JANUARY 5, 1912] 
president of the American Psychological As- 
sociation at the recent Washington meeting. 
CotoneL Wm. P. Gorcas has been elected 
president of the ninth Congress of American 
Physicians and Surgeons, which meets in 
Washington in May, 1913. 
Proressor H. L. Fatrcuip, of the Univer- 
sity of Rochester, has been elected president 
of the Geological Society of America. 
Tue following have been elected foreign 
members of the Royal Society: Dr. Johann 
Osear Backlund, of Pulkowa, imperial as- 
tronomer of Russia; Dr. Heinrich Ritter von 
Groth, professor of mineralogy in the Uni- 
versity of Munich; Heinrich Kayser, pro- 
fessor of physics in the University «° Bonn; 
M. Joseph Achille Le Bel, of Paris, the Uhem- 
ist, and Klement A. Timiriazeff, professor of 
botany in the University of Moscow. 
Lorp Cromer and the Hon. Lionel Walter 
Rothschild have been elected fellows of the 
Royal Society under the statute which em- 
powers the council once in every two years to 
recommend to the society for election not 
more than two persons who in their opinion 
have rendered conspicuous service to the 
cause of science. 
Dr. Cartos Finnay, of Havana, has been 
elected a corresponding member of the Paris 
Academy of Medicine. 
It is stated in Nature that Professor G. 
Elliot Smith, F.R.S., professor of anatomy in 
the University of Manchester, has been 
awarded by the Paris Anthropological So- 
ciety the Prix Fauvelle, of one thousand 
francs, for his researches in the anatomy and 
physiology of the nervous system. 
Governor Dix has requested the resignation 
of Dr. Alva H. Doty as health officer of the 
Port of New York. Two weeks before a 
largely attended meeting of physicians of the 
New York Academy of Medicine, presided 
over by Dr. Abraham Jacobi, had passed reso- 
lutions requesting the reappointment of Dr. 
Doty, and referring to the admirable manner 
in which he had filled the position for the past 
sixteen years. 
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PROFESSOR VON WASSERMANN, the bacteriol- 
ogist, has been appointed honorary professor 
at Berlin. 
ProFessor ZIEMANN has resigned the charge 
of the public health service in Cameroon, 
Africa, on account of his health. 
EK. W. Rust, A.B. (Stanford), formerly at 
the Southern California Laboratory, has con- 
tracted with the Peruvian government for 
eighteen months as first assistant entomol- 
ogist. He arrived in Peru early in December. 
Mr. L. H. Worrtutey, assistant state for- 
ester of Massachusetts, in charge of the moth 
work, has accepted a position in the Bureau 
of Entomology. He will proceed to Europe 
to study the conditions on the continent. 
Mr. Froyp B. Jenks, assistant professor of 
agricultural education in the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, has accepted an ap- 
pointment in the Bureau of Education. 
Proressor FINKLENBURG, of Bonn, has as- 
sumed the direction of the hydrotherapeutic 
institute, Berlin, as successor to Professor 
Strasburger. 
Nature states that the presentation of a 
testimonial to Mr. Henry Keeping on his re- 
tirement from the post of curator of the 
Geological Museum, Cambridge, took place 
in the Sedgwick Museum on Saturday. De- 
cember 2, when Professor T. McKenny 
Hughes handed him a purse subscribed by old 
friends and students in recognition of his 
long and valuable services. Mr. Keeping en- 
tered upon his duties as curator fifty years 
ago under Professor Sedgwick in the old 
Woodwardian Museum, where the geological 
department was located until its removal into 
the Sedgwick Museum in 1904. 
Proressor W. E. Castur, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, who has left Cambridge to visit a 
number of countries of South America, chiefly 
Peru, wishes to obtain certain rodents for ex- 
perimental work in genetics at the Bussey 
Institution. Part of the expenses of Professor 
Castle’s trip are borne by the Carnegie Insti- 
tution. He expects to return to Cambridge 
about February 1, although his trip may be 
prolonged until the first of March. 
