November 16, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



477 



These are a few of the results which have fol- 

 lowed from the assistance which the engineering 

 foundation gave in the bringing into being of the 

 National Research Council. It is hoped that they 

 are only a small part of the results which will have 

 been attained. by the end of the second year of its 

 existence. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF DR. HENRY 

 FAIRFIELD OSBORN 



On the afternoon of September 29 a large 

 and informal gathering of friends surprised 

 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn at his home at 

 Garrison-on-Hudson in honor of his sixtieth 

 birthday. The visit had originally been 

 planned for August 8, his birthday, but vpas 

 necessarily deferred until September 29, which 

 chanced to be the thirty-sixth anniversary of 

 his marriage with Mrs. Osborn. The Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History was repre- 

 sented by Mr. Madison Grant of the board 

 of trustees, by the members of the scientific 

 stail and their wives, by the members of the 

 department of vertebrate palseontology and of 

 the administrative and technical staffs and 

 their wives. The New York Zoological Park 

 and the New York Aquarium, Columbia Uni- 

 versity and Princeton University were also 

 represented. The weather was favorable so 

 that the arrangements for luncheon on the 

 lawn were enjoyably carried out. After the 

 luncheon Professor Edmund B. Wilson, of 

 Columbia, read congratulatory messages from 

 Colonel Theodore Eoosevelt, President Nich- 

 olas Murray Butler, and Mayor Mitchel, and 

 presided at the addresses, the speakers includ- 

 ing Mr. Madison Grant, Professor McClure of 

 Princeton, Mr. William Church Osborn, Pro- 

 fessor Bashford Dean, and Dr. Frank M. 

 Chapman. Dr. F. A. Lucas gave a discourse 

 on " Birthdays," after which he presented to 

 Professor Osborn an illuminated message of 

 congratulation bearing forty-sis signatures. 

 The text of this message and the signatures 

 were as follows: 



TO 

 HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN 



Tour friends, who are bound to you by many 

 years of treasured association, bring this message 

 of congratulation upon your sixtieth birthday. 



We have followed with increasing admiration 

 the progress of your labors during the past forty 

 years in an ever widening field of science. We are 

 proud of the splendid record of your achievements: 

 admirable researches accomplished and in progress, 

 great institutions of science and education founded 

 and fostered, high scientific ideals nobly illustrated 

 and practised. 



May the coming years further expand the orbit 

 of your influence. May your spirit of high en- 

 thusiasm, thoroughness and unwearying indus- 

 try, sustained by the cordial sympathy and co- 

 operation which you have always shown towards 

 others, become more and more characteristic of 

 American sciences 



J. A. Allen, 

 L. P. Gratacap, 

 George F. Kdnz, 



E. O. HOVEY, 



Frank M. Chapman, 

 Jonathan Dwight, 

 EoY W. Miner, 

 W. D. Matthew, 

 Walter Granger, 

 Barnum Brown, 

 A. Hermann, 

 William K. Gregory, 

 Frederic A. Lucas, 

 Theodore Eoosevelt, 

 N. L. Britton, 

 Geo. H. Sherwood, 

 E. W. Tower, 

 Mary C. Dickerson, 

 Pliny Earle Goddard, 

 Clark Wissler, 

 Frank E. Lutz, 

 Fred H. Smyth, 

 Geo. N. Pindar, 

 August 8, 1917 



Edmund B. Wilson, 

 Wm. H. Carpenter, 

 Bashford Dean, 

 Henry E. Crampton, 

 T. H. Morgan, 

 Gary N. Calkins, 

 J. Howard McGregor, 

 W. B. Scott, 

 Chas. W. Mead, 

 Chester A. Eeeds, 

 John Treadwell Nichols, 

 Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 M.vDisoN Grant, 

 Percy E. Pyne, 

 W. T. Hornaday, 

 Chas. H. Townsend, 

 C. W. Beebe, 

 Eaymond L. Ditmars, 

 S. H. Chubb, 

 Albert Thomson, 

 E. S. Cheistman, 

 A. E. Anderson, 

 H. Lang. 



THE LABORATORY OF THE U. S. FISHERIES 

 BIOLOGICAL STATION AT WOODS HOLE 



The work of the staff at the station of the 

 Bureau of Fisheries at Woods Hole during 

 1917, has been concentrated during the sum- 

 mer on problems directly bearing on the con- 

 servation of food fishes and the utilization of 

 marine forms not now appreciated in this 

 country as food. Researches on the best 

 methods of desiccating fish for storage, on the 

 rehydration of dried fish and on the food value 

 of such preparations were undertaken by Dr. 

 G. G. Scott, of the College of the City of 

 New York. Observations on the relation of 

 parasites, especially nematodes, to the edible 

 qualities of food fishes were made by Dr. 

 Edwin Linton of Washington and Jefferson 

 College. Investigations on the bacteriology 



