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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 725 



in Latin. (Presented by the Classical Association 

 of New England.) 



The colleges were represented as follows 

 during the meeting: 



Harvard University — President Charles W. 

 Eliot; Jerome D. Greene, secretary. 



Yale University — President Arthur T. Hadley; 

 Edward P. Morris, professor of Latin. 



Brown University — President William H. P. 

 Eaunoe; Walter G. Everett, professor of philos- 

 ophy and natural theology. 



Dartmouth College — President Wm. J. Tucker; 

 Erank H. Dickson, professor of economics. 



University of Vermont — President Matthew H. 

 Buckham; Max W. Andrews, professor of English. 



Williams College — President Harry Augustus 

 Garfield, Dean Frederick C. Ferry. 



Bowdoin College — President William DeWitt 

 Hyde; Frederick Willis Brown, professor of mod- 

 ern languages. 



Middlebury College — President JohnM. Thomas; 

 Myron R. Sanford, professor of Latin. 



Amherst College — President George Harris; 

 James W. Crook, professor of economics. 



Wesleyan University — Acting President William 

 North Rice; Karl P. Harrington, professor of 

 Latin. 



Tufts College — President Frederick W. Hamil- 

 ton; Philip M. Hayden, instructor in modern 

 languages. 



Boston University — President William E. Hunt- 

 ington; Lyman C. Newell, professor of chemistry. 



Clark University — President G. Stanley Hall; 

 Carroll D. Wright, president of Clark College. 



WINTER MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



The Winter Meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society will be held in Baltimore, 

 Md., December 29 to January 1 inclusive. 

 The meeting will be in affiliation with the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science and the Biological Section will hold a 

 joint session with the Society of Biological 

 Chemists. 



The following members have consented to 

 preside over sections and to aid in the prepara- 

 tion of the program for the meeting. 



Agricultural and Food Chemistry — H. J. Wheeler. 

 Biological Chemistry — J. J. Abel. 

 Inorganic Chemistry — -C. H. Herty. 



Organic Chemistry — S. F. Acree. 



Pharmaceutical Chemistry — Edw. Kremers. 



Chemical Education — H. P. Talbot. 



Fertilizer Chemistry — F. B. Carpenter. 



Physical Chemistry — G. N. Lewis. 



The Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical 

 Engineers will also hold a meeting presided over 

 by the chairman of the division, A. D. Little. 



Members desiring to present papers are re- 

 quested to send title and brief abstracts to one 

 of these persons or to the secretary of the 

 society with the exception of the Section of 

 Chemical Education where a special program 

 is being arranged. The final program will be 

 sent only to those members signifying their 

 intention of being present at the meeting, or 

 who make special request for same. No title 

 can be placed on the final program that 

 reaches the secretary later than December 10. 

 Chas. L. Paesons, 



Secretary 



Durham, N. H. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The president and council of the Royal 

 Society have awarded medals as follows: the 

 Copley medal to Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, 

 in recognition of the great value of his numer- 

 ous contributions to natural history, and of 

 the part he took in working out the theory of 

 the origin of species by natural selection; the 

 Rumford medal to Professor H. A. Lorentz, 

 for his investigations in optical and electrical 

 science; a Royal medal to Professor John 

 Milne, for his preeminent services in the mod- 

 ern development of seismological science; a 

 Royal medal to Dr. Henry Head, for his 

 researches on the relations between the visceral 

 and somatic nerves and on the functions of 

 the afferent nerves; the Davy medal to Pro- 

 fessor W. A. Tilden, for his discoveries in 

 chemistry, especially on the terpenes and on 

 atomic heats; the Darwin medal to Professor 

 August Weismann, for his eminent services 

 in support of the doctrine of evolution by 

 means of natural selection ; the Hughes medal 

 to Professor Eugene Goldstein, for his discov- 

 eries on the nature of electric discharge in 

 rarefied gases. 



