June 30, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The general outline of the program shows 

 that Wednesday morning is devoted to busi- 

 ness, the afternoon to the reading of papers 

 and the evening to the address of the retiring 

 president. Dr. Henry B. Ward, on ' The Re- 

 lations of Animals to Disease.' Thursday's 

 program is especially devoted to medical zool- 

 ogy, the morning being given to papers and 

 the afternoon to a symposium, led by the presi- 

 dent, on animal parasites, their effects on the 

 hosts, with demonstrations of specimens and 

 microphotographs, and discussion. This even- 

 ing the society will be tendered a reception. 

 Friday the program includes papers and a 

 symposium on fresh water biology, led by Dr. 

 R. H. Wolcott, covering the field of limnobiol- 

 ogy. The evening will be spent on the beach 

 and Saturday will be devoted to excursions. 



Summer tourist rates make Sandusky an 

 easy place to reach from all points, and the new 

 hotel, ' The Breakers,' which has been selected 

 as headquarters, insures satisfactory accom- 

 modations. There will be at the meeting 

 demonstrations of apparatus and specimens 

 both by firms and individuals. Persons having 

 specimens or photomicrographs of parasites 

 and other forms which they may wish to show 

 can send them to headquarters in care of the 

 officers and they will be duly presented and 

 returned at the close of the meeting. 



COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND DR. R. 8. 

 WOODWARD. 



At its recent commencement exercises, Co- 

 lumbia University conferred the degree of 

 doctor of science on Dr. R. S. Woodward, 

 formerly professor of mechanics and mathe- 

 matical physics, and now president of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. He was 

 presented by Professor Edmund B. Wilson, 

 head of the department of zoology and Dr. 

 Woodward's successor as dean of the faculty 

 of pure science, who said : " It is a rare dis- 

 tinction to have attained a position of com- 

 manding eminence at once in scientific dis- 

 covery, in scientific teaching, and in the direc- 

 tion of scientific and educational affairs. It 

 is my privilege to present for the honorary 

 degree of doctor of science one whose many- 

 sided achievement has written his name high 



on the rolls of fame for all of these — Robert 

 Simpson Woodward, for many years the hon- 

 ored and beloved dean of the faculty of pure 

 science, and now president of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. In a distin- 

 guished service of more than twenty years 

 under the national government, as engineer 

 of the lake survey, astronomer and chief 

 geographer of the Geological Survey and as- 

 sistant on the Coast and Geodetic Survey, his 

 varied and profound researches won for him 

 a secure place in the front rank of those who 

 have successfully grappled with the great 

 problems of astronomy and geophysics. For 

 twelve years a professor at Columbia, his work 

 as teacher and investigator in the fields of 

 mechanics and mathematical physics has of- 

 fered a model of lofty ideals and exacting 

 standards to his fellow students, whether those 

 whom he taught or those who taught with him. 

 As dean of the faculty of pure science he has 

 served Columbia with a conspicuous devotion, 

 loyalty and success that will not be forgotten. 

 His has been the leadership not alone of the 

 eminent scholar and wise counselor, but of 

 the trusted friend, and his example has taught 

 once again the lesson, greater than any in his 

 own large and difficult field of scholarship, 

 that the cause of learning may be advanced 

 as much by the quality of the man as by the 

 achievement of the man of science. As presi- 

 dent of the New York Academy of Sciences, 

 of the American Mathematical Society and 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, he has been the far-seeing 

 and eloquent spokesman of science to his fel- 

 lows. He has now been called to a place of 

 leadership in organized scientific inquiry for 

 which history can not show a parallel. Co- 

 lumbia bids him godspeed, and gladly pays 

 her tribute of honor to one whose life and 

 work have been an honor to her." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The American Chemical Society met last 

 week at Buffalo under the presidency of 

 Francis C. Venable, of the University of 

 North Carolina. 



The seventh annual meeting of the Astro- 

 nomical and Astrophysical Society of America 



