May 5, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



Ill 



The trustees named by Mr. Carnegie, all 

 of whom are said to have accepted, are as 

 follows : 



President A. T. Hadley, Yale University. 

 President Charles William Eliot, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



President William R. Harper, University of 

 Chicago. 



President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia 

 University. 



President Jacob Schurman, Cornell Univer- 

 sity. 



President Woodrow Wilson, Princeton Univer- 

 sity. 



President L. Clarke Seelye, Smith College. 



Provost Charles C. Harrison, University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



President Alexander C. Humphreys, Stevens In- 

 stitute. 



Chancellor S. B. MeCormick, Western University 

 of Pennsylvania. 



President Edwin B. Craighead, Tulane Univer- 

 sity. 



President H. C. King, Oberlin College. 

 President C. F. Thwing, Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity. 



President Thomas McClelland, Knox College. 

 President Edwin H. Hughes, De Pauw Univer- 

 sity. 



President H. McClelland Bell, Drake University. 



President George H. Denny, Washington and Lee 

 University. 



Principal Peterson, McGill University. 



President Samuel Plautz, Lawrence University. 



President David S. Jordan, Leland Stanford Jr. 

 University. 



President W. H. Crawford, Allegheny College. 

 President Henry S. Pritchett, Massachusetts In- 

 stitute 01 Technology. 



F. A. Vanderlip, Esq., New York. 

 T. Morris Carnegie, Esq., New York. 

 R. A. Franks, Esq., Hoboken, N. J. 



The trustees will take steps at once to or- 

 ganize a corporation. The first meeting of 

 the board has been called for November 15. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTEI^ AND NEWS. 



At the meeting of the Geographical Society 

 of Philadelphia on May 3, the Elisha Kent 

 Kane medal was awarded to Professor William 

 B. Scott, of Princeton University. 



The French government has conferred the 

 rank of Officier d'Academie on Professor 



Angelo Heilprin, of Philadelphia, for his 

 work in geography. 



Dr. J. H. van't Hoff, professor of chem- 

 istry at the University of Berlin, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Professor Henry M. Howe, professor of 

 metallurgy at Columbia University, has been 

 elected corresponding member of the French 

 Society for Encouragement of National In- 

 dustry. 



The Lavoisier medal of the French Society 

 for the Encouragement of National Industry 

 has been awarded to M. Heroult for his work 

 on electro-metallurgy. 



Dr. Ralph H. Curtiss, Carnegie assistant 

 at the Lick Observatory, has been appointed 

 assistant astronomer at the Allegheny Ob- 

 servatory, and will assume his new duties on 

 about June 1. 



Professor S. I. Bailey, who is in charge of 

 the Peruvian station of the Harvard College 

 Observatory, has returned to Cambridge, where 

 he will remain for the present. He is plan- 

 ning to observe the August total eclipse of the 

 sun in Spain. 



Dr. Friedrich Kohlrausch, president of 

 the ' Reiehsanstalt,' retired on April 1. 



Dr. H. F. L. Matthiessen, professor of 

 physics at Rostock, having reached the age of 

 seventy-five years, has been excused from hold- 

 ing further lectures. 



Secretary William H. Taft will this year 

 deliver the commencement address at Miami 

 University. 



Professor Jerejiiah W. Jenks, of Cornell 

 University, lectured before the Philadelphia 

 Geographical Society on May 3, his subject 

 being ' Life in the Interior of China,' 



The first Adamson Lecture at Manchester 

 University will be delivered by Professor 

 Ward, of Cambridge, on June 2. 



Torreya states that the American delegates, 

 elected and, according to the rules of the In- 

 ternational Botanical Congress, which meets 

 at Vienna from June 11 to 18, entitled to vote 

 in the deliberations upon the nomenclature 

 question, are, so far as it has learned, the fol- 

 lowing : Members of the International Nomen- 



