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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 953 



The rejMDrt will be sent upon request to the 

 Carnegie Foundation, 576 Fifth Avenue, New 

 York City. 



the usual convention rates for the states of 

 Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington. 



THE PACIFIC ASSOCIATION OF 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 

 The third annual meeting of the Pacific 

 Association of Scientific Societies will be 

 held at the University of California, Berk- 

 eley, April 10-12. The number of constitu- 

 ent societies has increased to fourteen, repre- 

 senting a membership of 2,167. 



The Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, 

 The Cordilleran Section of the Geological So- 

 ciety of America, 

 The Seismological Society of America, 

 Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical 



Association (not meeting), 

 The Pacific Slope Association of Economic En- 

 tomologists, 

 Pacific Coast Paleontological Society, 

 The Philological Society of the Pacific Coast, 

 The Cooper Ornithological Club, 

 California Academy of Sciences (not meeting), 

 Biological Society of the Pacific Coast, 

 California Section of the American Chemical 



Society, 

 Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 

 The Geographical Society of the Pacific (not 



meeting), 

 Puget Sound Section of the American Chemical 



Society. 

 The San Francisco Section of the American 

 Mathematical Society will also hold its an- 

 nual meeting at the University of California 

 on April 12. 



The Le Conte Club will hold its annual 

 meeting and dinner at the Faculty Club, Fri- 

 day evening, April 11. 



The General Session of the Pacific Asso- 

 ciation will be held in California Hall on 

 Saturday evening when an address of wel- 

 come will be given by President Benjamin 

 Ide Wheeler, of the University of California. 

 Three papers of general scientific interest will 

 be read by representative members of the 

 constituent societies. 



The Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Western 

 Pacific, Oregon-Washington, Great Northern 

 and Northern Pacific Railroads, have granted 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The spring meeting of the council of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science will be held at the Cosmos Club, 

 Washington, D. C, on the afternoon of Tues- 

 day, April 22, 1913, at 4:45 oclock. 



The issue of Nature for March 6 contains 

 a portrait of Sir J. J. Thomson, with an 

 appreciation of his contributions to physics 

 by Augusto Eighi, professor of experimental 

 physics in the University of Bologna. 



To celebrate the seventieth birthday of Dr. 

 Paul Groth, professor of mineralogy in the 

 University of Munich and editor of the Zeit- 

 schrift fur Crystallographie, it is planned to 

 place a bronze bust in the Mineralogical Insti- 

 tute of the University of Munich. Dr. G. 

 Seligmann, of Coblenz on the Rhine, is treas- 

 urer of the committee. 



The senate of the University of Dublin has 

 approved the conferment of the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor of science upon Professor A. C. 

 Seward, F.R.S., and Professor the Hon. R. J. 

 Strutt, F.R.S. 



The degree of M.A. has been conferred by a 

 decree of convocation of the University of 

 Oxford on Professor W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., 

 fellow of Magdalen College, the recently 

 elected Waynflete professor of chemistry. 



Mr. a. Harker has been nominated to rep- 

 resent the University of Cambridge at the 

 twelfth International Geological Congress to 

 be held in Canada in August next. 



The Geological Society of France has 

 awarded its Gaudry medal to Professor Ed- 

 ward Suess, of the University of Vienna. 



It is stated in Nature that the founder's 

 royal medal of the Royal Geographical Society 

 is not awarded this year, but a casket with a 

 suitable inscription will be presented to Lady 

 Scott, to contain the patron's medal and the 

 special Antarctic medal awarded to her late 

 husband. Captain R. F. Scott, in 1904. The 

 patron's medal has been awarded to the late 

 Dr. E. A. Wilson, of the National Antarctic 



