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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1063 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 For the meeting of the British Association 

 to be held at Manchester from September 7 to 

 September 11 next, under the presidency of 

 Professor Arthur Schuster, Sec. E. S., the fol- 

 lowing sectional presidents have been ap- 

 pointed: Section A (mathematics and physics), 

 Sir F. D. Dyson; B (chemistry). Professor H. 



B. Baker; C (geology), Professor Grenville 

 Cole; D (zoology). Professor E. A. Minchin; 

 E (geography), Capt. H. G. Lyons; F (eco- 

 nomics). Dr. W. E. Scott; G (engineering). 

 Dr. H. S. Hele-Shaw; H (anthropology), Dr. 



C. G. Seligman; I (physiology). Professor 

 W. M. Bayliss; K (botany), Professor W. H. 

 Lang; L (education), Mrs. Henry Sidgwick; 

 M (agriculture), Mr. E. H. Eew. Evening 

 discourses will be delivered by Mr. H. W. T. 

 Wager on the " Behavior of Plants in Eesponse 

 to Light," and by Dr. E. A. Sampson, astron- 

 omer royal for Scotland. 



A BUST of Sir Archibald Geikie will be placed 

 in the Museum of Practical Geology, London, 

 where there are already busts of all previous 

 occupants of the post of director-general of the 

 British Geological Survey and of the museum, 

 as well as of several other distinguished geolo- 

 gists. Sir Archibald Geikie was connected 

 with the survey for nearly forty-six years, dur- 

 ing nineteen of which he was director-general. 

 A committee representative of the universities 

 and the principal scientific institutions and 

 societies of the United Kingdom has been 

 formed to carry out the proposal. Contribu- 

 tions for the fund should be made to the 

 honorary treasurer, Mr. J. A. Howe, curator of 

 the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn 

 Street, London, S.W. 



Dr. Henry S. Munroe, professor of mining 

 in Columbia University and senior professor 

 in the university, will retire from active serv- 

 ice at the close of the present academic year. 

 Professor Munroe began teaching at Columbia 

 in 1877 and became professor in mining in 

 1891. 



On April 30 Professor James Monroe Bart- 

 lett had completed thirty years of continuous 

 service as chemist of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. This period includes the 



entire history of the station itself. In recog- 

 nition of this unusual length of service in the 

 same institution a reception in Professor 

 Bartlett's honor was held in the station build- 

 ing on the evening mentioned, and he was pre- 

 sented with a commemorative volume. This 

 volume was composed of a series of congratu- 

 latory letters from nearly all of the 109 differ- 

 ent persons, now living, who have, at one time 

 or another, been associated with Mr. Bartlett 

 in connection with the work of the station. 



At the first annual meeting of the District 

 of Columbia Chapter of the Society of the 

 Sigma Xi the following officers were elected: 

 Marcus Benjamin (Columbia), president; 

 Isaac King Phelps (Tale), vice-president; 

 Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. (Brown), secretary; 

 Daniel Eoberts Harper, 3d (Pennsylvania), 

 treasurer; Frederick Leslie Eansome (Cali- 

 fornia) and Cornelius Lott Shear (Nebraska), 

 councillors. 



At the annual convocation of the Univer- 

 sity of Alberta, in Edmonton, on April 28, the 

 honorary degree of D.Sc. was conferred on 

 Mr. W. F. Ferrier, mining engineer and geol- 

 ogist of Toronto. Mr. Ferrier was for nine 

 years an oificer of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. He has made extensive donations to 

 the museum collections at the University of 

 Alberta and has assisted in building up the 

 Geological Museum equipment. 



The Adams prize of the value of about 

 $1,200 for 1913-14, has been awarded by the 

 University of Cambridge to Mr. G. I. Tay- 

 lor, Smith's Prizeman in 1910. The subject 

 selected was " The Phenomena of the Dis- 

 turbed Motion of Fluids, including the Ee- 

 sistances encountered by bodies moving 

 through them." 



According to a Paris cablegram the French 

 Institute has announced that the Osiris 

 prize, which this year amounts to $36,- 

 600 because no award was made in 1912, 

 has been awarded chiefly for discoveries in 

 medicine. Drs. Chantemesse and Vidal, dis- 

 coverers of anti-typhoid vaccines, will divide 

 $10,000, while an equal amount will go to Dr. 

 Vincent, whose researches resulted in the find- 



