Decembeb 17, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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Parthenogenetic and Sexual Phases in the Life 

 Cycle of Hydalina senta." 



Franz Boas: " The Influence of Heredity and of 

 the Environment on Man." 



C. W. Beebe: "Racket Formation in the Tail 

 Feathers of the Mot-mot." 



Most of the papers will be illustrated by 

 actual specimens or other demonstrations and 

 time will be allowed for discussion. The so- 

 ciety will probably meet in two sessions, 

 morning and afternoon. 



The aSTaturalists' dinner will be held on the 

 evening of Wednesday, December 29, when the 

 address of the president. Professor T. H. 

 Morgan, will be delivered on " Chance or 

 Purpose in the Evolution of Adaptations." 



As previously, members of the special so- 

 cieties devoted to biological sciences are in- 

 vited to attend the dinner of the naturalists. 



Those expecting to attend the dinner will 

 greatly oblige the committee in charge, if they 

 will notify Dr. R. P. Bigelow, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass., at the 

 earliest opportunity. 



H. McE. Knower, 



Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Nobel prizes for the present year have 

 been awarded as follows : 



For Physics — Divided between Mr. Guglielnio 

 Marconi and Professor Ferdinand Braun, of 

 Strassburg. 



For Chemistry — Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, of 

 Leipzig. 



For Physiology or Medicine — Professor Theodor 

 Kocher, of Berne. 



For Literature — Selma Langerlof, the Swedish 

 authoress. 



For the Promotion of Peace — Baron D'Estour- 

 nelles de Constant, president of the French parlia- 

 mentary group for international arbitration, and 

 M. Beernaert, former Minister of State of Bel- 

 gium. 



The address of the retiring president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, Professor T. C. Chamberlin, of the 

 University of Chicago, will be given in Sand- 

 ers Theater, Harvard University, on Monday 

 evening, December 27, and will be followed 

 by a reception in Memorial Hall. 



Dr. SIax Verworx, professor of physiology 

 in the University of Gottingen, will be the 

 next Silliman lecturer at Yale University. 



The medical faculty of the University of 

 Budapest has offered the chair of experimen- 

 tal biology to Professor Jacques Loeb, of the 

 University of California. Professor Loeb 

 lectured before the International Medical 

 Congress at Budapest last September and de- 

 livered a course of lectures at the University 

 of Budapest in June. 



Mr. Francis D.\rwin, F.R.S., has been made 

 doctor of the University of Brussels and a 

 corresponding member of the Institut Na- 

 tional of Geneva. 



A COMMITTEE has been formed at Cambridge 

 to present a portrait to Mr. A. E. Shipley, 

 F.R.S., lecturer in natural science at Christ's 

 College and university reader in zoology. 



The American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers has appointed Professor A. E. Ken- 

 nelly, of Harvard University, president of the 

 United States national committee of the in- 

 ternational electrotechnical commission. 



The Eoyal Meteorological Society has 

 awarded the Symons gold medal to Dr. W. N. 

 Shaw, F.R.S., in recognition of his work for 

 meteorology. 



Since the return of the DeMilhau Peabody 

 Museum South American Expedition, Dr. 

 William C. Farabee has received from the 

 Uiiiversidad Mayor de San Marcos de Lima a 

 diploma as honorary member of the faculty of 

 sciences in the university, for " scientific 

 merits and important services rendered to the 

 government of Peru." Besides the formal 

 communication from the university, a per- 

 sonal letter from the president of the republic 

 accompanied the diploma. 



Ma.jor ChjVRles E. Woodruff, of the med- 

 ical corps of the U. S. A., has been detailed as 

 the medical ofiicer in charge on the Island of 

 Corregidor, at the mouth of Manila Bay, 

 where extensive fortification construction is 

 being done. 



Dr. Walter Lehman, of the Eoyal Ethno- 

 graphical Museum, of Berlin, has returned 

 from an expedition to Central America and 



