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Rhode Island Fish Commission — Dr. A. D. Mead, 



director, Brown University, Pro^ndence, E. I. 

 The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia— Dr. J. M. 



Greenman, director. 

 Tortugas Station of the Carnegie Institution, Tor- 



tugas, Florida — Dr. A. G. Mayer, Maplewood, 



N. J. 

 Biological Station of the University of California, 



La Jolla, California — Dr. W. E. Eitter, director. 



University of California. 

 Biological Station of the Leland Stanford Jr. 



University, Palo Alto, Cal. — Dr. Harold Heath, 



Leland Stanford Jr. University. 

 U. S. Fish Commission, Woods Hole, Mass. — Dr. 



B. W. Evermann, Department of Commerce and 



Labor, Wasliington, D. C. 

 The Cinchona Station of the New York Botanical 



Garden, Jamaica, W. I. — Dr. N. L. Britton, 



director. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx 



Park, N. Y. 

 The Bermuda Biological Station of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Mass. — Dr. E. L. Mark, 



director, Cambridge, Mass. ' 

 The Biological Stations of Canada. 



The Pacific Coast Station, Nanaimo, B. C. — 

 Professor E. E. Prince, director, Department 

 of Marine and iisheries, Ottawa. 



The Great Lakes Station, Georgian Bay, On- 

 tario — Dr. E. Eanisay Wriglit, director, Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. 



The Atlantic Coast Station, St. Andrews, N. B. 

 — Dr. D. P. Penhallow, director, McGill Uni- 

 versity, Montreal, P. Q. 



The various representatives of the board, as 

 thus announced, are requested to accept this 

 announcement as a notice of their appoint- 

 ment. The first meeting of the board for or- 

 ganization and such other business as may re- 

 quire to be transacted, will be called at a later 

 date, probably at the time of the Baltimore 

 meeting in convocation week, and of this due 

 notice will be given. 



D. P. Penhallow, Chairman 



P. E. LiLLIE 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Winnipeg meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, under 

 the presidency of Professor J. J. Thomson, of 

 Cambridge, will open on Wednesday, August 

 25, 1909. The meeting of the association in 



1910 will be at Sheffield, and in 1911 at 

 Portsmouth. 



In connection with the meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Association, the University of Dublin con- 

 ferred the following honorary degrees: D.Sc, 

 Mr. Francis Darwin, F.E.S., Sir David Gill, 

 K.C.B., r.R.S., Dr. William Napier Shaw, 

 F.E.S., Captain Henry George Lyons, P.E.S., 

 Professor Horace Lamb, F.E.S., Professor 

 Charles Scott Sherrington, F.E.S., Professor 

 Ernest Eutherford, F.E.S., Professor Archi- 

 bald Byron Macallum, F.E.S., Dr. Albert 

 Kossel, and Dr. Ambrose Arnold William 

 Hubrecht; M.D., Sir Thomas Lauder Brun- 

 ton, Bart., F.E.S. ; LL.D., Sir James Augus- 

 tus Henry Murray. 



At the meeting of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences on September 14, M. Jean Becquerel 

 communicated the following clause from the 

 will of his father M. Henri Becquerel: "I 

 bequeath to the Academy of Sciences the sum 

 of 100,000 fr. in memory of my grandfather 

 and father, who were, like myself, members 

 of your academy. I leave to it the responsi- 

 bility of determining the best use which it 

 can make of the interest on this capital, 

 whether by creating an endowment or prize, 

 or by distributing this income in a manner 

 calculated to encourag-e the progress of sci- 

 ence." The grandfather referred to was 

 Antoine Cesar Becquerel, distinguished for 

 his work in electrochemistry. The father was 

 Alexander Edmund Becquerel, distinguished 

 for his work in light, electricity and magnet- 

 ism. Louis Alfred Becquerel, the eldest son 

 of A. C. Becquerel made valuable contribu- 

 tions to medical science. The scientific emi- 

 nence of the family has thus been continued 

 through four generations. 



Professor Thomas H. Macbeide, of the 

 University of Iowa, has been appointed by 

 Governor Cummins as chairman of the Iowa 

 Forestry Commission, the other members be- 

 ing Professor L. H. Pammel, Mr. Eugene 

 Secor, Mr. William Louden, Mr. I. M. Earle 

 and Mr. Wesley Green. This commission, 

 which grew out of the recent conference of 

 governors on the conservation of natural re- 

 sources, will cooperate with the national or- 



