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[N. S. Vol. XXIX. No. 753 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 By unanimous vote of its council the Amer- 

 ican Psychological Association will hold its 

 next meeting in Boston in affiliation with the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



At the colloquium of the American Mathe- 

 matical Society, to be held at Princeton Uni- 

 versity, September 15-17, courses of lectures 

 wiU be delivered by Professor G. A. Bliss, on 

 " Pundamental Existence Theorems," and 

 Professor Edward Kasner on " Geometric 

 Aspects of Dynamics." Professor J. H. 

 Jeans having resigned his position at Prince- 

 ton, the course of lectures announced to he 

 given by him has been cancelled. 



In connection with the Darwin centenary, 

 at Cambridge, it is proposed to confer the de- 

 gree of doctor of science upon E. van Beneden, 

 professor of zoology in the University of 

 Liege; Robert Chodat, professor of botany in 

 the University of Geneva; Prancis Darwin, 

 F.E.S., of Christ's College; Karl P. von 

 Goebel, professor of botany in the University 

 of Munich; L. von Graff, professor of zoology 

 in the University of Gratz; H. Hoffding, pro- 

 fessor of philosophy in the University of 

 Copenhagen; J. Loeb, professor of physiology 

 in the University of California; E. Perrier, 

 director of the Natural History Museum, 

 Paris; G. A. Schwalbe, professor of anatomy 

 in the University of Strassburg; H. von 

 Vochting, professor of botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Tiibingen; H. de Vries, professor of 

 botany in the University of Amsterdam; C. 

 D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution; E. B. Wilson, professor of zoology 

 in Columbia University, and C. E. Zeiller, pro- 

 fessor of paleobotany in the Ecole Nationale 

 Superieure des Mines, Paris. 



Mr. Phillip Pox, of the Terkes Observatory, 

 has been nominated by the Chicago Astro- 

 nomical Society, to be director of the Dear- 

 born Observatory and professor of astronomy 

 in Northwestern University in succession to 

 the late Professor Hough. 



Professor C. H. Eigenmann, professor of 

 zoology and dean of the Graduate School of 

 the Indiana State University, has been ap- 



pointed curator of ichthyology at the Car- 

 negie Museum, Pittsburgh, with the under- 

 standing that his appointment will not inter- 

 fere with his duties in connection with the 

 Indiana State University. Professor Eigen- 

 mann will work up the large collections be- 

 longing to the museum at his home in Indiana, 

 and will during the summer months devote a 

 portion of his vacation to directing others in 

 arranging the collections systematically. 



Dr. Victor Sterki, of New Philadelphia, 

 Ohio, known for his work on the North Amer- 

 ican Pupidcs and allied families, has been ap- 

 pointed an assistant in conchology at the 

 Carnegie Museum. Dr. Sterki's collection 

 became the property of the museum some 

 years ago. 



Mr. E. Dana Durand, deputy commissioner 

 of corporations, has been appointed director of 

 the Census to succeed Mr. S. N. D. North. 



Professor Simon Newcomb has left the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital and returned to his 

 home in Washington. 



Professor Dijnkelberg, formerly director 

 of the Agricultural Academy at Poppelsdorf, 

 has celebrated his ninetieth birthday. 



In addition to the list of delegates to the 

 Darwin celebration of Cambridge University, 

 printed in a recent issue of Science, the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences will be repre- 

 sented by Dr. George E. Hale, of the Mount 

 Wilson Solar Observatory, and the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology by Professor 

 William T. Sedgwick. 



Mr. S. F. Emmons, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has been appointed a delegate to rep- 

 resent the National Academy of Sciences at 

 the five hundredth anniversary of the founda- 

 tion of Leipzig University, which will he cele- 

 brated on July 28 to 30, 1909. 



Mr. W. Bateson, E.E.S., will give the Hux- 

 ley lecture at Birmingham this year. 



Mr. C. G. Abbot, director of the Smithson- 

 ian Astrophysical Observatory, has left Wash- 

 ington for Mt. Wilson, California, to continue 

 there during the summer and fall observa- 

 tions in progress for a number of years as to 

 the intensity of the sun's rays and the effect 

 of any variation in them upon the earth. 



