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Section C-Chemistry.-Vice-president, fessor Julius Stieglitz, University of Chicago; secretary, Dr. John Johnston, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, D. C.

Section D-Mechanical Science and Engineering. -Vice-president, Dr. H. M. Howe, Columbia University; secretary, Professor Arthur H. Blanchard, Columbia University, New York City.

Section E-Geology and Geography.—Vice-president, Professor R. D. Salisbury, University of Chicago; secretary, Professor George F. Kay, University of Iowa.

Section F Zoology.-Vice-president, Professor G. F. Parker, Harvard University; secretary, Professor Herbert V. Neal, Tufts College, Mass.

Section G-Botany.-Vice-president, Dr. C. Stuart Gager, Brooklyn Botanical Garden; secretary, Dr. A. F. Blakeslee, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.

Section H-Anthropology and Psychology.— Vice-president, Dr. F. W. Hodge, Bureau of American Ethnology; secretary, Professor George Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Section I-Social and Economic Science.-Vicepresident, Louis F. Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; secretary, Seymour C. Loomis, 69 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.

Section K-Physiology and Experimental Medicine.-Vice-president, Professor Edwin O. Jordan, University of Chicago; secretary, Professor C.-E. A. Winslow, Yale University.

Section L-Education.-Vice-president, Dr. L. P. Ayres, The Russell Sage Foundation; secretary, Dr. Stuart A. Courtis, Detroit, Mich.

Section M-Agriculture.-Vice-president, Dr. W. H. Jordan, director of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station; secretary, Dr. E. W. Allen, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY.-December 27 and 28. President, Professor Ernest W. Brown, Yale University; secretary, Professor F. N. Cole, 501 West 116th St., New York, N. Y.

MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.-December 28, 29 and 30. President, Professor E. R. Hedrick, University of Missouri; secretary, W. D. Cairns, 5465 Greenwood Ave., Chicago, Ill.

AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY.-December 26 to 30. President, Dr. E. C. Pickering, Harvard College Observatory; secretary, Dr. Philip Fox, Dearborn Observatory, Evanston, Ill.

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS OF THE MATHEMATICAL AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES.Council meeting. Secretary, W. A. Hedrick, Central High School, Washington, D. C.

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY.-December 26 to 30. President, Professor R. A. Millikan, University of Chicago; secretary, Professor Alfred D. Cole, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA.-December 28. President, Dr. Perley G. Nutting, 3 Kodak Park, Rochester, N. Y.

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.-President, Dr. Charles H. Herty, New York City; secretary, Dr. C. L. Parsons, U. S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C.

AMERICAN ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY.-Chairman, New York Section, Dr. Colin G. Fink, Edison Lamp Works, Harrison, N. J.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION.-President, Professor H. S. Jacoby, Columbia University; secretary, Professor F. L. Bishop, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY.-President, W. J. Serrill; chairman, Committee on Reciprocal Relations, Clarence L. Law, Irving Place and 15th St., New York, N. Y.

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS.-December 28 to 30. President, Dr. Mark Jefferson, Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Mich.; secretary, Professor Isaiah Bowman, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB.-December 30. President, H. G. Bryant; secretary, Howard Palmer, New London, Conn.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS.—December 29. President, Dr. Raymond Pearl, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station; secretary, Professor Bradley M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS.-December 27, 28 and 29. President, Professor D. H. Tennent, Bryn Mawr College; secretary, Professor Caswell Grave, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA.-December 26 and 27. President, Dr. E. P. Felt; secretary, J. M. Aldrich, West Lafayette, Ind.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGISTS. December 28, 29 and 30. President, Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada; secretary, Albert F. Burgess, Melrose Highlands, Mass.

AMERICAN GENETIC ASSOCIATION.-December 26, 27 and 28. President, David Fairchild, U. S. Department of Agriculture; secretary, George M. Rommel, 511 11th St., Washington, D. C.

EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.-President, Professor Adolf Meyer, The Johns Hopkins University; secretary, William F. Blades, 191 Haven Ave., New York, N. Y.

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ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 28 and 29. President, Professor V. E. Shelford, University of Illinois; secretary, Forrest Shreve, Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Ariz.

BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA.-December 27 to 30. President, Professor R. A. Harper, Columbia University; secretary, Dr. H. H. Bartlett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-December 27 to 30. President, Dr. Erwin F. Smith, U. S. Department of Agriculture; secretary, Dr. C. L. Shear, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

AMERICAN FERN SOCIETY.-December 29. President, Dr. C. H. Bissell, Michigan Agricultural College; secretary, C. A. Weatherby, 920 Main St., East Hartford, Conn.

SULLIVANT Moss SOCIETY.-December 29. President, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton, N. Y. Botanical Garden; secretary, Edward B. Chamberlain, 18 West 89th St., New York, N. Y.

SOCIETY OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE.-December 28, 29. Secretary, C. P. Close, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

ASSOCIATION OF OFFICIAL SEED ANALYSTS.-Will meet on dates to be announced. Secretary, John P. Helyar, New Brunswick, N. J.

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS.-Meets on Friday, December 29. President, Dr. B. E. Fernow, University of Toronto; secretary, C. R. Tillotson, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C.

MID-WEST FORESTRY ASSOCIATION.-President, Fred W. Smith, State School of Forestry, Bottineau, N. Dak.

AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.-Business sessions. President, Professor M. F. Guyer, University of Wisconsin; secretary, Professor T. W. Galloway, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.-December 26 to 29. President, Dr. F. W. Hodge, Bureau of American Ethnology; secretary, Professor George G. MacCurdy, Yale University Museum, New Haven, Conn.

AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.-December 27. President, Dr. R. H. Lowie, American Museum of Natural History; secretary, Charles Peabody, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.-December 27 to 30. President, Professor Raymond Dodge, Wesleyan University; secretary, Professor R. M. Ogden, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION.-December 27, 28 and 29. President, Professor A. O. Lovejoy, The Johns Hopkins University; secretary, Professor E. G. Spaulding, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BACTERIOLOGISTS.-December 29. Secretary, A. P. Hitchens, Glen Olden, Pa.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS.-December 27, 28 and 29. President, Dr. H. H. Donaldson, Wistar Institute of Anatomy; secretary, Professor C. R. Stockard, Cornell Medical School, New York, N. Y.

AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-December 27, 28, 29 and 30. President, Professor W. B. Cannon, Harvard Medical School; secretary, Professor Charles W. Greene, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTS.December 27, 28 and 29. President, Professor Walter Jones, The Johns Hopkins University; secretary, Dr. Stanley R. Benedict, Cornell Medical College, New York, N. Y.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS.-December 28, 29 and 30. President, Professor Reid Hunt, Harvard Medical School; secretary, Dr. John Auer, Rockefeller Institute, New York, N. Y.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL PATHOL OGY. December 28, 29 and 30. President, Simon Flexner, The Rockefeller Institute; secretary, Dr. Peyton Rous, Rockefeller Institute, New York, N. Y.

(The above four societies compose the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Executive Secretary, Dr. Peyton Rous.)

AMERICAN NATURE-STUDY SOCIETY.-December 27. President, Professor L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y.; secretary, E. R. Downing, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

SCHOOL GARDEN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.-December 29 and 30. President, Van Evrie Kilpatrick, 124 West 30th St., New York, N. Y.

GAMMA ALPHA GRADUATES SCIENTIFIC FRATERNITY.-Will meet on dates to be announced. President, Professor W. J. Meek, University of Wisconsin; recorder, L. C. Johnson, 2018 Madison St., Madison, Wis.

SOCIETY OF THE SIGMA XI-December 27. President, Dr. Charles S. Howe, Case School of Applied Science; secretary, Professor Henry B. Ward, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS. December 29 and 30. President, Dr. John H. Wigmore, Northwestern University; secretary, Dr. H. W. Tyler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS

THE following is a list of those recommended by the president and council of the Royal Society for election at the anniversary meeting on November 30: President, Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M., M.A., D.Sc., LL.D.; Treasurer, Sir A. B. Kempe, M.A., D.C.L.; Secretaries, Professor A. Schuster, Sc.D., Ph.D., and W. B. Hardy, M.A.; Foreign Secretary, Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc.; Other Members of the Council, Professor J. G. Adami, M.D., H. T. Brown, LL.D., Dugald Clerk, D.Sc., Professor A. R. Cushny, M.D., Professor A. Dendy, D.Sc., Professor P. F. Frankland, LL.D., Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., H. Head, M.D., J. H. Jeans, Major H. G. Lyons, Major P. A. McMahon, D.Sc., Professor F. W. Oliver, D.Sc., Professor C. S. Sherrington, M.D., Professor A. Smithells, B.Sc., Hon. R. J. Strutt, M.A., and R. Threlfall, M.A.

As has been noted in SCIENCE Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer, professor of anatomy at the University of Berlin since 1883, was raised to the hereditary peerage on the occasion of his eightieth birthday on October 6. The Journal of the American Medical Association states that a bronze portrait plaque was presented to him by his present and former pupils, and a duplicate was hung in the headquarters of the Postgraduate Instruction System. He has been chairman of the central committee of

this work for many years. The LeopoldKarolinische Akademie of Halle presented him with the gold Cothenius medal, and honorary memberships in various scientific and

other societies poured in on him. He announced that although he was thinking of retiring from his teaching chair at the university at the close of this semester, yet he intended to keep up his other work.

SIR FRANK DYSON, astronomer royal, Professor R. A. Sampson, astronomer royal for Scotland and professor of astronomy in the University of Edinburgh, and Professor H. C. Plummer, astronomer royal of Ireland and Andrews professor in the University of Dublin have been elected honorary members of the British Optical Society.

DR. HENRY HEAD, F.R.S., physician to the London Hospital and editor of Brain, has been added to the government committee which, under the chairmanship of Sir J. J. Thomson, president of the Royal Society, is inquiring into the position occupied by natural science in the educational system of Great Britain, especially in secondary schools and universities.

Ar a recent meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Mrs. R. A. Proctor, widow of the astronomer Richard A. Proctor, was formally admitted as fellow of the society. Exactly 50 years ago, in November, 1866, the late Richard A. Proctor was elected to fellowship.

THE University of London has awarded the Rogers prize of £100 for 1916, for an essay "The Nature of Pyrexia and Its Relation to Microorganisms " to Dr. J. L. Jona.

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THE trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society have awarded the George Robert White Medal of Honor for the year 1916 to William Robinson, of Gravetye Manor, Sussex, England. The medal, by John Flanagan, is of coin gold, weighs 8 ounces and was struck at the mint of the United States, Philadelphia. This is the eighth award of this medal made by the society in recognition of eminent service in the advancement of horticulture. Previous awards have been made to Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum; Jackson T. Dawson, Victor Lemoine, of Nancy, France; Michael H. Walsh, the rose specialist of Woods Hole; Sir Harry J. Veitch, of London, and Ernest H. Wilson. William Robinson, to whom the medal is now

awarded, has done much, especially through his writings in horticultural literature, as an exponent of the natural style of flower gardening as opposed to the formal bedding and ribbon borders of former years.

THE Frankfurter Zeitung, as quoted by the Journal of the American Medical Association, has published a statement to the effect that Professor W. Kolle, chief of the Institute for Bacteriology and Hygiene of the University of Bern, has been called to Frankfurt as suc

cessor to Ehrlich in the Institute for Experimental Therapy and also in the G. SpeyerHaus. Professor Wassermann, of Berlin, was called first, but he yielded to pressure from the local scientific authorities and finally declined.

Professor Hans Sachs, Ehrlich's coworker, has been appointed director of the Institute for Experimental Therapy, and Professor Morgenroth of the Charité, Berlin, is being considered for director of the Speyer Institute.

PROFESSOR A. S. HITCHCOCK, systematic agrostologist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has returned from a five months' tour of the Hawaiian Islands. He explored in considerable detail the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Oahu and Kauai, and brought back important collections of plants. He was accompanied by his son, Albert E. Hitchcock, as assistant.

DR. WAICHIRO OCADO, professor of medicine at the University of Tokyo, is making a tour of inspection of the hospitals of the United States.

AT the meeting of the Royal Statistical Society held on November 21, the president, Sir Bernard Mallet, delivered his presidential address on "The Organization of Registration in its Bearing on Vital Statistics."

THE Mineralogical Society, London, has elected the following officers: President, Mr. W. Barlow; Vice-presidents, Professor H. L. Bowman and Mr. A. Hutchinson; Treasurer, Sir William P. Beale, Bart.; General Secretary, Dr. G. T. Prior; Foreign Secretary, Professor W. W. Watts; Editor of the Journal, Mr. L. J. Spencer.

THE Geographical Society of Philadephia celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding at the Academy of Natural Sciences on Wednesday evening, December 6. The address of welcome was given by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, president of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and addresses were made on "Men and Memories of the Early Days of the Society" by Mr. Henry G. Bryant, president of the Geographical Society, and on "Past and Future of the Society," by Dr. Talcott Williams, director of the school of journalism, Columbia University. A reception was held afterwards in the Library Hall of the academy..

DR. W. F. HILLEBRAND, chief chemist of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C., lectured at Columbia University, on November 27, on "Analytical Chemistry and Its Possible Future." This was the second lecture on the Chandler Lecture Fund which was established by former students of the university in honor of Dr. C. F. Chandler, Mitchell professor emeritus of chemistry.

DR. HENRY H. DONALDSON, of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, will give the fourth Harvey lecture in the New York Academy of Medicine on the evening of December 16. The subject of the lecture is "Growth Changes in the Mammalian Nervous System."

A BUST of John Muir was unveiled at the University of Wisconsin on the evening of December 6. The bust was presented by Mr. T. E. Brittinham to the university where Muir was a student for four years. Dean E. A. Birge presided, and addresses were made by Regent Charles H. Villas and President Charles R. Van Hise.

IN the eighth Kelvin lecture, delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Dr. Alexander Russell dealt with some aspects of his subject's life and work which are of special interest to engineers.

AN exhibition and sale of water-color sketches by the late Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, the distinguished physicist, was held at the rooms of the Alpine Club, London, from November 27 to December 10.

Ir is planned to erect at the University of Vermont a memorial to the late Professor N. S. Merrill, of the department of chemistry. A committee for this purpose has been appointed by the Alumni Association with Professor E. C. Jacobs as chairman.

THE graduating class of the Long Island College Hospital presented to the college, on December 4, a photographic portrait of the late Dr. Joseph H. Raymond, formerly secretary of the faculty and professor of hygiene. Dr. John D. Rushmore made the address of acceptance.

DR. MARTIN I. WILBERT, assistant in the division of pharmacology of the hygienic laboratory, died suddently in Philadelphia on November 25. By virtue of his work in the preparation of "The Digest of Comments on the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary" and his services in the American Medical Association and the American Pharmaceutical Association, Dr. Wilbert among the most influential men in his profession.

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CHARLES ALFRED PITKIN, professor of mathematics and physics at Thayer Academy, South Braintree, since its opening in 1877, died on November 5, aged sixty-three years.

THE death is announced, at the age of sixtyeight years, of Dr. C. A. Harrison, for many years engineer in chief of the Northeastern Railway of Great Britain.

C. S. HAGLER, a leading surgeon and bacteriologist of Basel, Switzerland, connected with the university but prevented by deafness from a full professorship, has died from cancer, at the age of fifty-four years.

K. B. PONTOPPIDAN, professor of nervous and mental diseases and later of forensic medicine at the University of Copenhagen, has died at the age of sixty-three years. He was one of the pioneers in the modern treatment of the insane, and has been at the head of the Aarhus asylum since 1898.

THE trustees of the Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund announce their readiness to consider applications for grants in aid of scientific work. Appropriations are restricted to non

commercial enterprises, and are intended solely for the actual expenses of the investigation, not for the support of the investigator nor for the ordinary costs of publication. Grants are made only for those researches, not otherwise provided for, whose object is broadly the advancement of human knowledge; requests for researches of a narrow or merely local interest will not be considered. Usually grants are not made in excess of three hundred dollars. Applications for grants from this fund should be accompanied by a full statement of the nature of the investigation, of the conditions under which it is to be prosecuted, and of the manner in which the appropriation asked for is to be expended. The application should be sent to the secretary of the board of trustees, Dr. W. B. Cannon, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., who will furnish further details.

THE University of Washington campus has been selected as the site of the government mining and metallurgical station for the Pacific Northwest states. Congress has voted an appropriation of $25,000 a year for the maintenance of the station which will serve Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and the coastal regions of Alaska from Ketchikan to Nome. The interior of Alaska will be served by a Fairbanks station. Dorsey A. Lyon, a graduate of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, formerly professor of mining engineering at the University of Washington, a specialist in electro-metallurgy, will be in charge of the

station.

WE learn from the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry that Director Joseph E. Ralph, of the U. S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, has made public the plan of the Bureau of Chemistry in its establishment of an experimental dye laboratory, for which Congress appropriated $50,000, the location of which will be on the government's property in Virginia just across the Potomac from Washington. Director Ralph has arranged with Dr. Alsberg to give a practical test to all the colors produced by this experimental laboratory.

BEQUESTS of more than $100,000 each have been left to the Metropolitan Museum of Art