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Palo Alto, Stanford University,. Professor V. L. 



Kellogg. 

 Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. C. 

 C. Harrison. 

 *Academy of Natural Sciences, Dr. A. E. Brown. 

 *Anieriean Philosophical Society, Professor H. 

 F. Osborn. 

 Pittsburg, Carnegie Institute, Dr. Samuel Harden 

 Church. 

 Princeton, Princeton University, Professor W. B. 



Scott and Professor W. O. Richardson. 

 San Francisco, *California Academy of Sciences, 



Dr. G. E. Hale. 

 St. Louis, Washington University, 

 Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Dr. C. D. 

 Walcott. 

 Carnegie Institution, Dr. R. S. Woodward. 

 Academy of Sciences, Dr. L. 0. Howard. 

 U. S. Geological Survey, 

 The G«orge Washington University, 

 Department of Agriculture, 

 Woods Hole, Marine Biological Laboratory, Dr. 

 E. B. Wilson. 

 * Societies of which Charles Darwin was an 

 honorary member. 



A full program of the meeting will be sent 

 to all members of tlie society about June 20. 



Charles L. Parsons, 



Secretary 



AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



The summer meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society will be held in Detroit, 

 Mich., June 29 to July 2, and there is every 

 prospect that the meeting will be one of the 

 most largely attended and successful in the 

 society's history. The local society of De- 

 troit chemists is putting forth every effort to 

 insure a successful gathering. One day of the 

 meeting will he spent in Ann Arbor as the 

 gviests of the University of Michigan. 



The council of the society will meet on 

 June 28 and the opening session of the gen- 

 eral meeting will be on the morning of June 

 29 in the Central High School which offers 

 every facility for the meeting of the various 

 divisions and sections of the society. 



The Hotel Pontchartrain has been selected 

 as headquarters for the meeting. 



Titles of papers to be read at the summer 

 meeting should be sent to the secretary of the 

 society or to the secretaries of divisions and 

 to find place on the program should reach me 

 on or before June 7. Papers for the section 

 of chemical education should be sent to the 

 chairman, H. P. Talbot, Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Boston, Mass., before June 5. 



Durham, N. H. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the last meeting of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences, it was voted to 

 award the Eumford premium to Professor 

 Eobert W. Wood, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, for his discoveries in light and par- 

 ticularly for his researches on the optical 

 properties of sodium and other metallic 

 vapors. 



At the last meeting of the Eumford com- 

 mittee of the American Academy the follow- 

 ing gTants were made: To Professor M. A. 

 EosanofI, of Clark University, for his research 

 on the fractional distillation of binary mix- 

 tures, $300; to Professor C. E. MendenhaU, of 

 the University of Wisconsin, for his research 

 on the free expansion of gases, $300. 



Professor F. W. Putnam has been elected 

 honorary member of the Soeieta Italiana d'An- 

 thropologia, Ethnologia e Psicologia Com- 

 parata of Florence, Italy. Since 1887 he has 

 been a corresponding member of this society. 



Dalhousie Unitorsitt has given its doctor- 

 ate of laws to Dr. A. Eoss Hill, president of 

 the University of Missouri, who graduated 

 from Dalhousie in 1892. 



Professor E. Meldola, F.E.S., has been 

 elected a member of the Athenseum Club for 

 scientific eminence. 



The Marine Biological Station of San 

 Diego having developed to such an extent as 

 to require the entire time of the scientific 

 director; and having been so endowed as to 

 make it possible for him to devote himself to 

 it, the present director. Professor Wm. E. 

 Eitter, will relinquish the active headship of 

 the department of zoology in the University 

 of California at the close of the present 

 academic year and will take up his perma- 

 nent residence at the station. After June 1 

 his address will be, therefore. La Jolla, Cali- 

 fornia. 



