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laws on Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, of Wash- 

 ington, and on Dr. W. W. Keen, professor of 

 surgery at Jefferson Medical College, Phila- 

 delphia. 



Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the eminent physi- 

 ologist, physician and author, celebrated his 

 seventy-fifth birthday on February 15. Dr. 

 Weir Mitchell will present candidates for hon- 

 orary degrees at the celebration of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania on February 22. De- 

 grees will be conferred on President Roose- 

 velt and on the Emperor of Germany. 



On the occasion of the opening of the new 

 public health laboratory of the Victoria Uni- 

 versity, Manchester, honorary doctorates of 

 science were conferred upon Professor Cal- 

 mette, Lille University; Professor Perroncito, 

 Turin University; Professor Salomonsen, Co- 

 penhagen University, and Captain R. F. Scott, 

 R.N. 



Professor K. Mobius has retired from the 

 directorship of the Berlin Museum of Natural 

 History. The position has been offered to 

 Professor H. H. Schauinsland, director of the 

 museum at Bremen. 



Dr. Fkiedrich Paulsen, professor of philos- 

 ophy at Berlin and known also for his works 

 on education, will lecture at Harvard Univer- 

 sity during the first half of next year in ac- 

 cordance with the plan for an exchange of 

 professors. As already noted. Professor Fran- 

 cis G. Peabody will lecture at Berlin. 



Vice-Admiral Human has been elected 

 president of the French Society of Geography. 



Dr. George Bruce Halsted has been made 

 foreign associate and honorary professor of 

 mathematics in the popular university of 

 Tempio, Italy, and a fellow of the Royal As- 

 tronomical Society. 



' The Relation of Graduate Study to Gen- 

 eral Culture' was the subject of a lecture, 

 given on February 3, at the University of 

 Chicago, by Professor Josiah Royce, of Har- 

 vard University. 



A conference on school hygiene, arranged 

 by the Royal Sanitary Institute, was held in 

 the University of London, under the presi- 

 dency of Sir Arthur W. Riicker, on February 

 7-10. 



Du. MuRGOCi, professor of geology at Buch- 

 arest, is carrying on research work in Cali- 

 fornia. 



Du. Burton E. Livingston, of the depart- 

 ment of botany of the University of Chicago, 

 has been appointed to the staff of the Bureau 

 of Soils in the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, and will begin his new work at 

 the close of the winter quarter. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal has started on an 

 expedition to lower Colorado and the upper 

 portion of California to collect botanical 

 specimens for the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den and to study the flora of that region. 



Miss Vera K. Charles, scientific assistant 

 in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, has recently returned 

 from the Isle of Pines, where she was col- 

 lecting in the interest of the herbarium con- 

 nected with the office of vegetable pathological 

 and physiological investigations. 



The Samuel D. Gross prize of the Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Surgery, for the year 

 1905, amounting to $1,200, has been awarded 

 to Dr. James Homer Wright, of Boston, Mass., 

 for his essay, ' The Biology of the Micro- 

 organism of Actinomycosis.' 



The Wilde medal of the Manchester Liter- 

 ary and Philosophical Society has been 

 awarded to Professor C. Lapworth, r.R.S., 

 professor of geology at Birmingham. 



The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences 

 has awarded the Lomonosoff prize of $500 to 

 Professor N. A. Menschutkin for his re- 

 searches in theoretical chemistry, and the 

 Ivanoff prize to Professor P. N. Lebedeff, of 

 Moscow, for his experimental researches on 

 the pressure of light. 



At a meeting of the trustees of the Percy 

 Sladen fund, held recently at the rooms of the 

 Liunean Society, London, grants were made 

 to Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant towards the ex- 

 penses of a collector for the British Museum 

 in Central Africa; to Miss Alice L. Emble- 

 ton to enable her , to continue her investiga- 

 tions in insect cytology; and to Mr. J. Stanley 

 Gardiner towards the expenses of an expedi- 

 tion to the Indian Ocean. 



