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vidual college it may be expected that local 

 influences wiU produce marked deviations 

 from the indications of the table. But, none 

 the less, the figures seem to be of enough edu- 

 cational value to be published. 



W. Le Conte Stevens 

 Washington and Lee UNivEEsirr, 

 December 24, 1913 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor Theodore Eichards, of Harvard 

 University, has been elected president of the 

 American Chemical Society for the year 1914. 

 M. T. Bogert and A. D. Little have been 

 elected directors and C. H. Herty, Julius 

 Stieglitz, L. H. Baekeland and W. L. Dudley 

 councilors-at-large for a three-year period. 



Professor E. S. Woodworth, of Columbia 

 University, was elected president of the Ameri- 

 can Psychological Association at the recent 

 New Haven meeting. Professor E. M. Ogden, 

 of the University of Tennessee, was elected 

 secretary for a three-year period. 



At the recent Princeton meetings. Dr. 

 George F. Becker, of the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, was elected president of the Geological 

 Society of America, and Professor A. P. 

 Brigham, of Colgate University, was elected 

 president of the American Society of Geog- 

 raphers. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists, at 

 its Montreal meeting, elected Professor 

 Charles E. Marshall, of Amherst, to the presi- 

 dency and Professor F. C. Harrison, of Mac- 

 Donald College, to the vice presidency. 



It is proposed to present to the Eoyal So- 

 ciety a portrait of the retiring president. Sir 

 Archibald Geikie, the distinguished geologist. 

 A committee, with Sir William Eamsay as 

 chairman, has been formed to collect subscrip- 

 tions, which it is agreed should not exceed 

 three guineas. 



Professor W. B. Scott, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, and Professor E. L. Trouessart, of 

 Paris, corresponding members of the Zoologi- 

 cal Society of London, have been elected for- 

 eign members of the society. Professor E. 

 Ehlers, Gottingen, Mr. J. H. Fleming, To- 



ronto, and Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Ottawa, 

 have been elected corresponding members of 

 the society. 



Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks, professor of 

 anthropology in the University of Minnesota, 

 has been granted leave of absence from the 

 university the second semester of the current 

 year. Certain aspects of ethnic amalgama- 

 tion, and environmental influence will be 

 given fleld study. He will spend February 

 and March in the southern part of the United 

 States, and the next five months in Europe 

 and northern Africa. 



At a meeting of the State Geological Com- 

 mission of Oklahoma late in December, the 

 resignation of D. W. Ohern as director of the 

 Oklahoma Geological Survey was accepted. 

 L. C. Snider, the assistant director, declined to 

 consider the directorship and C. W. Shannon, 

 field geologist, was appointed director. The 

 personnel of the scientific staff of the Survey 

 as now constituted is as follows : C. W. Shan- 

 non, A.B., A.M. (Indiana), director; L. C. 

 Snider, A.B., A.M. (Indiana), assistant direc- 

 tor; L. E. Trout, A.B., A.M. (Oklahoma), 

 field geologist; Wm. A. Buttram, A.B. (Okla- 

 homa), chemist. 



A series of three lectures has been planned 

 for the classes of blind children that visit the 

 American Museum of Natural History. In 

 the first of these on December 18, Admiral 

 Eobert E. Peary recounted some of the experi- 

 ences of his memorable Arctic journey which 

 resulted in the attainment of the North Pole. 



The Herter Lectures of the University and 

 BeUevue Hospital Medical College vyill be 

 given during the week beginning January 12, 

 1914, at Carnegie Laboratory, 338 East 26th 

 Street, New York City. Professor Sven 

 Hedin will lecture on " Colloids and their Ee- 

 lation to Biological Chemistry." 



At a recent meeting of the Abernethian So- 

 ciety at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 

 Sir William Osier delivered an address on 

 " The Medical Clinic — a Eetrospect and a 

 Forecast." 



Professor E. M. East, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, delivered in December a lecture entitled 



