Makch 2, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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by Edwin Grant Conklin, professor of zoology, 

 Princeton University. Subject: "Methods and 

 Causes of Organic Evolution" (open to the pub- 

 lic), XJ. S. National Museum. 



9.00 P.M. Eeeeption, main hall, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution. 



Tuesday, April 17 



9.30 P.M. Business session, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum. 



10.30 A.M.. Scientific session (open to the pub- 

 lic), TJ. S. National Museum. 



2.80 P.M. Scientific session (open to the pub- 

 lie), TJ. 8. National Museum. 



8.00 P.M. Annual dinner, Ealeigh Hotel. Pre- 

 sentation of medals. 



Wednesday, April IS 



9.30 A.M. Business session, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum. Election of of&cers and members. 



1.30 P.M. Luncheon, Ealeigh Hotel. 



3.00 P.M. Scientific session (open to the pub- 

 lic), IT. S. National Museum. 



4.00 P.M. Second William Ellery Hale Lecture, 

 by Edwin Grant Conklin, professor of zoology, 

 Princeton University. Subject: "Methods and 

 Causes of Organic Evolution" (open to the pub- 

 lic), U. S. National Museum. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The portrait by Henry Ulke of Joseph 

 Henry, first secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, has been transferred by a senate 

 resolution, from the capitol to the Smithson- 

 ian Institution, where it has been hung in the 

 National Gallery of Art, in the new building 

 of the iNational Museum. 



Dr. William H. Welch was the guest of 

 honor at the tenth annual banquet of the 

 ^sculapian Club, Philadelphia, on February 6. 



Professor Austin F. Hawes, head of the 

 forestry department of the University of Ver- 

 mont and state forester, has resigned. Two 

 positions were created lately in the United 

 States Government's States Relations Serv- 

 ice, foresters in charge of the Agricultural Ex- 

 tension work, one for the Cotton Belt States 

 and one for the states of the north and west, 

 the last of which Professor Hawes will fill. 



Dr. Fabian Franklin, associate editor of 

 the New York Evening Post since October, 

 1909, has resigned. Dr. Franklin was pro- 



fessor of mathematics in the Johns Hopkins 

 University from 1879 to 1895. 



Dr. Morton G. Lloyd, formerly technical 

 editor of The Electrical Review and Western 

 Electrician, has accepted a temporary appoint- 

 ment as associate engineer in the Bureau of 

 Standards, Washington, D. C. 



K. F. Kellerman has been promoted from 

 the position of assistant chief to that of asso- 

 ciate chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. Watson L. Wasson, professor of mental 

 diseases in the college of medicine of the Uni- 

 versity of Vermont, has accepted the position 

 of superintendent of the Vermont State Hos- 

 pital for the Insane at Waterbury to succeed 

 Dr. Don D. Grout, who has resigned. Dr. E. 

 A. Stanley has been appointed to succeed Dr. 

 Wasson at the University of Vermont. He 

 has been a member of the hospital staff for 

 some time. 



After seven months' absence in Japan, 

 Korea, southern Manchuria and China, Assist- 

 ant Professor Wellington Downing Jones, of 

 the department of geography at the University 

 of Chicago, has returned to the university for 

 his regular work. The purpose of his trip to 

 the Orient was to get a general view of the 

 regions visited so as to be able to study intelli- 

 gently what has been written about them, and 

 also to plan effectively future detailed field in- 

 vestigations. 



It is stated in Nature that Captain Amund- 

 sen, the Norwegian explorer, who proposes to 

 endeavor to reach the North Pole by aeroplane, 

 is on his way to Norway from America to com- 

 plete his plans. The ship in which he will 

 make the first part of the journey is to be 

 launched at Christiania next March, and Cap- 

 tain Amundsen expects to start his scientific 

 expedition about the summer of next year. He 

 hopes eventually to come in touch with Eobert 

 A. Bartlett, another explorer, who is going via 

 Bering Strait. 



At the annual meeting of the Koyal Micro- 

 scopical Society, held on January 17, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected for the year 1917: 

 President, E. Heron- Allen; Y ice-presidents j J. 



