October 27, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



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days following, the attendance has exceeded 

 one thousand. The museum will be open to 

 the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on week days 

 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on holidays, includ- 

 ing Sundays. 



Barton "Warren Evermann 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The National Academy of Sciences will hold 

 its autumn meeting in Boston and Cambridge 

 on November 13, 14 and 15. The "William 

 Ellery Hale lectures will be given on Monday 

 evening and Tuesday afternoon, by Professor 

 Edwin Grant Conklin, of Princeton University. 



The first lecture of the Harvey Society for 

 the present season was given on October 14, at 

 the New York Academy of Medicine, by Dr. 

 J. S. Haldane, E.E.S., of Oxford on " The New 

 Physiology." This lecture will be printed in 

 Science. 



The degree of doctor of laws was conferred 

 upon Thomas A. Edison over the telephone by 

 Dr. John H. Finley, president of the Univer- 

 sity of the State of New York, at the closing 

 session of the institution's fifty-second convo- 

 cation on October 20. Mr. Edison was in his 

 laboratory at Orange, N. J., while Dr. Einley 

 was in the auditorium of the New York Edu- 

 cation Building. 



Dr. George "W. Field, of Sharon, Mass., 

 chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on 

 Fisheries and Game, was elected president of 

 the American Fisheries Society at the con- 

 cluding session of its forty-ninth annual con- 

 vention, held in New Orleans on October 18. 



Dr. Percival Lowell, of Boston, director of 

 the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, 

 has been elected an honorary fellow of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 



Mr. Louis E. Sullivan and Mr. Leslie Spier 

 have been added to the scientific staff of the 

 department of anthropology of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. Mr. Sullivan 

 will care for the skeletal and other somatolog- 

 ieal material in the department and will de- 

 velop exhibitions showing racial differences 

 and man's relations to the primates. Mr. Spier 

 for the present will care for the archeological 



and ethnological collections exhibited from the 

 eastern states. 



With the cooperation of Harvard University 

 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 the Barber Asphalt Paving Company has es- 

 tablished at these institutions a fellowship for 

 research in asphaltic materials and their uses. 

 The fellowship is to be known as " The Clifford 

 Richardson Fellowship." Mr. Richardson is an 

 alumnus of Harvard, known for his contribu- 

 tions to asphaltic highway construction and 

 the chemistry of bitumens. 



Practical forestry management has de- 

 veloped to such proportions in Massachusetts, 

 under the administration of State Forester 

 Rane, that it has been decided to establish a 

 state forestry office in the western part of the 

 state for the convenience of land owners in 

 that section. C. R. Atwood, who is a graduate 

 of the University of Maine, and for some time 

 has been an assistant to Paul D. Kneeland in 

 the Boston office of the state forester, has been 

 selected for the position. He will have head- 

 quarters in Springfield. 



S. B. Fox, Ph.D. (Cornell), has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in farm management on the 

 experiment station staff of the Montana State 

 College. 



The American Museum of Natural History 

 had three expeditions for fossil vertebrates in 

 the western United States during the past sum- 

 mer. All report a fair degree of success, espe- 

 cially in the discovery of new and interesting 

 fossil faunas. Mr. Barnum Brown, in charge 

 of the expedition for Cretaceous dinosaurs in 

 Montana, reports the discovery of Cretaceous 

 dinosaurs distinct from those of the localities 

 hitherto explored by the museum, and perhaps 

 representing an older stage in their evolution. 

 Mr. Walter Granger reports the discovery in 

 a new locality in New Mexico of numerous re- 

 mains of small mammals of an age intermedi- 

 ate between the Torrejon and Wasatch hori- 

 zons. Mr. Albert Thomson has continued work 

 in the Agate quarry, securing additional ma- 

 terial needed for the group planned to repre- 

 sent this quarry fauna and has also secured 

 interesting material from the Pliocene beds 



