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ciety favoring the plan of holding meetings 

 jointly with the American Association at four- 

 year intervals. 



12. Resolved, that the publication of the consti- 

 tution and list of members be postponed until Jan- 

 uary, 1915. 



On motion, it was resolved that tlie sec- 

 tional committee of Section C be empowered 

 to elect its vice-president and chairman for 

 the Philadelphia meeting in consultation with 

 the committee on policy. 



L. O. Howard, 

 Permanent Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. George William Hill, distinguished 

 for his contributions to mathematical astron- 

 omy, has died at the age of seventy-six years. 



Dr. Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce, 

 known for his work in logic and mathematics, 

 died on April 19, aged seventy-four years. 



The National Academy of Sciences on 

 April 22 presented its " medals for eminence 

 in the application of science to the public 

 welfare," to Colonel George Washington 

 Goethals and Brigadier General William 

 Crawford Gorgas. The presentation was made 

 by Dr. William H. Welch, president of the 

 academy, at a dinner held in honor of the re- 

 tiring president, Dr. Ira Eemsen, and the re- 

 tiring home secretary. Dr. Arnold Hague. 



Members of the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences were elected at the annual meeting on 

 April 23 as follows: Ernest Merritt, physicist, 

 Cornell University; Moses Gomberg, chemist. 

 University of Michigan; Edward Curtis 

 Eranklin, chemist, Stanford University; 

 Frederick Leslie Eansome, geologist, U. S. 

 Geological Survey; Nathaniel Lord Britton, 

 botanist. New York Botanical Garden; 

 Henry Herbert Donaldson, neurologist, Wis- 

 tar Institute of Anatomy; Herbert Spencer 

 Jennings, zoologist. The Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity; Francis Gano Benedict, chemist, 

 nutrition laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion; Walter Bradford Cannon, physiologist. 

 Harvard University; Jesse Walter Fewkes, 

 ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology. 



At its annual meeting in Philadelphia on 

 April 25, the American Philosophical Society 

 elected to membership the following residents 

 of the United States : Charles Greeley Abbot, 

 Washington; James Wilson Bright, Balti- 

 more; Bradley Moore Davis, Philadelphia; 

 Thomas McCrae, Philadelphia ; William DiUer 

 Matthew, New York; Alfred Goldsborough 

 Mayer, Washington; Samuel Jones Meltzer, 

 New York; John Campbell Merriam, Berk- 

 eley ; Robert Andrews Millikan, Chicago ; Wil- 

 liam Albert Noyes, Urbana; Stewart Paton, 

 Princeton; Richard Mills Pearce, Philadel- 

 phia; Palmer Chamberlaine Eicketts, Troy; 

 Harold A. Wilson, Houston; Frederick 

 Eugene Wright, Washington. Foreign resi- 

 dents were elected as follows : Shibasaburo 

 Kitasato, Tokyo; Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, 

 Leyden; Vito Volterra, Rome. 



Professor Moses Gomberg, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, has been given the gold 

 medal of the New York section of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society for his work on the 

 trivalence of carbon. 



Prince Galitzdst will preside over the fifth 

 meeting of the International Seismological 

 Association, to be held in St. Petersburg in 

 September. 



Dr. J. D. Falconer, lecturer in geography 

 in the University of Glasgow, has been ap- 

 pointed by the trustees of the British Museum 

 to the Swiney lectureship in geology, in suc- 

 cession to Dr. T. J. Jehu. 



Oliver Bowles, of the department of geol- 

 ogy and mineralogy, University of Minnesota, 

 has been appointed quarry technologist in the 

 division of mineral technology, Bureau of 

 Mines, Washington, D. C. 



During the absence abroad of Mr. Wil- 

 liam H. Fox, director of the museums of the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Mr. 

 Robert Cushman Murphy, curator of mam- 

 mals, is acting director. 



The German geographer. Dr. Ewald Banse, 

 has started on an expedition for the explora- 

 tion of the Libyan desert. 



B. M. Patten, Ph.D., has received an ap- 

 pointment from the United States Fisheries 



