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libraries, laboratories, observatory, meteoro- 

 logical, piscicultural and forestry schools and 

 kindred institutions of the several depart- 

 ments of the government. 



"6. To insure the prompt publication and 

 distribution of the results of scientific in- 

 vestigation, a field considered to be highly im- 

 portant. 



"These and kindred objects may be at- 

 tained by providing the necessary apparatus, 

 by employing able teachers from various insti- 

 tutions in Washington and elsewhere, and by 

 enabling men fitted for special work to devote 

 themselves to it, through salaried fellowships 

 or scholarships, or through salaries, with or 

 without pensions in old age, or through aid 

 in other forms to such men as continue their 

 special work at seats of learning throughout 

 the world." 



The meeting for organization of the board 

 of trustees and the election of oflScers has been 

 called for January 29, at the oiEce of the Sec- 

 retary of State in Washington. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



President Ira Remsen, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has been elected president of 

 the American Chemical Society. 



Professor H. W. Conn, of Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, has been elected president of the 

 American Society of Bacteriologists. 



The Society for Plant Morphology and 

 Physiology held a successful meeting at 

 Columbia University on December 31, 1901, 

 and January 1, 1902, of which a full account 

 will soon appear in Science. Officers for the 

 ensuing year were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent, v. M. Spalding, University of Michigan ; 

 Vice-President, Byron D. Halsted, Rutgers 

 College; Secretary-Treasurer, W. F. Ganong, 

 Smith College. The Society will meet next 

 year at Washington with the other scientific 

 societies. 



At the annual election of officers of the 

 California Academy of Sciences, held Jan- 

 uary 6, 1902, the following were elected 

 to serve in the various offices of the So- 

 ciety during the ensuing year: Presi- 



dent, David Starr Jordan; First Vice-Pres- 

 dent, M. W. Haskell; Second Vice-Presi- 

 dent, H. H. Behr; Corresponding Secretary, 

 J. O'B. Gunn; Recording Secretary, J. W. 

 Hobson; Treasurer, L. H. Foote; Librarian, 

 Louis Falkenau; Director of Museum, Lev- 

 erett M. Loomis; Trustees, William M. 

 Pierson, James F. Houghton, William H. 

 Crocker, C. E. Grunsky, E. J. Molera, George 

 C. Perkins, George W. Dickie. 



Caswell Grave, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), 

 now instructor in zoology at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has been appointed director 

 of the United States Fish Commission Station 

 at Beaufort, 'N. C. 



Dr. J. l\JiiECHBAUMER, Senior curator of the 

 zoological collections at Munich, has retired. 



A ROYAL commission has been appointed to 

 inquire into the question of the coal supplies 

 of the United Kingdom. It includes among 

 its members H. B. Dixon, M.A., professor of 

 chemistry and metallurgy in the Owens Col- 

 lege, Manchester ; J. S. Dixon, mining engineer 

 and coalmaster, president of the Mining In- 

 stitution of Scotland, and president of the 

 Institution of Mining Engineers of Great 

 Britain; C. Le Neve Foster, D.Sc, B.A., 

 F.R.S., professor of mining in the Royal Col- 

 lege of Science, South Kensington, and lately 

 one of his majesty's inspectors of Mines; 

 Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., lately 

 director of the Geological Survey of Ireland; 

 Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.R.S., professor of 

 geology and physiography in the Birmingham 

 University, and J. J. H. Teall, M.A., F.R.S., 

 president of the Geological Society of London 

 and director of the Geological Survey of the 

 United Kingdom. 



A FUND is being raised to perpetuate the 

 memory of thelate Professor Tate, for twenty- 

 six years professor of natural science in the 

 Adelaide University. It is proposed to erect 

 a memorial tablet and to establish a Tate 

 medal for geology. 



Mr. C. L. a. de Niceville died at Calcutta 

 on December 3, of malarial fever contracted 

 in the Terai in pursuit of his investigations as 

 state entomologist of India, an appointment 

 which had been created for him. He was the 



