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soeiation for the calendar year 1921. The. 

 second is " A Booklet of General Information, 

 specially announcing the Second Toronto 

 Meeting," which is to occur December 27-31, 

 1921. It includes preliminary information re- 

 garding the second Toronto meeting, with 

 notes on the city of Toronto, and presents a 

 succinct statement of the " Organization and 

 work of the association." The latter topic is 

 discussed under the following headings : " Gen- 

 eral scope," " Meetings," " Endowment and 

 grants for research," " Publications," " Co- 

 operation with other organizations," " Finan- 

 cial aspect of the work of the association," and 

 " Conditions, obligations and privileges of 

 membership and fellowship." 



The last cover page of this booklet bears 

 an instructive graph showing the growth of 

 the membership list from 1848 (461) to 1920 

 (11,442). Copies of these booklets may be ob- 

 tained from the permanent secretary's office. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. George E. Hale, director of. the Mount 

 Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, was elected president of the Pacific Di- 

 vision of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science at the recent Berkeley 

 meeting. 



At the opening meeting of the second In- 

 ternational Congress of Eugenics, which will 

 be held at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York City, on the evening of 

 September 22, addresses will be made by Pro- 

 fessor Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the 

 congress; Major Leonard Darwin, president of 

 the Eugenics Education Society, London ; and 

 Dr. Charles B. Davenport, director of the De- 

 partment of Genetics of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine has elected 

 as foreign correspondents Professor L. J. Hen- 

 derson, of Harvard University; Sir Robert 

 Philipp, of Edinburgh; Sir Humphry Eolles- 

 ton, of London; and Sir d'Arcy Power, of 

 London. 



At the June meeting of the Royal Society 

 of New South Wales, Mr. R. T. Baker, curator 



and economic botanist of the Technological 

 Museum, Sydney, was presented with the 

 Mueller medal awarded to him by the Austra- 

 lasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science for his services to botany, particularly 

 in regard to the Eucalypts. 



Dr. R. Robles, of Guatemala, has been made 

 a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the 

 president of the French Republic, in recog- 

 nition of his discovery that the disease known 

 in Central America as " coast erysipelas " is 

 transmitted by a filaria. 



Dr. Julius Lilienfeld, professor of physics 

 at the University of Leipzig, has arrived in 

 New York, where he has recently given a 

 demonstration of his new roentgen-ray tube 

 before the New York Roentgen Ray Society. 



Dr. a. J. Hill, of New Hampshire, for 

 twenty years a member of the Census Bureau 

 and for several years chief statistician, has 

 been appointed assistant director of the census. 



Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania, has ap- 

 pointed Dr. John M. Baldy as commissioner of 

 welfare under the law which was passed at the 

 last session of the legislature. The law creates 

 a department of welfare to take over the work of 

 the old state Board of Public Charities, the 

 Lunacy Commission, the Prison Labor Board 

 and other related activities. Dr. Baldy has 

 been president of the State Board of Medical 

 Education and Licensure since its creation in 

 1911, and is succeeded in this office by Dr. 

 Irvin D. Metzger, Pittsburgh. 



The British Civil List pensions granted 

 during the year ended March 31, 1921, as re- 

 ported in Nature, amounted to 1,200Z., and in- 

 clude the following: Mrs. Frederick Enock, 

 in recognition of her husband's services to 

 natural science and entomology, lOOL; Mr. 

 Edward Greenly, in recognition of his services 

 in the geological survey of Anglesey, 80Z. ; Mrs. 

 J. A. McClelland, in recognition of her hus- 

 band's distinguished services as an investi- 

 gator in physical science, lOOZ. ; Mrs. and 

 Miss Sharman, in recognition of Mr. George 

 Sharman's valuable services in palseontological 

 science, 80Z. ; Mr. John Nugent Fitch, in recog- 

 nition of his long services to the cause of 



