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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXIX. No. 731 



" include books, articles in periodicals, scien- 

 tific journals or association reports, including 

 foreign contributions, if any." The object is 

 to prepare a bibliography of contributions to 

 science teaching in the last decade " that will 

 be a working basis for any teacher of science 

 and especially for any in an institution with 

 limited library facilities." Since reviews of 

 recent publications on science teaching are 

 valuable in making up programs of study or 

 for meetings, this bibliography should be an 

 aid in this way, and should thus encourage the 

 study of the literature of the subject. 



For convenience and effectiveness in cover- 

 ing the whole field of science teaching, spe- 

 cialists were appointed to undertake the work 

 in each of six subdivisions. The cooperators 

 and the work for which each will be respon- 

 sible are given below : 



Mathematics — Professor J. W. A. Young, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



Biology — Professor 0. W. Caldwell, University 

 of Chicago. 



Physics — Professor John F. Woodhull, Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, and ex-president of 

 New York Physios Club. 



Nature-Study — Professor M. A. Bigelow, Teach- 

 ers College, and secretary of the American Nature- 

 Study Society. 



Chemistry — Special Committee of the New Eng- 

 land Association of Chemistry Teachers. 



Geography and Geology — R. H. Whitbeck, State 

 Model School, Trenton, N. J. 



It is anticipated that the special reports 

 will be in the hands of the chaiman before 

 January 1, 1909, and that the bibliography can 

 be printed and distributed early in the next 

 calendar year. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The convocation week meetings of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and the twenty-five national sci- 

 entific societies meeting this year in affilia- 

 tion with it, have begun at the Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, as we go to 

 press with the present issue of Science. We 

 publish above the address of the retiring presi- 

 dent of the association. Professor Edw. L. 

 Nichols, of Cornell University, and we hope 



to publish next week a general account of the 

 meeting, to be followed in subsequent issues 

 by the addresses and proceedings of the asso- 

 ciation and the affiliated societies. 



The recently created Royal Society of 

 South Africa has elected Sir David Gill, 

 K.C.B., F.E.S., its first honorary fellow. 



Dr. William Evans Hotle, director of the 

 Manchester Museum, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Welsh National Museum. 



Dr. F. Walker Mott, F.E.S., has been 

 elected Fullerian professor of physiology in 

 the Royal Institution. 



Certain friends of the chancellor of Cam- 

 bridge University desire the establishment of 

 some award to be associated with Lord Ray- 

 leigh's name, in order to commemorate the 

 unanimous election of a scientific investigator 

 to the office of chancellor of the university. 

 With this object they have deposited a sum of 

 money, the interest of which may be used 

 for the purpose of awarding from time to time 

 a prize to be called the Rayleigh prize. 



Professor Sir James Dewar has been 

 elected an honorary member of the German 

 Chemical Society. 



The president of the Cambridge Philo- 

 sophical Society, Professor Adam Sedgwick, 

 has been appointed to represent the society at 

 the Darwin Centenary celebrations in June, 

 1909. 



The Broca prize for 1908 has been awarded 

 by the Anthropological Society of Paris, to 

 Dr. Paul Rivet. 



The Godard prize of 1,000 francs has been 

 awarded by the Paris Academy of Medicine, 

 to Dr. F. W. Pavy, F.R.S., consulting physi- 

 cian to Guy's Hospital, London, for his works 

 on carbohydrates and diabetes. 



Mr. George H. Locke, for the past two 

 years professor of the history and principles 

 of education and dean of the School for 

 Teachers of Macdonald College, McGill Uni- 

 versity, Quebec, Canada, has resigned to be- 

 come chief librarian of the Municipal 

 Libraries of the city of Toronto. 



Jerome J. Green, professor of physics and 

 electrical engineering at the University of 



