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von Haidinger. Dr. von Mojsisovics now hopes 

 to bring to a more speedy conclusion his great 

 ■works on the Cephalopoda of the Hallstatt 

 limestone and on the geology of the Salzkam- 

 mergut. All future communications should be 

 addressed to him : Wien, III/3. Strohgasse 



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• 

 The American Society of Naturalists and 

 eight affiliated societies, devoted to the natural 

 sciences, will, as we have already announced, 

 meet at the Johns Hopkins University, begin- 

 ning on Thursday, Dec. 27th. The proceedings 

 of the Society of Naturalists are as follows : An 

 address of welcome will be made by President 

 Gilmau on Thursday evening, followed by a 

 lecture by Dr. Frank Russell, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, on 'Indians of the Southwest,' and a 

 reception in McCoy Hall. The annual discus- 

 sion, which takes place on Friday afternoon, is 

 on ' The Attitude of the State toward Scien- 

 tific Investigation,' and the speakers are Pro- 

 fessor H. F. Osborn, Columbia Universitj' ; Pro- 

 fessor W. B. Clark, Johns Hopkins University ; 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of Division of Ento- 

 mology, Washington, D. C; Mr. B. T. Gallo- 

 way, director of Plant Industry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and Professor W. T. 

 Sedgwick, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. The address of the president. Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Wilson, of Columbia University, 

 will be given at the annual banquet on Friday 

 evening. The headquarters of the Society are 

 at Hotel Rennert. 



The fourth annual meeting of the Society for 

 Plant Morphology and Physiology will be held, 

 with the American Society of Naturalists and 

 the Affiliated Scientific Societies, at Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Baltimore, Md., on Thursday 

 and Friday, December 27th and 28th, 1900. 

 The usual social meeting will be held on Wednes- 

 day evening, December 26th. Among the special 

 features of the meeting will be the presentation 

 and discussion of an important report of the 

 committee appointed to consider methods of 

 securing improvements in reviews of current 

 botanical literature, and two special lectures 

 upon subjects of contemporary interest, one by 

 Dr. Erwiu F. Smith on ' Bacterial Diseases 

 of Plants,' and one by Professor G. F. Atkin- 



son, on ' Cytological Problems connected with 

 Fertilization.' The address of the President, 

 Professor D. P. Penhallow, will discuss 'A De- 

 cade of North American Paleobotany.' An ex- 

 cursion of the Society to Washington, to visit 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, is 

 planned for Saturday morning, December 29th. 

 Further information about the meeting, and 

 copies of the provisional program may be ob- 

 tained from the Secretary, Professor W. F. 

 Ganong, Northampton, Mass. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists, or- 

 ganized at New Haven, in 1899, will hold its 

 second annual session at Baltimore, in connec- 

 tion with the American Society of Naturalists, 

 December 27th and 28th. The meetings will 

 be held in the Pathological Laboratory of the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital. All interested in 

 bacteriology, whether members of the Society 

 or not, are cordially invited to attend the meet- 

 ings. A program has been prepared which will 

 occupy three sessions. A ' smoker' will be held 

 on Wednesday evening at ten o'clock, at which 

 time will be given the presidential address by 

 Professor W. T. Sedgwick. 



The other societies meeting with the Natur- 

 alists, to the arrangements of some of which we 

 have already called attention, are : The Amer- 

 ican Morphological Society, The Association of 

 American Anatomists, The American Physio- 

 logical Society, The American Psychological 

 Association, The American Folk-Lore Society, 

 the Section of Anthropology of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The thirteenth winter meeting of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America will be held at Al- 

 bany, N. Y. , beginning on Thursday, December 

 27th, in the Chapel of the Albany Academy. 

 The Council will meet at 9 o'clock on Thursday 

 morning ; the Society will be called to order by 

 President Dawson at 10 o'clock. The presi- 

 dent's address will probably be given on Thurs- 

 day morning, and the subscription dinner will 

 take place in the evening. 



The twenty-second general meeting of the 

 American Chemical Society will be held in Chi- 

 cago, 111., December 27th and 28th, 1900. Elab- 

 orate preparations have been made for it, and 

 the meeting is sure to be successful. Plans are 



