December 22, 1916] 



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problems of industrial education will report 

 the effect of auto micro-motion study on edu- 

 cational methods in teaching typewriting and 

 manual training ; Professor Earl Clarke, of the 

 Russell Sage Foundation, will present a 

 paper on " The Relationship between the In- 

 debtedness of City School Systems and Cur- 

 rent Expenditures for the Operation and 

 Maintenance of Schools." The names of God- 

 dard, Rapeer, Heck, Trabue, Meriam, Mead, 

 Kelly and many others well known for their 

 contributions to current educational litera- 

 ture and methods, serve to indicate that those 

 attending the meetings of Section L will be 

 well repaid for their trouble. Sessions of the 

 section will be held each morning and after- 

 noon on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

 The Friday morning session will be a joint 

 meeting with the American Psychological As- 

 sociation. The address of the retiring vice- 

 president, Elwood P. Cubberley, of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, will be on Thurs- 

 day afternoon. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Members of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science whose dues are 

 paid later than January 1, will receive the 

 back numbers of Science only on payment of 

 one cent a number to cover the extra cost of 

 mailing. It can not be guaranteed that the 

 copies will be supplied, as, owing to the ex- 

 traordinary increase in the cost of paper, only 

 bo many extra copies will be provided as are 

 likely to be needed. The offices of the perma- 

 nent secretary of the association and of Sci- 

 ence will be greatly assisted by the prompt 

 payment of dues. 



Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, distinguished psy- 

 chologist and author, professor of psychology 

 and director of the psychological laboratory of 

 Harvard University, died suddenly while lec- 

 turing to a class on December 16. Professor 

 Munsterberg was born in Danzig in 1863 and 

 was called from Freiburg to Harvard Univer- 

 sity in 1892. 



The public lectures of the approaching 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science will be given by Dr. 



Simon Flexner, director of the laboratories of 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 and by Dr. A. A. Noyes, professor of physical 

 chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. Dr. Flexner's lecture on " In- 

 fantile Paralysis and the Public Health " will 

 be given at Columbia University at five 

 o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday, Decem- 

 ber 28. Professor Noyes's lecture on " Nitro- 

 gen and Preparedness," will be given on the 

 evening of the same day at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



Mr. Theodore Roosevelt will make the 

 principal address at the opening of the New 

 York State Museum at Albany on the even- 

 ing of December 29, his subject being " Pro- 

 ductive Scientific Scholarship." Among those 

 who will make addresses at the afternoon exer- 

 cises are Dr. John H. Finley, president of the 

 University of the State of New York; Dr. 

 Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and Dr. John M. Clarke, 

 director of the State Museum. 



The Bruce gold medal of the Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific for the year 1917 has 

 been awarded to Professor E. E. Barnard, of 

 the Yerkes Observatory, for his distinguished 

 services to astronomy. The formal presenta- 

 tion will take place at the annual meeting of 

 the society at San Francisco, on the evening of 

 January 27. This is the fourteenth award of 

 the medal. 



The 1917 meeting of the Pacific Division 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will be held at Stanford Uni- 

 versity, California, between the dates of April 

 4 and 7. It is anticipated that Thursday and 

 Friday, April 5 and 6, will become the prin- 

 cipal days for meetings of the several Pacific 

 coast societies which will participate in this 

 occasion. Further announcements concerning 

 the meetings, railroad rates and excursions will 

 be made later. 



Fifteen members of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science residing 

 in the city of Rochester, N. Y., held a meet- 

 ing recently and organized the Rochester 

 Branch of the association. The executive 

 committee consists of H. L. Fairchild, chair- 



