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2, 3, 3 pt. 2, 5, 6, 8, 9. Reports: 1883, 1887 to 

 1889, 1891, 1895, 1906 to 1908. 



Ohio Earthworks. 



Geological Survey. — Water Supply and Irriga- 

 timi Papers: Nos. 148, 153 to 232, 234, 235. Bul- 

 letins: Nos. 269, 275, 277 to 301, 303 to 379, 382 

 to 389, 392 to 395, 399 to 403. Professional 

 Papers: Nos. 44 to 67. Annual Reports: 2d to 

 28th, 1880-81 to 1907. 



Washington Astronomical Observations: 1881 

 to 1890. 



Entomology: 1880-1885 (2 vols.). 



Roelcy Mountain Locusts (2 vols.). 



Coast Survey Reports: 1872, 1886 to 1897-8, 

 1906. 



Eish Commission Reports: Parts 3 to 29, 1877 

 to 1903. 



Fish and Fisheries: 1904, 1905. 



Nautical Almanac: 1885 to 1909. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 A DEPARTMENT of experimental biology has 

 been organized in the Rockefeller Institute. 

 Professor Jacques Loeb, of the University of 

 California, has been elected head of the de- 

 partment. He will begin his work at the 

 Eockefeller Institute next autumn. 



Mr. Gifpord Pinchot has been elected presi- 

 dent of the National Conservation Associa- 

 tion. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, the first president 

 of the association, has been elected honorary 

 president. 



A NATIONAL testimonial with a purse of $10,- 

 000 for Commander Eobert E. Peary is 

 planned for the evening of February 8, at the 

 Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. 

 Governor Hughes will preside. Commander 

 Peary will tell the, story of his trip to the 

 pole and show new pictures of the far north. 



At a recent meeting of the board of trus- 

 tees of Cornell University, in New York City, 

 it was resolved on the motion of President 

 Schurman that the secretary send the follow- 

 ing telegram to Director Bailey : " The Trus- 

 tees of Cornell University, assembled at the 

 winter meeting, send cordial New Year's 

 greeting to Director Bailey, and rejoice with 

 him in the prospect of still greater work for 

 the agricultural interests of the state, under 



his leadership, in the College of Agriculture 

 of Cornell University." 



At a dinner given on January 18 in honor 

 of Professor William James, professor emeri- 

 tus of philosophy at Harvard University, a 

 portrait of Professor James was presented to 

 the university by the members of the division 

 and by the visiting committee. The painting, 

 which is by Miss Ellen Emmet, of New York, 

 is of three-quarter length and life size. Eor 

 the present it will hang in Emerson Hall, but 

 eventually it will be placed in the faculty 

 room of University Hall. 



The permanent portrait committee of the 

 medical department of the University of 

 Pennsylvania has, during the past few years, 

 almost completed the collection of portraits 

 of former professors in the Medical School. 

 These portraits now hang in the halls and 

 lecture rooms of the new medical laboratories 

 and thus connect historically the new home of 

 the medical department with memories and 

 traditions of teachers of the past century and 

 a half. Of the six professors not at present 

 represented in this collection, one is Dr. 

 Simon Flexner, who was professor of pathol- 

 ogy for the years 1899 to 1903 and responsible, 

 wholly or in part, for the instruction in 

 pathology received by the classes of 1900 to 

 1905. A special committee consisting of rep- 

 resentatives of these classes and of Dr. Flex- 

 ner's associates and assistants during the 

 years of his incumbency, has been appointed 

 by the permanent portrait committee to take 

 such action as may be necessary to procure 

 Dr. Flexner's portrait. 



On his sixtieth birthday, January 14, Pro- 

 fessor W. O. Crosby was presented with a 

 silver loving cup by a number of present and 

 past instructors in the department of geology 

 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Dr. Richard Dedekind, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the Brunswick School of Technol- 

 ogy, has been given an honorary doctorate of 

 mathematics by the Zurich Polytechnieum. 



Officers of the Entomological Society of 

 America have been elected as follows : Presi- 

 dent, Dr. John B. Smith; First Vice-presi- 



