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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 544. 



The Jaeksonian prize of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons of England has been presented to 

 Mr. Herbert J. Paterson. 



The Hanbury gold medal of the Pharma- 

 ceutical Society, London, has this year been 

 awarded to Professor Ernst Schmidt, pro- 

 fessor of pharmaceutical chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Marburg. 



Dr. William Welch, professor of pathology 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, sailed for 

 England on May 27, to be absent until Sep- 

 tember. 



Dr. Ernest W. Brown, professor of mathe- 

 matics, Haverford College, will be a member 

 of the official party of the British Association 

 for the South African meeting. He will be 

 absent from Haverford from June 15 to Oc- 

 tober 30. 



Mr. a. Pitts Morse, of the zoological de- 

 partment of Wellesley College, will this sum- 

 mer continue his researches on the North 

 American Acridiidae. He will make a col- 

 lecting tour through Alabama, Mississippi and 

 Louisiana. 



Robert Kennedy Duncan, professor of 

 chemistry in Washington and Jefferson Col- 

 lege, has been granted a year's leave of ab- 

 sence in order to accept a commission from 

 Harper's Magazine to spend a year in Europe 

 in the study of the relations of chemistry to 

 industry. Dr. Ralph Garrigue Wright will 

 act as substitute during his absence. 



Professor Hecker, who has been making 

 observations for gravity in the Indian and 

 Pacific oceans and at various coast stations, 

 under the auspices of the International Geo- 

 detic Association, returned to Berlin about the 

 middle of April. It is reported that satisfac- 

 tory observations were obtained by him. 



The degree of doctor of science in botany 

 has been conferred by the University of Lon- 

 don on Miss Agnes Robertson for a thesis 

 entitled ' Studies in the Morphology of Tor- 

 reya Calif ornica, Torrey,' and other papers. 



At a meeting of the Royal Geographical 

 Society held on May 16 a paper, entitled 

 'Exploration and Survey with the Tibet 



Frontier Commission, and from Gyangtse to 

 Simla via Gar-tok,' was read by Major C. H. 

 D. Ryder, R.E. Major Ryder was the officer 

 in charge of the survey work carried out in 

 connection with the British Mission to Lhasa, 

 and for his services to geographical science 

 has this year been awarded one of the society's 

 highest honors, the patron's gold medal. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. Thomas Young has been 

 presented to the Royal Institution, London, 

 by Mrs. Barton. 



Sir Bernhard Samuelson, F.R.S., an iron 

 manufacturer who was interested in technical 

 education, died on May 10, in his eighty-fifth 

 year. 



Lieutenant-Colonel L. H. L. Irby, a Brit- 

 ish ornithologist, has died at the age of sixty- 

 nine years. 



There will be a civil service examination, 

 on June 21, for the position of assistant in 

 the Office of Seed and Plant Introduction, 

 Department of Agriculture, at a salary of 

 $1,800. 



Governor Higgins has signed the bill incor- 

 porating the Staten Island Association of 

 Arts and Sciences, which thus becomes the 

 successor to the Natural Science Association 

 of Staten Island. The act authorizes the city 

 to provide accommodation for the association 

 in the new borough hall temporarily, to erect 

 suitable buildings for a public library and 

 museum and to contribute $10,000 annually 

 for maintenance. 



The California legislature has made an ap- 

 propriation providing for the establishment of 

 a laboratory and experimental station for the 

 study of plant diseases in Southern California, 

 the station to be conducted under the auspices 

 of the Department of Agriculture of the 

 University of California. 



Arrangements are now almost complete for 

 the opening of a marine biological station at 

 La JoUa, a suburb of San Diego, Cal., under 

 the direction of Professor William E. Ritter, 

 of the University of California. The labora- 

 tory will take the place of the one that has 

 been conducted by Professor Ritter during the 

 past year or two at Coronado Beach. 



