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tive Officer, Board of Commissioners of Agricul- 

 ture and Forestry. 



P. L. Home, President, Kamehameha Schools. 



D. L. Van Dine, Entomologist, Hawaii Experi- 

 ment Station. 



C. F. Eckhart, Chemist, Hawaiian Sugar Plant- 

 ers' Experiment Station. 



S. B. Dole, U. S. District Judge, Ex-Governor, 

 etc. 



R. A. Dimoan, Territorial Food Commissioner. 



W. T. Brigham, Director Bernice P. Bishop 

 Museum. 



W. R. Brinkerhoff, U. S. Public Health and 

 Marine Hospital Service. 



H. R. Trent, President, Trent Trust Company. 



L. A. 'i'hurston, lawyer. 



W. A. Bryan, President, Pacific Scientific In- 

 stitute. 



J. E. Higgins, Hawaii Experiment Station. 



F. G. Krauss, Hawaii Experiment Station. 



L. Lewton-Brain, Hawaii Sugar Planters' Ex- 

 periment Station. 



R. S. Hosmer, Territorial Forester. 



A. Gartley, Manager, Hawaiian Electric Com- 

 pany, Regent College of Hawaii, etc. 



This organization will include later many 

 others who will join in the welcome and enter- 

 tainment of the Association. 



The ofiicers are Governor Walter F. Frear, 

 Chairman; A. F. Griffiths, Vice-Chairman ; A. F. 

 Judd, Secretary. 



I send you herewith copies of resolutions and 

 letters from practically all the scientific, educa- 

 tional, social and commercial organizations in the 

 city whose assurances of good-will and support 

 fairly voice the unanimous feelings of the com- 

 munity. 



The generous offer of the Trustees of the Oahu 

 College of the free use of the College Halls for 

 the meetings of the Association and its sections 

 assure the Committee of satisfactory and ade- 

 quate places in which to hold the meetings of the 

 convention. The satisfactory entertainment of 

 the members is certain. Many will receive invita- 

 tions to be guests in private homes. Many may 

 prefer to live in the College Dormitories. The 

 hotel accommodations of the city in addition are 

 admirable. 



The question of cheap transportation has al- 

 ready been taken up by the Committee. In this 

 matter, we shall wish and shall need your co- 

 operation as well as that of the other officers 

 and members of the Association. The Committee 

 is sanguine that a fairly good rate can be se- 

 cured. 



We hope that the advantages as well as the 

 pleasure of holding the convention in Hawaii will 

 be brought out in both the Hanover and Balti- 

 more meetings. We are now preparing a state- 

 ment of the unusual opportunities for scientific 



study that Hawaii offers. We shall liave this 

 ready for your use at an early date. 



Assuring you that Hawaii will royally welcome 

 and entertain as many members as can come to 

 the 1910 convention, we remain. 

 Very truly yours, 



(Sgd.) A. F. Judd, 



A. F. Geiffiths, 

 Vice-GJiairman 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the centenary celebration of the found- 

 ing of the Vienna Physieo-Medical Society 

 on June 2Y, Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot, 

 Stilhnan professor of comparative anatomy in 

 the medical school of Harvard University, 

 and Dr. Jacques Loeb, professor of physiology 

 in the University of California, were elected 

 corresponding members. 



On commencement day at Mount Union 

 College, Alliance, Ohio, the degree of doctor 

 of laws was conferred on President Charles 

 Sumner Howe, of the Case School of Applied 

 Science. 



On the occasion of the installation of Lord 

 Rayleigh as chancellor of the University of 

 Cambridge, the degree of doctor of laws was 

 conferred on the following men of science: 

 The Hon. C. A. Parsons, Sir Andrew Noble, 

 Sir William Crookes, Professor H. Lamb and 

 Professor George Downing Liveing. 



Professoe Grassi, eminent for his work on 

 malaria and other subjects, has been created 

 a senator of the kingdom of Italy. 



Dr. Johann Gottfried Galle, from 1851 

 to 1895 professor of astronomy and director 

 of the observatory at Breslau, has celebrated 

 his ninety-sixth birthday. 



Sir James Dewar, P.E.S., has been elected 

 an associate of the Belgian Academy. 



Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, F.E.S., has been 

 awarded the De Morgan medal of the London 

 Mathematical Society. 



The Bunsen medal of the German Bunsen 

 Society for Applied Chemistry has been 

 awarded to Professor F. Kohlrausch, of Mar- 

 burg. 



