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SCIENCE. 



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United States, shall be deemed most worthy 

 of such honor. The Barnard medal was first 

 awarded at the commencement of 1895, to 

 Lord Rayleigh, and to Professor (now Sir) 

 William Ramsaj. At the commencement of 

 1900 the Barnard medal was awarded to Pro- 

 fessor Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen. On the 

 nomination of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, the award for 1905 is made to Henri 

 Becquerel, member of the Institute of France, 

 for important discoveries in the field of radio- 

 activity, and for his original discovery of 

 the so-called dark rays from uranium, which 

 discovery has been the basis of subsequent 

 research into the laws of radio-activity, and 

 of our present knowledge of the same." 



THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL 

 ASSOCIATION. 



The American Anthropological Association 

 will meet in San Francisco, California, August 

 29-31. It is planned to combine the meeting 

 with an excursion by the association to the 

 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition at 

 Portland. Arrangements will be made facili- 

 tating the visit by members of the association 

 to educational and other points of interest 

 on the Pacific Coast. This will be the firet 

 meeting of the association, or of any body 

 of national scope devoted to anthropology, held 

 on the Pacific Coast, and a large attendance 

 from the western states is expected. Professor 

 F. W. Putnam will preside. 



Titles of papers and applications for mem- 

 bership should be sent to Dr. A. L. Kroeber, 

 secretary of the committee on arrangements, 

 Affiliated Colleges, San Francisco, or to Dr. 

 George G. MacCurdy, secretary of the asso- 

 ciation, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 

 The headquarters of the association will be 

 the Museum of the Department of Anthro- 

 pology of the University of California, Affili- 

 ated Colleges, San Francisco. Further infor- 

 mation in regard to special railway rates and 

 other arrangements connected with the meet- 

 ing may be obtained from Dr. MacCurdy. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 PniN'CETON University has conferred the de- 

 gree of Doctor of Laws on Professor Charles 



Augustus Toung, who has this year become 

 professor emeritus of astronomy, after hold- 

 ing the chair at Princeton since 1877. 



Columbia University has conferred the de- 

 gree of Doctor of Science on Dr. R. S. "Wood- 

 ward, who has resigned the chair of mechanics 

 and mathematical physics to accept the presi- 

 dency of the Carnegie Institution. 



Oxford L'xiversity will on June 28 confer 

 its Doctorate of Science on George H. Dar- 

 win, F.R.S., professor of astronomy at Cam- 

 bridge. 



The University of Manchester has con- 

 ferred the honorary degree of LL.D. on Dr. 

 Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Co- 

 lumbia L^niversity. 



Syracuse University has awarded the de- 

 gree of LL.D. to Professor David Eugene 

 Smith, who holds the chair of mathematics at 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. 



The University of Colorado has conferred 

 the degree of Doctor of Laws upon Dr. Richard 

 W. Corwin, chief surgeon of the Colorado 

 Fuel and Iron Co. 



Columbia University has conferred the de- 

 gree of M.S. on George Francis Sever, pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering in the univer- 

 sity, and on Frederick A Goetze, superin- 

 tendent of buildings and grounds. 



Mr. W. T. Brigham, director of the British 

 Museum of Ethnology at Honolulu, has been 

 given the degree of Doctor of Science by 

 Columbia University. He was presented by 

 Dr. H. C. Bumpus, director of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Professor H. A. Lorentz, of Leiden, has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



At the commencement exercises of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania a portrait of Dr. 

 William Osier was presented by Professor 

 Howard M. Fussell, on behalf of the classes 

 from '85 to '91, who studied under Dr. Osier 

 when he occupied the chair of clinical medi- 

 cine at the university. 



T«e Glasgow University Club of London 

 held its annual dinner on May 26, when Sir 

 William Ramsay presided. Lord Kelvin was 



