Decembeb 20, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



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SUBSCRIPTIONS FOB TEE LAMARCK 

 MEMORIAL 



American natiiralists are responding to the 

 invitation of French naturalists to join in the 

 work of erecting a monument in Paris to 

 Lamarck. The American members of the in- 

 ternational committee, consisting of Messrs. 

 Agassiz, Osborn and Dean, have not as yet, 

 however, received a sum substantial enough 

 to indicate adequately the interest which 

 Americans have always displayed in the works 

 of Lamarck, or the part which America should 

 play in the building of this monument to the 

 founder of the evolution theory. Up to the 

 present time there are forty-two subscribers, 

 and the total amount raised is $497. 



At least $1,000 should be sent to France to 

 represent worthily the zoological interests of 

 this country. 



Among the subscribers are Messrs. Agassiz, 

 Mayer, Montgomery, Sigerfoos, H. L. Bruner, 

 Osborn, Osburn, Gage, Allis, Dean, Brewer, 

 Mary Eathbun, Thaxter, Dachrowski, Nach- 

 trieb, Grover, Beal, Parker, Birge, Bigelow, 

 Clarence H. Mackay, Woodward, Kellogg, 

 Scliuchert, Lee, Armstrong, N. T. Academy 

 of Sciences, Martha Bunting, Holland, Eath- 

 bun, Walcott, 0. F. Cox, Gill, Wagner, Whit- 

 man, New York Zoological Society, Phila- 

 delphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Met- 

 calf, Biological Society of Washington, Town- 

 send, Hargitt. 



Subscriptions and letters of inquiry should 

 be addressed to Professor Bashford Dean, Co- 

 lumbia University, New York. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 We record with deep regret the death of 

 Lord Kelvin on December 17. 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh has elected 

 as British honorary fellows. Sir A. B. W. 

 Kennedy, F.E.S., Sir E. Eay Lankester, 

 K.C.B., F.E.S., Dr. J. A. H. Murray and 

 Professor C. S. Sherrington, F.E.S. ; foreign 

 honorary fellows have been elected as fol- 

 lows : Professor Emil Fischer, Berlin ; Dr. G. 

 W. Hill, New York; Professor F. W. G. 

 Kohlrausch, Charlottenburg ; Professor H. F. 

 Osborn, New York; Professor I. P. Pavlov, 



St. Petersburg; Professor G. Eetzius, Stock- 

 holm; Professor A. Eighi, Bologna and Pro- 

 fessor L. J. Troost, Paris. 



The Geological Society of France has 

 elected Dr. C. E. Eastman, paleontologist at 

 Harvard University, in charge of fossil verte- 

 brates, to foreign membership in the society. 



M. Wallerant has been elected a member 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the sec- 

 tion of mineralogy. 



A BRONZE cut of President Eliot has been 

 placed in the Harvard union. It is the %ork 

 of the French medalist, Leon Deschamps, and 

 is the original from which were taken the 

 bronze medals made in connection with the 

 John Harvard celebration. 



Nature states that the executive committee 

 of the National Physical Laboratory has ap- 

 pointed Mr. G. W. Walker, official assistant to 

 the professor of natural philosophy in the Uni- 

 versity of Glasgow, as superintendent of the 

 Eskdalemuir Observatory. Mr. Guy Barr, of 

 Christ's College, Cambridge, has been ap- 

 pointed to an assistantship in the metal- 

 lurgical and chemical department of the Na- 

 tional Physical Laboratory. 



Dr. Egbert Bell, chief geologist of the 

 Canadian Geological Survey, was the guest of 

 honor at the banquet of the Canadian Camp, 

 held recently at Hotel Astor, New York City. 



Dr. William E. Brooks, director of the 

 Smith Observatory and professor of astronomy 

 at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., recently de- 

 livered his illustrated lecture on " Comets and 

 Meteors," at Trinity College, Hartford; and 

 at Wellesley College, Mass. 



An expedition from the Desert Laboratory, 

 including among its members Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal, Mr. Godfrey Sykes, Dr. W. T. Horna- 

 day, of the New York Zoological Garden, and 

 the Honorable J. M. Phillips, game commis- 

 sioner of Pennsylvania, has recently traversed 

 the region between Tucson and the Gulf of 

 California. The geographical investigations 

 centered at the Desert Laboratory were ex- 

 tended to include the Pinacate volcanoes, 

 which lie near the Gulf of California in 

 Sonora, and a general survey of plant dis- 



