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SCIENCE 



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Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, 18 Tnimbull St., 

 New Haven, Conn. 



The Association of American Anatomists. — Jan- 

 uary 1-3. President, Professor Franklin P. Mall; 

 secretary. Professor G. Carl Huber, 1330 Hill St., 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



The American Society of Zoologists. — Central 

 Branch. Secretary, Professor Thomas G. Lee, 

 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 



The Botanical Society of America. — December 

 27-29. President, Professor George F. Atkinson, 

 Cornell University; secretary. Dr. D. S. Johnson, 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



The Botanists of the Central States. — Business 

 Meeting. President, Professor T. H. Macbride, 

 University of Iowa; secretary. Professor H. C. 

 Cowles, University of Chicago, Chicago, HI. 



The American Psychological Association. — De- 

 cember 27, 28. President, Dr. Henry Rutgers 

 Marshall, New York City; acting secretary, Pro- 

 fessor R. S. Woodworth, Columbia University, 

 New York City. 



The Western Philosophical Association. — Secre- 

 tary, Dr. John E. Bowdoin, University of Kansas, 

 Lawrence, Kans. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 30, January 4. President, Professor 

 Franz Boas, Columbia University; secretary. Dr. 

 Geo. Grant MaoCurdy, Yale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



The American Folk-lore Society. — December 30- 

 January 4. President, Professor Roland B. Dixon, 

 Harvard University; secretary, Dr. Alfred M. 

 Tozzer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Other national societies will meet as fol- 

 lows: 



NEW HAVEN 



The American Society of Zoologists. — Eastern 

 Branch. December 26, 28. President, Dr. C. B. 

 Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. ; secretary, 

 Professor W. L. Coe, Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn. 



The American Society/ of Vertebrate Paleontol- 

 ogists. — December 26-28. President, Professor 

 Bashford Dean, Columbia University; secretary. 

 Professor Frederick B. Loomis, Amherst College, 

 Amherst, Mass. 



NEW TOKK 



The American Mathematical Society. — ^December 

 27, 28. President, Professor H. S. White, Vassar 

 College; secretary, Professor F. N. Cole, Columbia 

 University. 



ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. 



The Geological Society of America. — December 

 30-January 4. President, President Charles R. 

 Van Hise, University of Wisconsin; secretary. 

 Dr. Edmund 0. Hovey, American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, New York City. 



ITHACA 



The American Philosophical Association. — De- 

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

 ner, Smith College ; secretary. Professor Frank 

 Thilly, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



NEXT SUMMER, AT SOME PLACE TO BE DETERMINED 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 

 America. — President, Professor Edward C. Picker- 

 ing, Harvard College Observatory; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor Geo. C. Comstock, Washburn Observatory, 

 Madison, Wisconsin. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has added two mil- 

 lion dollars to the endowment of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington. Mr. A. J. 

 Montague of Virginia and Mr. W. B. Par- 

 sons of New York liave been elected trustees 

 of the institution. 



ISToBEL prizes have been awarded as follows : 

 In physics to Professor A. A. Michelson of 

 the University of Chicago ; in chemistry to 

 Professor Eduard Buchner of the Berlin 

 Agricultural School; in medicine to M. 

 Laveran of Paris ; in literature to Mr. 

 Eudyard Kipling, and for the promotion of 

 peace to M. Renault and M. Moneta. 



Mr. Alexander Agassiz and Professor Adolf 

 von Baeyer have been elected honorary mem- 

 bers of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. 



Miss Plorence Nightingale, now in her 

 eighty-eighth year, has been decorated by King 

 Edward with the Order of Merit. 



Professor E. B. Titchener, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed non-resident lec- 

 turer on psychology at Columbia University 

 for the academic year 1907-08. 



At the sixtieth anniversary meeting' of the 

 New York Academy of Medicine on Novem- 

 ber 29, Col. W. C. Gorgas, chief sanitary of- 

 ficer of the Isthmian Canal Commission, de- 



