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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 945 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Paul Ehrlich, of Frankfort, and Dr. 

 Emil Warburg, the president of the '.' Eeichs- 

 anstalt " at Charlottenburg, have been made 

 members of the Bavarian-Maximilian Order 

 for art and science. 



Professor J. Hadamard, professor of an- 

 alytical and celestial mechanics in the College 

 de France, has been elected a member of the 

 Paris Academic des Sciences in the section of 

 geometry, in succession to the late Professor 

 Henri Poincare. 



Dr. Paul Marchal, of the Agricultural In- 

 stitute of Paris, has been elected to member- 

 ship in the Paris Academy of Sciences in the 

 section of anatomy and zoology. 



The Herbert Spencer Lecture this year will 

 be delivered by Dr. D'Arcy Wentworth 

 Thompson, professor of natural history. Uni- 

 versity College. Dundee, on February 13. The 

 subject of the lecture will be " On Growth and 

 Form." 



Sir Eickman Godlee, president of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, will deliver the 

 Hxmterian oration in the theater of the college 

 on February 14. 



Professor James Hayden Tufts, head of the 

 department of philosophy in the University of 

 Chicago, has been made chairman of the Illi- 

 nois Committee on Social Legislation. 



The Geological Society of London will this 

 year award its medals and funds as follows : 

 Wollaston medal. Rev. Osmond Fisher; 

 Murchison medal, Mr. G. Barrow; Lyell fund, 

 Mr. S. S. Buckman; Bigsby medal. Sir 

 Thomas Henry Holland, K.C.I.E., F.R.S.; 

 Wollaston fund, Mr. W. W. King; Murchison 

 fund, Mr. E. E. L. Dixon; Lyell fund, Mr. 

 Llewellyn Treacher ; Barlow-Jameson fund, 

 Mr. J. B. Scrivenor and Mr. Bernard Smith. 



Dr. Friedrich Scholt, of Heidelberg, 

 known for his services in the cement industry, 

 has received an honorary doctorate of engi- 

 neering from the Technical Institute at 

 Brunswick. 



Major C. H. Hills is proposed by the coun- 

 cil for election as the next president of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society. 



E. A. Wood, C.E. (Cornell, '08), has re- 

 signed as professor of civil engineering in 

 Chang Ha College, Foochow, China, and left 

 there on December 30. He expects to travel 

 in North China and the Philippines and then 

 return home via the Suez Canal. 



The British secretary of state for war has 

 approved of the following appointments on 

 the army medical advisory board: as civilian 

 physiologist. Dr. Leonard Hill, F.R.S., and as 

 civilian sanitary expert. Dr. Henry S. Ken- 

 wood. 



The annual meeting of the Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Sciences was held the evening of Jan- 

 uary 14 and the following officers were elected 

 for the coming year: 



President — Dr. T. C. ChambeTlin. 



First Vice-president — Dr. Geo. S. Isham. 



Second Vice-president — Dr. Henry C. Cowles. 



Secretary — Dr. Wallace W. Atwood. 



For trustee to succeed himself for a term of 

 six years — Mr. Frederick L. Wilk. 



For membership in the board of scientific gov- 

 ernors — Dr. N. S. Davis, Mr. Albert Dickinson. 



Captain Roald Amundsen will speak at the 

 University of Wisconsin on February 10. 



Lieutenant Graetz, the German explorer, 

 according to Renter's Agency, is making 

 preparations for an Anglo-German airship 

 expedition across New Guinea. The airship 

 is to be built in Germany, but to have an 

 English name and to be manned half by Ger- 

 mans and half by Englishmen. The expedi- 

 tion will leave Europe in October and will be 

 absent two years. Its base will be a trans- 

 port stationed off the New Guinea coast. In 

 May Lieutenant Graetz expects to be able to 

 make a preliminary flight in the airship from 

 Berlin to London. 



At the meeting of the Sigma Xi Society 

 of the University of Chicago, held in the 

 Quadrangle Club on January 7, Dr. Aaron 

 Aaronsohn, director of the Jewish agricul- 

 tural experiment station at Haifa, Palestine, 

 gave an address on the possibilities of in- 

 creasing the world's wheat supply by the in- 

 troduction of wild wheat from Palestine, 



