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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1061 



new volume containing the constitution, list 

 of meetings, officers, committees, fellows and 

 members was nearly ready for publication. 

 At 5.30 P.M., the council adjourned. 



L. O. Howard, 

 Permanent secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Members of the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences were elected on April 21, as follows: 

 Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, director of the 

 astrophysical laboratory of the Smithsonian 

 Institution; Dr. W. E. Castle, professor of 

 zoology, Harvard University; Dr. G. Stanley 

 Hall, president of Clark University and pro- 

 fessor of psychology; Dr. Frank E. Lillie, pro- 

 fessor of embryology, University of Chicago; 

 Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physiology, 

 Cornell Medical School; Dr. Eobert A. Milli- 

 kan, professor of physics. University of Chi- 

 cago ; Dr. Alexander Smith, professor of 

 chemistry, Columbia University; Dr. Victor 

 C. Vaughan, professor of hygiene and physi- 

 ological chemistry. University of Michigan; 

 Dr. H. S. White, professor of mathematics, 

 Vassar College; Dr. S. W. Williston, professor 

 of paleontology. University of Chicago. 



The following have been elected members 

 of the American Philosophical Society: John 

 J. Abel, M.D., Baltimore, Md.; Edwin Plimp- 

 ton Adams, Ph.D., Princeton, IST. J.; Walter 

 Sydney Adams, Pasadena, Cal. ; John Merle 

 Coulter, Ph.D., Chicago, 111.; Whitman Cross, 

 Ph.D., Washington, D. C; William J. Gies, 

 M.D., New York City; Philip Bovier Hawk, 

 Ph.D., Philadelphia; John Fillmore Hayford, 

 Evanston, 111. ; Emory Richard Johnson, 

 Se.D., Philadelphia; John Anthony Miller, 

 Ph.D., Swarthmore, Pa.; Thomas Hunt 

 Morgan, Ph.D., New York; William Fogg 

 Osgood, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass.; Raymond 

 Pearl, Ph.D., Orono, Me.; Theobald Smith, 

 M.D., Boston, Mass.; John Zeleny, Ph.D., 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



A BANQUET to Dr. William Henry Dall, 

 commemorating the completion of fifty years 

 service to science was given at the Cosmos 

 Club, Washington, on April 21. Dr. Dall re- 

 sponded to a series of toasts which were as 



follows : Dall the Alaska pioneer. Dr. Alfred H. 

 Brooks; Dall the anthropologist. Professor 

 William H. Hohnes; Dall the coast pilot, Mr. 

 Isaac Winston; Dall the malacologist. Dr. T. 

 Wayland Vaughan; Dall the zoologist. Dr. C. 

 Hart Merriam; Dall the nomenclatorist, Dr. 

 Ch. Wardell Stiles; Dall the poet. Justice 

 Wendell P. Stafford; Dall the man. General 

 A. W. Greely. 



The Royal Society of Arts has presented its 

 Albert medal to Senator Guglielmo Marconi 

 " for his services in the development and prac- 

 tical application of wireless telegraphy." 



At the annual dinner of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, held on April 20, the Draper 

 medal was presented to Dr. Joel Stebbins, pro- 

 fessor of astronomy at the University of 

 Illinois. 



The Jacksonian prize of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, London, has been awarded to Mr. 

 Jonathan Hutchinson for his essay on the 

 pathology, diagnosis and treatment of trigem- 

 inal neuralgia, and the John Tomes prize to 

 Mr. J. F. Colyer for his work on comparative 

 dental anatomy and pathology. 



According to a cablegram from Nish, Dr. 

 Richard P. Strong, professor of tropical dis- 

 eases in the Harvard Medical School, arrived 

 there on April 24. He at once sat down to a 

 long conference with the minister of the in- 

 terior, Ljouba Jovanovitch, to discuss a plan of 

 campaign against disease. 



Dr. Samuel T. Darling, who was associated 

 with General Gorgas for ten years on the 

 Panama Canal, and who accompanied him to 

 South Africa during his investigation of dis- 

 ease among the miners on the Rand, has re- 

 signed as chief of laboratory, and will inves- 

 tigate disease in the far east for the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation's international health com- 

 mission. He left for Singapore via Liverpool 

 on the Adriatic on April 21. 



Dr. Frederick H. Getman, of Bryn Mawr 

 College, has resigned as associate professor of 

 physical and inorganic chemistry and will 

 open a private research laboratory in Stam- 

 ford, Conn., at the close of the academic year. 



