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ton and Waldeyer. The presidents thus far 

 named are Professor Sabatier, of Montpellier; 

 Professor Romiti, of Pisa, and Professor 

 Minot, of Harvard. The vice-presidents are 

 Professor Bugnion, of Lausanne; Professor 

 Valenti, of Bologna, and Professor Carl 

 Huber, of Ann Arbor. 



A general circular is in preparation, which 

 will shortly be distributed to all members of 

 the various societies taking part in the con- 

 gress, and to silch other persons as may re- 

 quest to have it sent to them. The congress 

 owes its successful initiation largely to the 

 zealous devotion of Professor Nicolas, of the 

 University of Nancy, and inquiries as to 

 further details on the part of those interested 

 may be addressed to him. We hope to pi;b- 

 lish later a more detailed notice of the final 

 arrangements and program. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The faculty of Princeton University gave a 

 dinner on the evening of May 17 in honor of 

 Professor Charles A. Young, who becomes 

 professor emeritus after a service of twenty- 

 eight years as professor of astronomy. Among 

 the speakers were President Woodrow Wilson, 

 of Princeton ; President Francis L. Patton, of 

 Princeton Theological Seminary; Mr. M. 

 Taylor Pyne, of New York; Professor Silas 

 Brackett, Professor W. F. Magie and Dr. 

 Henry Van Dyke, who read a poem. A loving 

 cup was presented to Professor Young. 



Professor J. J. Thomson, F.R.S., of Cam- 

 bridge University, has been elected jDrofessor 

 of natural philosophy in the Koyal Institution 

 to succeed Lord Rayleigh, who becomes honor- 

 ary professor. 



President Eoosevelt will receive the degree 

 of LL.D. from Clark University on June 21, 

 when he goes to attend the commencement ex- 

 ercises at the university. 



The pupils and friends of Professor Charles 

 Eliot Norton have presented to Harvard Uni- 

 versity a fund of about $24,000, in his honor, 

 to be used for the purchase of books for the 

 library. 



The seventieth birthday of Professor 

 Caesare Lombroso will be celebrated in con- 



nection with the sixth International Congress 

 of Criminology, which meets at Turin next 

 year. 



Dr. N. Wille, professor of botany in Chris- 

 tiania, has been elected a foreign member of 

 the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. 



Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, expects to spend the present summer 

 abroad. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, sails for Europe on 

 May 27 to attend the International Botanical 

 Congress, which meets at Vienna from June 

 11 to 18, and to visit foreign botanical gar- 

 dens. He will be absent for about six weeks. 



We learn from the Botanical Gazette that 

 Professor W. A. Kellerman, of Ohio State 

 University, has returned from a three months' 

 exploration of Guatemala with a large amount 

 of material, especially of parasitic fungi. 



Dr. E. Koken, professor of geology at 

 Tiibingen, is about to return from a geological 

 expedition to southern India and Ceylon. 



Dr. p. H. Olsson-Seffer, instructor in 

 botany in Stanford University, will go to 

 Soconusco, one of the southern provinces of 

 Mexico, where he will spend three months ex- 

 perimenting with the Mexican rubber tree for 

 the Zacualpa Rubber Plantation Company. 



Professor A. Jacobi has been appointed to 

 represent the faculty of medicine of Columbia 

 University at the International Congress of 

 Medicine to be held in Lisbon in April, 1906. 



Dr. William Osler sailed for Livei-pool, on 

 May 20, to assume the duties of the regius 

 professorship of medicine at Oxford. 



Professor Ira N. Hollis, professor of engi- 

 neering at Harvard University, will be absent 

 next year on leave. 



Assistant Professor D. S. Snedden, of the 

 department of education of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, has been given leave of absence for next 

 year; Associate Professor E. P. Cubberley and 

 Mr. A. H. Suzzallo, who have been spending 

 the present year at Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, will next year resume their work 

 in the department of education. 



