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Mr. Jas. F. Callbreath, Jr., editor of the Mining 
Reporter, was appointed chairman of the com- 
mittee on printing and will at once proceed to 
publish the Preliminary Announcement, which 
will be distributed to all members of the Asso- 
ciation. 
The permanent secretary has as yet been 
unable to secure definite information regarding 
the railroad rates. This is the first time the 
Association has met in the far West and all the 
passenger associations are holding their decis- 
ions contingent upon that of the Western Pas- 
senger Association, in whose territory the meet- 
ing isto be held. This association is not in the 
habit of taking definite action on meetings of 
this character until within 60 days of the meet- 
ing, and this has complicated the railroad ques- 
tion. The peculiar character of the Associa- 
tion, in that it is composed so largely of men 
connected with college faculties, who have a 
long summer vacation and desire to make their 
plans well in advance, and, in fact, the majority 
of whom leave home after commencement and 
are difficult to reach by mail, has been shown 
to the railroad people and a speedy decision is 
hoped for. The permanent secretary thinks it 
most probable that a rate of not to exceed one 
fare plus $2 will be secured for the territory 
west of Chicago, and surely the passenger asso- 
ciations east of Chicago will make a rate at 
least as low as one fare and one-third. An effort 
is still being made to secure a one-fare rate for 
the entire trip. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM JAMES, of Harvard Uni- 
versity, began his course of Gifford Lectures at 
Edinburgh on May 16th. 
THE Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 
Dr. Zeuner, of Dresden, a correspondent in the 
section of mechanics. The other nominations 
were: Professor Henry T. Eddy, University of 
Minnesota and Professor Zabonsdsky, of St. 
Petersburg. In the section of geography and 
navigation, Dr. Oudemans, of Utrecht, was 
elected correspondent. The other nominations 
were: Mr. Wharton, of London, Professor Al- 
brecht, of Potsdam, and Professor Neumayer of 
Hamburg. 
THE following have been elected honorary 
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members of the American Chemical Society : 
Professor William Ramsay, University College, 
London, Sir Henry HE. Roscoe, University of 
London, Professor Emil Fischer, University of 
Berlin, Professor Adolph Baeyer, University of 
Munich, and Professor George Lunge, Univer- 
sity of Zurich. 
Srr WILLIAM MAcCorMAC, president of the 
Royal College of Surgeons, London, has been 
elected a foreign associate fellow of the College 
of Physicians of Philadelphia. 
Mr. WILLIAM WHITWELL has been elected 
president of the British Iron and Steel Institute 
in succession to Sir William Roberts-Austen. 
Mr. W. LANGDON has been nominated for the 
presidency of the Institution of Electrical En- 
gineers, London. 
THE Linnean Society, London, has awarded 
its gold medal to Lieutenant Colonel Sir George 
King, the botanist, lately superintendent of the 
Royal Botanic Garden at Calcutta. He has 
published important monographs on the flora 
of India, China and the Malay Peninsula. 
THE Bessemer Gold Medal of the British 
Tron and Steel Institute has been conferred 
upon Mr. John Edward Stead, F.1.C., in recog- 
nition of the value of his investigations of the 
physical and chemical properties of iron and 
steel. : 
Dr. G. T. Moore, of the department of 
biology at Dartmouth College, has been ap- 
pointed algologist in the Department of Agri- 
culture. 
Nature states that news has been received of 
the safety of Professor W. Baldwin Spencer 
and Mr. Gillen. They report themselves in 
good health and already busy taking phono- 
and kinematographic records. The Postmaster- 
General of South Australia has provided them - 
with pocket apparatus for tapping the overland 
telegraph line when in the vicinity of their 
route. 
THE president of the University of Tokyo, 
Deiroku Kikuchi, will represent Japan at the 
bi-centennial celebration of Yale University 
next October. 
Kine EpwArp VII. has consented to be pa- 
tron of the British Medical Association. 
