Apeil 4, 1902.] 



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author has since that time compared its move- 

 ments with the changes of atmospheric pres- 

 sure recorded by his aerograph. He finds that 

 when the barometric pressure is high over 

 the Pacific slope from British Colum.bia south- 

 ward to California, while off the Pacific coast 

 the barometer is comparatively low, the hori- 

 zontal pendulum of the seismograph tends to 

 move towards the eastward. When an exten- 

 sive storm area is approaching from the west- 

 ward, and often eighteen to twenty-four hours 

 before the local barometer begins to fall, the 

 pendulum of the seismograph swings steadily 

 to the eastward, and in the event of a well- 

 marked high area following, the pendulum will 

 begin to swing towards the westward before it 

 is possible to ascertain this area's position on 

 the current weather charts. 



E. DeC. Ward. 

 Harvard University. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The National Academy of Sciences will 

 hold its annual stated session at Washington, 

 beginning on April 15. 



Professor F. B. Crocker has been elected 

 chairman of the executive committee to 

 arrange for the reception in honor of Lord 

 Kelvin, which will be given at Columbia Uni- 

 versity on the evening of April 21. 



The University of Wales will confer its 

 doctorate of science on Lord Kelvin, Lord 

 Lister and Mr. Alfred Eussel Wallace. 



M.Termoloff has been elected a correspond- 

 ent of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the 

 section of agriculture, in the room of the late 

 Sir John Bennet Lawes. M. Baillaud has been 

 elected correspondent in the section of astron- 

 omy. 



Dr. Ewald Hering, professor of physiologj' 

 in the Medical School at Leipzig, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Munich 

 Academy of Sciences. 



At the annual general meeting of the 

 Geological Society of London, on February 21, 

 the president, Mr. J. J. H. Teall, F.E.S., pre- 

 sented the balance of the proceeds of the Lyell 



Geological Fund to Dr. Wheelton Hind, 

 F.E.C.S., of Stoke-on-Trent, stating that the 

 council of the Society had made the award as 

 a mark of their appreciation of his enthusi- 

 astic labors among the carboniferous rocks of 

 this country. 



Dr. Theodore Paul, professor of chemistry 

 in the University at Tiibingen, has been called 

 to the directorship of the Imperial Board of 

 Health at Berlin. 



M. Savorgnan de Brazza, the Italian explorer 

 in the service of the French Government, 

 has been granted a pension of 10,000 francs. 



Dr. S. Weib Mitchell, who has for over 

 thirty years been associated with the Philadel- 

 phia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for 

 Nervous Diseases, has resigned as senior phy- 

 sician, but reipains as one of the consultants. 

 Dr. John K. Mitchell has been elected to the 

 vacancy caused by his father's withdrawal. 



It is said that. the Hon. Andrew D. Wliite 

 will retire from the ambassadorship to Ger- 

 many in November. 



A committee has been formed, under the 

 presidency of Professor von Zittel, for the 

 erection in Munich of a memorial of the late 

 Professor Max von Pettenkofer. 



Professor Albert Eipley Leeds, since 1871 

 professor of chemistry in the Stevens Insti- 

 tute of Technology, died on March 14 at the 

 age of fifty-eight years. 



Dr. Johannes Christoph Klinge, head 

 botanist of the Botanical Gardens at St. 

 Petersburg, has died at the age of fifty-one 

 years. 



The death is announced from St. Peters- 

 burg of Major-General Pewzoff, known for his 

 explorations in Central Asia, Mongolia and 

 Tibet. 



At a meeting of chemistry teachers held at 

 the Hotel Albert, N. T., March 20, the Chem- 

 istry Teachers' Club was organized. A con- 

 stitution was adopted, and the following offi- 

 cers were elected: A. C. Hale, President; E. 

 H. Fuller, Vice-President ; A. L. Arey, Treas- 

 urer; M. D. Sohon (Peter Cooper High 

 School), Becretary. 



