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July 1 remove to New York and join the staff 

 of- tlie American Geographical Society as di- 

 rector of the society's work and librarian. 

 The geographers of the country generally will 

 doubtless be glad to hear that this society, 

 whose activities are constantly widening, have 

 been able to enlist the services of Professor 

 Bowman in the promotion of its future work. 



Professor Charles P. Berkey, of the de- 

 partment of geology, Columbia University, 

 has been appointed as an expert to select, 

 classify and preserve borings taken from the 

 sites of buildings in all parts of New York 

 City, and to prepare geologic maps of the city. 

 The appointment comes from the board of 

 estimate. 



The secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, with the approval of the secretary of 

 agriculture, has appointed Dr. Charles H. T. 

 Townsend to the honorary position of cus- 

 todian of Muscoid diptera, in the United 

 States National Museum. 



W. L. Distant has resigned the editorship 

 of the Zoologist. 



Dr. Viktor Bohmeet, formerly professor of 

 political economy and statistics at Dresden, 

 has celebrated the sixtieth aniversary of his 

 doctorate. 



Dr. Julius Bernstein, formerly professor 

 of physiology at Halle, has celebrated his 

 seventy-fifth birthday. 



The council of the Geological Society, Lon- 

 don, has this year made the following awards 

 of medals and funds: Wollaston medal. Pro- 

 fessor T. W. Edgeworth David, C.M.G., 

 P.R.S.; Murchison medal, Professor W. W. 

 Watts, F.E.S.; Lyell medal, Professor E. J. 

 Garwood, F.E.S.; Bigsby medal, Mr. H. H. 

 Hayden; Prestwich medal. Professor Emile 

 Cartailhac (Toulouse) ; Wollaston Eund, Mr. 

 C. B. Wedd; Murchison Eund, Mr. D. C. 

 Evans; Lyell Eund, Mr. John Parkinson and 

 Dr. L. Moysey; Barlow- Jameson Eund, Mr. 

 J. G. Hamling. 



The council of the New York Academy of 

 Medicine for 1915 is composed of the follow- 

 ing members : Dr. Walter B. James, presi- 



dent; Dr. L. Emmet Holt, Dr. S. S. 

 GoldWater and Dr. Ed^ward D. Eisher, vice- 

 presidents; Dr. Charles E. Adams, recording 

 secretary; Dr. D. Bryson Delavan, correspond- 

 ing secretary; Dr. Eeginald H. Sayre, treas- 

 urer; Dr. A. Alexander Smith, Dr. Charles L. 

 Dana, Dr. John H. Huddleston, Dr. W. Gil- 

 man Thompson and Dr. Wisner E. Townend, 

 trustees; Dr. Eloyd M. Crandall, chairman of 

 the Committee on Admissions; Dr. Thomas 

 L. Stedman, chairman of the Committee on 

 Library; Dr. Eobert H. Halsey, assistant sec- 

 retary; Dr. A. B. Judson, statistical secretary; 

 Dr. Charles Mallory Williams, executive li- 

 brarian. 



A COMMITTEE on tbe Biological Station, of 

 the University of Michigan, has been ap- 

 pointed, consisting of Professor Gleason, di- 

 rector of the biological station, chairman; 

 Professor Eeighard, head of the department 

 of zoology; Professor Newcomb, head of the 

 department of botany; Professor Guthe and 

 Professor Kraus, deans of the graduate school, 

 and the summer school, to consider all ques- 

 tions of policy, budget, stafP, equipment, in- 

 struction and other matters pertaining to the 

 welfare of the station. 



Professor Henry E. Crampton, of the de- 

 partment of zoology, Columbia University, is 

 spending a month in Porto Eico in the inter- 

 est of the natural history survey of that island 

 which is being conducted by the New York 

 Academy of Sciences. 



The Pennsylvania chapter of the Society 

 of Sigma Xi met on January 13. Professor 

 Lightner Witmer, director of the university 

 psychological laboratory and clinic, presided. 

 Supper was served in Houston Hall. Mem- 

 bers of the psychological department later 

 gave a demonstration of experimental work 

 in psychology and Professor Witmer pre- 

 sented a paper on " Psychology as a Depart- 

 ment of Instruction." 



Dr. Henry S. Drinker, president of Le- 

 high University and the American Forestry 

 Association, delivered an address at the Uni- 

 versity of Ulinois on January 18, on " The 

 Conservation of Our National Eesources." 



