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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVI. No. 934 



Tuesday and Wednesday, December 31 and Jan- 

 uary 1. Joint sessions with Sections F and G, 

 A. A. A. S., on dates to be announced. Secretary, 

 Professor T. W. Galloway, James Millikin Uni- 

 versity, Decatur, 111. 



American Society of Naturalists. — Meets on 

 Thursday, January 2. Will hold symposium on 

 "Adaptation." Secretary, Dr. A. L. Treadwell, 

 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



American Nature-Study Society. — Meets on 

 Monday and Tuesday, December 30 and 31. Will 

 probably hold joint session with School Garden 

 Association of America on date to be announced. 

 Secretary, Professor Elliot R. Downing, University 

 of Chicago, Chicago, HI. 



Society for Pharmacology and Experimental 

 Therapeutics. — Meets on Monday and Tuesday, 

 December 30 and 31. Secretary, Dr. John Auer, 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New 

 York City. 



American Physical Society. — Meets in joint ses- 

 sions in charge of Section B, A. A. A. S., on dates 

 to be announced. Secretary, Dr. Ernest Merritt, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



American Physiological Society.- — Meets on Mon- 

 day, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 30 to 

 January 1, in physiological laboratory. Western 

 Reserve Medical School. Joint session with Sec- 

 tion K, A. A. A. S., on Wednesday, January 1. 

 Secretary, Dr. A. J. Carlson, University of Chi- 

 cago, Chicago, HI. 



American Psychological Association. — Meets on 

 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 30 

 to January 1. Joint sessions with Sections P and 

 L, A. A. A. S., on dates to be announced. Secre- 

 tary, Professor W. V. Bingham, Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, Hanover, N. H. 



American Phytopathological Association. — ^Meeta 

 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 

 December 31 to January 3. Will hold joint ses- 

 sions with Section G, A. A. A. S., and with the 

 Botanical Society of America on dates to be an- 

 nounced. Secretary, Dr. C. L. Shear, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



School Garden Association of America. — Will 

 hold joint session with American Nature-Study 

 Society on date to be announced. Secretary, Dick 

 J. Crosby, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Association of Official Seed Analysts. — ^Will 

 hold meetings on Thursday, January 2. Secretary, 

 Edgar Brown, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



American Society of Zoologists. — Joint meeting 

 of Eastern and Central Branches, on Monday, 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, December 30 to January 



1. Joint session with Section F, A. A. A. S., on 

 date to be announced. Joint meeting with Amer- 

 ican Society of Naturalists on Thursday, January 



2. Secretary in charge. Dr. Wintea-ton C. Curtis, 

 University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Secretary 

 (Eastern Branch), Dr. John H. Gerould, Dart- 

 mouth College, Hanover, N. H. 



Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity. — 

 Will hold annual convention, council meeting and 

 banquet on Tuesday, December 31, 1912. H. E. 

 Howe, recorder, Ashland, Va. 



Sigma Xi. — Will hold annual convention with 

 banquet on date to be announced. H. T. Eddy, 

 president, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 

 Minn. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



It is announced from Stockholm that the 

 Nobel prize for chemistry has been divided 

 betv7een M. Grignard, of Nancy, and M. Sabat- 

 tier, of Toulouse, and the prize in physics to 

 Mr. Gustaf Dalen, head of the Stockholm Gas 

 Company. The prize in literature has been 

 awarded to Dr. Gerhart Hauptmann, of Berlin. 



Dk. Alexis Carrel, of the Eockefeller Insti- 

 tute for Medical Eesearch, who has been 

 awarded the Nobel prize in medicine, was 

 given a reception at the College of the City of 

 New York, on November 16. Among those 

 who made addresses in appreciation of his 

 work were President Taft and M. Jusserand, 

 the French ambassador. 



Professor Charles S. Minot, of Harvard 

 University, and Professor William M. Sloane, 

 of Columbia University, gave their inaugural 

 lectures at the University of Berlin, on Oc- 

 tober 31. The German emperor and the em- 

 press were present at the ceremony. 



A BANQUET will be tendered to Dr. Theodore 

 N. Gill, associate of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, professor emeritus of George Washing- 

 ton University, and a founder of the Cosmos 

 Club, at the Cosmos Club on December 13, as 

 a token of esteem, in affectionate commemora- 

 tion of the completion of the seventy-fifth year 

 of his age and fifty-sixth year of publication 

 of his contributions to knowledge. 



