Kebeuaey 28, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Alderman, of Tulane University in New Orleans, 

 a man of letters, — two leaders in the advancement 

 of education in the South, advocates of schools 

 and colleges of every grade, and their zealous pro- 

 moters. 



Nicholas Mxjerat Bdtlee, whose enthusiasm, 

 energy, and knowledge of the principles and 

 methods of Education have given him distinction 

 throughout the land and have led to his promotion 

 to the presidency of Columbia University in the 

 city of New York. 



Henbt Smith Pritohett, astronomer and geod- 

 esist, who vrent from his home in Missouri to dis- 

 tant lands, now to observe an eclipse, now a 

 transit, who has been the distinguished head of 

 the United States Coast Survey, and is now the 

 head of a vigorous foundation in Boston, the Mass- 

 achusetts Institute of Technology. 



I present to you the two representatives 

 of learning and scholarship in ' the new 

 world beyond the new world,' a Grecian 

 and a student of Natural History, Benja- 

 min Ide Wheeler, President of the Uni- 

 versity of California,— an idealist worthy 

 to represent the aspirations of Berkeley, 

 and David Starr Jordan, the naturalist, 

 who has led in the organization of the 

 Stanford Univei'sity, chiefs of two harmo- 

 nious institutions, one of which was 

 founded by private bounty, the other by 

 the munificence of a prosperous State. 



As this roll began with Harvard it ends 

 with Yale. I present to you finally one of 

 the strongest and most brilliant of this 

 strong and brilliant company,— Arthur 

 Twining Hadley, a writer and thinker of 

 acknowledged authority on the principles of 

 finance and administration, the honorable 

 successor of Timothy Dwight as President 

 of Yale University. 



THE CHICAGO MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The American Physiological Society held 

 its fourteenth annual meeting at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, December 30 and 31, 

 1901. Notvsrithstanding the fact that the 

 Society had hitherto met only in the East, 

 there was a large attendance of members, 



and great interest was shown in the pro- 

 ceedings. The following new members 

 were elected, making the total membership 

 ninety-seven: Harvey B. Cushing, A.M., 

 M.D., Associate in Surgery, Johns Hop- 

 kins University; Joseph Erlanger, M.D., 

 Instructor in Physiology, Johns Hopkins 

 University ; Martin H. Fischer, M.D., Asso- 

 ciate in Physiology, University of Chicago ; 

 Arthur W. Greeley, A.M., Assistant in 

 Physiology, University of Chicago; E. 

 Mark Houghton, Ph.C, M.D., Lecturer on 

 Experimental Pharmacology in the Detroit 

 College of Medicine ; H. S. Jennings, Ph.D., 

 Assistant Professor of Zoology, University 

 of Michigan; "Waldemar Koch, Ph.D., As- 

 sistant in Pharmacology, University of Chi- 

 cago ; David J. Lingle, Ph.D., Instructor in 

 Physiology, University of Chicago; Elias 

 P. Lyon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of 

 Physiology, University of Chicago; E. 

 Lindon Melius, M.D., Baltimore ; George B. 

 Wallace, M.D., Instructor in Pharmacology, 

 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College, New York. The Council for the 

 past year was reelected, viz.. Professors R. 

 H. Chittenden, W. H. Howell, Frederic S. 

 Ijee, W. P. Lombard and W. T. Porter. 

 The Council subsequently reelected as presi- 

 dent Professor Chittenden, and as secre- 

 tary and treasurer Professor Lee. 



The scientific program was an unusually 

 full one, thirty-two papers being presented. 

 A considerable number of demonstrations, 

 especially of new apparatus, were also 

 made. Only a very brief outline of the pro- 

 gram can be indicated here. 



The Relation of Blood-plates to the In- 

 crease in the Number of Bed Corpuscles 

 at High Altitiides: Professor G. T. 

 KJEMP, University of Illinois. 

 The red corpuscles and the blood-plates 

 were counted at Paris, and found to num- 

 ber, respectively, 4,800,000 and 457,000 per 

 cubic millimeter. Seventy- two hours later. 



