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general education board comes from the gen- 

 eral funds of the board, and not out of Mr. 

 Eockefeller's recent donation of $20,000,000 

 for the promotion of medical education in 

 the United States. The gift was in fact 

 determined on before Mr. Eockefeller's recent 

 gift was known. 



THE ST. LOUIS MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 



ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE 



The opening general session of the associa- 

 tion will be held on Monday night, December 

 29, at 8 P.M. in the Assembly Eoom of the Sol- 

 dan High School. Dr. Simon Flexner, di- 

 rector of the laboratories of the Eockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Eesearch, will preside. 

 General announcements concerning the meet- 

 ing will be made, the revised constitution of 

 the association will be presented for vote and 

 the retiring president, Professor John Merle 

 Coulter, of the University of Chicago, will de- 

 liver his address on " The Evolution of Botan- 

 ical Science." The meeting will be followed by 

 an informal reception to members of the Amer- 

 ican Association and of affiliated societies. 



Eegistration headquarters, permanent and 

 assistant secretaries' offices, meetings of the 

 council, and all sessions of the association and 

 the affiliated societies will be held in the Sol- 

 dan High School. A directory will be con- 

 veniently placed in the main lobby and each 

 room will be placarded indicating the various 

 sessions. 



There will be an information booth in Union 

 station, where directions will be given for 

 reaching hotels and meeting place. An attend- 

 ant will be at booth at the time of arrival of all 

 important trains on Sunday, Monday and 

 Tuesday, December 28, 29 and 30. Hotel 

 Statler will be the general headquarters. The 

 local executive committee consists of George T. 

 Moore, Alexander S. Langsdorf, Augustus G. 

 Pohlman, John W. Withers and John M. Wul- 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Eoyal Society has awarded its medals 

 as follows: Eoyal medals to Professor J. B. 

 Farmer for his work on plant and animal 



C3rtology, and to Mr. J. H. Jeans for his 

 researches in applied mathematics ; the Copley 

 medal to Professor W. M. Bayliss for his con- 

 tributions to general physiology and to bio- 

 physics; the Davy medal to Professor P. F. 

 Frankland for his work in chemistry, espe- 

 cially that on optical activity and on fer- 

 mentation; the Sylvester medal to Major P. 

 A. MacMahon for his researches in pure 

 mathematics, especially in connection with 

 the partition of numbers and analysis; and 

 the Hughes medal to Dr. C. Chree for his 

 researches on (errestrial magnetism. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, has been elected an 

 associate member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



HoNORARf membership diplomas and medals 

 have been conferred by the Antwerp Zoolog- 

 ical Society upon Professor Henry F. Osborn, 

 president of the New York Zoological Society, 

 and Dr. William T. Hornaday, director of the 

 N"ew York Zoological Garden, in testimony of 

 its gratitude for a gift of animals sent to the 

 Antwerp Garden. 



Dr. Eaymond Pearl, professor of biometry 

 and vital statistics in the School of Hygiene 

 and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity has been appointed statistician to the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital. 



Dr. Walter Van Dyke Bingham, director 

 of the division of applied psychology of the 

 Carnegie Institute of Technology, has been 

 elected first chairman of the division of an- 

 thropology and psychology of the National 

 Council of Eesearch, and has been granted 

 half-time leave until July 1, 1920. 



Dr. Paul G. Wooley, professor of pathology 

 in the college of medicine of the University 

 of Cincinnati, has resigned. 



Lieutenant Colonel Coert DuBois, dis- 

 trict forester at San Francisco, California, 

 has resigned from the U. S. Forest Service 

 and entered the Consular Service. Colonel 

 DuBois has been a member of the Forest 

 Service since 1900. 



Ellsworth Y. Dougherty has been ap- 

 pointed mining geologist in southern Or^on. 



