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Engineers, the American Society of Mechan- 

 ical Engineers, The American Society of Civil 

 Engineers and the American Institute of Min- 

 ing Engineers to the man most representative 

 of, and eminent in, scientific advance in the 

 engineering field. 



Previous to his departure for England, to 

 assume the chair of medicine in the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford, a dinner will be given to Dr. 

 William Osier at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New 

 York City, on May 2. 



Dr. H. p. Bowditch, professor of physiol- 

 ogy at Harvard Medical School, has recently 

 visited the universities of the Pacific coast. 



We learn from The Botanical Gazette that 

 Sir Joseph Hooker retired from the editorship 

 of the Botanical Magazine at the close of 1904, 

 after forty years of service. He is succeeded 

 by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer. 



We learn from Nature that Professor W. J. 

 Sollas, F.K.S., has been elected a member of 

 the AthenjBum Club under the rule which em- 

 powers the annual election by the committee 

 of nine persons of distinguished eminence in 

 science, literature, the arts, or for public ser- 

 vices. 



Professor L. C. Herdt, assistant professor 

 of electrical engineering at McGill University, 

 has been awarded the honorary title of oflficier 

 d'academie, by the French government. 



Mr. J. E. S. "Moore has been appointed 

 director of the Cancer Research, which is 

 carried out in connection with the Royal In- 

 firmary. 



Mr. R. R. Kelly, assistant professor in the 

 department of engineering at the Univei'sity 

 of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. D., is re- 

 signing in order to join the staff of the Symms 

 & Powers Company, heating and ventilating 

 engineers, of Sioux Palls, S. D. 



G. E. CoGHiLL, Ph.D., professor of biology 

 at Pacific University, has been elected secre- 

 tary of the Oregon x\cademy of Sciences. 



The Bakerian lecture of the Royal Society 

 was delivered on March 23, by Dr. Horace T. 

 Brown, F.R.S., who took as his subject ' The 

 Reception and Utilization of Energy by the 

 Green Leaf.' 



A MEDAL in commemoration of M. Alfred 

 Comu will be struck by the French Physical 

 Society. 



It is proposed to erect a memorial in Jena 

 to Professor Ernest Abbe in commemoration 

 of his services to optical science and industry. 

 Subscriptions should be sent to the treasurer, 

 Dr. Gustav Fischer, Jena. 



The centenary of the birth of the Russian 

 mathematician W. J. Buniakowsky was cele- 

 brated at St. Petersburg on December 16, and 

 on December 29 the centenary of the birth of 

 K. Schallbach was commemorated in Berlin. 



An intercollegiate course in Appalachian 

 Geology will be given under the direction of 

 several instructors, as follows: July 3-8 — 

 Professor W. B. Clark, of the John Hopkins 

 University, on ' The Tertiary and Cretaceous 

 Strata of the Coastal Plain of Maryland.' 

 July 10-15— Professor W. M. Davis, of Har- 

 vard University, on ' The Folded Paleozoic 

 Strata of the Susquehanna-Juniata District 

 of Pennsylvania.' July 17-22 — Professor T. 

 C. Hopkins, of Syracuse University, on ' The 

 Horizontal Paleozoic Strata and Glacial Fea- 

 tures of Central New York.' July 24-29— 

 Professor H. P. Gushing, of Western Reserve 

 University, on ' The Faulted Crystalline and 

 Paleozoic Rocks of the Little Falls District, 

 N. Y".' July 31-August 5— Professor J. Bar- 

 rell, of Y^ale University, on ' The Metamorphic 

 and Triassic Rocks of Western Connecticut.' 

 This course is intended for men who have 

 already some knowledge of general geology, in- 

 cluding field work. The party will meet in 

 Baltimore on Monday, July 3. The work of 

 each week may be taken separately. It may be 

 necessary to limit the number of members in 

 the first week ; preference will be given to those 

 who take the entire course. A .circular giving 

 fuller details of the course can be had of Pro- 

 fessor Clark on about March 10. 



The position of chief of the Division of 

 Chemistry, Hygienic Laboratory, Public 

 Health and IMarine Hospital Service, will be 

 filled by civil service examination on April 

 26. The salary of this position is $3,200. 

 Competitors are not assembled for examina- 



