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of geology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 

 Utah. 



4. The conservation of the waters of the Col- 

 orado Eiver from the standpoint of the EeoJama- 

 tion Service: Mr. Prank E. "Weymouth, chief of 

 construction. United States Eeclamation Service, 

 Denver, Colorado. 



5. The interstate and international aspects of 

 the Colorado Eiver problem: Dr. C. E. Grunsky, 

 vice-president of the Pacific Division, American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, San 

 Francisco, California. 



The preliminary announcement of the meet- 

 ing will be issued shortly to members with fur- 

 ther details of the meeting. 



While none of the sections of the national 

 association wUl arrange to hold sessions at this 

 summer meeting the various fields of science 

 will be represented in the meetings of the affili- 

 ated societies of the Pacific Division. Those 

 scheduled to hold meetings at Salt Lake City 

 are: 



The American Physical Society. 



The American Meteorological Society. 



The American Phytopathological Society, Pa- 

 cific Division. 



The Ecological Society of America. 



The Society of American Foresters. 



The Cooper Ornithological Club. 



The Pacific Coast Entomological Society. 



The Pacific Slope Branch, American Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists. 



The Plant Physiologists. 



The Utah Academy of Sciences. 



The Western Psychological Association. 



The Western Society of Naturalists. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The degree of doctor of science will be con- 

 fen-ed in May by Liverpool University on Sir 

 Charles Sherrington, Waynflete professor of 

 physiology at the University of Oxford, presi- 

 dent of the Royal Society and of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The honorary degree of doctor of science has 

 been conferred on Sir Thomas Muir by the 

 University of Cape Town, in recognition of 

 his researches in mathematics and mathematical 

 history. Sir Thomas Muir was superintendent- 

 general of education for Cape Colony from 

 1892 to 1915. 



The University of Dublin wOl confer the 

 honorary degree of master of surgery upon 

 Dr. George E. Armstrong, professor of surgery 

 at McGill University, Montreal. 



PEorESSOR Edwin G. Boring, of Clark Uni- 

 versity, gave a lecture at Wellesley College on 

 April 18, on "The language of the emotions." 



Dr. Max Planck, professor of mathematical 

 physics at Berlin, has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, 

 Stockholm. 



In order to secure scientific data on the value 

 of moving pictures for use in teaching, the 

 Commonwealth Fund, of New York, has given 

 $10,000 for the use of Professor Frank N. 

 Freeman, of the University of Chicago, in the 

 systematic study of the educational value of 

 various kinds of pictures. 



At the recent meeting of the G«rman Micro- 

 biologic Society, the annual prize from the 

 Aronsohn Foundation, amounting to 25,000 

 marks, was awarded to Dr. J. Morgenroth, pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology at the University of 

 Berlin and chief of a dep>artment in the Koch 

 Institute. 



De. R. D. Carman, of the Mayo Foundation, 

 has been elected an honorary member of the 

 Roentgen Society of London. 



Sir Gerald Edward Chadwyck-Healet, 

 Bt., has been appointed a member of the Royal 

 Commission on Awards to Inventors, to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lord 

 Rayleigh. 



Dr. C. S. Myers has resigned from the direc- 

 torship of the psychological laboratory of the 

 University of Cambridge in order to devote his 

 whole time to the work of the British National 

 Institute of Industrial Psychology. 



Frederick W. Sperr, Jr., chief chemist of 

 the Koppers Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., has 

 been awarded the Beal medal by the American 

 Gas Association, in recognition of his work 

 and paper, presented at the convention of the 

 organization last November, entitled "The Sea- 

 board Liquid Process of Gas Purification." 



At a meeting held in Chicago on April 7, 

 a Chicago Association for the Relief and Pre- 

 vention of Heart Disease was formed to under- 

 take the tjrpe of work carried on by similar 



