Decbmbeb 24, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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a joint session of Section B and Section L, the 

 former furnishing the program. Speakers 

 will be Professors E. II. Hall, A. G. Webster, 

 J. F. Woodliull, C. E. Mann and probably 

 Presidents E. F. Nichols and N. H. Black. 



The Engineering Section (D) of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence -will hold its meetings in Room 31, Engi- 

 neering Building A, Trinity Place, Boston, on 

 December 29 and .30. Professor G. F. Swain, 

 retiring chairman of the section and vice- 

 president of the association, will deliver his 

 address at 2 :30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 

 29, subject, " The Profession of Engineering 

 and its relation to the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science." Other 

 papers have been definitely promised as fol- 

 lows: 



Professor A. L. Rotch: "The Relation of Wind 

 to Aeronautics." 



0. Chanute: ''The Present Status of Aerial 

 Navigation." 



S. P. Ferguson : " Wind Pressure and Velocity." 



A. J. Henry: " Shifting of Wind with Altitude." 



A. M. Herring: ''Aerodynamics." 



Albert Zahm, Alexander Graham Bell and 

 others will probably contribute papers or dis- 

 cussions on aeronautical subjects. 



C. J. H. Woodbury: '• Tlie Uevelopment of the 

 Modern Te.-ctile Mill." 



J. F. Kelly: "Music Roll Cutters." 



H. E. Wetherill : " Parallel Rules." 



E. H. Berry: "The Photographic Lens as an 

 Engineering Implement." 



Other interesting papers, for which titles 

 can not yet be announced, will be on the pro- 

 gram. The dates and hour of presentation of 

 each paper will be announced in the Official 

 Program of the Association which will be ob- 

 tainable at the office of the Permanent Secre- 

 tary, Technology Union, Trinity Place, on 

 Monday, December 27. 



SCIEyriFIC 'KOTEH A\D XEWS 

 Mr. Willuxi H. Holmes, chief of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, will on Jan- 

 uary 1 sever his official connection with the 

 bureau and resume his place as head curator 



of anthropology in the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, and in this connection will also become 

 curator of the National Gallery of Art. Mr. 

 F. W. Hodge will take charge of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology with the title ethnol- 

 ogist in charge. 



It is proposed to add to the collection of 

 portraits of deceased members of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Society that of Professor 

 Simon Newcomb. The formal presentation of 

 the portrait is expected to take place in con- 

 nection with the annual meeting in April, 

 1910. The committee in charge is: C. L. 

 Doolittle, chairman, E. C. Pickering, Ernest 

 W. Brown, Ira Remsen and Charles D. Wal- 

 cott. 



Dr. Theodore W. Richard.?, professor of 

 chemistry at Harvard University, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Albrecht Penck, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Berlin, has been elected a eorre- 

 .sponding member of the Munich Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Dr. W. Waldeyer, professor of anatomy at 

 Berlin, has been elected an honorary member 

 of the Anthropological Society of that city. 



Professor A. C. Seward, F.R.S., professor 

 of botany in the University of Cambridge, has 

 been elected president of the Yorkshire Nat- 

 uralists' Union. 



The Walsingham medal for 1909 has been 

 awarded by Cambridge University to Mr. L. 

 J. Wills, for his essay entitled " The Fossilif- 

 erous Lower Keuper Rocks of Worcester- 

 shire," and a second medal to Mr. H. H. 

 Thomas, for his essay entitled " The Leaves of 

 Calamites (Calamocladus section), with 

 special reference to the conditions under 

 which they grew." 



The La Caze prize (10,000 francs) of the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences has been given to 

 Dr. Delezenne, of the Pasteur Institute, for 

 his collective works. 



Mr. Theodore D. Ubbahns, of the Bureau' 

 of Entomology, has been employed as assistant 

 in research field work by the division of en- 



