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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XX. No. 502. 



Forest Student, $300. — Men" whose service is 

 temporary and educational in character and whose 

 training in forestry is incomplete. 



Nature leams from the Bulletin of the Kus- 

 sian Society of ISTaturalists of St. Petersburg 

 that the biological station which has been es- 

 tablished near Alexandrovsk, on the Norman 

 coast of the Kola peninsula, is now in working 

 order. It is provided with all the necessary 

 apparatus for pumping sea-water to a basin 

 and an aquarium, as well as with a special 

 sailing boat and all apparatus required for 

 fishing and dragging. 



On the occasion of the meeting of the 

 British Medical Association, Oxford Univer- 

 sity conferred the degree of D.Sc. on a num- 

 ber of visiting physicians, including Professor 

 William Osier, of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity. Professor Love, Sedlian professor of 

 natural philosophy, presented the recipients, 

 making remarks in Latin. According to the 

 translation in The British Medical Journal, 

 he said of Professor Osier : " Among those 

 who apply the results of modern science to 

 the investigation of the causes and the cure 

 of diseases, few have attained greater distinc- 

 tion than William Osier. By his professional 

 teaching, iirst in Montreal and afterwards in 

 Baltimore, by his writings, which deal partly 

 with questions of abstract science and partly 

 with questions concerning the practise of 

 medicine, by his skill as a physician, he has 

 been for many years a leading exponent of the 

 principle that the art of medicine should be 

 based upon the most exact scientific knowledge 

 of the day. For his work in exemplifying 

 this principle, as well as for the merit of his 

 contributions to science, he was elected a fel- 

 low of the Royal Society. In him also we 

 welcome a representative of one of those 

 daughter states which are the pride of the 

 mother country — the Dominion of Canada^ 

 and also of that great republic of the west 

 whose people, bound to us by the closest ties 

 of kinship, are also among our best friends." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 

 The New York Evening Post states that 

 the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co- 



lumbia University, has received a bequest of 

 $10,000 by the wiU of Mrs. Eleanor Cooper. 



Dr. Brown Ayres, professor of physics in 

 Tulane University, has been elected president 

 of the University of Tennessee. 



Professor George M. Duncan has, accord- 

 ing to the daily papers, resigned his pro- 

 fessorship of philosophy at Yale University. 

 Professor G. T. Ladd, it will be remembered, 

 presented his resignation last spring, to take 

 effect at the end of the next academic year. 

 Professor Hershey E. Sneath, who has hither- 

 to held the chair of ethics, has been trans- 

 ferred to the department of pedagogy. 



Dr. Henry J. Prentiss, professor of prac- 

 tical anatomy. University and Bellevue Hos- 

 pital Medical College, has accepted the chair 

 of anatomy at the University of Iowa, made 

 vacant by the death of Di-. J. W. Harriman. 



Miss D. L. Bryant, S.B., of the department 

 of geology, '91 of the Massachusetts Institute, 

 of Technology, received the degree of Doctor 

 of Philosophy, June 30, 1904, at Erlangen, 

 with the distinction of magna cum laude. 

 After graduating from the institute she 

 taught geology at Greensboro, N. C, and be- 

 fore leaving for Europe she took a course in 

 petrography with Dr. Van Hise, at Madison, 

 Wisconsin. She has since studied at Heidel- 

 berg, and for the past two years at Erlangen. 

 Her graduating dissertation was upon ' The 

 Petrograpliy of Spitzbergen.' 



Miss Marion Stores, Ph.D., has been ap- 

 pointed junior professor of botany in the 

 University of Manchester. 



Dr. William Palmer Wynne has been 

 elected professor of chemistry in University 

 College, Shefaeld. 



Dr. L. Gerlach, professor of anatomy at 

 Erlangen, has been made rector for the com- 

 ing academic year. 



Dr. Hippolyt Haas, professor of geology at 

 Kiel, has retired from active service. 



Professor L. Busse, of Konigsberg, has 

 been called to a professorship of philosophy 

 at Miinster, in succession to Professor E. 

 Addickes, who has been appointed professor 

 at Tiibingen. 



