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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLV. No. 1155 



Dr. J. W. Trask, Dr. Victor 0. Vaughan, Dr. 

 William H. Welch, Dr. George 0. Whipple, 

 Dr. C.-E. A. Winslow, Dr. William C. Wood- 

 ward. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor E. A. Cooley, state entomologist 

 and professor of zoology at the Montana State 

 College, has been elected president of the 

 American Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists. 



At the annual meeting of the Society of 

 American Bacteriologists officers were elected 

 as follows: President j Professor L. E. Eettger, 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School; Vice-presi- 

 dent, Dr. E. E. Buchanan, Iowa State Col- 

 lege; Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. A. Parker 

 Hutchins, Glenolden; Delegate to council of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, Dr. P. F. Hadley, Kingston, 

 E. I.; council memlers, Miss Jean Broadhurst, 

 New York; Dr. P. P. Clark, Wisconsin; Dr. 

 L. A. Eogers, Washington, D. C, and A. E. 

 Ingham, Boston. 



Professor W. E. M. Goss, dean of the col- 

 lege of engineering of the University of Illi- 

 nois, has resigned to accept the presidency of 

 the Eailway Car Maniifaoturers' Association 

 of New York. The resignation will take effect 

 as soon as Dr. Goss can be relieved. 



General George W. Goethals, recently 

 chief engineer of the Panama Canal and gov- 

 ernor of the Canal Zone, has announced the 

 opening of consulting engineering offices in 

 New York City. General Goethals has associ- 

 ated with him specialists, including George M. 

 Wells, former resident engineer in charge of 

 building construction. Canal Zone, and will 

 engage in a general consulting practise in 

 civil, electrical, mechanical and hydraulic 

 engineering. 



In memory of Judge Harvey H. Baker, of 

 the Boston Juvenile Court, there has been es- 

 tablished a Judge Baker Eoundation. Dr. 

 William Healy, director of the Psychopathic 

 Institute of the Juvenile Court of Cook 

 County, will have charge of the work of the 

 new foundation. 



The Delalande-Guerineau prize of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences has been awarded to Sir 

 Ernest Shaekleton, for his explorations in the 

 Antarctic continent. 



The Boyle medal of the Royal Dublin So- 

 ciety has been conferred on Professor Henry 

 H. Dixon, professor of botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Dublin. 



At a stated meeting of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Medicine on Eebruary 1, Dr. Walter 

 B. James announced that the portrait of Dr. 

 William M. Polk had been presented to the 

 academy, and that this completed the full line 

 of portraits of presidents of the academy. Dr. 

 George D. Stewart made the address of accept- 

 ance on behalf of the academy. The portrait 

 is the work of Miss Belle Isaacs. 



The twelfth annual banquet of the Cornell 

 Society of Civil Engineers at the Hotel Bres- 

 lin. New York, on January 19, was given in 

 honor of Professor Irving Porter Church. 

 Nearly a hundred and fifty engineers were 

 present. 



Before leaving the United States to spend a 

 year in the far east. Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey 

 was the guest at a dinner given by the mem- 

 bers of the Ithaca Board of Commerce and 

 his fellow members of the Cornell faculty. 

 Roger B. Williams, trustee of the university, 

 was toastmaster. The speakers were Dr. W. H. 

 Jordan, head of the State Experimental Sta- 

 tion at Geneva ; Dean A. W. Smith, of the Col- 

 lege of Mechanical Engineering; Dean A. R. 

 Mann, of the College of Agriculture; Dean C. 

 A. Martin, of the College of Architecture; 

 Dean E. H. Haskell, of the College of Civil 

 Engineering; Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, of 

 the department of Semitics, and Jacob Roth- 

 schild, chairman of the Board of Commerce. 



Dr. Gregory D. Walcott, professor of phi- 

 losophy and psychology in Hamline Univer- 

 sity, has been given a year's leave of absence 

 to teach psychology and logic in the govern- 

 ment college of Tsing Hua, China. He ex- 

 pects to sail from San Erancisco about the 

 first of next July and to be abroad until Sep- 

 tember, 1918. 



