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American Mathematical Society, and Professor 
W. I. Clarke, of the U. 8. Geological Survey, 
D. C., president of the American Chemical 
Society. 
THE Presidents of sections for the meeting of 
the British Association for the Advancement of 
Science, which will be held in 1901, at Glasgow, 
commencing on September 11th, will be as fol- 
lows: 
Section A.—Mathematical and Physical Science, 
Professor Perey A. MacMahon, F.R.S. 
Section B.—Chemistry, Professor Percy Frankland, 
F.R.S. 
Section C.—Geology, Mr. John Horne, F.R.S. 
Section D.—Zoology, Professor Cossar Ewart, F.R.S- 
Section E.—Geography, Dr. H. R. Mill, F.R.G.S: 
Section F.—Statistics and Economic Science, Sir 
Robert Giffen, F.R.S. 
Section G.—Engineering, Mr. R. E. Crompton. 
Section H.—Anthropology, Professor D. J. Cun- 
ningham, F.R.8. 
Section I.—Physiology, Professor J. G. McKen- 
drick, F.R.S. 
Section J.—Botany, Professor I. Bayley Balfour, 
F.R.S. 
AT the annual election of the New York 
Academy of Medicine on December 20th, the 
following officers were chosen: President, Dr. 
Robert F. Weir; Vice-President, Dr. Charles M. 
Dana ; Recording Secretary, Dr. John H. Huddle- 
stone ; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. Louis F. 
Bishop. 
AT the meeting of the Royal Statistical Soci- 
ety, on December 18th, a Guy medal was 
awarded to Mr. J. A. Baines, for his services to 
statistical science and a Howard medal and a 
prize of one hundred dollars to Dr. J. F. J. 
Sykes for his essay on ‘The Results of State, 
Municipal and organized Private Action on the 
Housing of the Working Class in London and 
other Large Cities in the United Kingdom.’ 
PROFESSOR W J McG#E, of the Bureau of Amer- 
ican Ethnology, has. returned to Washington 
from a field trip through parts of Arizona, Sonora 
and Lower California. Outfitting at Phoenix 
about the middle of October, he traversed the 
sparsely settled plains southward to the Inter- 
national boundary at Santo Domingo, and 
thence to the village of Carborca. From this 
point the party worked down the sandwash of 
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Rio San Ignacio (or Rio Altar) to the coast of 
the Gulf of California, where the Tepoka In- 
dians lived until recently. Finding this tribe 
extinct, the expedition returned by a new route 
to Santo Domingo, and took the historical 
Yuma trail—now completely abandoned—to 
Rio Colorado. Here the territory of the Co- 
copa Indians was visited, and fairly extensive 
collections were for the first time made among 
them. Mr. DeLancey Gill, artist of the expe- 
dition, secured numerous photographs and 
sketches of the tribes and their territory. 
Dr. L. A. BAUER, in charge of the magnetic 
work of the United States Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, returned to Washington on December 
15th, after having determined the sites of the 
base stations for the magnetic surveys in Alaska 
and in the Hawaiian Islands. 
COLONEL FIVE, who was in 1896 sent by the 
Belgian Government on a scientific expedition 
to the far East, has returned home. 
A MEMORIAL is being formed to commemorate 
the service to learning and letters of the late 
Professor Max Miller. The necessary steps are 
being taken to raise a fund, which, after pro- 
viding for some personal memorial, such as a 
bust, relief or portrait, should be handed over 
to the University of Oxford, and held in trust 
for the promotion of learning and research in 
all matters relating to the history and archeol- 
ogy, the languages, literature, and religions of 
ancient India. 
Dr. P. H. Kirscu died recently at Las Cruces, 
New Mexico. Dr. Kirsch received his doctor’s 
degree from Indiana University about 1888. 
He was a teacher and naturalist of high rank, 
and was superintendent of schools in Franklin 
and other towns in Indiana and also in New 
Mexico. He is the author of several papers on 
fishes, one on the fishes of the Gila River, and 
another on the sturgeons. 
For the purposes of the National Physical 
Laboratory, Queen Victoria has granted to the 
Royal Society, Bushey-house, Bushey-park. 
THE annual report of the Superintendent of 
Disbursements shows an increased demand on 
the part of the public for Government publica- 
tions and recommends that the issue of the 
monthly catalogue be enlarged, that permission 
