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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 672 



LOCAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOE THE CHICAGO 

 MEETING 



Charles L. Hutchinson, 

 Chairman Local Committee. 

 John M. Coulter, Clmirman Executive Committee. 

 John K. Angell, Charles E. Mann, 



Thomas C. Chamberlin, Robert A. Millikan, 

 Joseph P. Iddings, Charles F. Millspaugh, 



Frank R. Lillie, Alexander Smith, 



J. Paul Goode, Local Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Eoyal Society has this year awarded 

 its Davy medal to Dr. E. W. Morley, emeritus 

 professor of chemistry, Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity, and its Copley medal to Dr. A. A. 

 Michelson, professor of physips, the University 

 of Chicago. 



Professor G. A. Miller has been appointed 

 secretary of Section A — Mathematics and 

 Astronomy — of the American Association, in 

 place of Professor L. G. Weld, resigned, and 

 all titles and abstracts of papers for the 

 coming Chicago meeting should be sent to 

 Professor Miller, 907 West Nevada Street, 

 Urbana, Illinois. 



In view of the fact that Dr. Elwood Mead 

 has been called to Australia to assume direc- 

 tion under government auspices of irrigation 

 work in that country, the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture has divided the work of irrigation 

 and drainage investigations of the Office of 

 Experiment Stations, which Dr. Mead has 

 managed since its establishment in 1898, into 

 two sections. Dr. Samuel Fortier, irrigation 

 engineer in charge of the Pacific district of 

 the irrigation and drainage investigations, 

 and stationed at the University of California, 

 Berkeley, Cal., has been made chief of irriga- 

 tion investigations. Mr. C. G. Elliott, for 

 several ;^ears past engineer in charge of the 

 drainage investigations of the office, has been 

 made chief of drainage investigations. 



At the Reichsanstalt Dr. Liebenthal and 

 Dr. Diesselhorst, associates, have been ap- 

 pointed members and professors and Dr. Hen- 

 ning and Dr. Giinther Schulze, assistants, 

 have been appointed associates. 



At a recent meeting of the Philadelphia 

 College of Phai-macy the following persons 



were elected honorary members: Dr. Harvey 

 W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C; Richard T. Baker, curator and 

 economic botanist of the Technological Mu- 

 seum, Sydney, New South Wales; Henry G. 

 Smith, assistant curator and chemist of the 

 Technological Museum, Sydney, New South 

 Wales ; Professor Nagayoshi Nagai, professor 

 of pharmacy in the College of Medicine of 

 the Imperial University of Tokyo, and presi- 

 dent of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan; 

 Dr. H. Thoms, professor of pharmacy and 

 director of the Pharmaceutical Institute of 

 the University of Berlin ; Dr. Nathaniel Lord 

 Britton, director of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, New York City. 



Sir Oliver Lodge has accepted the invita- 

 tion of the council to succeed the late Sir 

 William Perkin in the presidency of the Fara- 

 day Society. 



Dr. Carl Beck, of New York City, is the 

 American member of the committee to estab- 

 lish an institution in Berlin, to bear the name 

 of Dr. Robert Koch. 



Professor William Campbell, of Columbia 

 University, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Canadian Mining Institute. 



Dr. Henry M. Hurd, superintendent of the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital, has returned to Bal- 

 timore after spending eight months in Europe. 



Dr. Charles Harrington, secretary of the 

 Massachusetts state board of health, has re- 

 turned from Europe. He has been absent 

 several weeks attending the International Con- 

 gress of Hygiene and Demography at Berlin, 

 and studying problems of health in Germany 

 and England. 



Lieutenant E. H. Shackleton, leader of 

 the British Antarctic expedition organized by 

 himself, left London on October 31 for Mar- 

 seilles, where he will join the P. and O. 

 steamer India. He is due at Lyttelton on 

 December 12. 



The regular meeting of the Columbia Chap- 

 ter of the Society of Sigma Xi was held with 

 the department of physics on October 31. 

 Mr. L. B. Morse presented some of his recent 



