January 17, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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At the Boston meeting of the American 

 Economic Association Professor David I. 

 Kinley, of the University of Illinois, was 

 elected president for the meeting to be held 

 nest year at Minneapolis. 



Professor William A. Dunning, of Co- 

 lumbia University, was elected president of 

 the American Historical Association. The 

 next meeting will be held in Charleston and 

 Columbia, the following meeting at Chicago 

 and a special meeting during the summer of 

 1915 at San Francisco. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has named Dr. Edward J. Nolan, 

 Professor Ulric Dahlgren and H. S. H. The 

 Prince of Monaco as delegates to the Ninth 

 International Congress of Zoology. 



Lieutenant Wilhelm Eilchner, the Ger- 

 man Antarctic explorer, returned with his 

 expedition to Buenos Ayres on January 7 

 after an absence of fifteen months in the 

 southern seas. He cables from Buenos Ayres 

 that the expedition has been most successful. 

 Lieutenant Eilchner purposes continuing his 

 explorations. 



Dr. Willum Curtis Eahabee has resigned 

 from Harvard and has accepted a position at 

 the University of Pennsylvania. He will take 

 charge of an expedition to South America, 

 the primary object of which is ethnological 

 study, although scientific men in other depart- 

 ments will accompany the expedition. A 

 steam yacht has been provided and equipped 

 for the comfort and safety of the members of 

 the expedition and for the prosecution of the 

 scientific inquiries for which it is organized. 

 Investigations will be conducted along the 

 Amazon and its tributaries and in the north- 

 ern part of South America. Provision has 

 been made to keep the expedition in the field 

 for three years. 



Professor Eollin D. Salisbury, head of the 

 department of geography and dean of the 

 Ogden School of Science of the Chicago Uni- 

 versity, has returned from South America, 

 where he had been investigating the glacial 

 formations of Argentina and Patagonia. 



Mr. Clinton DeWitt Smith is about to 

 return to this country from Brazil. He or- 

 ganized and became president, five years ago, 

 of the first agricultural college in Brazil, 

 intended as a model for other colleges. Pro- 

 fessor Smith was for fifteen years director of 

 the Experiment Station of the Michigan Agri- 

 cultural College. 



Professor M. M. Metcalf, head of the de- 

 partment of zoology at Oberlin College, has 

 been granted leave of absence for travel and 

 study during the second semester. 



At the annual meeting of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences, on January 15, Dr. 

 Erederick V. Coville gave the address of the 

 retiring president on the formation of leaf 

 mould. 



The sixth Harvey Society lecture will be 

 given on January 18 at the New York Acad- 

 emy of Medicine by Major Eussell, of the 

 United States Army, on " The Prevention of 

 Typhoid." 



The Minnesota local section of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society had recently a special 

 lecture on " The Electron Theory," by Pro- 

 fessor W. A. Noyes, director of the chemical 

 laboratories of the University of Illinois. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief entomologist of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Entomology, lectured 

 before the undergraduates of Oberlin College 

 on January 7, speaking on certain types of 

 noxious and beneficial insect life. Professor 

 Winterton C. Curtis, of the University of 

 Missouri, lectured there on January 8 on 

 " The Social Value of Abstract Research." 



It has been proposed to the municipal au- 

 thorities of Paris that the memory of Henri 

 Poincare should be honored where he taught, 

 and it is suggested that the portion of the Eue 

 Vaugirard between the Boulevard St. Michel 

 and the Odeon should be named after him. 



A celebration of the centenary of the birth 

 of James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) was held 

 at Yale University on December 29, in con- 

 nection with the annual meeting of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America. President Hadley 

 presided and referred in his introductory re- 

 marks to Dana's pioneer work in zoology and 



