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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



trip itself is of social and educational 

 value. Many teachers will combine at- 

 tendance on the sessions at Denver 

 with a visit to the Rocky Mountains, 

 several views of which are here repro- 

 duced. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We record with regret the deaths of 

 Dr. Frank Leo Tufts, A.B., adjunct 

 professor of physics in Columbia Uni- 

 versity; of Dr. W. H. Edwards, known 

 for his work on the butterflies of North 

 America, and of the Rev. Dr. Sereno E. 

 Bishop, who had made contributions to 

 our knowledge of the Hawaiian vol- 

 canoes. 



The following new members of the 

 National Academy of Sciences were 

 elected at the meeting on April 22, 

 1909: Professor Joseph S. Ames, Johns 

 Hopkins University; Professor Maxime 

 Bocher, Harvard University; Professor 

 Oskar Bolza, University of Chicago; 

 Mr. Frank W. Clarke, U. S. Geological 

 Survey; Dr. John M. Clarke, New York 

 State Museum; Professor John M. 

 Coulter, University of Chicago; Pro- 

 fessor Henry Crew, Northwestern 

 University; Professor Thomas Hunt 



"Morgan, Columbia University; Mr. 

 Waldemar Lindgren, U. S. Geological 

 Survey; Professor Henry L. Wheeler, 

 Yale University. The following were 

 elected foreign associates : Professor 

 Albrecht Penck, University of Berlin; 

 Professor Gustaf Retzius, Stockholm ; 

 Professor Wilhelm Waldeyer, Univer- 

 sity of Berlin; Professor Wilhelm 

 Wundt, University of Leipzig. 



The following new members have 

 been elected to the American Philo- 

 sophical Society: Louis A. Bauer, 

 William Howard Taft, Washington, 

 D. C. ; Marston Taylor Bogert, Hermon 

 Carey Bumpus, Dr. Alexis Carrel, A. V. 

 Williams Jackson, New York; Edwin 

 Brant Frost, Williams Bay, Wis.; 

 Robert Aimer Harper, Charles Richard 

 Van Hise, Madison, Wis. ; William 

 Herbert Hobbs, Victor Clarence 

 Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Abbott 

 Lawrence Lowell, Boston; William 

 Romaine Newbold, John Frederick 

 Lewis, Charles Bingham Penrose, 

 Philadelphia ; Francis Darwin, Cam- 

 bridge, England; Hermann Diels, Emil 

 Fischer, Berlin; Friedrich Kohlrausch, 

 Marburg; Wilhelm F. Ph. Pfeffer, 

 Leipzig. 



