JANUARY 26, 1912] 
March 19, when delegates will be received and 
historical addresses will probably be delivered ; 
two morning sessions will be devoted to the 
reading of scientifie papers by members, cor- 
respondents and delegates; on the afternoon 
of the second day a microscopical exhibition 
will be given and the resources of the acad- 
emy demonstrated; on the evening of that 
day a reception will be tendered by the presi- 
dent to members, guests and friends; and the 
proceedings will end with a banquet on the 
evening of March 21, the official birthday, of 
the academy. 
The preparation of the proposed publica- 
tions is progressing satisfactorily and the dig- 
nity and importance of the commemorative 
volume is assured. It is hoped that a united 
effort may be made to secure for the occasion 
a success commensurate with its importance 
in the history of the academy and in its rela- 
tion to the advancement of science in Amer- 
ica. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. Frepertc A. Lucas, director of the 
American Museum of Natural History, has 
been made a corresponding member of the 
Zoological Society of London. 
Dr. August WEISMANN, professor of zoology 
in the University of Freiburg, will retire in 
April. 
Dr. Grorce B. SHatruck has retired from 
the active editorial management of the Boston 
Medical and Surgical Journal after a service 
of thirty-one years. 
WE learn from the Journal of the American 
Medical Association that Professor Theodor 
Ziehen, director of the psychiatric and neuro- 
logie clinic in Berlin, will resign his position 
at the end of the winter semester and discon- 
tinue all medical work, in order to devote 
himself exclusively to research in psychology. 
For this purpose, he will remove to Wies- 
baden, where he will erect for himself a private 
psychological laboratory. 
Proressor ARMIN Battzer, Berne, and Dr. 
Emmanuel de Margerie, Paris, have been 
elected foreign members and Professor Charles 
Depéret, Lyons, and Professor Arvid Gustaf 
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Hégbom, Upsala, have been elected foreign 
correspondents of the Geological Society of 
London. 
M. LeciaincHe, professor in the veterinary 
school at Toulouse, has been elected a corre- 
sponding member of the Paris Academy of 
Sciences, in the section of agriculture. 
Art the ordinary scientific meeting of the 
London Chemical Society on December 21, 
1911, it was announced that the council had 
awarded the Longstaff medal for 1912 to Dr. 
H. Brereton Baker, F.R.S. 
At the dinner of the Western Society of 
Engineers, Chicago, on January 10, announce- 
ment was made of the award of the Octave 
Chanute Medal for 1910 in electrical engineer- 
ing to Mr. H. B. Gear, general inspector of 
the Commonwealth Edison Company, Chi- 
cago, for his work on “ devices for the distri- 
bution of electric light and power.” Mr. C. 
P. Berg received the medal for mechanical 
engineering in the heat treatment of high- 
speed tools, and Mr. C. K. Mohler was 
awarded the medal in civil engineering for 
his studies of earth pressures. 
Tue Institution of Mining and Metallurgy 
of Great Britain has awarded gold medals as 
follows: Gold Medal of the Institution (two 
awards): (a) to Mr. E. P. Mathewson, 
M.Inst.M.M., general manager of the Ana- 
conda Copper Company, Arizona, in recog- 
nition of his services in the advancement of 
metallurgy generally, and especially in re- 
gard to copper; (b) to Mr. Walter McDermott, 
M.Inst.M.M., in recognition of his services in 
the equipment of the Bessemer Laboratory of 
the Royal School of Mines and as the repre- 
sentative of the institution on the Board of 
Governors of the Imperial College of Science 
and Technology during the period of its es- 
tablishment and organization; and to signal- 
ize his services in the advancement of | 
metallurgical practise. The Consolidated 
Gold Fields of South Africa (Limited) 
Gold Medal to Mr. Walford R. Dowling, 
M.Inst.M.M., for his paper on “ The Amalga- 
mation of Gold in Banket Ore.” 
Proressor H. W. Riwey, head of the de- 
