September 20, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



369' 



The late Professor Henri Poincai'6, of Paris, 

 France; Member of the French Academy; Com- 

 mander of the Legion of Honor; Professor of 

 Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of 

 Paris. 



* Professor Sir William Eamsay, K.C.B., of 

 London, England; late Professor of Chemistry at 

 University College, London; Nobel Laureate in 

 Chemistry, 1904; President of the Seventh Inter- 

 national Congress of Applied Chemistry. 



Professor Carl Stormer, of Christiania, Norway; 

 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences; 

 Associate Editor of the Acta Mathematica; Pro- 

 fessor of Pure Mathematics in the University of 

 Christiania. 



* Professor Senator Vito Volterra, of Eome, 

 Italy; Life Senator of the Italian Kingdom; 

 Dean of the Faculty of Science and Professor of 

 Mathematical Physics and Celestial Mechanics in 

 the University of Rome; recently Lecturer in the 

 Universities of Paris and Stockholm. 



Each of these gentlemen has consented to 

 prepare three lectures for the proceedings of 

 the opening festival and to permit the institute 

 to publish his dissertations in a series of vol- 

 umes which it is proposed to issue in com- 

 memoration of the occasion. Those lectures 

 whose names are designated above by an 

 asterisk will be present and read the intro- 

 ductory lectures of their respective courses: 

 the lectures of those whose names are not so 

 designated will be contributed in manuscript 

 and placed upon the program by title. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The eighty-second annual meeting of the 

 British Association, which opened on Septem- 

 ber 4, had a preliminary registration of 2,379 

 members, which is considerably larger than 

 the average. At the opening meeting, at 

 which the address of Professor Sehafer, al- 

 ready published in Science, was delivered, it 

 was announced that Mr. J. K. Caird, of 

 Dundee, had given £10,000 to the funds of 

 the association. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the labora- 

 tories of the Rockefeller Institute, has been 

 appointed Huxley lecturer for the current 

 year. This lecture will be given before the 



Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, Lon- 

 don, on October 31, 1912. 



Professor Hugo de Vries lectured at the- 

 New York Botanical Garden on September 

 14. 



Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, who had in- 

 tended to be present at the opening of the- 

 Eice Institute and to lecture at several uni- 

 versities, has been obliged to cancel his Amer- 

 ican trip, owing to ill-health. 



Sir Willum Turner, professor of anatomy 

 at Edinburgh, and Dr. Julius von Hann, pro- 

 fessor of meteorology at the University of 

 Vienna, have been appointed foreign knights- 

 of the Prussian order " Pouj le merite." 



Alfred H. Brooks, geologist in charge of 

 the Alaskan division of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, has been appointed a member of the- 

 Alaskan Railroad Commission, and is now en. 

 route to Alaska. 



Mr. V. H. Hughes, E.M., has been ap- 

 pointed assistant state geologist of Missouri.. 



De. Frederick J. Biechard, formerly as- 

 sistant in chemistry at the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute, has been appointed a research chemist, 

 in the Dairy Division of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry, Washington, D. C. 



The Board of Scientific Directors of the- 

 RoekefeUer Institute for Medical Research 

 announce the following appointments : Michael 

 Heidelberger, fellow in chemistry; Linda Bar- 

 tels Lange, fellow in pathology; Elorentin 

 Medigreceanu, assistant resident physician. 



A course of two weeks devoted to an exten- 

 sion course in nervous and mental diseases 

 has been given at Eordham University School 

 of Medicine. Among those taking part were- 

 Drs. Henry Head and Gordon Holmes, of 

 London; Dr. Carl Jung, of Zurich; Dr. Alwyn, 

 Knauer, of Munich; Dr. N. Achucarro, of 

 Madrid, and Dr. Colon K.. Russel, of Mon- 

 treal. 



Professor H. Steatjs, Berlin, will deliver- 

 a course of lectures, October 12, 14, 15, on 

 diseases of the stomach and kidneys, at the 

 New York Post-Graduate Medical School, and. 

 Professor Dr. Carl von Noorden, physician in 



