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tion of his scientific acliievement in the field 

 of geography of the southern hemisphere. Mr. 

 Eoosevelt addressed the meeting after the pres- 

 entation. 



On the evening of March 24, at a banquet 

 given for Professor Anton Julius Carlson, fifty 

 of his former pupils who have taken higher 

 degrees under him presented him with a Sigma 

 Xi key jewelled with diamonds and a memorial 

 booklet containing the autographs of all the 

 participants. Professor Carlson has just com- 

 pleted his tenth year as director of mechanical 

 physiology at the University of Chicago. 



Sir J. J. Thomson, Cavendish professor of 

 physics at the University of Cambridge and 

 president of the Royal Society, Sir David 

 Prain, director of Kew Botanical Gardens, and 

 Sir George Beilby, head of the Eoyal Technical 

 College of Glasgow, have been elected trustees 

 of the Carnegie Trust for Scottish Universi- 

 ties. 



We learn from Nature that the following 

 have been elected ordinary fellows of the Eoyal 

 Society of Edinburgh: G. B. Burnside, Dr. B. 

 Cunningham, T. C. Day, E. W. Dron, Pro- 

 fessor A. Gibson, J. Harrison, Professor J. C. 

 Irvine, A. King, Sir Donald Macalister, Eev- 

 erend H. C. Macpherson, Lieutenant L. W. G. 

 Malcolm, A. E. Maylard, G. P. Merson, P. 

 Phillips, Dr. H. H. Scott, Sir G. A. Smith, Dr. 

 J. Tait, Dr. W. W. Taylor, J. McLean Thomp- 

 son, W. Thorneycroft and Professor D. E. 

 Tovey. 



Sir "W. E. Gakstin and Sir G. K. Scott- 

 MoncrieS have been elected honorary members 

 of the British Institution of Civil Engineers. 



Professok C. Vernon Boys has been elected 

 president of the London Physical Society. 



Dr. Charles H. Herty, editor of the Journal 

 of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, has 

 been elected chairman of the New York Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society. 



Dr. Kenneth Taylor, formerly of St. Paul, 

 has been appointed director of the Eobert 

 Walton Goelet Eesearch Laboratories which 

 are housed in the Doyen Hospital, Paris. 



According to Nature a letter lately received 

 from Dr. Eagnar Karsten, leader of the 



Swedish expedition in Ecuador, is dated El 

 Tena, East Ecuador, October 10, 1916, and 

 states that the expedition was then half-way 

 along the difiicult road from Quito to ISTapo, at 

 which latter place and at Curaray ethnograph- 

 ical studies and collections would be made. 



Mr. Howard P. Weiss has resigned as di- 

 rector of the Forest Products Laboratory of 

 the United States Forest Service to become as- 

 sociated with the C. F. Burgess Laboratories, 

 Madison, Wis. 



George Herbert Palmer, Alford professor 

 of philosophy, emeritus, in Harvard Univer- 

 sity, delivered the annual charter day address 

 in the Greek theater of the University of Cali- 

 fornia on March 23, the forty-ninth anniver- 

 sary of the chartering of the University of 

 California by the state. 



The last of the Harvey Society lectures 

 will be given at the ISTew York Academy of 

 Medicine, New York, on April Y, when Pro- 

 fessor William H. Howell, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, will speak on " The Coagu- 

 lation of the Blood." 



Professor C. K. Leith, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, has recently completed a six- 

 weeks' course of lectures on metamorphic geol- 

 ogy at the University of Chicago. 



At the meeting of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania chapter of Sigma Xi, on March 14, 

 Dr. William Curtis Farabee gave an illustrated 

 address on " Some Myth Makers of the 

 Amazon," based on his recent travels in South 

 America, and Dr. George B. Gordon, director 

 of the University Museum, spoke on " The 

 Museum's Work in Exploration." 



Dr. David D. Whitney, professor of zoology 

 in the University of Nebraska, gave an illus- 

 trated lecture on " Sex Determination " be- 

 fore the Science Club of Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College on March 20. 



Dr. Felice Ferrero, American representa- 

 tive of the Italian press, will give a series of 

 three lectures on the History of Science at 

 Harris Hall, Northwestern University. The 

 lectures will be as follows : 



