July 5, 1901.] 



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recipients as follows : " Professors in this Uni- 

 versity, not of Harvard nurture, distinguished 

 for productive research — to make them chil- 

 dren of the house." 



Yale University, at its commencement 

 exercises last week, conferred the LL.D. on 

 Dr. E. B. Wilson, professor of zoology in 

 Columbia University. It will be remembered 

 that the same degree was given to Professor 

 Wilson by the University of Chicago the pre- 

 vious week. The honorary M. A. was conferred 

 on Mr. Giflford Pinchot, B.A. (Yale, '89), chief 

 of the Bureau of Forestry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Trinity College has conferred the LL.D. 

 degree on Professor W. H. Howell, professor 

 of physiology in the Johns Hopkins University, 

 and on Professor F. H. Osborn, professor of 

 zoology in Columbia University and curator in 

 the American Museum of Natural History. It 

 will be remembered that Professors Howell and 

 Osborn gave the chief addresses on the occasion 

 of the dedication of the Hall of Natural His- 

 tory last winter. 



BowDOiN College has conferred its LL.D. 

 on Dr. Alpheus S. Packard, professor of 

 zoology and geology at Brown University. 



At the recent celebration of its ninth jubilee, 

 the University of Glasgow conferred its LL.D. 

 degree on 120 delegates from various universi- 

 ties and institutions. These included J. Mark 

 Baldwin, professor of psychology at Princeton 

 University ; William G. Farlow, professor of 

 cryptogamic botany at Harvard University ; 

 Dr. Adolph Meyer, lecturer on psychiatry at 

 Clark University, and R. Mark Wenley, profess- 

 or of philosophy at the University of Michigan. 

 The foreign men of science on whom the degree 

 was conferred are : Professor Karl Bezold, Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg ; Professor W. C. Brog- 

 ger. University of Christiania ; Professor Daniel 

 J. Cunningham, Trinity College, Dublin ; Pro- 

 fessor Nicolas EgorofF, Imperial Military Acad- 

 emy of Medicine, St. Petersburg ; Principal 

 George Carey Foster, University College, Lon- 

 don ; Sir Archibald Geikie ; Professor A. A. 

 W. Hubrecht ; Professor Kronecker, Univer- 

 sity of Berne ; Dr. Joseph Larmor, St. John's 



College, Cambridge ; Principal Oliver J. Lodge, 

 University of Birmingham ; President James 

 Loudon, University of Toronto ; Sir William 

 MacCormac ; Professor James G. MacGregor, 

 Nova Scotia ; Professor John Perry, Royal Col- 

 lege of Science, London ; Professor F. York 

 Powell, Oriel College, Oxford ; Sir Henry S. 

 Roscoe, Vice-Chancellor of the University of 

 London ; Professor Joseph J. Thomson, Uni- 

 vei'sity of Cambridge ; John Isaac Thornycroft, 

 naval architect and engineer. 



Surgecn-General George M. Sternberg 

 has left for the Philippine Islands on a tour of 

 inspection. 



Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles, of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry, has been appointed a dele- 

 gate from the U. S. Government to the Inter- 

 national Congress of Zoologists which meets at 

 Berlin next August. 



Professors Nicholas Senn and D. R, 

 Brower, of the Rush Medical College, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, and Professor Jacob Frank, 

 of the Chicago Polyclinic, have left New York 

 for a trip round the world by the way of Siberia. 

 It is expected that only fifty-nine days will be 

 required for the traveling and one month will 

 be spent at stopping places. They have been 

 invited to hold surgical clinics in Moscow and 

 Japan. 



Major Ross, of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine, and Dr. Logan Taylor, 

 assistant professor of pathology at Glasgow 

 University, sailed on June 15 from Liverpool 

 for West Africa to continue researches on ma- 

 laria. 



A PARTY from the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 including Mr. W. C. Meudenhall, geologist, 

 and L. E. Reaburn, topographer, have left 

 Dawson for explorations in northern Alaska. 



Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia, 

 has arrived in California after a trip round the 

 world. 



Dr. Oscar Uhlworm, ofCassel, editor of the 

 Botanisches Centralblait, has been appointed 

 director of the German Bureau for the Inter- 

 national Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 



A Walker Prize, of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, has been awarded to Mr. 



