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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 675 



ALBUQTJEEQUE, N. M. 



The Geological Society of America. — ^December 

 30-Jaiiuary 4. President, President Charles R. 

 Van Hise, University of Wisconsin; secretary, 

 Dr. Edmund O. Hovey, American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, New York City. 



ITHACA 



The Americam, Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 26, 28. President, Professor H. N. Gardi- 

 ner, Smith College; secretary. Professor Frank 

 Thilly, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



NEST SUMMER, AT SOME PLACE TO BE DETEKMINED 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 

 America. — President, Professor Edward C. Picker- 

 ing, Hai-vard College Observatory; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor Geo. C. Comstock, Washburn Observatory, 

 Madison, Wisconsin. 



TBE ANNUAL DUES OF MEMBERS OF THE 

 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



The permanent secretary of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 begs to call the attention of members to the 

 fact that the annual dues (three dollars) for 

 the year beginning January the first should 

 now be sent to him. The financial year of 

 the association will hereafter end on October 

 31, and the dues for the following calendar 

 year should be paid as soon as possible after 

 that date. The dues are so small and the 

 membership of the association has become so 

 large that the sending of statements involves 

 an expenditure of time and money, which, so 

 far as possible, should be saved. The ofiice 

 of the permanent secretary must be removed 

 to the place of meeting at Chicago during the 

 last week in December, and the dues should be 

 paid prior to that time. If they are not paid 

 before January 1, there are serious complica- 

 tions in regard to the sending of Science to 

 members. The association can not make it- 

 self responsible for sending Science to those 

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 who may regard the non-payment of dues as 

 equivalent to resignation from the association. 

 The back numbers of Science will be sent to 

 those who pay their dues after January the 



first upon the payment to the publishers of 

 postage, so far as the edition permits, but the 

 publishers do not guarantee that this will be 

 done. Should the edition threaten to become 

 exhausted, it will be necessary for those who 

 wish to keep their sets of Science complete to 

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The permanent secretary takes this occasion 

 to remind members of the desirability of as- 

 suming life membership in the association. 

 By the payment of fifty dollars at the present 

 time, all future trouble and expense is avoided. 

 The fees of life members are ultimately trans- 

 ferred to the permanent fund, the income of 

 which is used exclusively for the encourage- 

 ment of research, and those who assume life 

 membership thus contribute materially to the 

 advancement of science. L. O. Howard, 



Permaneni Secretary 



Smithsontan Institution, 

 Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 An oil portrait of Professor James Mills 

 Peirce, Perkins professor of mathematics at 

 Harvard University until his death in 1905, 

 has been presented to the university by his 

 sister. 



The gold medal of the British Institution 

 of Mining and Metallurgy, has been awarded 

 to Sir Archibald Geikie in recognition of his 

 services to geological science. The Consoli- 

 dated Gold Fields of South Africa gold medal 

 and premium have been awarded to Dr. T. 

 Kirke-Eose for researches on the metallurgy 

 of gold. 



Dr. Robert Koch has been promoted to the 

 rank of Wirklicher Geheimer Eath, with the 

 title of Excellency, in recognition of his re- 

 searches into the causes of the sleeping sick- 

 ness. 



Dr. J. A. Allen, curator of mammalogy 

 and ornithology in the American Museum of 

 Natural History and editor of The Auk, has 

 been elected an honorary member of the 

 Deutsche Ornithologische Gesellschaf t ; he has 

 also been transferred from the foreign to the 

 honorary class of members of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union. 



