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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XV. No. 391. 



out by Dr. George A. Dorsey, of the Field 

 Columbian Museum. W J M. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science holds its fifty-first annual 

 meeting at Pittsburgh from June 28 to July 

 3, and in affiliation with it a number of scien- 

 tific societies hold their meetings. Announce- 

 ments in regard to the meetings will be found 

 in the issue of Science for May 23. Letters 

 in regard to the meeting may be addressed to 

 the permanent secretary, Dr. L. O. Howard, 

 Hotel Schenley, Pittsburgh, Pa., or to the local 

 secretary, Mr. George A. Wardlaw, Post-office 

 Box 18, Station A, Pittsburg. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. William H. Porwood has succeeded 

 Dr. George M. Sternberg as surgeon-general 

 of the army. His services during and since 

 the Civil War have been distinguished, and 

 he is the author of important contributions 

 to military surgery and of papers on natural 

 science. Dr. Forwood is brigadier-general and 

 senior officer in the medical department of 

 the army. Plis retirement under the age limit 

 will occur next Saturday. 



The dinner in honor of Surgeon-General 

 George M. Sternberg, to which we have 

 called attention, occurred in New York on 

 June 13. Addresses were made by Dr. E. G. 

 Janeway, Dr. A. H. Smith, Colonel Henry 

 Lippincott, Dr. William Osier, Major W. C. 

 Gorgas, Dr. John A. Wyeth, Dr. Franli Bill- 

 ings and Dr. W. H. Welch. Dr. Sternberg 

 also spoke. 



At its recent commencement exercises 

 Princeton University conferred the degree of 

 LL.D. on Dr. H. F. Osborn, professor of zool- 

 ogy at Columbia University. 



President Henry Smith Pritchett, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave 

 the convocation address at the University of 

 Chicago on June 15. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, has just returned from a 

 successful ethnologic and archeologic recon- 

 naissance of Porto Rico. 



Dr. Frank Russell has brought to a close a 

 year's work in Arizona under the auspices of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology. Some 

 months were spent in archeologic reconnais- 

 sances and surveys ; since January he has been 

 occupied with studies of the sociology and 

 mythology of the Pima Indians at Sacaton 

 and elsewhere. Dr. Russell will resume his 

 work in Harvard during the autumn. 



Dr. Albert E. Jenks, ethnologist in the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, sailed from 

 San Francisco on the 15th instant for Manila, 

 pursuant to a transfer of a year to the Phil- 

 ippine service. He will be associated with 

 Dr. David P. Barrows, chief of the Philippine 

 Bureau of Non-christian Tribes. 



Assistant Professor Oscar Quick, of the 

 Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 

 Urbana, Illinois, has resigned his position to 

 go into practical electrical engineering work. 



The Pathological Institute of the Univer- 

 sity of Prague will celebrate next year the 

 twentieth anniversary of the directorship of 

 Professor Hlava. A commemorative volume 

 is in preparation. 



Mr. E. Cunningham, St. Johns College, is 

 this year senior wrangler at Cambridge. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has sent 

 M. Lacroix, of the Museum of Natural His- 

 tory; M. Rollet de Lisle, the engineer, and 

 M. Giraud, the geologist, to investigate the 

 effects of the volcanic eruption in the Lesser 

 Antilles. They embarked on June 9, and will 

 spend several months on the islands. 



The Loubat prize for 1902 has been awarded 

 by the Swedish Royal Academy of Literature, 

 History and Antiquity to Mr. 0. V. Hart- 

 man for his publications concerning his 

 areheological and ethnological researches in 

 San Salvador and Costa Rica. 



In honor of the late Alpheus Hyatt a mem- 

 orial fund is being collected for field lessons in 

 natural history. Professor Hyatt was greatly 

 interested in extending the teaching of natural 

 history to the schools and this memorial ap- 

 pears to be especially appropriate. While the 

 fund will be administered by a board of trus- 

 tees at Boston contributions from Professor 

 Hyatt's former pupils or friends, wherever 



