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ing no affinity or parallelism with any thing that 

 is now known, but lying entirely out of the beat 

 of the imagination, which have not yet been found 

 out. They too, no doubt, will some time or other, 

 in the course and revolution of many ages, come to 

 light of themselves, just as the others did ; only by 

 the method of which we are now treating they can 

 be speedily and suddenly and simultaneously pre- 

 sented and anticipated." 



These suggestions constitute the recommendation 

 of this preliminary report. 



Theodore W. Richards, Chairmen- 



Harvey Cushing, 



ElCHARD MACLAXJEIN, 



T. H. Morgan, 

 E. H. MooKE 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The av^ard of the Bruce Gold Medal of the 

 Astronomical Society of the Pacific, for 1915, 

 has been made to Dr. W. W. Campbell, director 

 of the Lick Observatory, " for distinguished 

 services to astronomy." Candidates for this 

 medal are nominated annually by the directors 

 of the Berlin, Greenwich, Paris, Harvard, Lick 

 and Terkes Observatories, and from these the 

 medalist is elected by the directors of the 

 society. 



Dr. John C. Beanner has submitted his 

 resignation as president of Stanford Univer- 

 sity to take effect on July 31. 



Professor G. O. Sars, professor of zoology 

 in the University of Christiania, has been 

 elected an honorary member in the Challenger 

 Society. 



At the annual exercises of the American 

 Museum of Safety, held in 'New York on 

 February 10, the following medals were 

 awarded: The Scientific American medal for 

 the most efficient safety device invented within 

 a certain number of years and exhibited at the 

 museum, to the Shurloc Elevator Safety Com- 

 pany, Inc., New York; the Travelers' Insur- 

 ance Company's medal for protecting the lives 

 and limbs of workmen, to the Commonwealth 

 Edison Company of Chicago; the Louis Liv- 

 ingston Seaman medal for progress and 

 achievement in the promotion of hygiene and 

 the mitigation of occupational disease, to 

 Surgeon-General William C. Gorgas, U. S. A. ; 



the E. H. Harriman memorial medal to the 

 American steam railroad which during the year 

 has been the most successful in protecting the 

 lives and health of its employees and of the 

 public, to the New York Central Railroad; 

 the Anthony N. Brady memorial medal to that 

 American electric railway company which for 

 the year of the award shall have done most 

 to conserve the safety and health of the public 

 and of its employees, to the Boston Elevated 

 Railway Company. 



The National Committee on Mental Hy- 

 giene met in New York City on February 17 

 when officers were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent, Dr. Lewellys F. Barker; vice-presidents. 

 Dr. Charles W. Eliot and Dr. William H. 

 Welch; treasurer, Otto T. Bannard; med- 

 ical director. Dr. Thomas W. Salmon; 

 secretary, Clifford W. Beers; executive com- 

 mittee: Dr. August Hoch, chairman; Dr. 

 George Blumer, Miss Julia C. Lathrop, Dr. 

 William Mabon, Dr. William L. Russell and 

 Dr. Lewellys F. Barker. Gifts of $44,500 by 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson and $40,000 

 by Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt for the general 

 work were announced, and the Rockefeller 

 Foundation has agreed to contribute for a 

 series of years the money necessary to retain 

 the services of Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, who has 

 been medical director of the national com- 

 mittee for three years. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, has received a letter 

 to the effect that the Stazione Zoologica at 

 Naples is in a somewhat serious condition 

 financially, owing to the withdrawal of Ger- 

 man support. The Smithsonian Institution 

 maintains a table at the station, which is all 

 it can do under existing conditions. The 

 writer of the letter suggests that if our uni- 

 versities would take up some of the vacated 

 tables, it would not only assist the station, but 

 would eventually result in closer cooperation 

 between our scientific men and those of Eu- 

 rope. 



At the meeting of the Royal Geographical 

 Society on January 11 the president made the 

 following statement : " Before we come to the 



