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Merrjam, University of California; secretary, 

 Dr. E. S. Riggs, Field Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, Chicago, 111. 



The American Society of Biological Chemists. — 

 December 28-30. President, Professor Otto Folin, 

 Harvard Medical School; seeretaiy, Professor 

 William J. Gies, 437 West 59th St., New York 

 City. 



The American Physiological Society. — December 

 28-30. President, Professor W. H. Howell, Johns 

 Hopkins University; secretary. Dr. Reid Hunt, 

 Hygienic Laboratory, 25th and E Sts., N. W., 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Association of American Anatomists. — De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor J. Playfair 

 McMurrich, University of Toronto; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor G. Carl Huber, 1330 Hill St., Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — -De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Dr. J. J. Kinyoun, 

 Washington, D. C; secretary, Dr. Norman MacL. 

 Harris, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



The American Society of Zoologists. — Eastern 

 Branch, December 28-30. President, Professor 

 Herbert S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins University: 

 secretary. Dr. Lorande Loss Woodruff, Yale Uni- 

 versity, New Haven, Conn. 



The Entomological Society of America. — De- 

 cember 29, 30. Secretary, J. Chester Bradley, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists. — 

 December 28, 29. President, Professor W. E. Brit- 

 ton, Connecticut Agricultural College; secretary, 

 A. F. Burgess, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Botanical Society of America. — December 

 28-31. President, Professor Roland Thaxter, 

 Harvard University; secretary. Professor D. S. 

 Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 

 Md. 



American Nature Study Society. — January 1. 

 President, Professor C. F. Hodge, Clark Univer- 

 sity; secretary, Professor M. A. Bigelow, Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, New York City. 



Sullivant Moss Society. — December 30. Presi- 

 dent, Professor Bruce Fink, Miami University, 

 Oxford, O. ; secretary, Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, 

 78 Orange St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Wild Flower Preservation Society. — President, 

 Professor Chas. E. Bessey; secretary, Dr. Charles 

 Louis Pollard, New Brighton, N. Y. 



The American Psychological Association.- — De- 

 cember 29-31. President, Professor Charles H. 

 Judd, University of Chicago; secretary. Professor 



A. H. Pierce, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 27-January 1. President, Dr. W. H. 

 Holmes, Bureau of Ethnology; secretary. Dr. Geo. 

 Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn. 



The American Folk-lore Society. — Week of De- 

 cember 30. President, Dr. John R. Swanton, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology; acting secretary, 

 Dr. R. B. Dixon, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Association of Mathematical Teachers in New 

 England. — December 28. President, Charles A. 

 Hobbs, Watertown, Mass.; secretary, George W. 

 Evans, Charlestown High School, Boston, Mass. 



Physics Teachers of Washington, D. C. — Meets 

 in conjunction with American Federation of 

 Teachers. President, W. A. Hedrick, McKinley 

 High School, Washington, D. C. ; secretary, Dr. 

 Howard L. Hodgkins, George Washington Univer- 

 sity, Washington, D. C. 



American Phytopathological Society. — Decem- 

 ber 28-30. President, Dr. L. R. Jones, University 

 of Vermont; secretary. Dr. C. L. Shear, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



American Alpine Club. — December 30. Secre- 

 tary, Dr. Henry G. Bryant, Room 806 Land Title 

 Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 



American Breeders' Association. — Meeting of 

 Eugenics Committee. Secretary, Dr. Chas. B. 

 Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Philosophical Society of Washington 

 held on December 4 a meeting commemorative 

 of the life and services of Professor Simon 

 Newcomb, late president of the society. The 

 program included addresses by the Honorable 

 James Bryce, Dr. Milton Updegraff, Dr. E. S. 

 Woodward, Dr. L. O. Howard and Dr. E. M. 

 Gallaudet. 



Professor Edward C. Pickering, director of 

 the Harvard College Observatory, has been 

 elected a vice-president of the American Phil- 

 osophical Society, to fill the unexpired term of 

 the late Professor Simon Newcomb. 



Mr. John Fitz, of Bethlehem, Pa.;, has been 

 elected an honorary vice-president of the Iron 

 and Steel Institute of Great Britain, under 

 the new by-laws, which permit the election of 

 distinguished foreign members as honorary 

 vice-presidents. 



