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Mr. Charles J. Bell is the trustee of the 

 permanent fund. 



It was further explained that the memorial 

 association is not working under an agreement 

 with any educational or other institution but 

 that it desired the cooperation of all organiza- 

 tions and individuals interested in its purpose. 

 After full consideration the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences unanimously adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolution: 



Resolved, That the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences give its approval to the general plan of the 

 George Washington Memorial Association to col- 

 lect funds for the purpose of erecting and main- 

 taining in the city of Washington a building 

 adapted for a meeting place of scientific organiza- 

 tions. 



The Washington Academy of Sciences has 

 had the matter under consideration for some 

 time through its building conunittee. On 

 April 20 its board of managers recommended 

 active cooperation with the memorial associa- 

 tion and at a meeting of the academy, April 

 24, the following resolutions were adopted: 



Resolved, that, in the opinion of the Washing- 

 ton Academy of Sciences, the eflForts of the George 

 Washington Memorial Association to provide 

 suitable facilities in the city of Washington for 

 bringing together the national patriotic, scientific, 

 educational, literary and art organizations that 

 may need such accommodations, including the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences and its affiliated 

 societies, deserves commendation and support. 



Resolved, that the academy considers it emi- 

 nently desirable that we should commemorate the 

 interest felt by our first president in science and 

 the higher education, and that no better method 

 can be found than to provide, in the city which 

 bears his name, the capital of the nation, a suit- 

 able meeting place for all engaged in the advance- 

 ment of the welfare of the human race. 



Resolved, that the academy appoint a special 

 committee to cooperate in this important move- 

 ment by all practicable methods. 



Resolved, that the academy recommends to each 

 of the affiliated societies that it appoint a similar 

 committee to cooperate with the committee of the 



The Washington Academy has appointed its 

 building committee. Dr. George M. Kober, 

 chairman, as its effective agency to take the 

 matter up with the members of the academy 



and affiliated societies and the citizens of 

 Washington. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor George E. Hale, Mount Wilson; 

 Professor Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Madrid; 

 Professor :6mile Picard, Paris, and Professor 

 Hugo Kronecker, Berne, have been elected 

 foreign members of the Royal Society. 



The following new members have been 

 elected to the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety : Louis A. Bauer, William Howard Taft, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Marston Taylor Bogert, 

 Hermon Carey Bimipus, Dr. Alexis Carrel, 

 A. V. Williams Jackson, New York; Edwin 

 Brant Frost, Williams Bay, Wis.; Robert 

 Aimer Harper, Charles Richard Van Hise, 

 Madison, Wis.; William Herbert Hobbs, Vic- 

 tor Clarence Vaughan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; 

 Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Boston; William 

 Romaine Newbold, John Prederick Lewis, 

 Charles Bingham Penrose, Philadelphia; 

 Francis Darwin, Cambridge, England; Her- 

 mann Diels, Emil Fischer, Berlin; Friedrich 

 Kohlrausch, Marburg; Wilhelm F. Ph. Pfef- 

 fer, Leipzig. 



M. Pierre Termier, professor of mineralogy 

 in the Paris School of Mines, has been elected 

 a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 in the place of the late M. Gaudry. 



Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, the eminent 

 chemist, has been awarded by the University 

 of Christiania its first Cato M. Guldberg 

 medal. 



Subscriptions to the Charles W. Eliot fund 

 have been received from about 2,050 gradu- 

 ates of Harvard University and others, and 

 amount at this time to about $130,000. The 

 subscribers have sent subscriptions as follows: 

 858, $5 and under; 500, $10 to $20; 418, $25 

 to $50; 189, $100 to $250; 58, $250 to $500; 

 31, $1,000 to $10,000. The committee hopes 

 that the fund will amount to more than $150,- 

 000 by May 10, when President Eliot retires. 

 The subscriptions have been placed in the 

 hands of trustees, to invest and hold for the 

 benefit of President and Mrs. Eliot. The fund 

 will eventually pass to Harvard University. 



Dr. Eugen Wolf has been promoted to the 

 directorship of the Senckenberg Museum of 



