Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
SCIENCE NOTES.


McDermott. monologist.
SCIENCE NOTES.
| DR.. Erwin +. Smith, plant pathologist
| bureau OF plant industry, United
| States Department of Agriculture, has
| been awarded a certificate of merit by
the American Medical Association.
| The Berlin Academy Of Science has
| awarded it's gold Leibnitz medal to
Prof. Georg Schweinfurth for his ex-
plorations and researches in Africa.
DR.. James r. Nydegger of the United
States public health service has been
elected professor Of tropical medicine
| in the University of Maryland.
The eighty-first annual meeting of
the British Medical Association will be
held at Brighton. July 22-25, inclusive.
AInslie Hollis.
DR.. Ira D. Cardiff. professor of botany
in the state college of Washington,
has been appointed director OF the
Washington experiment station.
The Royal Agricultural Society of
England has awarded it's honorary
diploma Of membership to James Will
son. late Secretary Of Agriculture.
$50, 900 toward the installation of the
institute Of chemistry of the University
of Paris.
Of pharmacology, United States public
marine service, since 1904, has accepted
the position of professor of pharma-
cology at Harvard medical school to
succeed Dr. Pfaf.
The University of Michigan has con-
ferred the honorary degree of doctor
of science on DR.. Otto Klotz astrono-
mer. of Ottawa, Canada.
The Michigan Agricultural College
has conferred the degree of doctor OF
science upon William A. Taylor, chief
of the bureau of plant industry, De-
partment OF Agriculture.
The forty-eighth annual meeting of
the American Chemical Society will be
held in Rochester, n. Y. September
to 49, inclusive.
The Mount Wilson 1O0-inch as
Economical reflector is being mount
ed When this giant instrument is
complete some wonderful results in
stellar astronomy is looked for Even
the sixty-inch reflector shows stars of
the twenty-first magnitude
The gold medal of the Royal Astro-
nomical Society was given this year to
vi.
His theory of the circulation of a sun
spot is the most interesting advance in
recent years. So much SO that astrono-
mers are taking notice as never before.
The University Of Cincinnati has con-
ferred the degree Of doctor of science
upon DR. L. 4. Bauer of the Carnegie
Institution.
Prof. S. A. Mitchell Of Columbia Uni
versity has been appointed director of
the Leander Mccormick observatory at
the University of Virginia. as successor
been director of the Virginia observatory
for many years. He was formerly at the
United States Naval Observatory and is
well known in local scientific circles.
Dr. Victor c. Vaughn. professor of hy-
giene and physiological chemistry in the
University of Michigan. has been elected
president of the American Medical Asso-
citation.
II. n. Connolly. formerly field agent in
horticulture OF the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, has accepted position In the
bureau Of plant industry Department of
Agriculture.
A statue Of Lord Kelvin (Sir William
Thomson) has been unveiled in the Bel
mortal window in Westminster Abbey
will be unveiled July 1b.
A library memorial fund of the Wash
fngton and Jefferson College has been
established in honor of DIR. Jesse w.
LaZiOr, u. S. A, who Lecane a member
of the commission to investigate the role
of the mosquito in the transmission of
yellow fever, and sacrificed his life to
the cause Of scientific research.
The University Of Chicago has received
$500 600 for building to be used as a
al
OF the university. The donor is La Verne
Noyes The building is to be a memorial
to his deceased wife and will be known
as the Ida Noyes Hall.
The sixth of the series of international
fishery congresses, established at Paris in
1900, will be held at Osfend. August 49,
90 under the patronage OF his majesty,
the King of the BelgianS.
The department of zoology at Oberlin
College will be enlarged during the year
by the addition of Prof. Charles G.
DIR. George Fay Gracey. professor of
chemistry and toxicology in the Uni
versity Of Texas, has resigned to enter
practice In New York as specialist on
diseases Of the eye.
The sun has now commenced it's south
ward march, rising and setting earlier
and later as the days shorten. The sun
reached it's farthest point away from our
earth at midnight July 8.
The spiral theory Of the milky way.
which spans the heavens, is again under
| astronomical discussion. DIR. Easton,
well known astronomical student writ
| ing on this interesting phenomena and
using a small scale diagram of the whole
milky way formed by combination of
| photographs and eye drawings, declares
| that it accounts for the appearance as
We observe 1t on u summers night The
| spiral theory is rendered more probable
by the fact that a spiral structure is sus-
pected for the Maseilantc clouds.