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treasurer. The councilors are: Glover M. 

 Allen, R. M. Anderson, J. Grinnell, M. W. 

 Lyon, W. D. Matthew, John C. Merriam, Gei- 

 rit S. Miller, Jr., T. S. Palmer, Edward A. 

 Preble, Witmer Stone and N. Hollister, editor. 



Committees were appointed on: Life histor- 

 ies of mammals, C. C. Adams, chairman ; Study 

 of game mammals, Charles Sheldon, chairman ; 

 Anatomy and phylogeny, W. K. Gregory, 

 chairman; and Bibliography, T. S. Palmer, 

 chairman. The policy of the society will be to 

 devote its attention to the study of mammals 

 in a broad way, including life histories, habits, 

 relations to plants and animals, evolution, 

 paleontology, anatomy and other phases. 



Publication of the Journal of Mammalogy, 

 in which popular as well as technical matter 

 will be presented, will start this year. 



Any person interested in mammals is in- 

 vited to become a member of the society, and 

 those who qualify before the next annual meet- 

 ing will be considered charter members. 

 Every one who desires to have a complete file 

 of the journal should join now. Annual dues 

 are three dollars; life membership seventy-five 

 dollars in one payment. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 In connection with the semi-centennial cele- 

 bration of Cornell University a dinner will be 

 given on June 19 by the department of physics 

 and members of the university faculty to Pro- 

 fessor E. L. Nichols, who retires from the 

 active work of the professorship of physics. 



Professor Jacques BL\d.\mard, of the College 

 de France, has accepted an invitation from 

 Yale University to be a Silliman Lecturer in 

 the spring of 1920. M. Hadamard is a dis- 

 tinguished French mathematician who re- 

 ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. at the 

 Yale Bicentennial in 1901. 



C. Tate Regan has been appointed assistant 

 keeper of zoology in the British Xatural His- 

 tory Museum in succession to Mr. W. R. 

 Ogilvie Grant, who has retired. 



Prokpssor M. I. PrPiN, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, until recently Royal Consul General 



for Serbia to the United States, has gone to 

 France to the Peace Conference. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam has been elected chair- 

 man of the U. S. Geographic Board, as suc- 

 cessor to the late Andrew Braid. 



Eighty trees will be planted in the Cale- 

 donia Furnace forest reserve on Arbor Day, 

 honoring Dr. J. T. Rothrock, of West Chester, 

 father of the forestry activities of the state 

 of Pennsylvania, who was eighty years old on 

 April 9. 



Dr. Henry Allan Gleason, assistant pro- 

 fessor of botany and also director of the 

 Botanical Garden and arboretum at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has been appointed the 

 first assistant of the director-in-ehief of the 

 Xew York Botanical Garden, succeeding Dr. 

 W. A. Murrill, who has been transferred to the 

 new position of supervisor of public instruc- 

 tion. 



The Hemenway fellowship in the Peabody 

 Museum of Harvard University has been 

 awarded for the year 1918-1919 to Eduardo 

 Noguera, assistant director of antiquities in 

 the National Museum of Mexico, and last 

 year a Robert C. 'VVinthrop scholar at Har- 

 vard. The Charles Eliot Ware Memorial Fel- 

 lowship in the medical school for the academic 

 year 1918-1919 has been awarded to Edward 

 Allen Boyden, of ISTewton Centre. 



Dr. Alexander C. Abbott, of the Univ.er- 

 sit.v of Pennsylvania, has been promoted to the 

 rank of colonel. He is now in charge of the 

 sanitary supervision of the territory occupied 

 by the second Army, but expects to be back at 

 the university in the fall. 



Capt.un Elton D. Walker, head of the de- 

 partment of civil engineering of Pennsylvania 

 State College, has returned after more than 

 eighteen months' service overseas. 



Captain H. C. Porter, of the Ordnance De- 

 partment, U. S. A., is now with the Chemical 

 Service Laboratories, at West Conshohocken, 

 Pennsylvania. 



Captain R. R, Rensh.\w, C. W. S., who has 

 been directing a corps of research men in the 

 Johns Hopkins University war laboratory, 



