March 21, 1902. ) 



SCIENCE. 



477 



ness requiring the use of weiglit and measure- 

 ment, except in completing tlie survey of public 

 lands, shall employ and use only the weights 

 and measures of the metric system; and after 

 January 1, 1907, the weights and measures of 

 the metric system shall be the legal standard 

 weights and measures of and in the United 

 States. 



The Entomological Society of Western 

 Pennsylvania was organized at the Carnegie 

 Museum in Pittsburgh on the evening of 

 March 8. Dr. W. J. Holland was elected presi- 

 dent, Mr. F. A. Merrick, of New Brighton, 

 secretary, and Dr. D. A. Atkinson, of Pitts- 

 burgh, Treasurer. Twenty-three persons par- 

 ticipated in the organization. A committee 

 with Herbert H. Smith as chairman was ap- 

 pointed to prepare a constitution and by-laws. 

 The next meeting will be held on April 5. 



The thirteenth session of the International 

 Congress of Americanists will be held in the 

 halls of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York City, October 20-25, 1902. 

 The object of the congress is to bring together 

 students of the archeology, ethnology, and 

 early history of the two Americas, and by the 

 reading of papers and by discussions to 

 advance knowledge of these subjects. Com- 

 munications may be oral or written, and in 

 French, German, Spanish, Italian or English. 

 All debates are exisected to be brief, and no 

 paper must exceed thirty minutes in delivery. 

 The papers presented to the congress will, on 

 the approval of the bureau, be printed in the 

 volume of proceedings. Members of the con- 

 gress are expected to send, in advance of the 

 meeting, the titles and, if possible, abstracts 

 of their papers, to the general secretary. The 

 subjects discussed by the congress relate to : 

 (1) The native races of America, their origin, 

 distribution, history, physical characteristics, 

 langTiages, inventions, customs and religions, 

 and (2) The history of the early contact 

 between America and the Old World. All 

 persons interested in the study of the arche- 

 ology, ethnology and early history of the two 

 Americas may become members of the con- 

 gress by signifying their desire to Mr. Mar- 

 shall H. Saville, general secretary of the com- 



mission of organization, American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York, and remitting 

 either direct to the Treasurer (Mr. Harlan I. 

 Smith, American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory), or through the general secretary, the 

 sum of three dollars. The receipt of the 

 treasurer for this amount will entitle the 

 holder to a card of membership and to all 

 official publications emanating from the 

 thirteenth session of the congress. Mr. 

 Morris K. Jesup is president and the Duke 

 of Loubat vice-president of the commission of 

 organization. 



The American Social Science Association 

 \\'ill hold its general meeting in Washington, 

 beginning Monday, April 21, and closing I'ri- 

 day, April 25. Dr. Oscar S. Straus, presi- 

 dent of the association, will deliver his address 

 on the first day. The program for April 22 

 will be devoted to the department of social 

 economy, of which Mr. John Graham Brooks 

 is chairman. The department of jurispru- 

 dence, of which Dr. Francis Wayland is 

 chairman, will hold its sessions on the 23d. 

 General George M. Sternberg, chairman of 

 the department of health, will preside at the 

 session on Thursday, April 24. Dr. W. C. 

 Woodward and Professor George M. Kober 

 will make addresses at the morning session 

 and General Sternberg and Mr. Charles F. 

 Weller will be the speakers at the evening 

 session. 



The convocation of the University of the 

 State of New York is to be held at Albany on 

 June 30 and July 1. On Monday evening, 

 Hune 30, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- 

 dent of Columbia University, will deliver the 

 principal address, on 'Fundamental Prin- 

 ciples of Education in the United States'; on 

 Tuesday President Schurman of Cornell Uni- 

 versity will open a discussion on 'The Elective 

 System and its Limitations.' 



The Jefferson Memorial and Interstate 

 Good Roads Convention will be held at Char- 

 lottesville, Virginia, on April 2, 3 and 4 under 

 the auspices of the Office of Public Road 

 Inquiries of the Department of Agriculture, 

 the National Good Roads Association and the 

 Jefferson Memorial Road Association. The 



