322 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXIX. No. 1000' 



carefully these points which still require consid- 

 eration, and to formulate their propositions in 

 such a manner that nothing may be left over for 

 1920. 



11. A later circular will supply detailed infor- 

 mation on the internal organization of the Nom- 

 enclature Section of the Congress so far as con- 

 cerns the nomination of delegates, the discussion 

 of motions, and the propositions of the Commit- 

 tees; also on the method of voting. 



American botanists should remember the 

 following addresses : 



Dr. J. Briquet, Botanical Garden, Geneva, Switz- 

 erland — rapporteur general. 



Dr. A. B. Rendle, British Museum (Nat. His.), 

 London, Eng. — general secretary. 



THE AMEBICAN SOCIETY OF N'ATVSALISTS 

 Members of the American Society of Natu- 

 ralists, in common with other scientific soci- 

 eties, have been invited by the organizing 

 committee of the Nineteenth International 

 Congress of Americanists to participate to the 

 fullest extent possible in the important ses- 

 sion to be held by the Congress in Washington 

 October 5-10, 1914. 



Following the meetings there will be a very 

 instructive trip, including visits to the mu- 

 seums of Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn 

 and Cambridge, to the museum and mounds at 

 Columbus, Ohio, and to the museums of Chi- 

 cago and Davenport; and finally there will be 

 an extension of the trip to Denver, Santa Fe, 

 and certain cliff-dwelling as well as other 

 archeological remains of Colorado and New 

 Mexico, terminating with a pre-arranged visit 

 of scientific interest to the living Pueblo 

 Indians. 



Requests for further information and ap- 

 plications for membership in the Congress 

 should be addressed to the secretary of the 

 Congress, Dr. A. Hrdlicka, United States 

 National Museum, Washington. 



Bradley M. Davis, 



Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The present issue of Science is the thou- 

 sandth number of the new series. 



Db. Hermann M. Biggs was the guest of 

 honor at a dinner given by two hundred of his 

 professional colleagues in New York on Feb- 

 ruary Y. Among the speakers were Professor 

 Wiliam H. Welch of Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, Dr. William H. Park, Mr. Robert W.. 

 De Forest and Borough President Marks. 



At the commemoration day exercises of the- 

 Johns Hopkins Universit.y, a portrait was pre- 

 sented of Dr. Edward H. Griifin, professor of 

 philosophy, to mark the twenty-fifth anniver- 

 sary of his professorship. 



The Rumford Committee of the American. 

 Academy has made the following appropria- 

 tions: To Alpheus W. Smith, of Ohio State 

 University, $100 for his research on the Hall 

 and Nernst effects in the rare metals; to 

 Charles G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, $160 for his research on the application 

 of solar heat to domestic purposes. 



Professor Wallace W. Atwood, formerly of 

 the University of Chicago, has taken up hia 

 new work at Harvard University. His address 

 will now be Harvard University, care of Uni- 

 versity Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 



Professor A. N. Talbot, in charge of theo- 

 retical and applied mechanics at the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, has been appointed chairman 

 of the joint committee on stresses in railway 

 track and subgrade of the American Society of 

 Civil Engineers and the American Railway 

 Engineering Association. 



Dr. M. G. Done, of the bureau of chemistry, 

 has been detailed by the department of agri- 

 culture to cooperate with the department of 

 forestry at the University of Idaho in investi- 

 gations looking to better methods of utilizing 

 mill waste and refining by-products obtained 

 from stumps. The work will be a continua- 

 tion and extension of experiments which have 

 been carried on for the past three years by 

 Dr. C. H. Shattuck, head of the department of 

 forestry at Moscow. 



Sir Francis Darwin delivered the first Gal- 

 ton anniversary lecture on February 16. The 

 subject of the lecture was Francis Galton. 



In the latter part of January, Dr. Arthur L. 

 Day, director of the geophysical laboratory of 



