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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 726 



AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



The American Physiological Society will 

 hold its twenty-first annual meeting in Balti- 

 more during convocation week, beginning De- 

 cember 29, 1908. Joint sessions will be held 

 with the American Society of Biological 

 Chemists and with Section K — Physiology and 

 Experimental Medicine — of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 The place of meeting will be the Lecture Hall, 

 second floor, of the Johns Hopkins Medical 

 School Building (Washington and East Monu- 

 ment Streets). 



Eeid Hunt, 

 Secretary 



25th Airo E Sts., N. W., 

 Washington, D. C. 



the american nature-study society 

 One session of the meeting at Baltimore 

 will be devoted to a discussion of " The Rela- 

 tion of Nature-study and Elementary Agricul- 

 ture in Rural Schools," and one session will 

 be devoted to " Nature-study in its Relation 

 to High School Biology." It is expected that 

 a third session will be made up of general 

 papers. The dates of these sessions will be 

 arranged, as far as possible, to avoid conflict 

 with other meetings. 



TBE BATDEN MEMORIAL MEDAL 

 The Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia has conferred the Hayden me- 

 morial gold medal for 1908 on John Mason 

 Clarke, the state geologist of New York, in 

 recognition of his distinguished services to 

 geological science. 



The academy accepted in 1888 from Mrs. 

 Emma W. Hayden an endowment of a me- 

 morial to her husband. Dr. Ferdinand V. 

 Hayden, who was for several years director of 

 the Geological and Geographical Survey of 

 the Territories, remaining one of the four 

 principal geologists of the United States 

 Geological Survey from its organization, in 

 1879, until his death. Provision was at first 

 made to confer a bronze medal and the bal- 

 ance of interest on the fund annually as a 

 recognition of the best publication, explora- 



tion, discovery or research in the sciences of 

 geology and paleontology. 



The bronze medal was awarded annually 

 until 1899, when the deed of trust was modi- 

 fied so as to provide for the conferring of a 

 gold medal once every three years. 



The recipients of the award have been as 

 follows : 



1890. James Hall, state geologist of New York. 



1891. Edward D. Cope, distinguished paleontolo- 



gist. 



1892. Edward Suess, of Vienna, author of "Das 



Antlitz der Erde." 



1893. Thomas Huxley, the distinguished biologist 



and paleontologist. 



1894. Gabriel Auguste Daubrfe, of the Institute 



of France. 



1895. Karl A. von Zittel, of Munich, author of 



the monumental " Handbueh der Paleon- 

 tologie." 



1896. Giovanni Capellini, of Bologna, president of 



the Royal Geological Survey of Italy. 



1897. A. Karpinski, of St. Petersburg, director of 



the Geological Survey of Russia. 



1898. Otto Martin Torell, chief of the Geological 



Survey of Sweden. 



1899. Gilles J. G. Denalqiie, secretary of the Geo- 



logical Society of Belgium. 

 1902. Archibald Geikie, director of the Geological 



Survey of Great Britain. 

 1905. Charles Doolittle Walcot, director of the 



United States Geological Survey, and now 



secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



In the opinion of the committee on the 

 award Mr. Clarke's contributions to geology, 

 especially his " Early Devonic History of New 

 York and Eastern North America," rank him 

 with the others who have received the recog- 

 nition. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor W. W. Campbell, director of the 

 Lick Observatory, has been appointed lecturer 

 for next year on the Silliman foundation at 

 Yale University. 



On the occasion of King Edward's birth- 

 day, the honor of knighthood was conferred 

 on Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, Hunterian pro- 

 fessor at the Royal College of Surgeons; Dr. 

 Thomas Oliver, professor of physiology at 



