June 22, 1900.] 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The University of Toronto has conferred the 

 degree of doctor of laws on Professor Simon 

 Newcomb, U. S. N. 



Cambeidge University proposed to confer 

 on June 12th the degree of LL.D. on Professor 

 S. P. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and on M. Poincare, the Paris mathematician. 



Among the honorary degrees conferred on 

 June 14th at the commencement of the Western 

 University of Pennsylvania, the So. D. was 

 given to O. A. Leuschner, professor of as- 

 tronomy, University of California, and to Wm. 

 W. Campbell, senior astronomer, Lick Ob- 

 servatory. 



Professor A. P. Coleman, of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, and Dr. H. M. Ami, of the 

 paleontological staff of the Geological Sur- 

 vey of Canada, Ottawa, were elected Fellows 

 of the Eoyal Society of Canada at its last meet- 

 ' ing held in Ottawa, May 28-31, 1900. 



Professor H. F. Osboen, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity and the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has been invited to succeed the late 

 Professor Cope as vertebrate paleontologist of 

 the Geological Survey of Canada. 



We regret to learn that Dr. Henry Sidgwick, 

 for nearly thirty years professor of moral phi- 

 losophy at Cambridge University, is compelled 

 to resign his chair owing to ill-health. Profes- 

 sor Sidgwick is at present sixty- two years of 

 age and is well known as one of the greatest 

 English writers on ethics and political science. 



On May 3d the completion of the twenty-fifth 

 year of teaching by Professor Luciani, rector 

 of the University of Rome, was celebrated in 

 the physiological laboratory of the university. 

 Addresses were made by Professors Todaro and 

 Baccelli and Professor Luciani replied. 



Professor Ira Eemsen, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, will give the commencement 

 address at the Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Md. 



Special preparations are being made in the 

 American Museum of Natural History for 

 the reception of members of the American 

 Association. President Jesup has issued an 

 invitation to all the local members for Tues- 

 day evening, June 26th, and a similar in- 



vitation will be mailed to visiting members 

 immediately upon their registration. Members 

 will be admitted on the closed days, Monday 

 and Tuesday, upon showing their tickets or 

 badges. The curators will be ready to assist in 

 showing the various exhibits. The newest hall 

 is that of Mexican archteology under the direc- 

 tion of Professor J. W. Putnam and Mr. Saville. 

 The Fossil Mammal Hall has recently received 

 a large number of additions, both in fossil 

 mammals and reptiles. A full series of photo- 

 graphs of the museum has recently been made, 

 and will be placed on exhibition in the lower hall. 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Phy- 

 siology is to hold a special meeting at the 

 Museum Building, New York Botanical Garden, 

 on Wednesday, June 27th, at 4 p. m., to re- 

 ceive the report of the committee (appointed in 

 December at the New Haven meeting) upon 

 improvement of reviews of botanical literature. 

 The question of concerted action upon the sub- 

 ject with the other botanical societies will be 

 considered. 



The Scientific Society of Danzig offers on the 

 occasion of the 150th anniversary of its es- 

 tablishment, a prize of 1000 Marks for a paper 

 on the geology of North Germany. 



The Peabody Academy of Science receives 

 $10,000 by the will of the late Walter S. Dick- 

 son. 



The late Baron Adolphe- Charles de Roths- 

 child bequeathed property bringing in an in- 

 come of $50,000 a year for the establishment of 

 an ophthalmological hospital at Paris. He also 

 bequeathed his fine collection of objects of art 

 to the Louvre with $60,000 to defray the cost 

 of arranging them for exhibition. 



The Paris Pasteur Institute will offer in No- 

 vember, in its new quarters in the rue Dutot, 

 courses of instruction including lectures, con- 

 ferences and laboratory work. They will in- 

 clude bacteriological methods of analyzing 

 physiological and pathological products, etc. 



Mr. W. E. D. Scott, curator of the ornitho- 

 logical department in Princeton, announces 

 that the British Museum has presented to the 

 university two thousand mounted birds, speci- 

 mens from India, Australia and the Malay 

 Islands. Some time ago the university pre- 



