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SCIENCE 



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will be held May 25 in Buenos Aires, Argen- 

 tine Republic. 



In order to facilitate the contribution of 

 papers and exhibits from the United States, 

 there has been appointed by the president of 

 the congress, Dr. Eliseo Canton, and the Min- 

 ister of the Argentine Republic at Washing- 

 ton, a committee of propaganda of which Dr. 

 Charles H. Frazier (Philadelphia, Pa.) is 

 chairman and Dr. Alfred Reginald Allen 

 (Philadelphia, Pa.) is secretary. 



The congress has been divided into nine 

 sections, each section being represented in the 

 United States by its chairman in this com- 

 mittee of propaganda as follows: 



Seetion 1 — Biological and Fundamental Matters, 

 Dr. W. H. Howell, Baltimore, Md. 



Seetion 2 — Medicine and its Clinics, Dr. George 

 Dock, New Orleans, La. 



Section 3 — Surgery and its Clinics, Dr. John M. 

 T. Finney, Baltimore, Md. 



Section 4 — Public Hygiene, Dr. Alexander C. 

 Abbott, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Section 5 — Pharmacy and Chemistry, Dr. David 

 L. Edsall, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Seetion 6 — Sanitary Technology, Dr. W. P. 

 Mason, Troy, New York. 



Section 7 — Veterinary Police, Dr. Samuel H. 

 Gilliland, Marietta, Pa. 



Section 8 — Dental Pathology, Dr. George V. I. 

 Brown, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Section 9 — Exhibition of Hygiene, Dr. Alexander 

 C. Abbott, Philadelphia, Pa. 



It will not be necessary for one contributing 

 a paper or exhibit to the congress to be present 

 in person. Arrangements will be made to 

 have contributions suitably presented in the 

 absence of the author. The official languages 

 of the congress will be Spanish and English. 

 Papers may be sent direct to the chairman of 

 the particular section for which they are in- 

 tended, or to Dr. Alfred Reginald Allen, secre- 

 tary, 111 South 21st Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 President Taft has appointed Professor 

 Henry S. Graves, director of the Yale For- 

 estry School, as forester of the U. S. Forest 

 Service to succeed Mr. Gifford Pinchot. He 



has also appointed Albert F. Potter, at present 

 acting forester, as associate forester. 



M. EiiiLE PiCARD has been elected president 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences for 1910. 

 He is succeeded by M. Armand Gautier as 

 vice-president. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 the Pontecoulant prize to Professor E. W. 

 Brown for his work on the motion of the 

 moon. 



Sir James Dewar, F.R.S., has been elected 

 a foreign member of the Reale Accademia dei 

 Lincei, of Rome. 



Professor Thomas Dwight, of Harvard 

 University, was made an honorary member of 

 the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and 

 Ireland at the last annual meeting. 



Colonel Charles Chaille-Long, the well- 

 known American explorer, who served as chief 

 of staff to General Gordon in the Sudan, has 

 been awarded the gold medal of the American 

 Geographical Society for his services to geo- 

 graphical science in Africa. 



The Chemical Society, of London, in view 

 of the completion of fifty years' fellowship by 

 the past presidents. Sir Henry Roscoe, Sir 

 William Crookes, Dr. Hugo Miiller and Dr. 

 A. Vernon Harcourt, will entertain these fel- 

 lows as guests of the society at a dinner to be 

 held some time at the end of May or the be- 

 ginning of June. 



At the annual election of the American 

 Philosophical Society held on January Y the 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: President, William W. Keen; Vice- 

 presidents, William B. Scott, Albert A. 

 Michelson, Edward C. Pickering; Secretaries, 

 I. Minis Hays, Arthur W. Goodspeed, James. 

 W. Holland, Amos P. Brown; Curators, 

 Charles L. Doolittle, William P. Wilson, Les- 

 lie W. Miller; Treasurer, Henry La Barre 

 Jayne; Councillors (to serve for three years), 

 Edward L. Nichols, Samuel Dickson, Ernest 

 W. BrovTu, Morris Jastrow, Jr. 



The American Phytopathological Society 

 elected the following officers for 1910 at its 

 recent Boston meeting: President, Dr. F. L. 

 Stevens, North Carolina Agricultural and. 



