April 11, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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9:30 a.m. Business meeting of the Academy at 

 the National Museum. 

 10 : 00 A.M. During the business meeting of the 

 Academy, opportunity will be given to guests 

 to visit the scientific bureaus and laboratories 

 of Washington. Automobiles will be provided. 



2:00 p.m. Excursion to the Home of Washington 

 at Mount Vernon by the U. S. Despatch Boat 

 Dolphin (by courtesy of the Secretary of the 

 Navy). 



8:00 p.m. Dinner at the New Willard Hotel. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Bruce medal of the Astronomical So- 

 ciety of the Pacific has been av^arded to Pro- 

 fessor J. C. Kapteyn, of Groningen, for his 

 work on the proper motions of the stars. 



It is reported that Professor Czerny, of 

 Heidelberg, will give up next year the direc- 

 tion of the institute for cancer research, 

 which was founded by him. 



Dean Eussell H. Chittenden, of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, is recover- 

 ing from the effects of a recent operation, but 

 he will be unable to resume his duties for the 

 remainder of the academic year. 



By action of the board of regents of the 

 University of Michigan, the name of the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History has been changed to 

 the Museum of Zoology, and Professor Alex- 

 ander G. Euthven has been promoted from 

 the position of head curator to that of di- 

 rector. 



Dr. Elizabeth Eebecca Laird, Ph.D. 

 (Bryn Mawr, '01), professor of physics at 

 Mount Holyoke College, has been awarded the 

 Sarah Berliner Eesearch Fellowship. 



The Yale corporation has voted to appoint 

 Professors Pirsson, Barrell, Lull, Irving and 

 Schuchert as the university's representatives 

 to the twelfth International Geological Con- 

 gress, to be held in Canada this coming Au- 

 gust. 



Professors A. G. Christie, E. C. Disque 

 and H. J. Torkelson, of the college of engi- 

 neering of the University of Wisconsin, will 

 accompany the American Society of Mechan- 

 ical Engineers on their trip to Europe this 



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

 partment of zoology, at Oberlin, has been 

 granted leave of absence for the second sem- 

 ester for travel and scientific research in 

 California. His classes are being continued 

 by Assistant Professors Jones and Budding- 

 ton. 



Dr. E. M. Anderson has been appointed as- 

 sistant in the department of mammalogy of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Dr. Anderson will accompany the Stefansson 

 expedition to the Arctic as zoologist and sec- 

 ond in command. 



The little power schooner Polar Bear sailed 

 for Bering Sea, on April 3, with a party who 

 will make a study of animal and bird life in 

 northern waters. In the party are Mr. Dun- 

 bar Lockwood, of Boston; Mr. Samuel Mixter, 

 of Boston, representing the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution; Mr. W. Sprague Brooks, of Milton, 

 Mass., representing the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology at Harvard, and Dr. Joseph 

 Dixon, of Berkeley, Cal., representing the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at the Uni- 

 versity of California. The cruise will last six 

 months. 



Alfred Vivian, professor of agricultural 

 chemistry, Ohio State University, is making 

 a tour of the world, and is now in India. 

 Professor Vivian will deliver a course of lec- 

 tures on soil fertility at the agricultural 

 school at Allahabad. 



Sir Willlam Osler, regius professor of med- 

 icine at Oxford University and delegate of the 

 Oxford University Press, will give an illus- 

 trated lecture on " The Oxford University 

 Press," at Harvard University, April 29. 



The Weir Mitchell lecture before the Col- 

 lege of Physicians of Philadelphia was deliv- 

 ered on Eriday evening, April 4, by Dr. H. P. 

 Armsby, director of the Institute of Animal 

 Nutrition of the Pennsylvania State College, 

 on the subject, " Animal Calorimeters and the 

 Study of Nutrition." 



On April 2, Professor W. B. Cannon, of the 

 Harvard Medical School, addressed the Eush 

 Medical Society and the undergraduates of the 

 medical school of the University of Pennsyl- 



