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will be held in Xew York City, December 27- 

 28, 1905. 



Dr. William Osler has been made honorary 

 professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. Oxford University has conferred 

 on Dr. Osier the honorary doctorate of medi- 

 cine. 



The University of Michigan has conferred 

 its doctorate of laws on President Henry S. 

 Pritchett, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, and the doctorate of science on 

 Professor W. W. Campbell, director of the 

 Lick Observatory. 



Dr, Edl'ard Strasburger, professor of bot- 

 any at Bonn, has been awarded the gold medal 

 of the Linnean Society of London. 



The Society of Arts has awarded its Albert 

 medal to Lord Kayleigh, " in recognition of 

 the influence which his researches, directed 

 to the increase of scientific knowledge, have 

 had upon industrial progress, by facilitating, 

 amongst other scientific applications, the pro- 

 vision of accurate electrical standards, the 

 production of improved lenses and the de- 

 velopment of apparatus for sound signaling 

 at sea." 



Dr. Hexry H. Doxaldsox, since 1892 pro- 

 fessor of neurology at the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been elected professor of neurology 

 at the Wistar Lastitute of Anatomy, Phila- 

 delphia, having been selected for this position 

 by the advisory board of the institute, consist- 

 ing of leading American anatomists. Dr. 

 Donaldson will assume his new duties at the 

 institute on October 1, 1905, and will be at 

 the institute during January, Uebruary and 

 March. This arrangement will continue for 

 two years, when Dr. Donaldson will be per- 

 manently transferred to the institute. Every 

 effort will be put forth to establish a strong 

 corps of neurological workers, as neurology 

 will be the field to which the institute will 

 devote its first attention. An assistant to 

 Dr. Donaldson will be selected by the ad- 

 visory board. 



The departmental committee appointed by 

 the British Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 to inquire into the nature and causes of grouse 

 disease has made the following appointments: 



C. G. Seligmann, PLD., bacteriologist to the 

 Zoological Society of London, as bacteriologist 

 to the commission; A. E. Shipley, M.A., 

 F.E.S., lecturer on advanced morphology of 

 the invertebrata to the University of Cam- 

 bridge, as expert on the subject of internal 

 parasites; H. Hammond Smith, M.D., as as- 

 sistant bacteriologist and additional field ob- 

 server; George Clay Muirhead, B.Sc, as field 

 observer. 



Sm Archibald Geikie will give the Huxley 

 lecture at Birmingham in 1906. 



Oxford UNn-ERSiXY has conferred the hon- 

 orary degree of doctor of science on Professor 

 E. Eay Lancaster, director of the Xatural His- 

 tory Museum, London. 



The University of Wales will confer the 

 degree of doctor of science on Sir John Will- 

 iams, emeritus professor of midwifery at Uni- 

 versity College, London, and the d^ree of 

 doctor of letters on Dr. Henry Jones, professor 

 of moral philosophy at the University of 

 Glasgow. 



At the commencement and dedicatory exer- 

 cises of Washington University, St. Louis, 

 June 15, the degree of doctor of laws was con- 

 ferred on Professor William G. Raymond, dean 

 of the College of Applied Science, State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa. 



Colgate U?a^"ERSiTY has conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of laws on Professor A. S. Bick- 

 more, in charge of the department of public 

 instruction of the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. 



Commander R. E. Peary, U.S.X., expects 

 to sail for the Arctic regions on his new ship 

 The Roosevelt on July 4. 



M. Jean Charcot has returned to Paris 

 from his explorations in the Antarctic regions. 

 He was expected to lecture before the Societe 

 de Geographic on June 16 and before the 

 Royal Geographical Society on June 26. 



Professor George Frederick Wright, of 

 Oberlin College, will make a geological ex- 

 pedition to southern Russia, returning in 

 January. 



The regents of the University of Wisconsin 

 have granted Professor Wm. H. Hobbs leave 



