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versity; of Dr. Alexander Macfarlane, 

 of Chatham, Ontario, known for his 

 contributions to vector analysis and 

 quaternions; and of Dr. Charles Lester 

 Leonard, professor of roentgenology in 

 the University of Pennsylvania, who 

 died from X-ray dermatitis, contracted 

 in the course of his work nine years 

 ago. 



The British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science has accepted an 

 invitation to hold the meeting of 1915 

 at Manchester. It will be remembered 

 that next year's meeting will be held 

 in Australia under the presidency of 

 Dr. William Bateson. — The University 

 of Birmingham on September 11 con- 

 ferred its doctorate of laws on the fol- 

 lowing foreign representatives in at- 

 tendance at the meeting of the British 

 Association: Madame Curie (Sorbonne, 

 Paris), Professor H. A. Lorentz (Ley- 

 den), Professor Keibel (Freiburg), 



Professor B. W. Wood (Johns Hop- 

 kins) and Professor Svante Arrhenius 

 (Stockholm). — On the occasion of the 

 meeting of the International Geological 

 Congress at Toronto, the University of 

 Toronto conferred the degree of doctor 

 of laws on the following geologists: T. 

 C. Chamberlin, U. S. A.; W. G. Miller, 

 Canada; P. M. Termier, France; B. 

 Beck, Germany; J. J. Sederholm, Fin- 

 land; T. Tschermyschev, Bussia, and A. 

 Strahan, England. 



The government through Secretary 

 of Commerce Bedfield has decided to 

 change the sale of all the government 

 catch of seal, fox and other Alaska 

 furs, from London to St. Louis. At 

 the present time St. Louis is said to be 

 the largest primary fur market in the 

 world. It is estimated that three 

 fourths of all the furs trapped on the 

 North American Continent are shipped 

 to St. Louis houses to be sold. 



