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SCIENCE 



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meetings to be held this year in San Francisco 

 and Columbus. 



Presidents of several of the scientific so- 

 cieties meeting in Philadelphia last week were 

 elected as follows: The American Society of 

 Naturalists, Dr. Frank E. Lillie, professor of 

 embryology in the University of Chicago; 

 Geological Society of America, Dr. E. O. Ul- 

 rich, U. S. Geological Survey; American Psy- 

 chological Association, Dr. John B. Watson, 

 professor of psychology in the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



The American Mathematical Society, meet- 

 ing in New York on January 1 and 2, elected 

 to the presidency Professor E. W. Brown, of 

 Tale University. 



Dr. John Dewey was elected president of 

 the American Association of University Pro- 

 fessors which was organized in New York City 

 on January 1 and 2. 



The gold medal of the Geographical Society 

 of Chicago has been awarded to Colonel George 

 W. Goethals. It will be presented to him at 

 a dinner to be given by the society on Jan- 

 uary 23. 



The Austrian Academy of Sciences has 

 given Professor Wagner v. Jauregg $1,250 

 for his research on the etiology of goiter; Pro- 

 fessor Honigschmid, of Prague, $600, for his 

 studies of the atomic weight of the radium 

 elements, and Professor Netolitzky, of Czer- 

 nowitz, $375 to continue his study of the his- 

 tory of foodstuffs. 



Mr. E. J. Cheney, one of the assistant sec- 

 retaries of the British Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries, has been appointed to the office of 

 chief agricultural adviser, and Mr. F. L. C. 

 Floud to be an assistant secretary. 



It is stated in Nature that Professor T. A. 

 Jaggar, director of the Hawaiian Volcano 

 Observatory, and a group of his assistants, 

 had a narrow escape of their lives during a 

 recent ascent of Mauna Loa. The volcano had 

 become active, discharging large quantities of 

 lava. The scientific party, while making an 

 ascent to study the eruption, was caught in a 

 snowstorm and nearly overwhelmed by snow- 

 slides almost in the path of the lava streams. 



The well-known paleontologist. Professor 

 Otto Jaekel, of Greifswald University, Ger- 

 many, and a member of the Landwehr, was 

 wounded in one of the battles of the Yser 

 Canal, and is now recuperating at his home. 

 Dr. Lee M. Babney, formerly of Elkhart, 

 HI., but more recently of Miami, Fla., has 

 been awarded damages of $41,500 from the 

 casualty companies on account of the loss of 

 sight from a chemical explosion which oc- 

 curred while he was making experiments in 

 his laboratory. 



Peofessob John J. Flather, head of the 

 department of mechanical engineering of the 

 college of engineering of the University of 

 Minnesota, is spending a year's leave of ab- 

 sence in Scotland. He has recently moved 

 from Girvas, which is on the seashore, to 

 Edinburgh, his address being 20 Greenhill 

 Place. 



Dr. E. E. Dinwiddie, pathologist and bac- 

 teriologist of the Arkansas University and 

 Station, who has been connected with the in- 

 stitution since 188Y, has resigned with the in- 

 tention of retiring from active service. 



Lyman Carrier, agronomist since 1907 in 

 the Virginia College and Station, has accepted 

 a position with the office of forage crop in- 

 vestigations of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and has been succeeded by T. B. Hutche- 

 son, associate professor in plant breeding in 

 the University of Minnesota. 



Dr. Harvey Gushing, professor of surgery 

 in Harvard University, delivered an illus- 

 trated lecture on " The Portraits of Vesalius," 

 on the evening of December 29 at the Army 

 Medical School, Washington. 



Professor Edward L. Nichols, of Cornell 

 University, delivered an illustrated lecture on 

 " Artificial Daylight," at the forty-seventh an- 

 nual meeting of The Kansas Academy of Sci- 

 ence, which was held in Topeka on Decem- 

 ber 22. 



On December 11 Professor H. B. Ward, of 

 the University of Illinois, lectured before the 

 Washington University Chapter of the So- 

 ciety of the Sigma Xi on the "Homing of 

 Fishes." 



