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bridge; Dr. J. T. Simpson, Edinburgh; Pro- 

 fessor J. A. Thomson, Aberdeen. 



France: Professor Eaphael Blanchard, 

 Paris; Professor C. Deperet, Lyon; Baron 

 L. Dubreton, Paris; Professor Ch. Gravier, 

 Paris; Baron de Guerne, Paris; Dr. Gustave 

 Loisel, Paris. 



Germany: Professor Wilhelm Blasius, 

 Brunswick; Dr. Mareellin Braun, Konigs- 

 berg; Professor Valentin Haecker, Stuttgart; 

 Professor Eichard Hertwig, Munich; Dr. 

 Eichard Heymons, Berlin; Dr. Max Luehe, 

 Konigsberg i. Pr. ; Professor Otto Maas, 

 Munich; Professor Ludwig Ehumbler, Miin- 

 den; Professor Hugo H. Sehauinsland, Bre- 

 men. 



Belgium: Professor Paul Pelseneer, Ghent. 



Holland: Dr. Johannes Buettikofer, Eotter- 

 dam; Professor A. A. W. Hubrecht, Utrecht; 

 Professor J. W. van Wijhe, Groningen; Dr. 

 J. Versluys, Jr., Amsterdam. 



Austria : Professor Ludwig von Graff, Graz ; 

 Dr. J. F. Gudenatch, Czernowitz; Dr. P. de 

 Marassovich, Scardona, Dalmatia; Professor 

 Alois Mrazek, Prague; Dr. Hans Przibram, 

 Vienna. 



Hungary: Professor Istvan von Apathy, 

 Koloszvar; Dr. Geza v. Horvath, Budapest. 



Switzerland: Dr. Herbert H. Pield, Zurich; 

 Professor Otto Puhrmann, Neuchatel; Dr. C. 

 Linder, St. Imier; M. B. P. Marian, Basel; 

 M. P. Eevilloid, Geneva; Professor Theophil 

 Studer, Berne; Professor Emile Yung, 

 Geneva. 



Russia: Dr. W. Dantchakoff, St. Peters- 

 burg; K. Derjugin, St. Petersburg; Professor 

 Evgenij P. Golovin, Kazan; Professor G. A. 

 Koshewnikov, Moscow; Dr. A. Maximow, St. 

 Petersburg; Dr. ~N. Samssonow, St. Peters- 

 burg. 



Italy: Count Filippo Cavazza, Bologna ; Pro- 

 fessor Alessandro Ghigi, Bologna ; Count J. A. 

 Salinas, Bologna; Dr. J. Wilhelmi, Naples. 



Norway: Miss K. Bonnevie, Christiana. 



South America: Professor Emilio A. Goeldi, 

 Para, Brazil. 



Asia: Dr. J. C. Ferguson, Shanghai; Dr. S. 

 Watase, Tokyo. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir Archibald Geikie has been made Knight 

 of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath 

 (Civil Division). 



At the Toronto meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society, the council decided that 

 the oiBces of editor and secretary should be 

 separated. Professor W. A. Noyes, of the 

 University of Illinois, retains the editorship of 

 the Journal of the American Chemical Society 

 and of Chemical Ahstracts, and Dr. Charles L. 

 Parsons, head of the Chemical Department of 

 the New Hampshire College and secretary of 

 the Section of Chemistry of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 has been elected to the secretaryship. 



Professor J. J. Stevenson, of New York 

 University, and Professor W. M. Davis, of 

 Harvard University, are among the Ameri- 

 cans who will attend the celebration of the 

 centennial of the foundation of the Geological 

 Society, London, which will take place at the 

 end of next month. 



The resignation of Mansfield Merriman as 

 professor of civil engineering in Lehigh Uni- 

 versity takes effect on August 31. After this 

 date he will devote most of his time to pro- 

 fessional practise as a consulting engineer, his 

 office and address being at 45 Broadway, New 

 York. 



Dr. T. W. Eichards, professor of chemistry 

 at Harvard University, having completed his 

 work in Berlin in connection with the plan 

 for an exchange of professors between the two 

 universities, sailed for America from England 

 on August 19. 



Dr. George M. Kober, dean of the Medical 

 Department of Georgetown University, sailed 

 from Baltimore for Bremen on August 14. 



Dr. Walter Wyman, surgeon general of the 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, 

 is chairman of the International Sanitary 

 Bureau, which meets in the City of Mexico 

 during the first week of September next. 



At the recent congress of School Hygiene in 

 London, the committee appointed to arrange 

 for the next congress, to be held in Paris in 

 1910, consists of the following members : Great 



