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tific visitors in the island was especially pre- 

 pared for distribution at the Baltimore meet- 

 ing. Those who desire the literature or wish 

 information about the trip or are in any way 

 interested in the meeting are requested to ad- 

 dress Mr. Albert F. Judd, Secretary Hawaii 

 Committee, Judd Building, Honolulu, H. I. 

 It is desired that you state to the com- 

 mittee the particular subject that interests 

 you most that detailed information may be 

 sent you thereon. The farther advantages of 

 having your name and address wiU be that it 

 wiU enable the local committee to keep you 

 informed of special rates and other matters 

 of interest to those contemplating the journey. 

 It is desirable at the present time to secure 

 the assurance of your interest, the matter of 

 coming can await further consideration. 



Wm. Alanson Brtak 



8GIENTIFIG NOTES AND NEWS 

 The meeting of the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences on February 23 was in honor of 

 Charles Darwin. Professor 0. O. Whitman, 

 of the University of Chicago, gave an address 

 on " Some of the Principles of Organic Evo- 

 lution as. revealed in the Pigeon World." 



The Eochester Academy of Science held on 

 February 22 a meeting in commemoration of 

 the Darwin centennial. Addresses were 

 made by Professor 0. W. Dodge, on the life 

 and work of Darwin'; by Professor H. L. 

 Fairchild, on Darwin and geology; and by 

 Professor W. D. Merrill, on Darwin and 

 botany. An exhibition was made of material 

 illustrating evolution. 



We learn from Nature that at the meeting 

 of the Eoyal Society on February 18, tele- 

 grams of congratulation on the hundredth 

 anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin 

 were read from the University of Christiania, 

 the University, Kharkoff, the Naturalists 

 Students Association, KlarkofF, the Society 

 of Naturalists, KharkofF, the council of lec- 

 turers, Moscow Women's University and the 

 Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. 

 The president reported that telegraphic ac- 

 knowledgments and thanks had been trans- 



mitted to the senders on behalf of the Eoyal 



Society. 



A meeting of the Leeds Naturalists' Club 

 was held on February 15 to celebrate the Dar- 

 win centenary, when Mr. Harold Wager, 

 F.E.S., delivered an address on the life and 

 work of Darwin. 



M. H. PoiNCAEE has been elected president 

 of the French Bureau des Longitudes. 



The University of Liverpool will confer its 

 doctorate of laws on Mr. William Marconi; 

 its doctorate of science on Mr. Francis Dar- 

 win and Mr. J. L. Todd and its doctorate of 

 engineering on the Hon. C. A. Parsons. 



The universities of Oxford and of Cam- 

 bridge have conferred the degree of D.Sc. on 

 Dr. Sven Hedin. 



The seventieth birthday of Dr. G. Lunge, 

 professor of chemistry at Zurich, wiU be cele- 

 brated on September 15. 



Dr. David Stabr Jordan, president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, has appointed the following com- 

 mittee to inquire into the manner and course 

 of publication, distribution and use of publi- 

 cations, of American scientific societies: 

 Franz Boas, chairman; E. S. Woodward; Wil- 

 liam Trelease; J. McK. Cattell; E. G. Conk- 

 lin. 



Me. a. L. Bowman is chairman of a special 

 committee appointed by the American Society 

 of Civil Engineers "to consider and report 

 upon the design, ultimate strength and safe 

 working values of steel columns and struts." 



Mr. John C. Osteup, professor of struc- 

 tural engineering at the Stevens Institute of 

 Technology, has been elected a member of the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers of Great 

 Britain. 



Mr. W. F. Batteesby, of the School of 

 Mines, Kingston, Ontario, has won the prize 

 of one hundred dollars which was ofiered by 

 Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, of Toronto, for the best 

 collection of minerals made in the Province 

 of Ontario during the past year. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, now serving as professor in the Uni- 

 versity of Berlin, has conducted a geological 



