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feasor J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge. The ad- 

 dresses before the sections will be given by 

 the presidents as follows: Mathematical and 

 Physical Science — Professor E. Rutherford; 

 Chemistry — Professor H. E. Armstrong ; Geol- 

 ogy — Dr. H. Smith Woodward; Zoology — Dr. 

 A. E. Shipley; Geography — Sir Duncan 

 Johnston; Economic Science and Statistics — 

 Professor S. J. Chapman; Engineering — Sir 

 W. H. White; Anthropology — Professor J. L. 

 Myres; Physiology — Professor E. H. Starling; 

 Botany — Lieutenant-Colonel D. Prain; Edu- 

 cational Science — Dr. A. P. Gray. 



The seventh annual meeting of the South 

 African Association for the Advancement of 

 Science will be held at Bloemfontein during 

 the week ending on Saturday, October 2, 

 under the presidency of Sir H. Goold Adams. 



The Swiss Society of Natural Sciences holds 

 its ninety-second annual meeting this year at 

 Lausanne from the fifth to the eighth of Sep- 

 tember, under the presidency of Dr. H. Blanc. 

 Among the public addresses are " The Jura," 

 by M. Emmanuel de Majorie; "The Aerody- 

 namic Basis of Aeronautics," by Dr. Bastien 

 Einsterwalder, and " Comparative Psychol- 

 ogy," by Professor August Forel. 



The eleventh International Geological Con- 

 gress will open at Stockholm about the eigh- 

 teenth of August, 1910. Professor G. De Geer, 

 of the University of Stockholm, is president 

 of the executive committee. The secretary 

 from whom information may be obtained is 

 Professor J. V. Andersson, director of the 

 Swedish Geological Survey. 



Mr. Heney Balfour, curator of the Pitt and 

 Eivers Museum at Oxford, made the presi- 

 dential address at the twentieth annual con- 

 ference of the Museums Association which 

 opened at Maidstone, on July 13. Mr. E. 

 Haworth has resigned the secretaryship of the 

 association and the editorship of the Museums 

 Journal. Mr. E. E. Eowe succeeds him as 

 secretary and Mr. E. R. Eowlee as editor. 



The Association of Economic Biologists 

 met at Oxford from July 13 to 15, under the 

 presidency of Dr. E. A. Shipley. 



Professor W. K Hatt, of Purdue Univer- 

 sity, will represent the Forest Service at the 

 Congress of the International Association for 

 Testing Materials at Copenhagen, September 

 7 to 11, and will also report on certain prob- 

 lems in Wood Preservation in Germany. 



Dr. a. W. Morrill, in charge of Citrus 

 white-fly investigations of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has 

 accepted the position of entomologist of the 

 Arizona Horticultural Commission and of the 

 Arizona Experiment Station. 



A PORTRAIT of Professor W. Stroud (who, 

 after twenty-four years' service in the chair of 

 physics at Leeds, has resigned the post on his 

 removal to Glasgow), has been presented to 

 the University of Leeds. The portrait, which 

 has been painted by Mr. W. Llewellyn, of Lon- 

 don, is the gift of friends and past students. 



Dr. IIarl Eunge, of Gottingen, Kaiser Wil- 

 helm professor at Columbia University next 

 year, will give an extended course, " Graphical 

 Methods in Physics and Applied Mathe- 

 matics." 



Mr. Percy Wilson, administrative assistant 

 in the New York Botanical Garden, has re- 

 turned from the Bahamas after a survey of 

 the islands of the Salt Key Bank. Mr. W. W. 

 Eggleston has completed a four weeks' collec- 

 ting trip in the Cumberland-Tennessee Kiver 

 region of western Kentucky. 



It is reported in Nature that the committee 

 nominated by the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 for the distribution of the Bonaparte fund 

 (25,000 francs) for 1909 has received thirty- 

 five applications, only nine of which are con- 

 sidered to conform with the regulations laid 

 down by the committee of 1908. It is pro- 

 posed to allocate the fund as follows : 4,000 

 francs to M. Cayeux, to enable him to pursue 

 his researches on the fossils of the Oolitic iron 

 deposits in the United States; 4,000 francs to 

 M. Chevalier, to assist him in carrying on his 

 geographical and ethnographical researches 

 in the French colonies in tropical Africa ; 

 4,000 francs to M. Perez, to assist in the publi- 

 cation of his memoir entitled " Recherches 

 histologiques sur les Metamorphoses des Mus- 



