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briefly concerning tlie establishnient of Federal 

 Fisheries Experiment Stations. The course of 

 popular scientific lectures is being continued 

 on Sunday afternoons at 3 o'clock in the audi- 

 torium of the Museum in Golden Gate Park. 

 Announcements are made as follows : 



December 16, The growth and transforma- 

 tion of insects (illustrated) : Professor E. O. 

 Essig, College of Agriculture, University of 

 California. 



December 23, The distribution of plants in 

 California (illiistrated) : Professor Douglas 

 Campbell, Department of Botany, Stanford 

 University. 



December 30, A fiesta of Indian summer: 

 Professor C. L. Edwards, Director of Nature 

 Study, Los Angeles Schools. 



January 6, Midwinter birds of Golden Gate 

 Park (illustrated) : Professor Joseph Grin- 

 nell. Director of the Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology, University of California. 



January 13, Fish and game in California 

 (illustrated by motion, pictures) : Dr. H. C. 

 Bryant, Game Expert, California Fish and 

 Game Commission. 



The next meeting of the Botanical Society 

 of Washington will be held at the Cosmos 

 Club, Washington, D. C, January 3, 1918. 

 Abstracts of the papers presented will be pub- 

 lished in the Journal of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences. The program is as 

 follows : 



The botany and economics of the tribe Phaseolese, 



C. V. Piper. 



Morphological characters and food value of soy- 

 bean varieties, W. J. Morse. 



Fermented soy-bean products. Dr. Chas. Thorn. 

 The American species of the genus Phaseolus, Dr. 



D. N. Shoemaker. 



The Journal of the British Medical Asso- 

 ciation reports that at a meeting of the Societe 

 Internationale de Chirurgie in Paris on No- 

 vember 3, 1917, which was attended by dele- 

 gates from Belgium, France, Great Britain, 

 Serbia, and the United States, it was resolved 

 to dissolve the society after the publication 

 of the volume of Transactions of the meeting 

 held in New York on April 14, 1914. It was 



further resolved that, should there be any 

 assets after the publication of this volume, the 

 money shall be divided pro rata amongst the 

 members, so that each member of the Ger- 

 mano-Austrian group shall receive his share, 

 but that the shares belonging to members of 

 other nations shall be retained and applied to 

 some object of scientific reparation in Belgium. 

 The meeting then determined that a new so- 

 ciety shall be formed after the war on a basis 

 similar to that of the Societe Internationale de 

 Chirurgie. It will be called the Societe In- 

 teralliee de Chirurgie, but will be open also to 

 such surgeons of neutral countries as may be 

 nominated for election by the general com- 

 mittee. 



A NEW journal of neurology and psychiatry 

 in German, French and Italian has recently 

 appeared under the direction of C. Yon Mona- 

 kow, professor of neurology in the University 

 of Zurich, with the collaboration of all the 

 well known Swiss neurologists and psychia- 

 trists. The assistant editors in neurology are 

 Dr. Bing (Basel), Dr. Minkowski (Zurich), 

 and Dr. Naville (Geneva) ; in psychiatry. Pro- 

 fessor Dr. Weber (Geneva) aaad Professor Dr. 

 Maier (Zurich). 



Dr. F. W. Clarke, chairman of the Interna- 

 tional Committee on Atomic Weights, writes 

 in the Journal of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety that on account of the difiiculties of 

 correspondence between its members, due to 

 the war, the International Committee on 

 Atomic Weights has decided to make no full 

 report for 1918. Although a good number of 

 new determinations have been published dur- 

 ing the past year, none of them seems to de- 

 mand any immediate change in the table for 

 1917. That table, therefore, may stand as 

 official during the year 1918. 



The Science Club of the University of Ore- 

 gon recently elected the following officers for 

 the ensuing year : President, Dr. W. D. Smith, 

 of the department of geology; Secretary, Dr. 

 C. H. Edmondson, of the department of zool- 

 ogy. The following program has been arranged 

 for the year: 



November. — ' ' Symposium on research, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor O. P. Stafford, chairman. 



