December 13, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



821 



President, Organising Committee : W. H. Holmes, 

 head curator, department of anthropology, U. S. 

 National Museum. 



Secretary: A. HrdliCka, curator, division phys- 

 ical anthropology, U. S. National Museum. 



Auxiliary Besident Secretaries: Dr. Chas. W. 

 Currier, Mr. F. Neumann. 



Treasurer: C. P. Norment, president, The Na- 

 tional Bank of Washington. 



Head of General (honorary) Committee: Mr. 

 Charles D. Walcott, secretary, Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. 



Head of Committee on Finance: Dr. George M. 

 Kober, dean, Medical Department, Georgetown 

 University. 



Sead of Committee on Arrangements and Enter- 

 tainment: Professor Mitchell Carroll, general sec- 

 retary, Archeological Institute of America. 



Head of Committee on Printing and Publica- 

 tion: Mr. P. W. Hodge, ethnologist in charge of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



The sessions of the congress will be held, 

 due to the courtesy of the authorities of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, in the new building 

 of the National Museum. The exact date for 

 the meeting will be decided upon later, in 

 accordance with the wishes of the majority of 

 the delegates to the congress, but the month 

 will, in all probability, be September. Active 

 preparations for the session, which promises 

 to be one of the most important ever held by 

 the Americanists, will be begun without delay. 

 A. Hrdlioka, 

 Secretary Committee 



of Organization 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



President Taft has recommended to the 

 congress that Colonel Goethals be appointed 

 major general in the army as a recognition of 

 his executive work in the construction of the 

 Panama canal. 



Dr. Eeid Hunt, F. S. Public Health Serv- 

 ice, has been appointed a member of the board 

 created by the Bureau of Mines to study the 

 hygiene and dangers in mines. 



At its last meeting the Rumford Committee 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences made the following appropriations: to 

 G. W. Eitchey, of Pasadena, $500 for the con- 



struction of a reflecting telescope employing 

 mirrors with new forms of curves; to Pro- 

 fessor Edward L. Nichols, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, $250 for the construction of a new form 

 of electromagnet, to be used in an investiga- 

 tion by Mr. W. P. Eoop, on the effect of tem- 

 perature on the magnetic susceptibility of 



Professor L. A. Clinton, who for the past 

 ten years has been director of the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Storrs, 

 has resigned and accepted a position with the 

 Office of Farm Management of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture. Professor Clinton's 

 work with the department will be to have 

 charge of the farm management investigations 

 for the North Atlantic states. 



Professor Edward M. Freeman, chief of the 

 division of plant pathology and assistant dean 

 and secretary of the faculty of the college of 

 agriculture of the University of Minnesota, 

 has declined the offer of the position of chief 

 pathologist of the Kew Botanical Gardens. 

 The position carries a salary of $4,700. 



Dr. G. R. Kraus, professor of botany at 

 Wiirzburg, has retired from active service. 



Mr. Erank Meyer, agricultural explorer for 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 will sail for China where he will conduct bo- 

 tanical exploration in the interior for the 

 next three or four years. 



Mr. Chas. Wilson and Mr. Arthur Henn, 

 seniors in Indiana University, will sail on De- 

 cember 21 for Buenaventura, Colombia. They 

 will explore Pacific slope streams and the 

 Atrato river in continuation of the work of 

 Professor 0. H. Eigenmann on these streams 

 between January and March of the present 

 year. 



The fifth of the present course of Harvey 

 Society lectures was given at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine on December 14, by 

 Professor F. B. Mallory, Harvard University, 

 on " Infectious Lesions of the Blood Vessels." 



Professor C.-E. A. Winslow, of the depart- 

 ment of public health of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History and of the College 

 of the City of New York, opened the first semi- 



