Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-11
BROWN UNIVERSITY.
Prof. George G. Wilson Honored by
 Paris Law Institution.
(Special to The BuIIetin.)

Especial to The Bullet1n.)
 Providence, R. l., April 6.-Prof George Grafton Wilson of the depart
 ment of social and political science has l been recently honored at Paris by the Institut de Droit Internationale, to which he was elected an associate at | its thirty sixth annual convention. The Institute of International Law was founded in 1873 for the purpose of I bringing together leading law experts l from the entire world, and of further l ing the reign of law and justice among 1 the various countries. The number of members of the institute is limited to sixty, with an equal number of asso- ciates and not more than a fifth of the total number can be from sin gle nation.
 Professor Wilson was one of the three chosen from the western hemi- sphere at the recent convention. The
 society meets annually, and from time
 to time issues publications concerning 8
 international law questions It has all
 ready done much good by causing
 many disputes to be settled in peace
 fuI and just manner and it was award
 ed the Nobel peace prize in 1904.
 Professor Wilson has world wide
 reputation as a law expert and as the
 author of several books and pamph-
 lets on this subject For several years
 past, in addition to his work pro-
 lessor at Brown. he has lectured at
 Harvard to graduate classes and at
 the United States naval college at Newport. In 19OS-1909. while abroad
 during his sabbatical year, he lectured at Cambridge and Oxford, and repre- sented the United States at the Lon don naval conference. His text book on International Law, and a treatise on Insurgency, have become standard in many countries.
 The University library has received as gift from Dr. James E. Sullivan of Providence a superb seventeenth century volume, giving the costumes of the monastic orders of the Roman Catholic church. It consists of an ex- quisite series of thirty-f1ve original paintings on vellum, of the various or ders of the church, evidently by a Dutch artist of about the middle of the seventeenth century. It is rare that a collection of finely painted min- iatures of this kind are offered for sale.
 By the will of the late J. Rayner Edmands of Boston, a telescope. val ued at $75G, is bequeathed to Brown university.
 The following students, members of the senior class, have been recently appointed by the faculty to represent their class as commencement speakers at the annual commencement exer- cises next June: Albert Arnold Ben nett of Providence. Maxwell Barus of Providence and Clifton Henry Walcott of LeOminSter Mass.
 A course which is of peculiar inter est during the spring term is the one given by Prof. H. E. Walter of the department of biology on the study of birds. The course, which is open to all undergraduates, consists of a week ly lecture and field trip which oc- CUTS during the early hours of Friday As the course is given dur ing the height of the spring migra- ton of birds, it offers an exceptional for the study of their mi grafton and for the identification of many species in the parks and coun- try surrounding Providence. Profes- sor Walter in his work as a biologist has given much time to the study of birds. and is, with his wife. the author of Wild Birds in City Parks.