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in the public reading of papers, and for sim- 

 ilar purposes. The smoking and general con- 

 versation room or rooms will be independent 

 of the foregoing. The annual address of the 

 retiring president, Professor H. L. Fairchild, 

 will be delivered on the evening of Saturday, 

 the twenty-eighth. The council desires to in- 

 crease the number of students and other 

 junior workers in geological science attending 

 the meeting as visitors, and with this object 

 requests each fellow to send to the secretary, 

 not later than November 25, the names and 

 addresses of persons who, whether they can 

 attend the meeting or not, are seriously inter- 

 ested in geology and deserving of recognition 

 as visitors, although they have not yet reached 

 such standing as to gain membership in the 

 society. The council will then write to the 

 persons thus nominated, inviting them to at- 

 tend the New Haven meeting. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Edward W. Morley, the distinguished 

 American chemist, has been made an honorary 

 member of the Swiss Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



The gold medal for science of the Prussian 

 government has been conferred on Dr. Robert 

 Helmert, director of the Geodetic Institute of 

 Potsdam. 



Dr. E. J. Bahtlett, professor of chemistry 

 in Dartmouth College, has been elected repre- 

 sentative to the state legislature from the town 

 of Hanover on the Republican ticket. 



Dr. Leo Koenigsberger, professor of mathe- 

 matics in Heidelberg, celebrated his seventy- 

 fifth birthday on October 15. 



The Gedge prize of Cambridge University 

 has been awarded to Mr. A. V. Hill, of Trin- 

 ity College, for his essay entitled " The Heat 

 Production of Amphibian Muscle and of Cold- 

 blooded Animals." 



M. d'Oliveira, the Brazilian ambassador to 

 Belgium, has been delivering a course of lec- 

 tures in several universities and colleges and 

 has been making a special study of the Amer- 

 ican collegiate educational system. 



Professor Merritt L. Fernald, of Harvard 

 University, lectured before the Geographical 

 Society of Chicago on November 8 on " The 

 Mountains and Barrens of Newfoundland and 

 the Gaspe Peninsula." 



Professor H. L. Reitz, of the department 

 of mathematics at the University of Illinois, 

 spoke on " The Mathematical Treatment of 

 Scientific Data " before the first College of 

 Science assembly of the year on November 1. 

 The science assembly will be held monthly 

 throughout the year, following the practise 

 instituted last year. 



Dr. Fred. E. Wright, of the Geophysical 

 Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, will give a course of lectures on 

 experimental geology to the students of the 

 geological department of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, beginning at the opening of the 

 winter term in January, 1913. Dr. Arthur 

 L. Day, director of the Geophysical Labora- 

 tory, will cooperate with Dr. Wright in some 

 of these lectures, the general purpose of which 

 will be to present to advanced students in 

 geology this comparatively undeveloped but 

 highly important branch of the subject, atten- 

 tion being directed to the fundamental prin- 

 ciples of chemistry, physics and crystallog- 

 raphy which underlie work in this field. The 

 results which have already been secured in 

 experimental geology will be reviewed and at- 

 tention directed to those geological problems 

 which are still unsolved and in which experi- 

 ment may render efficient aid. 



Professor Harold B. Smith, director of 

 the department of electrical engineering of 

 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, who is 

 on leave of absence and who has recently 

 returned from a trip around the world, was 

 in Worcester recently and delivered three il- 

 lustrated lectures descriptive of his travels. 

 The first was before the Alumni Association, 

 the second before the Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute Branch of the American Institute 

 of Electrical Engineers and the third for 

 members of the electrical engineering depart- 

 ment and their friends. 



