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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV. No. 1410. 



Section L (Historical and Philological Sciences) : 

 "William A. Loey, Nortlnvestern Uni-rersity. 



Section M (Engineering) ; George F. Sivain, 

 Harvard XTniversity. 



Section N (Medical Sciences) : Francis W. Pea- 

 body, Harvard Medical School. 



Section (Agriculture) : E. W. Thatcher, Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota. 



Professor W. M. Wheeler, of the Bussey 

 Institution, Harvard University, was elected 

 president of the American Society of Nat- 

 uralists at its meeting held last week at 

 Toronto. 



Professor Hexrt B. Ward, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, who for twenty-seven years has 

 been secretary of the Society of Sigma Xi, 

 and has been in large measure responsible for 

 its development during this period, was elected 

 president at the meeting held at Toronto dur- 

 ing Christmas week. Professor Edward 

 Ellery, professor of chemistry and dean of the 

 faculty at Union College, was elected to suc- 

 ceed Professor Ward as secretary. 



At the meeting of the Geological Society of 

 America and the affiliated societies held last 

 week at Amherst, a silver loving cup was pre- 

 sented to Professor B. Iv. Emerson, who be- 

 came head of the department of geology at 

 Amherst College in 1870. The presentation 

 was made Ijy Dr. John M. Clarke, whose ad- 

 dress we hope to print. 



Dr. W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia, has been 

 elected a foreign associate of the French 

 Academy of Medicine. 



Dr. C. Lloyd Morgan, D.Sc, F.R.S., late 

 principal and emeritus professor of the Uni- 

 versity of Bristol, was presented on December 

 2 with his j)ortrait, a gift from friends, col- 

 leagues and students, both jjast and present. 

 The portrait was painted by Mr. Anning-Bell. 



Dr. J. G. Adami, lately professor of path- 

 ology in McGill University Medical School and 

 now vice-chancellor of Liverpool University, 

 has been admitted to the freedom of the City 

 of London. 



Mr. Alfred D. Flinn, secretary of the 

 United Engineering Society and Engineering 

 Foundation and chairman of the Division of 



Engineering, National Research Council, gave 

 an address on "Engineering, research and 

 vicarious tests" at the meeting of the America?i 

 Philosophical Society on January 6. 



Dr. Allen K. Krause, associate professor 

 of medicine, Johns Hopkins University, will 

 deliver the fifth Harvey Society Lecture at the 

 New York Academy of Medicine on Saturday- 

 evening, January 21. His subject will be "Es 

 jperimental Studies on Ttiberculous Infection." 



Dr. Charles Moureu, professor of chem- 

 istry at the College de France, who is now in 

 this country as technical adviser to the French 

 Mission for Disarmament, delivered an ad- 

 dress on "Natural gases, with special reference 

 to the rare gases" at Columbia University on 

 December 20. 



An International Society of Medical Hy- 

 drology was founded at a meeting of the Royal 

 Society of Medicine on December 9, with a 

 preliminary membership of 71 medical men 

 from 13 countries. Dr. Fortescue Fox was 

 elected president. 



The thiixl congress of the International So- 

 ciety of the History of Medicine will be held 

 in London from July 17 to 22 under the presi- 

 dency of Sir Norman Moore. 



Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the Vienna orthopedic 

 surgeon, has been granted a license to practice 

 medicine in the State of New York. The Board 

 of Regents of the Universitjr of the State of 

 New York at a recent meeting voted unani- 

 mously to indorse the copy of a license issued 

 to Dr. Lorenz in October, 1902, by the Illinois 

 State Board of Health. 



On Tuesday afternoons, beginning on Jan- 

 uarj' 17, the following lectures will be given 

 before the Royal Institution : Two lectures by 

 Dr. F. H. A. Marshall on "Physiology as ap- 

 plied to agriculture" ; three by Professor H. H. 

 Turner on "Variable stars" ; five by Sir Arthur 

 Keith on "Anthropological problems of the 

 British Empire," and two by Dr. J. W. Evans 

 on "Earth movements." 



We learn from The Observatory that the 

 Roj^al Astronomical Observatory, Arcetri, 

 Florence, Italy, will henceforth devote its 



