MUSEUM NOTES 
Stnce the last issue of the JouRNAL the 
following persons have become members of 
the Museum: 
Patron, Mr. Jonn H. PRENTICE; 
Life members, Mrs. ApriaAN HorrmMan 
JoLInE, Mrs. Joon Maacer, Dr. J. V. 
LAUDERDALE and Messrs. Gerorce OD. 
Barron, Russett J. Cores, Atrrep M. 
Couurns, Lez Garnetr Day, JoHn W. 
Mercer and R. G. Packarp, JR.; 
Sustaining member, Mrs. N. M. Ponp; 
Annual members, Mrs. W. H. Burton, 
Mrs. E. Brunswick, Mrs. Lintian M. 
CuHarues, Mrs. K. D. CHeney, Jr., Mrs. 
CHARLES Dovuauass, Mrs. JosepH HErziIG, 
Mrs. Grorce Leary, Mrs. JoserH LoEewt, 
Mrs. Wiuur1am MircHett, Mrs. C. W. 
Pierson, Mrs. Horace F. Poor, Mrs. 
ELEANOR ATKINSON Reap, Mrs. GEeorGE S. 
Rinc, Mrs. Howarp C. Smits, Misses 
ConsTANCE Griaes and ANNA L. SLATER, 
Dr. José D. Atronseca, Dr. Grorce H. 
SEMKEN, Dr. Jutes A. VuILLEUMIER, Dr. 
B. W. WEINBERGER and Messrs. JOHN 
AITKEN, ALBERT B. AsHFoRTH, FREDERIC D. 
Barstow, Henry G. Bartou, Paut Baum- 
GARTEN, RicHarD A. CARDEN, ALBERT HeEy- 
MANN, GEORGE S. Hoyt, VINCENT LOESER, 
M. R. Mayer, Painre AiInswortH Means, 
CarL ScHurz PretTrascH, Henry M. Rau, 
Max ROSENBERG, CHARLES SALOMON, 
Francis UpHaM STEARNS, S. H. Stone, 
C. J. Sruspner, LamMBert Suypam. ZJr., 
HERBERT SyreTT, Harry Tipper and a 
membership in memoriam to Mr. AnprR& C. 
CHAMPOLLION. 
In accordance with resolutions taken by 
the First Pan-American Scientific Congress, 
meeting in 1908 at Santiago, Chile, a Second 
Pan-American Congress will be held in Wash- 
ington, D. C., in December, 1915, under the 
auspices of the United States Government. 
Through the courtesy of the Pan-American 
Union the offices and sessions of the Congress 
will be located in the Pan-American building 
and the Director-General of this organization 
will act as Secretary-General of the Congress. 
The purpose of the Congress is to foster the 
cordial relations existing between Pan-Ameri- 
can countries and to give a broader acquaint- 
ance with current progress in education, 
public health, international law, antiquity of 
man, conservation of natural resources and 
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all branches of scientific research. At the 
recent invitation of the Secretary-General, 
the American Museum appointed as official 
representatives, Dr. Frank M. Chapman, 
delegate and Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, alter- 
nate. 
THE one hundred and third meeting of the 
National Academy of Sciences of the United 
States of America will be held in New York 
City, at the American Museum of Natural 
History for three days in November begin- 
ning the fifteenth. 
On Monday, the first day, a lecture will 
be given in the auditorium by Dr. Michael 
Idvorsky Pupin, of Columbia University, on 
“The Problem of Aérial Transmission,” to 
be followed by a general reception in the hall 
of the Age of Man. On Tuesday morning, 
Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, 
public scientific sessions will be held in the 
west assembly hall of the Museum at which 
various short papers will be read. Among 
those scheduled are: — ‘‘The Nature of Cell 
Polarity,’ by Prof. Edwin G. Conklin of 
Princeton University; ‘‘ Heredity of Stature,” 
by Dr. Chas. B. Davenport of the Carnegie 
Institute, Cold Spring Harbor, New York; 
“Origin of the Gall Midges,”’ by Prof. E. P. 
Felt of the Geological Hall, Albany; ‘Fossil 
Caleareous Alge from the Panama Canal 
Zone,’ by Prof. Marshall A. Howe ot the 
New York Botanical Garden; ‘Recent Ex- 
plorations in the Cactus Deserts of South 
America,” by Dr. J. N. Rose of the Smith- 
sonian Institution; ‘Can we observe Organic 
Evolution in Progress?” by Dr. Herbert 
Spencer Jennings of John Hopkins Univer- 
sity; “A Suggested Explanation of Ortho- 
genesis in Plants,’ by Prof. John M. Coulter 
of the University of Chicago; “The Life of 
Radium,” by Dr. Bertram B. Boltwood of 
Yale; “The Colorimeter as an Interpreter 
of Life Processes,” by Prof. Graham Lusk of 
the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology; 
“The Solar Radiation and its Variability,” 
by Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian 
Astrophysics Observatory; ‘Interference of 
Light Waves of Slightly Different Length,”’ 
by Prof. Carl Barus of Brown University; 
“The Influence of Certain Minerals on the 
Development of Schists and Gneisses,”’ by 
Dr. Charles R. Leith of Wisconsin Univer- 
sity; “Glacial Sculpture of the Mission 
