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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIII. No. 1372 



Frankel; secretary, Dr. C. St. Clair Drake; 

 acting' treasurer, Dr. "William F. Snow; act- 

 ing executive officer. Dr. Donald B. Arm- 

 strong. 



THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 



The fifth meeting of tlie American Meteoro- 

 logical Society will be held on April 20 and 

 21 at the Central Office of the Weather Bu- 

 reau, Washington, D. C. Including the six 

 papers to be presented at the meeting of Sec- 

 tion (c), meteorology, of the American Geo- 

 physical Union on April 19, the program as 

 published in the April Bulletin of the society 

 contains 27 titles of varied interest. Ab- 

 stracts of all these papers and of such discus- 

 sions as may follow them w'ill be published in 

 the Bulletin of the American Meteorological 

 Society; and most of the papers themselves 

 will probaibly be published in the Monthly 

 Weather Beview. 



The proceedings of the first annual meeting 

 of the society at Chicago on December 29, 

 1920, were published in the January issue of 

 the Bulletin. A motion to increase the annual 

 dues from $1 to $2 was lost because of the de- 

 sire not to curtail the membership merely for 

 money, which could be raised in other ways. 

 A resolution favoring the Weather Bureau's 

 estimates for increased appropriations was 

 passed, but it had no effect in persuading Con- 

 gress to recognize the dare straits of the bu- 

 reau with its present program of service. 

 Rather full information about the 32 papers 

 on the scientific portion of the program ap- 

 peared in the February and March Bulletins. 

 Many of these papers have since been pub- 

 lished in the Beview. 



Charles F. Brooks, 



Secretary 



Washington, D. C. 



the edinburgh meeting of the british 

 association 



From Nature we learn that for the meeting 

 of the British Association, which will be held 

 in Edinburgh on September 7-14 next, the 

 following presidents of Sections have been ap- 

 pointed: Section A (Mathematics and Phys- 



ics), Professor O. W. Richardson; B (Chem- 

 istry), Dr. M. 0. Forster; C (Geology), Dr. J. 

 S. Flett; D (Zoology), Mr. E. S. Goodrich; E 

 (Geography) Dr. D. G. Hogarth; F (Eco- 

 nomics), Mr. W. L. Hichens; G (Engineer- 

 ing), Professor A. H. Gibson; H (Anthropol- 

 ogy), Sir J. Frazer; I (Physiology), Sir W. 

 Morley Fletcher; J (Psychology), Professor C. 

 Lloyd Morgan; K (Botany), Dr. D. H. Scott; 

 L (Education), Sir W. H. Hadow; and M 

 (Agriculture), Mr. C. S. Orwin. Sir Richard 

 Gregory has been appointed president of the 

 Conference of Delegates of Corresponding So- 

 cieties. Among the subjects of general in- 

 terest which are being arranged for discussion 

 at joint sectional meetings are: The Age of 

 the Earth, Biochemistry, Vocational Training 

 and Tests, The Relation of Genetics to Agri- 

 culture, The Proposed Mid^Scotland Canal, 

 and The Origin of the Scottish People. The 

 president of the association, Sir Edward 

 Thrope, will deliver his address at the in- 

 augural meeting on Wednesday evening, Sep- 

 tember 7, and discourses will be given at 

 general evening meetings by Professor C. E. 

 Inglis on The Evolution of Cantilever Bridge 

 Construction, involving a comparison between 

 the Forth and Quebec bridges, and by Pro- 

 fessor W. A. Herdman, the present president, 

 on Edinburgh and Oceanography. Measures 

 are being taken towards a more effective co- 

 ordination of the daily programs in order to 

 avoid the clashing of subjects of kindred 

 interest. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Prince Albert of Monaco, sailed on 

 April 9 for 'New York on his way to Wash- 

 ington to receive the Alexander Agassiz gold 

 medal awarded by the I^ational Academy of 

 Sciences to him in recognition of his pro- 

 motion of oceanographic research. He will 

 give an address before the academy on the 

 evening of April 25. 



Professor Albert Einstein will be the 

 guest of Princeton University from May 9 to 

 15, and will give five lectures on the theory of 

 relativity. Professor Einstein and Dr. Weiz- 



