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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 392. 



The Trustees greatly regretted to be obliged 

 to decline forty-five applications, many of 

 which were liighly deserving of aid. 



It was voted to make the following new 

 Grants : 



96. $150, to Professor H. E. Crampton, Colmn- 

 bia University, New York, for experiments on 

 variation and selection in Lepidoptera. 



97. $100, to Dr. F. W. Bancroft, University of 

 California, Berkeley, Cal., for experiments on 

 the inheritance of acquired characters. 



98. $125, to Dr. J. Weinzirl, University of New 

 Mexico, Albuqvierque, N. Mex., for investigation 

 of .the relation of climate to the cure of tuber- 

 culosis, it being agreed that if the work justifies 

 it the same amoiuit will be granted next year. 



99. $300, to Professor H. S. Grindley, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, Urbana, 111., for investigation of 

 the proteids of flesh. 



100. $300, to Dr. H. H. Field, Zurich, Switzer- 

 land, to aid the work of the concilium biblio- 

 graplncuni. 



101. $250, to Professor T. A. Jaggar, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass., for experiments in 

 dynamical geology, provided the Secretary re- 

 ceives the necessary assurance that the work can 

 be undertaken with reasonable promptitude. 



102. $50, to Dr. E. 0. Jordan, University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, 111., for the study of the bio- 

 nomics of Anopheles. 



103. $300, to Dr. E. Anding, Miinchen, Bavaria, 

 to assist the publication of his work ' Ueber die 

 Bewegung der Sonne dureh den Weltraum,' but 

 the grant is conditional upon other means being 

 also secured by the author sufficient to accom- 

 plish the publication. 



104. $300, to Professor W. P. Bradley, Wes- 

 leyan University, Jliddletown, Conn., for investi- 

 gations on matter in the critical state. 



105. $300, to Professor Hugo Kronecker, Bern, 

 Switzerland, for assistance in preparing his phys- 

 iological researches for publication. 



106. $300, to Professor W. Valeutiner, Grossh, 

 Sternwarte, Heidelberg, Germany, to continue the 

 work of Grant No. 93 (Observations on variable 

 stars). Signed, 



Ch.\rles S. Hinot, 



Secretary. 



THE PlTTSnVROH MEETiyG OF THE 

 AMERICAN .ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 .ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 The fifty-first annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association, held this week at Pittsburgh, 



opened auspiciously, tlu-ee hvmdred and fifteen 

 members being registered on Monday morning. 

 A full report of the meeting will be gi^-en in 

 the issue of Science for next week; here it 

 can Duly be said that at the beginning of the 

 week it was evident that both the scientific 

 programs and the social arrangements were 

 eseelleut in all respects. This may be illus- 

 trated by the statement that sixty-nine papers 

 were entered to be read before the American 

 Chemical Society and the Section of Chem- 

 istry, and that the local committee provided 

 forty-two escuraions. The retiring president, 

 Dr. Minot, gave the admirable address that is 

 printed above. The vice-presidential address- 

 es of Professor Jacobi and Dr. Galloway are 

 also printed in this issue of Science, and those 

 by Professor MacMahon, Professor Brace, 

 Professor Van Hise, President Jordan, Dr. 

 Fewkes and Mr. Hyde will follow. Full reports 

 of the meetings of the sections and of the afiili- 

 ated societies will be given in early issues of 

 this journal. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 M. Amagat a member of the section of physics 

 in succession to M. Cornu. 



The Academy of Sciences of Vienna has 

 elected Lord Eayleigh a corresponding member. 



The list of coronation honors in great Brit- 

 ain closes with the announcement that King 

 Edward has instituted a new Order of Merit 

 to be bestowed for well-earned distinction in 

 any profession, foreigners to be included as 

 honorary members. The original members of 

 the order include Lord Kelvin, Lord Lister, 

 Lord Eayleigh and Sir William Huggius. 

 Lord Lister and Lord Kelvin have also been 

 made privy councillors ; knighthood has been 

 conferred on Dr. Oliver Lodge, and Professor 

 AVilliam Eamsay has been made Knight Com- 

 panion of the Order of the Bath. 



The honorary Doctorate of Laws was con- 

 ferred upon Director W. W. Campbell, of the 

 Lick Observatory, by the IJniversity of Wis- 

 consin on July 19. 



Yale Uni\-ei!SIty has conferred its Doctorate 

 of Laws on President Nicholas Murray But- 



