September 20, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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Astronomical Society, London. Dr. Hill's 

 many papers on mathematical astronomy have 

 been purchased by the Carnegie Institute. 

 The papers are designated as Hill's collected 

 mathematical works. — Boston Transcript. 



REORGANIZATION OF THE JOURNAL OF 

 MORPHOLOGY 



Plans have just been completed for the re- 

 establishment of the Journal of Morphology 

 on a secure financial basis, and the publica- 

 tion of the journal will be resumed imme- 

 diately. This annoimcement, which Professor 

 Hubrecht recently characterized as the best 

 piece of news which he had heard since coming 

 to America, has been made possible by the 

 generosity of Dr. Horace Jayne, a friend and 

 former director of the Wistar Institute of 

 Anatomy and Biology. The journal will be 

 published hereafter under the auspices of the 

 institute, which assumes all financial respon- 

 sibility; it will be edited by a board represent- 

 ing different institutions. The board of edi- 

 tors consists of the following: 



E. G. Oonklin, University of Pennsylvania. 

 H. H. Donaldson, Wistar Institute. 



M. J. Greenman, Wistar Institute. 

 G. C. Huber, University of Michigan. 

 Horace Jayne, Wistar Institute. 



F. E. Lillie, University of Chicago. 



F. P. Mall, Johns Hopkins University. 

 C. S. Minot, Harvard Medical School. 

 T. H. Morgan, Columbia University. 



G. H. Parker, Harvard University. 

 E. B. Wilson, Columbia University. 



0. O. Whitman, University of Chicago. 



The Journal of Morphology was founded in 

 188Y by C. 0. Whitman and E. P. Allis, and 

 it established a reputation for scientific merit 

 and excellence of printing and illustration 

 which was unsurpassed by any similar journal 

 in the world. After the appearance of seven- 

 teen volumes the journal was compelled in 

 1902 to temporarily suspend publication, owing 

 to insufficient financial support. 



In the meantime the American Journal of 

 Anatomy and the Journal of Experimental 

 Zoology have been established and have taken 

 high rank in their respective fields, but the 

 general field of animal morphology has had 



no organ of publication in this country. Dur- 

 ing the past five years it has been necessary 

 to send to European journals many contribu- 

 tions within this field, and it has been a source 

 of much anxiety and humiliation to American 

 morphologists that in this great -country, 

 where so much research work is being done 

 and where such great sums have been given 

 for the advancement of science, no means 

 existed for the adequate publication of mor- 

 phological contributions and monographs. 

 This great need will be met in large part by 

 the reorganized Journal of Morphology, which 

 will be conducted on the same broad and high 

 plane which has always distinguished it. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 A. N. Skinner, professor of mathematics, 

 TJ. S. N., of the IJ. S. Naval Observatory, was 

 retired according to law upon reaching the age 

 of sixty-two years on August 12, 1907. Pro- 

 fessor Skinner will remain upon active duty, 

 however, until the completion of some unfin- 

 ished work on the Astronomische Gesellschaft 

 zone — 14° to — 18°, which was observed 

 under his direction from 1892 to 1894. H. L. 

 Rice, formerly assistant astronomer at the ob- 

 servatory, has been appointed to the professor- 

 ship vacated by this retirement, and H. E. 

 Morgan succeeds Mr. Eice in the position of 

 assistant astronomer. The organization of the 

 work of the observatory has been changed in 

 the direction of the consolidation of the work, 

 and Professor W. S. Eichelberger, U. S. N., 

 has been placed in charge of all the astrono- 

 mical work of the observatory. 



Professors J. J. Stevenson and W. M. 

 Davis are the official delegates of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America to the centenary 

 of the Geological Society, of London, to be 

 held this month. 



Professor S. Zabrowski, professor of 

 ethnology in the School of Anthropology at 

 Paris, has been elected president of the Paris 

 Anthropological Society. 



Dr. a. Verner, professor of chemistry at 

 Zurich, has been elected a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences. 



