December 21, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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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, O. 



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. — Decern 

 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 American 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 R. 

 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. 



All railways have granted a rate of one and 

 one third fare for the round trip to those 

 attending; the meeting. Certificates should 



be obtained for the meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathol- 

 ogy in the Johns Hopkins University, and 

 Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Car- 

 negie Foundation, have been elected trustees 

 of the Carnegie Institution, 



The New York Academy of Sciences held 

 its annual meeting on December 17, Follow- 

 ing the dinner Dr, N. L. Britton, director of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, gave the 

 presidential address. The officers for next 

 year are as follows: 



President: Nathaniel L. Britton. 



Vice-Presidents: Section of Biology, H. E. 

 Crampton; Section of Geology and Mineralogy, 

 Amadeus W. Grabau; Section of Astronomy, Phy- 

 sics and Chemistry, Charles C. Trowbridge; Sec- 

 tion of Anthropology and Psychology, Robert 

 MacDougall. 



Corresponding Secretary: Richard E. Dodge. 



Recording Secretary: Edmund Otis Hovey. 



Treasurer: Emerson McMillin. 



Librarian: Ralph W. Tower. 



Editor: Chas. Lane Poor. 



Councilors: To serve three years, William M, 

 Wheeler, Charles Baskerville. 



Finance Committee: John H. Caswell, George 

 F, Kunz, Frederic S. Lee. 



Professor T. W. Eichards has been elected 

 an honorary member of the Royal Institution 

 of Great Britain. 



Mr. Alexander Agassiz has chartered the 

 steam yacht Virginia for a cruise to the West 

 Indies. The yacht will sail from New York 

 the first week in February to be absent for 

 three months. 



Professor Eichard E. Dodge, of Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, has been made 

 an honorary member of the Eoyal Geograph- 

 ical Society of Australasia, He will con- 

 tribute a paper on ' The Geographer and 

 School Geography ' to the twenty-first anni- 

 versary meeting, at Queensland. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the fact that the Nobel 

 prize this year has been awarded to Cajal and 

 Golgi has roused their compatriots to do them 



