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and sarcastic comments, which he always met 

 with gentleness and sorrow. 



His weather forecasts, from which he gained 

 deserved fame, were always deduced by strictly 

 considering the effects that should follow cer- 

 tain observed conditions. An amusing instance 

 of that practise gained wide circulation among 

 the office force. At 10 a.m. it suddenly began 

 to rain in Washington, and at 10 :15 a.m. 

 Abbe predicted that there would be no rain in 

 the city for the 24 hours beginning at 8 a.m. 

 that day. When taxed with it he simply said : 

 " There was nothing in the conditions shown 

 by the map that scientifically indicated rain." 

 He was equally true to his beliefs in all other 

 directions. Fidelity and loyalty marked his 

 long public career, and in Browning's words 

 Cleveland Abbe could truthfully say that of 

 his life, he "learned to love the true." 



A. W. Greely 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATU- 

 RALISTS 



The American Society of Naturalists, in 

 affiliation with the American Association of 

 Anatomists, the American Society of Zoolo- 

 gists, and the Botanical Society of America, 

 will hold its thirty-fourth annual meeting at 

 New York, under the auspices of Columbia 

 University, on Friday, December 29, 1916, and, 

 by invitation of the Carnegie Station for Ex- 

 perimental Evolution, at Cold Spring Harbor 

 on Saturday, December 30. 



The Botanical Society of America will place 

 the genetical papers of its program on Thurs- 

 day morning December 28, and the A m erican 

 Society of Zoologists will group its genetical 

 papers in a program for Thursday afternoon. 

 By this arrangement there will be sessions of 

 genetical interest on the day preceding the 

 meetings of the Naturalists and continuing 

 with the Naturalists' programs for Friday and 

 Saturday. 



The Friday morning session of the Natural- 

 ists will be open for papers on evolution, genet- 

 ics, and related subjects from members or in- 

 vited guests, titles of which with estimated 

 length of delivery must be in the hands of the 

 secretary by December 1. Bequests for micro- 



scopes or for space for demonstrations should 

 also be sent to the secretary. 



The program of Friday afternoon will be a 

 symposium on "Biology and National Exist- 

 ence," with papers by Stewart Paton, W. J. 

 Spillman, V. L. Kellogg, Jacques Loeb and E. 

 G. Conklin. 



The annual dinner, in which members of the 

 affiliated societies are invited to participate, 

 will be held in the evening of Friday at the 

 Hotel Manhattan, which has been selected as 

 the headquarters of the Naturalists. 



There will be a joint smoker for members of 

 the Naturalists and of the affiliated societies 

 at the Columbia University Commons, Wed- 

 nesday evening, December 27. 



Members of the American Society of Nat- 

 uralists are invited by the Carnegie Station 

 for Experimental Evolution to spend Satur- 

 day, December 30, at Cold Spring Harbor. A 

 morning session from 10.30 to 1 will be held 

 in Blackford Hall for the presentation of 

 genetical papers. After a lunch there will be 

 opportunity to inspect the equipment of the 

 station, the activities of which will be explained 

 by the staff. Arrangements for trains will be 

 announced in the final program. 



Bradley M. Davis, 



Secretary 



THE ENDOWMENT OF THE MEDICAL 

 DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVER- 

 SITY OF CHICAGO 



The General Education Board and the 

 Bockefeller Foundation have appropriated 

 $2,000,000 (each $1,000,000) for the establish- 

 ment of a medical department in the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago. It brings Mr. Rockefeller's 

 contributions to the university up to nearly 

 $37,000,000. 



The university will set aside at least $2,000,- 

 000 for the same purpose, will give a site on 

 the Midway valued at $500,000, and will raise 

 a further sum of $3,300,000. The medical 

 school will therefore start with an endowment 

 of almost $8,000,000. 



Eush Medical College, established seventy- 

 five years ago, will go out of existence. The 

 Presbyterian Hospital which Bush College 



