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which such historic and prehistoric ruins, monu- 

 ments, areheologieal objects and other antiquities 

 are located, including only the land necessary for 

 the preservation of such ruins and antiquities, 

 and may make permanent withdrawals of tracts 

 of land on which are ruins and antiquities of 

 especial importance, not exceeding six hundred 

 and forty acres in any one place. 



Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, 

 and is hereby authorized to permit examinations, 

 excavations and the gathering of objects of in- 

 terest within such reservations by any institution 

 either domestic or foreign which he may deem 

 properly qualified to conduct such examinations, 

 excavations or gatherings, subject to such rules 

 and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, 

 That the examinations, excavations and gather- 

 ings are undertaken for the benefit of some repu- 

 table museum, university, college or other recog- 

 nized scientific or educational institution with a 

 view to increasing the knowledge of such objects, 

 and that the gatherings shall be made for perman- 

 ent preservation and not for commercial purposes. 



See. 4. That of all excavations and explorations 

 made under a permit granted by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, a proper written and photographic 

 record with plans shall be made at stated periods, 

 and transmitted for preservation to the United 

 States National Museum. 



Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall 

 make and publish from time to time such rules 

 and regulations as he shall deem expedient and 

 necessary for the purpose of carrying out the 

 provisions of this act. 



Sec. 6. That all persons who shall with- 

 out permission appropriate, injure or destroy any 

 public property therein, or injure or destroy any 

 caves, ruins, or other works or objects of an- 

 tiquity therein, or commit unauthorized injury or 

 waste, in any form whatsoever, upon the lands or 

 objects referred to in this act, or who shall violate 

 any of the rules or regulations prescribed hereun- 

 der, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not 

 more than five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned 

 for a period not more than twelve months, or 

 shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the 

 discretion of the court. 



Edgar L. Hewett, 



Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NE^YS. 

 At the recent commemoration ceremonies 

 at the University of Pennsylvania, the degree 

 of Doctor of Science was conferred on Dr. R. 

 S. Woodward, president of the Carnegie Insti- 



tution. The colleagues of Dr. Woodward at 

 Columbia University will join in giving a 

 dinner in his honor on the evening of April 4. 



Dr. William Osler gave a farewell address 

 at the commemoration exercises at Johns Hop- 

 kins University on February 22. The degree 

 of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by 

 the university. 



Dr. Hans Landolt, professor of chemistry 

 at Berlin, has been awarded the gold medal 

 for science of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Paul Ehrlich, director of the Institute 

 for Experimental Therapeutics at Frankfort, 

 has been appointed honorary professor in the 

 University of Gottingen. 



Dr. Carl Moebius, professor of zoology at 

 Berlin, celebrated his eightieth birthday on 

 February 7. 



Dr. Heinrich Limpricht, professor of chem- 

 istry at Greifswald, has celebrated his jubilee 

 as university professor. 



Professor Harry C. Joxes, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, has been awarded $1,000 

 by the Carnegie Institution, with which to 

 continue his work, on the nature of concen- 

 trated solutions, during the year 1905-1906. 

 This is a renewal of the grant that he now 

 holds for the same amount and for the same 

 investigation. Dr. H. P. Bassett, who received 

 his Ph.D. under Professor Jones in June, 

 1904, has been reappointed as his assistant. 



The Committee on Science and the Arts, 

 of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, has 

 recommended to the Board of City Trusts 

 that Dr. Persifor Frazer be awarded the John 

 Scott legacy premium and medal for his ' sys- 

 tem of quantitative colorimetry,' for deter- 

 mining the genuineness of exhibits of hand- 

 writing. 



Mr. Henry M. Towne, president of the 

 Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company, 

 Stamford, Connecticut, and past-president of 

 the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers, gave on February 24, an address before 

 the faculty and students of Purdue Univer- 

 sity. His subject was ' Industrial Engineer- 

 ing.' The university has also announced lec- 

 tures at an early date by Mr. William Barclay 

 Parsons and Mr. Frederic A. C. Perrine. 



