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supported it. For the immediate purposes of 

 the Concilium it is necessary to raise a special 

 fund to cover the purchase of new type-setting 

 machines and other apparatus which will 

 greatly facilitate all operations. During the 

 present summer Dr. Field may be reached by 

 letters addressed in care of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. A special Am- 

 erican committee will be formed during the 

 meeting of the International Zoological Con- 

 gress to take this matter in charge. 



Henry Faiefield Osborn 



THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION'S GRANTS FOR 

 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 



At the recent Leicester meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, grants for research were made to the 

 amount of nearly £1,300. The characters of 

 the grants and the approximate amount in 

 poimds is as follows : 



Section A — Mathematical and Physical Sci- 

 ence. Seismologieal observations, £40 ; further 

 tabulation of Gessel functions, £15 ; kites com- 

 mittee, £25; geodetic arc in Africa, £200; 

 meteorological observations on Ben Nevis, £25. 



Section B — Chemistry. Wave-length tables 

 of spectra, £10; study of hydro-aromatic 

 substances, £30; dynamic isomerism, £40; 

 transformation of aromatic nitramines, £30. 



Section C — Geology. Fossiliferous drift de- 

 posits, £11; fauna and flora of British Trias, 

 £10; crystalline rocks of Anglesey, £3; faunal 

 succession in the carboniferous limestone in 

 British Isles, £10 ; erratic blocks, £18 ; pre- 

 devonian rocks, £10 ; exact significance of local 

 terms, £10; paleozoic rocks, £15; composition 

 of Chamwood rocks, £10. 



Section D — Zoology. Index animalium, 

 £75 ; table at the Zoological Station at Naples, 

 £100; heredity experiments, £10; fauna of 

 Lakes of Central Tasmania, £40. 



Section E — Geography. Rainfall and lake 

 and river discharge, £5 ; investigations in the 

 Indian Ocean, £50 ; exploration in Spitsbergen, 

 £30. 



Section F — Economic Science and Statis- 

 tics. Gold coinage in circulation in the 

 United Kingdom, £6. 



Section G — Engineering. Electrical stand- 

 ards, £50. 



Section H — Anthropology. Glastonbury 

 Lake Village, £30 ; excavations on Roman sites 

 in Britain, £15 ; anthropometric investigations, 

 £13 ; age of stone circles, £53 ; anthropological 

 photographs, £3; anthropological notes and 

 queries, £40. 



Section I — Physiology. Metabolism of in- 

 dividual tissues, £40 ; the ductless glands, £30 ; 

 effect of climate upon health and disease, £35 ; 

 body metabolism in cancer, £30; electrical 

 phenomena and metabolism of arum spadices, 

 £10. 



Section K — Botany. Structure of fossil 

 plants, £15 ; marsh vegetation, £15 ; succession 

 of plant remains, £45. 



Section L — Educational Science. Studies 

 suitable for elementary schools, £10. 



Corresponding Societies Committee. For 

 preparation of report, £25. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the Meudon Experiment Station, which 

 is affiliated with the College de France, M. 

 Daniel Berthelot has been appointed director 

 of the laboratory for plant physics, and M. 

 Muntz, director of the laboratory for plant 

 chemistry. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd has been placed 

 in charge of the department of investigation 

 of the International Rubber Company, Jersey 

 City, N. J. His headquarters are at present 

 with the Central Mexican Division, and he 

 should be addressed at the Hacienda de Cedros, 

 Mazapil, Zacatecas, Mexico. 



Dr. L. W. Stephenson has been appointed 

 assistant geologist on the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, and will be engaged for the next two 

 years in the investigation of the geology and 

 water resources of Virginia and the Carolinas. 



Frank M. Surface, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), 

 has been appointed associate biologist at the 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Orono, Maine. 



Dr. David T. Day, who for twenty-one years 

 has had charge of the preparation of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey's annual report on the min- 



