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has been identified witli the development of 

 the ornithology of western North America. 



Dr. R. W. Hegnee, of the department of 

 medical zoology, School of Hygiene and Pub- 

 lic Health, Johns Hopkins University, has 

 been elected a Fellov? of the Eoyal Institute 

 of Public Health of Great Britain. 



The Eontgen Society, London, has made the 

 first award of the Mackenzie Davidson medal 

 to Dr. r. W. Aston, for his paper on " Posi- 

 tive rays." 



The C. M. Warren Committee, of the Amer- 

 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences, has voted 

 to make the follovidng grants: To Professor 

 Harold Hibbert, of Tale University, the sum 

 of $250 to aid him in the study of the constitu- 

 tion of cellulose and the mechanism of the 

 reduction of unsaturated aldehydes. To Pro- 

 fessor James B. Conant, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, the sum of $222.25 to aid him in the 

 study of reversible oxidation-reduction process 

 in organic chemistry by physical chemical 

 means. 



Professor C. J. Tilden, of the department 

 of engineering mechanics at Yale University, 

 has accepted the directorship of a national 

 movement which has for its immediate object 

 the laying of a broad educational program for 

 highway engineering and highway transporta- 

 tion, the details of which are soon to be 

 announced. 



L. Salazar Salinas, director of the Geolog- 

 ical Survey of Mexico, has been in the United 

 States to study the methods and organization 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Mr. Hubert M. Freeman, associate physi- 

 cist of the radio section. Bureau of Standards, 

 has resigned to accept a position with the 

 Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing 

 Company. 



Douglas R. Semmes, professor of geology at 

 the University of Alabama, has resigned, to 

 become assistant chief geologist of the Mexican 

 Petroleum Co., at Tampico. 



The Washington Academy of Sciences and 

 the Botanical Society of Washington held a 

 joint meeting on December 16, when H. M. 



Hall, of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, delivered an address on " Hay fever 

 in its specific botanical relationships." 



Professor Florian Cajori, professor of the 

 history of mathematics at the University of 

 California, addressed the Sigma Xi at North- 

 western University on December 13, on 

 " Switzerland, the mother of American geod- 

 esy." 



Frank Milburn Howlett, of the Pusa Re- 

 search Institute, and pathological entomologist 

 to the government of India, has died at the 

 age of forty-three years. 



The General Interest Session of the Section 

 of Physics of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science will be on the 

 afternoon of December 29, when the vice- 

 presidential address on " From Oersted to Ein- 

 stein," will be given by Professor Max 

 Mason, University of Wisconsin. This will be 

 followed by a symposium on " Recent progress 

 in magnetism," as follows: The electron 

 theory of magnetism. Dr. S. J. Barnett, de- 

 partment of terrestrial magnetism of the Car- 

 negie Institution. Magnetic susceptibilities. 

 Professor S. R. Williams, Oberlin College. 

 The ring electron, Professor A. H. Compton, 

 Washington University. 



The first annual meeting of the American 

 Meteorological Society will be held in Chi- 

 cago beginning on December 29. The morn- 

 ing session will be devoted largely to" papers 

 on aerological work and the applications of 

 meteorology to aeronautics. The afternoon 

 session of the same day will include papers 

 on various aspects of weather forecasting. 

 The address of the president, Professor Rob- 

 ert DeC. Ward, will come at 2 p.m. on the 29th : 

 " Climate and health, with special reference to 

 the United States." This will be followed by 

 an hour of discussion on physiological aspects 

 of meteorology. The session will be closed 

 with a niomber of short papers on instruments 

 and observations. The sessions will be held 

 in Rosenwald Hall, University of Chicago. 

 There will be an inspection of the unusually 

 complete meteorological station of the U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, in Rosenwald Hall. Most 



