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tary, Professor Geo. C. Comstock, Washburn Ob- 

 servatory, Madison, Wis. 



The American Physical Society. — President, 

 Professor Carl Barus, Brown University; secre- 

 tary, Professor Ernest Merritt, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Mathematical Society. — Decem- 

 ber 28, 29. President, Professor W. F. Osgood, 

 Harvard University; secretary. Professor F. N. 

 Cole, Columbia University. 



The Am,erican Chemical Society. — December 

 27-January 2. President, Professor W. F. Hille- 

 brand, U. S. Geological Survey; secretary. Dr. 

 William A. Noyes, the Bureau of Standards, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Geological Society of Am,erica. — 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. 

 Brigham, 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. 

 G. See, University of Michigan. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists. — 

 December 28, 29. President, A. H. Kirkland, 

 Maiden, Mass.; secretary, A. F. Burgess, Colum- 

 bus, 0. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — 

 President, 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. President, Professor Frank- 

 lin P. Mall; secretary. 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 E,. 

 Angell, University of Chicago; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor Wm. Harper Davis, Lehigh University. 



The American Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 27-29. President, 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. President, John F. Wood- 

 hull, Teachers College, Columbia University. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Da Costa 

 professor of zoology in Columbia University, 

 curator of vertebrate paleontology and vice- 

 president of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, geologist and paleontologist of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, has been elected 

 secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to 

 succeed the late Samuel Pierpont Langley. 



The Botanical Society of America (a union 

 of the Botanical Society of America, the So- 

 ciety for Plant Morphology and Physiology 

 and the American Mycological Society) will 

 hold its first meeting, under the federation 

 effected last winter, in New York City, during 

 convocation week. The council will meet at 

 9 A.M. on Thursday, in Schermerhom Hall, 

 and a very important business session will be 

 held in the same place at 11 o'clock the same 

 morning. Scientific meetings will be held at 

 Schermerhorn Hall on Friday afternoon, and 

 at the Botanical Garden both morning and 

 afternoon on Saturday. It is also possible 

 that sessions may be held on the following 

 Monday. Professor P. S. Earle, of Herra- 

 dura, Cuba, is president and Dr. Wm. Tre- 

 lease, of St. Louis, is secretary. 



The American Physiological Society will 

 meet, as already announced, on December 27, 

 28, 29 in New York City. The meetings will 

 be held on December 27 in the physiological 

 laboratories of the University and Bellevue 

 Hospital Medical College, 338 East 26th St.; 

 on December 28 in the physiological labora- 

 tories of the College of Physicians and Sur- 

 geons, 437 West 59th St.; on December 29, 

 joint meeting with Section K of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 in the Eockefeller Institute for Medical Ke- 

 search, 66th St. and Avenue A. All commu- 

 nications should be addressed to the secretary, 



