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of Nervous and Menial Diseases^ Dr. Smith 

 Ely Jelliffe of New York has become the re- 

 sponsible editor. Dr. William Osier, Dr. 

 Erederick Peterson and Dr. Wharton Sinkler 

 have joined the advisory board. Dr. William 

 G. Spiller of Philadelphia vrill continue to be 

 acting editor. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY. 



The Annual Meeting of the Physical So- 

 ciety was held at Columbia University on Dec. 

 2Y, 1901. From some points of view the date 

 was an unfortunate one, coming as it did so 

 soon after Christmas day. But in spite of 

 this fact the attendance was unusually good, 

 while the program included a larger list of 

 papers than that of any previous meeting ex- 

 cept the one held in connection with the New 

 York meeting of the American Association in 

 1900. 



Officers were elected for the year 1902 as 

 follows : 



President, Albert A. Miohelson; Vice-President, 

 Arthur G. Webster; Secretary, Ernest Merritt; 

 Treasurer, William Hallock. 



Messrs. Carl Barus, D. B. Brace and A. L. 

 Kimball were elected members of the Council 

 of the Society. 



The following papers were read: 



'A Suspected Case of the Production of Color by 

 the Selective Electrical Resonance for Light Waves 

 of Very Minute Metallic Spheres ' : R. W. Wood. 



'Report on Electrostriction': Louis T. Moke. 



' Further Experiments on Electrostriction ' : J. 

 S. Shearer. 



' The Transmission of Excited Radioactivity ' : 

 . E. Rutherford. 



' Excited Radioactivity and Ionization of At- 

 mospheric Air ' : E. Rutherford and S. J. Axlen. 



'Note on Drude's Elektronentheorie': E. H. 

 Hall. 



'The Disturbances of a Plumb-bob suspended on 

 a Steel Wire ' : Wm. Hallock. 



' A Thermograph for Earth Temperatures ' : 

 Wm. Hallock. 



'The Viscosity of Water determined by the 

 Aid of Capillary Ripples ' : F. R. Watson. 



' Magnetization of Steel at Liquid Air Tempera- 

 tures ' : C. C. Trowbridge. 



' The Pfanndler Calorimeter ' : W. F. Magie. 



' Standards of High Electrical Resistance ' : H. 

 C. Parker. 



' Variation of Contact Resistances with Change 

 of E. M. F. ' : H. C. Parker. 



' On a Ruling Engine for Diffraction Gratings ' : 

 A. A. Miohelson. (Read in abstract by the 

 Secretary. ) 



The next meeting of the Society will be on 

 Feb. 22, at 10 :30 o'clock a. m., in Fayerweather 

 Hall, Columbia University. 



Ernest Mekritt, 



Secretary. 



OHIO state academy of science. 



The eleventh annual meeting was held at 

 Columbus, November 29 and 30. This was a 

 month earlier than the usual time but the at- 

 tendance was as good as usual, about thirty- 

 five. The policy of holding a summer field 

 meeting every year the Academy decided to 

 abandon. Some of these meetings have proved 

 very successful, but of late the attendance of 

 members living at a distance has been small, 

 except when held in connection with the meet- 

 ing of some other organization. Hereafter the 

 executive committee each year may or may 

 not call a summer meeting. 



The following resolution was passed : " That 

 the Academy, through its secretary, respect- 

 fully represent to the postal authorities that 

 the present provisions and rulings of the postal 

 department regarding transmission of natural 

 history specimens are inconsistent and a seri- 

 ous hindrance to exchange of scientific ma- 

 terial and urge that better provisions be af- 

 forded." 



The secretary read obituary notices of 

 Edward W. Claypole, first president of the 

 Academy, and of Mrs. Claypole, and a com- 

 mittee was appointed to draft a suitable me- 

 morial. 



A letter was read from Emerson E. Mc- 

 Millin, again placing $250 at the Academy's 

 disposal. Eighteen persons were elected to 

 membership. 



The topographic survey of Ohio by the U. S. 

 Geological Survey in cooperation with the 

 State was begun in 1901 as a. result of deter- 

 mined efforts put forth by the Academy of 

 Science beginning in 1896, when Albert A. 



