THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



191 



visory board organize at once and out- 

 line any work that might seem proper, 

 pending the approval of the board of 

 managers of the institute. This was 

 done by electing Dr. Charles S. Minot 

 as chairman and Dr. M. J. Greenman 

 as permanent secretary. 



The advisory board proceeded to ap- 

 point the following committees: on 

 neurology and the establishment of re- 

 lations with the International Associa- 

 tion of Academies, Dr. L. F. Barker, 

 Dr. H. H. Donaldson, Dr. F. P. Mall, 

 Dr. J. P. McMurrich, Dr. C. S. Minot 

 (this committee to elect its own chair- 

 man) ; on relations of the Wistar In- 

 stitute to American Anatomists, Pro- 

 fessor S. H. Gage, chairman, Dr. Geo. 

 A. Piersol, Dr. G. Carl Huber; on com- 

 parative anatomy and embryology, Dr. 

 Geo. S. Huntington, chairman, Dr. E. 

 G. Conklin, Dr. F. P. Mall. 



This move on the part of the Wistar 

 Institute places its future development 

 largely in the hands of a national 

 board of leaders in anatomy, a feature 

 as unusual as it is desirable, and 

 through the Wistar Institute the work 

 of anatomical schools may be supple- 

 mented and strengthened and brought 

 into cooperation. If the plan is car- 

 ried out as successfully as it has been 

 started, there will be a decided increase 

 in the efficiency of every effort put forth 

 in the science. 



It is expected that through the ad- 

 visory board the facilities and oppor- 

 tunities offered by the Wistar Institute 

 will be brought to the notice of active 

 American anatomists, that difficult 

 problems for cooperative research will 

 be proposed, especially in neurology. 

 Material will be collected, prepared and 

 distributed to workers who are unable 

 to come to the institute laboratories. 

 The Wistar Institute asks nothing in 

 return for its opportunities and the 

 material it sends out, neither does it 

 require papers to be published in any 

 particular journal. The returns are 

 ■ sufficient so long as the science is aided, 



and the greater service it can be to 

 research workers in the development 

 and spread of original knowledge the 

 more nearly will its purpose be 

 achieved. That the Wistar Institute 

 appreciates the cooperation and sug- 

 gestions of the anatomists is shown by 

 the prompt manner in which its board 

 of managers created the advisory board 

 and elected to its membership the 

 anatomists who took part in the con- 

 ference. It is understood that the sug- 

 gestions made at this conference will 

 be carried out in every detail as fast 

 as the resources of the institute will 

 permit. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 

 We record with regret the deaths of 

 Professor Otto Struve, director of the 

 Poulkowa Observatory from 1862 to 

 1890; of Dr. Joseph Everett Dutton, 

 who died in the Congo, where he was 

 sent by the Liverpool School of Tropical 

 Medicine to investigate trypanosomiasis 

 and tick fever; of M. Henri de Saus- 

 sure, the French zoologist; of Mr. H. 

 B. Medlicott, F.R.S., director of the 

 Geological Survey of India from 1876 

 to 1887, and of Colonel Nicholas Pike, 

 known for his contributions to the 

 natural history of birds, reptiles and 

 amphibia. 



The National Academy of Sciences 

 has elected to membership Professors 

 John C. Branner, of Stanford Univer- 

 sity; William H. Holmes, of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology; William H. 

 Howell, of Johns Hopkins University; 

 Arthur A. Noyes, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, and Michael 

 1. Pupin, of Columbia University. M. 

 Henri Becquerel, of Paris, and Pro- 

 fessor Paul von Groth, of Munich, have 

 been elected foreign associates. 



Professor E. B. Frost has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Yerkes Observa- 

 tory by the trustees of the University 

 of Chicago, in succession to Professor 

 G. E. Hale, who gives his whole time 

 to the establishment of the new Solar 



