1897.] Scientific News. 659 
At its commencement exercises, on June 15th, Johns Hopkins gave 
its first doctors’ degrees in medicine. One of the recipients is Miss 
Mary S. Packard, the only one of her sex in the class. 
The Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, has purchased from the 
widow of Dr. Arthur Schott, the plants collected by him in Campeche, 
Tabasco, Upper Mexico, Hungary, and elsewhere. 
Dr. Edward Fischer has been advanced to the position of professor 
of botany in the University of Berne; Dr. Gaupp to the professorship 
extraordinary of anatomy in Freiburg. 
The gold medal of the Linnean Society of London has been con- 
ferred upon Dr. Jacob Georg Agardh, Emeritus Professor of Botany at 
the University of Lund. 
The endeavor, at Cambridge, to open a possibility for the reception 
of degrees by women has been defeated by an overwhelming vote of 
1707 to 661. 
Drs. E. Barclay-Smith and F. C. Kempson have been appointed 
senior and junior demonstrators of anatomy in the University of Cam- 
bridge. 
Johann S. Kubary, who probably knew the islands of the South Sea 
as well as any one, died at Ponapé, Caroline Island, the last of October, 
1896. 
The general board of studies at Cambridge propose to establish a 
lectureship in experimental psychology at a stipend of £50 per annum, 
The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon Mr. Roscoe 
Pound by the University of Nebraska at its recent commencement. 
Mr. Edward Dodson has left England for Morocco, with the object 
of investigating the fauna of the country around the Atlas range 
Dr. E. Fischer has been made full professor of botany in the Uni- 
versity of Berne and director of the botanical gardens there. 
Professors Biitschli and Weismann have been elected to correspond- 
ing membership in the Academy of Sciences of Berlin. 
Dr. Georges Ville, professor of vegetable physiology in the Museum 
of Natural History at Paris, died February 23, 1897. 
Professor Conway Macmillan goes to Europe for the summer on 
business connected with the University of Minnesota. 
