JAUUARY 1, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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the most careful consideration by the 

 Academy. Geoege Ellery Hale 



Mount Wilson 



SOLAE OESERVATOET 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The sixty-sixth meeting- of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 in conjunction with a large number of national 

 scientific societies is meeting in Philadelphia, 

 as we go to press, under the presidency of Dr. 

 Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard University. 

 The address of the retiring president, Dr. 

 Edmund B. Wilson, of Columbia University, 

 is printed in the current issue of Science. 

 We hope to print next week an account of the 

 meeting to be followed by the more important 

 addresses and papers and accounts of the pro- 

 ceedings of the section of the association and 

 ■of the national societies. 



Dr. C. S. Sheeringtojst has been elected 

 FuUerian professor of physiology at the Eoyal 

 Institution for a term of three years, the ap- 

 pointment to date from January 13, 1915. 



At the annual meeting and election of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, held on Decem- 

 ber 15, the following were elected: President^ 

 Dr. Samuel G. Dixon; vice-presidents, Edwin 

 G. Conklin, Ph.D., and John Cadwalader; 

 recording secretary and librarian, Dr. Edward 

 J. Nolan; corresponding secretary, J. Percy 

 Moore, Ph.D. ; treasurer, George Vaux, Jr. ; 

 curators. Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Henry A. 

 Pilsbry, Dr. Witmer Stone and Dr. Henry 

 Tucker ; councilors, Charles B. Penrose, Charles 

 Morris, Spencer Trotter and William E. 

 Hughes. 



Dr. Louis Schapiro, of Milwaukee, has ac- 

 cepted an appointment on the International 

 Health Commission of the Rockefeller Founda- 

 tion. After traveling through the southern 

 states with other members of the commission. 

 Dr. Schapiro will go to Costa Eica. After 

 initiating work in the eradication of intestinal 

 parasites, he will leave it in charge of local 

 physicians and then probably wiU take charge 

 of the work in northern Egypt. 



R. D. Hetzel, director of extension for the 

 Oregon Agricultural College, has been ap- 

 pointed chairman of the extension section of 

 the American Association of Agricultural Col- 

 leges and Experiment Stations for the coming 

 year. 



Sir Ernest and Lady Rutherford and Miss 

 Eileen Rutherford spent a week in Montreal 

 on their way home from New Zealand. Sir 

 Ernest addressed the Physical and Chemical 

 Societies of McGill University at a joint 

 meeting on December 23, on " The Spectrum 

 of X-rays and y-rays." 



For the purpose of studying the art, history 

 and ethnology of China at close range, an expe- 

 dition soon will be sent abroad by the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania Museum, under the 

 direction of C. W. Bishop, who has been 

 curator since last June. His appointment 

 was made with the idea of his leading this 

 expedition. Mr. Bishop will first study Chi- 

 nese art collections in the ancient cities of 

 Japan, at Nikko, Nara and Kioto, where the 

 temples and palaces contain some of the finest 

 specimens in the world. He will then pro- 

 ceed to China, and his first explorations will 

 cover a year of preliminary work. Special 

 attention will be given to the art and ethnol- 

 ogy of the Shans, Lolos and Miotses, which 

 are remnants of the primitive tribes before 

 the Chinese invasion. 



Dr. Simon R. Klein, formerly professor of 

 histology and embryology in Fordham Uni- 

 versity School of Medicine, New York City, 

 has been appointed pathologist of the Norwich 

 State Hospital for the Insane. 



The professors of chemistry of The Ohio 

 State University gave a complimentary dinner 

 on December 18 to Mr. John J. Miller, who is 

 retiring from the editorship of Chemical 

 Abstracts. 



The natural history department of the Brit- 

 ish Museum has the following men serving at 

 the front in the war: Captain E. E. Austen 

 (Diptera), with the 28th County of London 

 Regt. (Artists Rifles) ; private K. G. Blair 

 (Coleoptera), with the 4th Battalion Seaforth 

 HigHanders; Lieutenant N. D. Riley (Lepi- 



