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Marine Hospital Service, the Department of 

 Health of the District of Columbia, the 

 Division of "Vital Statistics of the Bureau of 

 the Census and the Surgeon General of the 

 Army, representatives of all of which were 

 present, the only absentees being the Surgeon 

 General of the Navy, the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry and the Bureau of Pure Foods, the 

 representative of which. Dr. Wiley, was de- 

 tained by a railroad accident. There were 

 eighteen persons present. The conference 

 passed a resolution heartily endorsing the 

 president's action. 



Similar resolutions endorsing the work of 

 the Committee of One Hundred were passed 

 on the day previous by the State and Prov- 

 incial Boards of Health. Later, in Section 

 6 of the International Tuberculosis Congress, 

 Surgeon General Walter Wyman, of the 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, 

 who was chairman of that section, announced 

 that he was in favor of the president's policy 

 and would cordially cooperate in the endeavor 

 to bring the transfers about. 



There is at present no known opposition 

 which should interfere with the passage this 

 fall of legislation to make the necessary trans- 

 fers. A large number of congressmen have 

 signified their favorable attitude. It is be- 

 lieved that the legislation can be secured pro- 

 vided congressmen are convinced that the 

 leaders in education and in hygiene are 

 earnestly in favor of it. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTEd AND NEWS 

 The National Academy of Sciences will 

 hold its autumn session at the Johns Hopkins 

 Hniversity, beginning on Tuesday, November 

 17. On the evening of November 18 there 

 will be a meeting of the committee on policy 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



The Eight Hon. A. J. Balfour, P.E.S., has 

 been nominated to deliver the Romanes lecture 

 at Oxford University next year. The lecture 

 will, it is reported in the press, be given by 

 President Roosevelt in 1910. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 M. Philippe van Tieghem, the distinguished 



botanist, as permanent secretary, to succeed 

 the late M. Becquerel. 



Sir William Turner, K.C.B., F.R.S., has 

 been elected president of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh. 



The following are the officers recommended 

 by the president and council of the Royal 

 Society for election for the year 1908-9 : 

 President — Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., 

 D.C.L., Sc.D., LL.D. Treasurer— Allied 

 Bray Kempe, M.A., D.C.L. Secretaries — 

 Professor Joseph Larmor, D.Sc, D.C.L., 

 LL.D., and Professor John Rose Bradford, 

 M.D., D.Sc. Foreign Secretary — Sir William 

 Crookes, D.Sc. Other Members of Council — 

 Sir George Howard Darwin, K.C.B. ; Professor 

 James Cossar Ewart, M.D.; Sir David Gill, 

 KC.B.; John Scott Haldane, M.D.; Charles 

 Thomas Heycock, M.A.; Professor Horace 

 Lamb, D.Sc; Professor Hector Munro Mac- 

 donald, M.A.; Frederick Walker Mott, M.D, 

 the Hon, Charles Algernon Parsons, C.B 

 Professor William Henry Perkin, Ph.D 

 Professor Edward Bagnall Poulton, D.Sc 

 Lieutenant-Colonel David Prain, CLE.; Sir 

 Arthur William Riicker, D.Sc; the Right 

 Hon. Sir James Stirling, LL.D.; Professor 

 Frederick Thomas Trouton, Sc.D., and Will- 

 iam Whitaker, B.A. 



Dr. Felix Abler, professor of political 

 ethics at Columbia University, and Dr. W. M. 

 Davis, professor of geology at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, made their inaugural addresses in the 

 grand hall of the University of Berlin, on 

 November 3. 



Professor William Z. Ripley, of the de- 

 partment of economics of Harvard University, 

 has left Cambridge for London, where he will 

 deliver on Noveifiber 13 the annual Huxley 

 lecture before the Royal Anthropological In- 

 stitute. His subject is " The European In- 

 habitants of the United States." 



The Anthropological Society of Stockholm 

 has' elected Dr. Sven Hedin to honorary mem- 

 bership in the society, and has conferred on 

 him a Wahlberg gold medal. 



The Royal Scottish Geographical Society 

 will confer its gold medal upon Lord Avebury. 



