit 

 of the British Medical Association: Thomas 

 Clifford Allbutt, M.D., F.R.S., regius pro- 

 fessor of physics at Cambridge; Andrew 

 Clark, E.R.C.S., vice-president and chairman 

 of the council of the British Medical Associa- 

 tion; Thomas Dryslvs^rn Griffiths, M.D., presi- 

 dent of the British Medical Association; 

 Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S., late president 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons; Sir Wil- 

 liam Maeewen, M.D., E.E.S., regius professor 



of surgery in the University of Glasgow; Sir 

 Patrick Manson, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.E.S.; Sir 

 John William Moore, M.D., late president of 

 the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland; 

 William Osier, M.D., F.R.S., professor of 

 medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more; Thomas George Roddick, M.D., M.P. 

 (Canada), late president of the British Med- 

 ical Association. 



Dublin University has conferred its hon- 

 orary doctorate of science on Mr. Philip 

 Watts, Sir James Dewar, Mr. Jethro J. Harris 

 Teall and Dr.' William Henry Thompson. 



Mr. William H. Nichols, president of the 

 General Chemical Company and of the Nich- 

 ols Chemical Company, has received the doc- 

 torate of laws from Lafayette College. Dr. 

 Nichols has also been nominated by the 

 council of the Society of Chemical Industry, 

 to succeed Professor Ramsay as president. 



Sir William Ramsay, Sir Henry Roscoe and 

 Professor Landolt have been elected honorary 

 members of the German Bunsen Society. 



Sir Francis Sharp Powell has been elected 

 president of the Royal Statistical Society. 



The General Assembly of the State of Mary- 

 land voted, at its recent session, a gold medal 

 to Colonel Charles Chaille-Long, in recogni- 

 tion of his contribution to the solution of the 

 Nile problem by the discovery of Lake Ibrahim 

 in 1874 and his services to humanity rendered 

 at the time of the bombardment of Alexandria 

 in 1882. 



The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, will 

 confer the Elliott-Cresson medal on Dr. Hans 

 Goldschmidt in Essen-Ruhr, Germany, in 

 recognition of his distinguished work in 

 aluniinothermics. 



We learn from Nature that the French 

 Society of Civil Engineers has this year 

 awarded its prizes as follows : the annual prize 

 to M. J. Bernard for his work on the installa- 

 tion in the Red Sea of three lighthouses in 

 circumstances of especial difficulty. The 

 Michel Alcan prize was awarded to M. L. 

 Guillet for his researches on the composition 

 of steel, and the F. Coignet prize went to M. 

 V. Picou for his work on the regulation of 

 dynamos. A prize was awarded to Professor 



