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SCIENCE 



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American astronomers. Born in Goshen, 

 Conn., in 1829, he became assistant at the Har- 

 vard College Observatory, and from 1863 was 

 professor in the United States Naval Observa- 

 tory, carrying on his important researches 

 until his retirement in 1895, when he was 

 appointed professor at Harvard University. 

 Dr. Hall was president of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science in 

 1902. 



Dr. George F. Shrady, editor of the New 

 Torh Medical Record since its foundation in 

 1866 to 1904, and the author of numerous 

 contributions to medical science, died in New 

 Tork City on November 29, at the age of 

 seventy years. 



Professor E. Kossmann has died in Berlin, 

 at the age of 58, from the results of septic 

 infection. He was at &st a zoologist and 

 later devoted himseK to medicine, particularly 

 gynecology. 



Professor Alfred D. Cole, of Vassar Col- 

 lege, Poughkeepsie, N. T., secretary of Sec- 

 tion B — Physics — of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science has sent 

 the following notice to members of the sec- 

 tion: 



The annual meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science will be held 

 at the University of Chicago, from December 30, 

 1907, to January 4, 1908. The American Physical 

 Society will meet at the same time and the usual 

 arrangement for joint sessions for the reading of 

 papers will doubtless be made. The joint meeting 

 in New York, a year ago, was one of the most 

 successful gatherings of physicists ever held in 

 the country, and it is hoped that this Chicago 

 meeting will be equally good. 



The presiding officer of Section B is Professor 

 Dayton C. Miller, of the Case School of Applied 

 Science, and the address of the retiring vice-presi- 

 dent will be given by Professor W. 0. Sabine, of 

 Harvard University. 



A single program for all sessions will be issued 

 on the opening day of the meeting, and it is 

 desired to send out a preliminary program by 

 December 15. Therefore promptness in sending in 

 titles of all papers to be presented before Section 

 B is urgently asked. 



The organization meeting of the Illinois 



State Academy of Sciences will be held in the 

 Senate Chamber, Springfield, HI., on Decem- 

 ber 7. The preliminary program is as follows : 



10 A.M. — Call to order and election of chairman. 



Address of welcome, by Governor Charles S. 

 Deneen. 



" Advantage of a State Academy," by Professor 

 T. C. Chamberlin, LL.D., University of Chicago. 



" History of the former State Natural History 

 Society," by S. A. Forbes, Ph.D., State Entomolo- 

 gist. 



Appointment of committees and other business. 



2 P.M. — Report of committees. 



Symposium (ten-minute addresses). Outlook 

 for Young Men in: 



Anthropology, by Geo. A. Dorsey, Ph.D., Field 

 Museum. 



Botany, by John G. Coulter, Ph.D., Central 

 Illinois State Normal. 



Chemistry, by Wm. A. Noyes, Ph.D., University 

 of Illinois. 



Geology, by H. Foster Bain, Ph.D., State Geolo- 

 gist. 



Physics, by C. E. Linebarger, Lake View High 

 School. 



Zoology, by Herbert V. Neal, Ph.D., Knox Col- 

 lege. 



8 P.M. — Popular lecture in the Arsenal: 



" Greater Steps in Human Progress," by W J 

 McGee, LL.D., director of the St. Louis Public 

 Museum. 



On November 21 about one hundred mem- 

 bers of the Society of Municipal Engineers of 

 the City of New York visited Columbia Uni- 

 versity and inspected the buildings and labora- 

 tories. 



There have been ordered for the earthquake 

 station at the University of Michigan the fol- 

 lowing instruments : A 200-kilogram pendu- 

 lum of the Wiechert type and model of 1907; 

 a 160-kilogTam Wiechert pendulum of 1907 

 model for measuring the vertical component 

 of the earth's motion, and a pair of 25-kilo- 

 gram Bosch-Omori or Strasburg horizontal 

 penduluins of the latest model. These instru- 

 ments will be installed in the astronomical 

 observatory of the University which is directed 

 by Professor W. J. Hussey. 



Eev. Dr. Bonnet has presented to the Sedg- 

 wick Museum, Cambridge, the whole of his 

 collection of rock slices, consisting of 2,700 



