January 10, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEfVS 



Professor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, was elected president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 at the Cleveland meeting. A report of the 

 meeting and a list of the other officers elected 

 will be found above. National scientific so- 

 cieties meeting at Cleveland elected presi- 

 dents as follows : The American Physical So- 

 ciety, Professor B. O. Peirce, of Harvard 

 University; the American Botanical Society, 

 Professor D. H. Campbell, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity; the American Psychological Associa- 

 tion, Professor C. H. Warren, of Princeton 

 University; the Society of the Sigma Xi, 

 Professor J. McKeen Cattell, of Columbia 

 University; the American Society of Nat- 

 uralists, Professor Ross G. Harrison, of Yale 

 University. 



At the annual election of the American 

 Philosophical Society held on January 3, 

 1913, the following were elected: 



President: William W. Keen. 



Vice-presidents: William B. Scott, Albert A 

 Miehelson, Edward C. Pickering. 



Secretaries: I. Minis Hays, Arthur W. Good 

 speed, Amos P. Brown, Harry F. Keller. 



Curators: Charles L. Doolittle, William P. Wil 

 son, Leslie W. Miller. 



Treasurer: Henry La Barre Jayne. 



Councillors: Charlemagne Tower, William Mor 

 ris Davis, George Ellery Hale, R. A. F. Penrose 

 Jr., Samuel W. Pennypacker. 



The eighty-first annual meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Medical Association will be held in 

 Brighton beginning July 22. Dr. W. A. 

 Hollis, consulting physician, Sussex County 

 Hospital, is the president-elect. The address 

 in medicine will be delivered by Professor G. 

 R. Murray, physician to the Eoyal Infirmary, 

 Manchester. The address in surgery will be 

 delivered by Sir Berkeley Moynihan, professor 

 of clinical surgery in the University of Leeds. 

 The popular lecture will be delivered by Mr. 

 E. J. Spitta. 



The John Fritz medal, awarded annually 

 by the four great engineering societies, has 

 been awarded this year to Mr. Robert Wool- 

 ston Hunt for his contributions to the de- 

 velopment of the Bessemer steel process. 



The Academy of Medicine, Paris, has 

 elected Professor Delezenne an honorary mem- 

 ber of the section on anatomy and physiology 

 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pro- 

 fessor Marc See. 



Dr. W. E. Byerly, Perkins professor of 

 mathematics at Harvard University, will be- 

 come professor emeritus at the close of the 

 academic year. 



Dr. Carl Paal, director of the laboratory 

 for applied chemistry at Leipzig, and Dr. Fritz 

 Forscher, director of the laboratory for inor- 

 ganic chemistry in Dresden Technical School,, 

 have been elected members of the Leipzig 

 Academy of Science. 



Professor Asdrew Boss, in charge of the 

 department of farm management of the de- 

 partment of agriculture of the University of 

 Minnesota, has declined aii offer to become 

 director of the new government demonstra- 

 tion farms and trial gardens at Mandan, 

 N. D. 



Professor Charles Palache, of Harvard 

 University, using a fund placed at his dis- 

 posal by A. F. Holden, '88, has spent six weeks 

 in Maine and New Hampshire collecting min- 

 erals for the Mineralogical Museum and the 

 teaching collections. 



Associate Professor Frederick Starr, of 

 the department of sociology and anthropology 

 in the University of Chicago, has returned 

 from a six months' expedition to Liberia, the 

 purpose of which was to investigate the social 

 and economic conditions of that region. He 

 was accompanied by Mr. Campbell Marvin, a 

 graduate student of the university. 



Dr. Thomas L. Watson, professor of geol- 

 ogy in the University of Virginia, addressed 

 the graduate students in geology at North- 

 western University, last month, on the " Oc- 

 currence and Geology of Rutile, with Special 

 Reference to the Virginia Deposits." 



Dr. Lewis Swift, formerly director of the 

 Warner Astronomical Observatory at Roch- 

 ester, and of the Mount Lowe Observatory on 

 Echo Mountain, California, known for his dis- 

 coveries of comets and nebulae, died at Bing- 

 hampton, N. Y., on January 5, aged ninety- 

 three years. 



