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The Eoyal Dutch Geographical Society at 

 Amsterdam has elected Professor W. M. Davis 

 to honorary membership as " master in the 

 art of organizing excursions in the old and 

 the new world, and ingenious founder of a 

 new system of geomorphology." 



The Portugal Academy of Sciences has 

 elected Dr. L. A. Bauer a corresponding 

 member. 



Admiral Egbert E. Peary lectured before 

 the French Geographical Society on the even- 

 ing of June 6, when the decoration of the 

 legion of honor was conferred on him. 



Dr. Henry W. Parnham, professor of polit- 

 ical economy at Yale University, has been ap- 

 pointed Roosevelt professor at the University 

 of Berlin by Columbia University and the 

 University of Berlin. 



Professor George A. Hulett, who has been 

 on a leave of absence this year from Princeton 

 University and has been acting as chief 

 chemist of the United States Bureau of Mines, 

 will return to Princeton in the fall, and re- 

 sume his duties as professor of physical 

 chemistry. 



George W. Lamke, assistant professor of 

 electrical engineering at Washington Univer- 

 sity, and Chester H. Hardy, instructor in elec- 

 trical engineering, have resigned their posi- 

 tions to take up active practise. 



T. T. Waterman, assistant professor of 

 anthropology in the University of California, 

 will spend the summer in New York, in part 

 to study the collections in the American 

 Museum. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Medico-Psychological Association, which ended 

 its sessions at Niagara Falls on June 13, Dr. 

 Carlos F. MacDonald, of New York, was elected 

 president, Dr. S. E. Smith, of Indiana, vice- 

 president, and Dr. Charles G. Wagner, of 

 Binghamton, N. Y., secretary. The associa- 

 tion will meet in Baltimore in 1914. 



The eighth annual meeting of the American 

 Association of Museums was held in Philadel- 

 phia, from June 3 to 5, 1913, with about one 

 hundred members in attendance. Dr. Henry 



L. Ward, of the Milwaukee Museum, presided. 

 In addition to the reading of papers the 

 program was so arranged as to provide time 

 for the study of important museum collections 

 at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Univer- 

 sity Museum, Commercial Museum, Wistar 

 Institute of Anatomy, Academy of Fine Arts 

 and Memorial Hall. The officers elected for 

 the ensuing year are : President, Benjamin 

 Ives Gilman, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; 

 Secretary, Paul M. Eea, Charleston Museum, 

 Charleston, S. C; Treasurer, William P. Wil- 

 son, The Commercial Museum, Philadelphia. 

 The nest annual meeting will be held in 

 Chicago with a supplementary session in Mil- 

 waukee. 



Immediately after the resignation of pro- 

 fessor Willis L. Moore as chief of the Weather 

 Bureau had been accepted by the President, 

 charges were filed against him with the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture by responsible men in the 

 service. Those charges, which related to the 

 improper conduct on the part of Professor 

 Moore in connection with his candidacy for 

 the office of secretary of agriciilture, were of 

 such a grave nature that the Department of 

 Justice was asked to make an investigation. 

 This investigation has now been practically 

 completed. The facts secured from the pre- 

 liminary investigation were sufficient to war- 

 rant the President in withdrawing his accept- 

 ance of Professor Moore's resignation and re- 

 moving him summarily from the service, which 

 was done April 16, 1913. Charles T. Burns, 

 an employee of the Weather Bureau, was fur- 

 loughed at the same time, but later reinstated 

 with reduced rank and salary. On June 7, as 

 a result of the investigation by the Depart- 

 ment of Justice, six other employees of the 

 Weather Bureau were furloughed without pay, 

 and thirty-one other officers and employees 

 whose salaries had apparently been increased 

 by Professor Moore as a reward for their 

 activities on his behalf were reduced to their 

 former salaries. 



Professor Albert Perry Brigham, of Col- 

 gate University, will go to Europe in July to 

 remain during the coming academic year. In 



