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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIV. No. 1123 



Bitter, scientific director, Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Research, La Jolla. 



"The Mutation Theory and the Species-con- 

 cept," by B. B. Gates, acting associate professor 

 of zoology, University of California. 



Papers will also be presented by Professor 

 H. M. Hall, Dr. Joseph Grinnell and Mr. Tracy 

 I. Storer, of the University of California; by 

 Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Desert Botanical Lab- 

 oratory, Tucson ; Professor Harry Beal Torrey, 

 Eeed College, Portland, and others. 



On Thursday afternoon, August 10, the ses- 

 sion will take the form of a conference upon 

 the tuna fisheries of southern California. A 

 consideration of the tuna fisheries is especially 

 appropriate at this time in view of the recent 

 development of this industry, the establishment 

 of tuna canneries at San Diego and other 

 ports of southern California, and the work of 

 the Albatross of the United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries in tuna investigations in southern 

 California waters this summer. 



Barton W. Evermann, 



President 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Henry M. Howe, emeritus professor of 

 metallurgy in Columbia University, has been 

 appointed honorary vice-president of the Iron 

 and Steel Institute of Great Britain. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 as correspondent in the section of medicine and 

 surgery in succession to the late Professor 

 Mosso, of Turin, Dr. Bergonie, professor of 

 biological physics and medical electricity at 

 Bordeaux. 



An honorary degree was conferred by the 

 University of California at its fifty-third com- 

 mencement exercises on John Stillman, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in and vice-president of 

 Stanford University. 



Samuel Gibson Dixon, Pennsylvania state 

 health commissioner and president of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 received the degree of Sc.D. from Lafayette 

 College at the annual commencement on June 

 14. 



At the annual commencement of the Uni- 

 versity of Cincinnati, on June 10, the honorary 

 degree of doctor of science was conferred on 

 Professor John Uri Lloyd, Cincinnati, known 

 for his contributions to chemistry and pharm- 

 acy. 



George Freeman Parmenter, Merrill pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in Colby College, has been 

 given the degree of doctor of science by the 

 college. 



At its recent commencement the University 

 of Pennsylvania conferred on Daniel Lincoln 

 Wallace, the degree of doctor in chemistry. 



Dr. Charles Willems, surgeon of Ghent, 

 has been elected a foreign correspondent of 

 the Paris Academy of Medicine. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Academy of Medicine, held in Detroit, on June 

 12, the following officers were elected: presi- 

 dent, Dr. Jacob E. Tuckerman, Cleveland; 

 vice-presidents, Dr. Frederick L. Van Sickle, 

 Ofyphant, Pa., and Dr. Pay Connor, Detroit, 

 and secretary, Dr. Thomas W. Grayson, Pitts- 

 burgh. 



Dr. Allen K. Krause, of the Saranac Lake 

 (N. T.) laboratories, will take charge of the 

 work on tuberculosis in the Phipps laboratories 

 of the Johns Hopkins University, made possi- 

 ble by the recent gift of Mr. Kenneth Dows. 



Dr. H. E. Wahl, associate in pathology, 

 Western Reserve Medical School, has been 

 elected director of laboratories in the new 

 Mount Sinai Hospital. 



Professor Selskar M. Gunn, director of the 

 division of hygiene of the Massachusetts State 

 Department of Health, has resigned. 



Willard J. Fisher, head of the department 

 of physics at the New Hampshire College, has 

 retired to devote himself to research work. 



Frederic A. Harvey, Ph.D., has resigned 

 from the faculty of Syracuse University to ac- 

 cept a position as technical physicist with the 

 Solvay Process Co., at Syracuse, N T. 



Professors W. B. Cannon, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Frederic S. Lee, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, and William H. Park, of New York Uni- 

 versity, and Drs. McCoy and Eichorn, of 



