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SCIENCE 



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Washington. President J. C. Branner, Stan- 

 ford University, gave an address on " Science 

 and the State." Dean J. Allen Smith, Uni- 

 versity of Washington, read a pai)er on " The 

 Citizen and the State." The 'third paper was 

 given by Professor J. 0. Merriam, University 

 of California, on " The Geological History of 

 the Human Family and Its Bearing on the 

 Race Problem." In 1915 the Pacific Asso- 

 ciation will hold no meetings; the constituent 

 societies will join with their eastern societies 

 at the Fair at San Francisco. At this meeting 

 of the association a constitution was approved 

 by the executive committee whereby the Pacific 

 Association will become the Pacific Division 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. The constitution was re- 

 ferred to the constituent societies for their 

 action. Since there is to be no meeting in 

 1915 the change of associations is to take 

 place at the end of the 1915 meeting of the 

 American Association at San Francisco in 

 August of that year, provided that by that 

 time two thirds of the constituent societies 

 have approved and signed the constitution and 

 also provided that tlie Pacific Division is 

 ready with its officers to take up the work of 

 the Pacific Associatioli. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Jacques Loeb, of the Eockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Eesearcla, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences in the section of anatomy 

 and zoology, in succession to the late Lord 

 Avebury. 



Professor John Howard Appleton, for over 

 fifty years an instructor at Brown University 

 and since 1868 head of the department of chem- 

 istry, will retire at the end of the present aca- 

 demic year with the title of professor emeritus. 



At the celebration of the seventy-fifth anni- 

 versary of the founding of the University of 

 Missouri, held at Columbia, Mo., June 3, Pro- 

 fessor Cassius J. Keyser delivered an address 

 on behalf of the alumni. At the commence- 

 ment exercises the university conferred upon 

 him the degree of doctor of laws. 



Dr. Mark J. Scheonberg has received the 

 Lucien Howe prize of the Medical Society of 

 the state of New York for his research work 

 on ocular anaphylaxis. 



Mr. Clifford Richardson, consulting engi- 

 neer, has been elected president of the Associa- 

 tion of Harvard Chemists, and vice-president 

 of the Harvard Engineering Society of New 

 York, for the ensuing year. 



Dr. Theodore C. Merrill, recently assistant 

 pathologist in the office of forest pathology of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been ap- 

 pointed medical assistant in the Bureau of 

 Chemistry. 



The C. M. Warren committee of the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Arts and Sciences has made 

 the following grants: 



To Professor George H. Burrows, of the Univer- 

 sity of Vermont, a grant of $250 for work con- 

 nected with the measurement of equilibrium con- 

 centrations in certain reactions of organic chem- 

 istry, with the special purpose of determining the 

 free energies of formation of the compounds in- 

 volved. 



To Professor R. F. Brunei, of Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege, an additional grant of $400 for the purchase 

 of a polarimeter to be used in connection with his 

 work on equilibria in organic reactions in which 

 optically active radicals are concerned. 



To Professor S. Lawrence Bigelow, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, a grant of $200 for the pro- 

 motion of his study of osmotic membranes, espe- 

 cially those of a metallic nature. 



Mayor Mitchel, of New York City, accom- 

 panied by President Thomas Churchill of the 

 Board of Education and City Chamberlain 

 Henry Bruere, have this week visited cities of 

 the central west to inspect their public schools 

 and teaching systems. 



The Harrington lectures of the medical de- 

 partment of the University of Buffalo, by Pro- 

 fessor Ludwig Pick, of Berlin, were announced 

 for the evening of June 2 and in the after- 

 noons of June 3 and 4. The title was " Some 

 Recent Advances in Pathological Anatomy." 



Dr. Ira Remsen, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, addressed a large University of Illi- 

 nois audience on May 18. His subject was 

 " My Acquaintance with Liebig and Wohler." 



