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The Geological Society of America. — December 

 26-29. Acting president, Professor W. M. Davis, 

 Harvard University; secretary, Professor Her- 

 man L. Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. 



The Association of American Geographers. — 

 December 31-January 1. President, Cyrus C. 

 Adams, New York City; secretary, Albert P. 

 Brigliam, Colgate University. 



The American Society of Zoologists. — Decem- 

 ber 27, 28, 29. President (Eastern Branch), Pro- 

 fessor W. E. Castle, Harvard University; secre- 

 tary, Professor H. S. Pratt, Haverford College. 

 President (Central Branch), Professor C. C. Nut- 

 ting, University of Iowa; secretary. Professor T. 

 6. See, University of Michigan. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists. — 

 President, A. H. Kirkland, Maiden, Mass. ; secre- 

 tary, A. F. Burgess, Columbvis, O. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — 

 Pi-esident, Dr. E. F. Smith, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture; secretary. Professor S. C. Prescott, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



The American Physiological Society. — Decem- 

 ber 27, 28, 29. President, Professor W. H. 

 Howell, the Johns Hopkins University; secretary, 

 Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, 18 Trumbull St., 

 New Haven, Conn. 



The Association of Am,erican Anatomists. — De- 

 cember, 27, 28, 29. Professor G. Carl Huber, 333 

 East Ann St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 



The Botanical Society of America.— December 

 27, 28, 29. President, Dr. F. S. Earle; secretary, 

 Dr. William Trelease, Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



The American Psychological Association. — De- 

 cember 27-28. President, Professor James R. 

 Angell, University of Chicago; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor Wm. Harper Davis, Lehigh University. 



The American Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 27-29. Pi'esident, Professor William 

 James, Harvard University; secretary, Professor 

 John Grier Hibben, Princeton University. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 27-January 3. President, Professor F. 

 W. Putnam, Harvard University; secretary, Dr, 

 Geo. Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



The American Folk-lore Society. — December 

 27-January 3. President, Dr. A. L. Kroeber, 

 University of California; secretary, W. W. 

 Newell, Cambridge, Mass. 



New York State Science Teachers Association. 

 — December 26, 27. Secretary, John F. Wood- 

 hull, Teachers College, Columbia University. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 A MEETING to commemorate the life and 

 services of Samuel Pierpont Langley, secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1887 

 to 1906, will be held in the lecture room of 

 the United States National Museum on Mon- 



day evening, December 3, at 8:15 o'clock. 

 The following addresses will be delivered: 

 ' Introductory Eemarks,' by the chancellor of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, the Honorable 

 Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the 

 United States ; * Memorial on Behalf of the 

 Board of Regents,' by the Honorable Andrew 

 D. White, LL.D.; 'Mr. Langley's Contribu- 

 tions to Astronomy and Astrophysics,' by Pro- 

 fessor E. C. Pickering, director of the Har- 

 vard College Observatory; 'Mr. Langley's 

 Contributions to Aerodynamics,' by Octave 

 Chanute, Esq., of Chicago. 



The Alumni Association of New York Uni- 

 versity has planned a testimonial to Professor 

 J. J. Stevenson on the completion of thirty- 

 five years of service as professor of geology in 

 the university. A dinner will be given in his 

 honor on December f at the Hotel Astor, and 

 a silver loving cup will be presented to him. 



The formal presentation of the new portrait 

 of President James B. Angell, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, will take place on Saturday 

 afternoon, December 8, in University Hall, 

 Ann Arbor. This painting, which is by Wil- 

 liam M. Chase, of New York, is the gift to 

 the university of the students, faculty and 

 alumni. The picture will be presented to the 

 university by Professor Henry M. Bates, of 

 the law department, on behalf of all the thou- 

 sands of donors, while the formal acceptance 

 will be made by Regent Loyal E. Knappen. 

 A formal address will also be delivered on 

 that occasion by Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks, 

 of Cornell University, an alumnus of the 

 university. 



Sir Victor Horsley, who has been con- 

 nected with University College, London, as a 

 student and as a teacher for thirty years, has 

 resigned his professorship of clinical surgery 

 and his position as surgeon to the hospital on 

 account of increasing public and private pro- 

 fessional duties. The council, in accepting 

 his resignation, adopted unanimously the fol- 

 lowing resolution : " That the council, having 

 received with great regret Sir Victor Hors- 

 ley's resignation of his professorship of clin- 

 ical surgery and his position of surgeon to 

 University College Hospital, whereby his offi- 



