May 17, 1901.] 
are known to be in different parts of the State. 
There are no headquarters for these collections, 
or for a typical series from them, nor is there 
any record covering the entire range of forms 
ornumber of geographical areas. Many speci- 
mens pass to foreign countries without a record 
or photographs being taken for the State. It 
is not the desire of the Wisconsin people to 
prevent the study of the antiquities of the State 
by outsiders or even their acquirement of speci- 
mens, but rather to secure records, drawings 
and other data for a central State collection to 
be available for study by all. Eventually State 
appropriations for a survey of the mounds are 
to be sought. 
The Wisconsin Society of Natural History 
was founded by Increase Lapham and others, 
who began archeological work ona firm basis. 
It now proposes to establish a new grade of 
membership in the archeological section, for 
people living, at a distance from Milwaukee. 
The regular membership fee is three dollars per 
year. The fee for the new grade will be one 
dollar. A meeting will be held at the Mil- 
waukee Public Museum in May, to which all 
known students and collectors of Wisconsin 
archeology residing in the State will be in- 
vited. The object of this meeting will be to 
discuss ways and means for the study and pres- 
ervation of Wisconsin antiquities. 
It is hoped that students and collectors will 
be brought into closer relationship by the publi- 
cation of a bulletin, which, it is expected, will 
be established as a result of this meeting. The 
foundation of an anthropological reference 
library, the lack of which is keenly felt, and a 
central place of record, where reports of 
explorations may be heard and discussed, is 
also expected by the committee as an outcome 
of the meeting. 
‘The people interested in this movement may 
do lasting good by striving to preserve the 
prehistoric mounds by enclosing them in parks, 
by a close cooperation with the State Univer- 
sity, by a broadening of the proposed arche- 
ological research into that of general ethnology, 
and, finally, by the foundation of a permanent 
department of anthropology in the Univer- 
sity. 
HARLAN I. SMITH. 
SCLENCE. 795 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
At the annual meeting of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, held on May 8th, 
it was unanimously voted to award the Rum- 
ford Medal to Professor Elihu Thomson ‘for 
his inventions in electric welding and lighting.’ 
The Academy has granted to Professor Theo- 
dore W. Richards, of Harvard University, the 
sum of $500 from the income of the Rumford 
Fund, in aid of a research upon the Thomson 
Joule effect. 
Proressor J. H. vAN’T Horr, of the Uni- 
versity of Berlin, will give a limited number of 
lectures on physical chemistry at the Kent 
Chemical Laboratory of the University of 
Chicago, beginning on June 19, 1901. 
M. BERTHELOT, the eminent chemist, ex- 
Minister for Foreign Affairs, and permanent 
secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 
who has been elected a member of the French 
Academy in succession to M. Bertrand, the 
mathematician, was officially welcomed to the 
Academy by Mr. Lemaitre on May 2d. 
M. ZEILLER has been elected a member of 
the botanical section of the Paris Academy 
of Sciences in the place of the late Adolphe 
Chatin. M. Zeiller received twenty-five votes, 
while twenty-two were cast for M. Renault. 
MM. Bureau Costantin and Mangin were also 
candidates. 
THE following fifteen candidates have been 
recommended by the Council of the Royal So- 
ciety for election to membership: Professor 
Alfred William Alcock, M.B., Mr. Frank Wat- 
son Dyson, M.A., Mr. Arthur John Evans, 
M.A., Professor John Walter Gregory, D.Sc., 
Captain Henry Bradwardine Jackson, R.N., 
Mr. Hector Munro Macdonald, M.A., Mr. 
James Mansergh, M.Inst.C.E., Professor 
Charles James Martin, M.B., Major Roland 
Ross, M.R.C.S., Professor William Schlich, 
Ph.D., C.1.E., Professor Arthur Smithells, 
B.Se., Mr. Michael Rodgers Oldfield Thomas, 
F.Z.S., Mr. William Watson, B.Sc., Mr. Wil- 
liam Cecil Dampier Whetham, M.A. and Mr. 
Arthur Smith Woodward, F.G.S. 
At the annual meeting of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciences, held May 8th, 
the following elections took place: Associate 
