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r.E.S., formerly professor of physiology in 

 the Medical College, Calcutta. 



At the meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of France on November 11, the president an- 

 nounced the death at the front of Leon Garreta 

 and Jean Chatanay, two lieutenants of the 

 ■reserve and members of the society. The 

 president also announced that it has been de- 

 •eided to place a tablet in the library upon 

 which shall be engraved the names of mem- 

 hers of the society who have fallen and may 

 fall during the war. He also announced that 

 Captain A. Magdelaine and Messrs. J. de 

 Muizon and J. Surcouf, also members, had 

 been wounded but were convalescent, while 

 J. Herve-Bazin was in the hospital with 

 tjrphoid fever. All of these men are known to 

 American entomologists through their writings. 

 The following resolution was unanimously 

 adopted at the annual meeting of the Federa- 

 tion of American Societies for Experimental 

 Biology held in St. Louis, on December 28: 

 Wheeeas, Various of the European nations 

 "svith which many of our members are related by 

 iDirth, descent or intellectual friendship are now 

 •at war, 



Resolved, That we extend to the scientific men 

 'within these nations the hope of an early and en- 

 'during peace, which will leave the nations with no 

 permanent cause of rancor towards each other, and 

 which will insure to each the glories of scientific 

 and humanitarian achievement in accordance with 

 its own conception of these ideals. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists 

 held its annual meeting in Philadelphia at 

 the Laboratory of Hygiene, University of 

 Pennsylvania, December 29, 30 and 31, 1914. 

 The following officers were elected: 

 President: T>. H. Bergey. 

 Vice-president : John Weinzirl. 

 Secretary-Treasurer : A. Parker Hitchens. 

 Council: K. F. Kellerman, W. A. Stocking, Jr., 

 U. E. Buchanan and H. J. Conn. 



Delegate to the American Association for tlie 

 Advancement of Science: M. J. Eosenau. 

 The next regular meeting of the society will 

 be held in TJrbana, Illinois. The chairman of 

 the local committee is Professor H. A. Hard- 

 ing. A special meeting of the society will be 

 held in San Francisco during the summer. 



The American Microscopical Society at 

 present holds only business meetings. At the 

 recent meeting at Philadelphia the following 

 officers were elected: 



President: Professor C. A. Kofoid, University 

 of California, Berkeley, California. 



First Vice-president: Professor L. D. Swingle, 

 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Second Vice-president: Dr. N. A. Cobb, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, "Washington, D. C. 



Executive Committee : Professor J. P. Campbell, 

 University of Georgia; Professor L. E. Griffin, 

 University of Pittsburgh; Professor A. L. Wei- 

 man, University of Cincinnati. 



Bepresentative on the council of the American 

 Association: Drs. H. L. Shantz and R. H. Wol- 

 cott. 



The report of the custodian showed that the 

 Spencer-ToUes research fund closely ap- 

 proaches $5,000. The income of this fund is 

 now available for aid in research in any micro- 

 scopic field. Applications should be made to 

 Dr. H. B. Ward, University of Illinois, 

 Urbana, HI. The membership of the society 

 was shown to have increased steadily for the 

 last four years and now totals 399. The in- 

 come for the year was $1,380. The secretary 

 of the society is Professor T. W. Galloway, 

 MUlikin University, Decatur, 111. 



The American Folk-Lore Society met in 

 Philadelphia, on December 30, 1914, in affilia- 

 tion with the American Anthropological Asso- 

 ciation and Section H of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science. Dr. 

 Pliny Earl Goddard, president of the society, 

 was in the chair. The papers read were as 

 follows : 



"The Relation of Folk Lore to Anthropology 

 (presidential address)," by Pliny Earl Goddard. 



"The Ejiowledge of Primitive Man," by A. C. 

 Goldenweiser. 



"European Tales Among the North American 

 Indians," by Stith Thompson. 



"The Magic Boat," by Phillips Barry. 



Officers elected for 1915 are as follows : 



President: Dr. Pliny Earl Goddard, American 



Museum of Natural History, New York. 



First Vice-president: Professor G. Ii. Kittredge, 



Harvard University. 



