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dent. Dr. S. A. Forbes ; Second Vice-president, 

 Professor V. L. Kellogg; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 C. E. Crosby; Additional Memlers Executive 

 Committee, Professor J. H. Comstoek, Dr. W. 

 M. Wheeler, Mr. E. A. Scbwarz, Professor L. 

 Bruner, Eev. Professor C. J. S. Betbune, Pro- 

 fessor J. M. Aldrich. 



The annual meeting of the council of the 

 American Physical Education Association was 

 held at the Eittenhouse Hotel, Philadelphia, 

 on Saturday, January 1, 1910. The following 

 officers were elected: President, Dr. George L. 

 Meylan, Columbia IJniversity; Secretary- 

 editor-treasurer, Dr. J. H. McCurdy, Inter- 

 national T. M. C. A. Training School, Spring- 

 field, Mass. The next convention of the as- 

 sociation will be held in Indianapolis, March 

 1-3, in connection with the Department of 

 Superintendents of the National Educational 

 Association and the American School Hy- 

 giene Association. 



Dr. O. Tettens, of Frankfort, has been ap- 

 pointed observer in the Aeronautical Observa- 

 tory at Lindenberg, near Berlin. 



Dr. Karl Grogs, professor of philosophy 

 and pedagogy at Giessen, has resigned his 

 chair at the university. 



Dr. Alexander G. Euthven, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, will conduct a zoological ex- 

 pedition to southern Mexico, during the com- 

 ing summer. 



Dr. Frederick Bedell, of the department of 

 physics, at Cornell University, will spend the 

 remainder of the year abroad on sabbatic 

 leave. 



Dr. Alvin S. Wheeler, associate professor 

 of organic chemistry in the University of 

 North Carolina, has been granted a year's 

 leave of absence to study abroad. He will 

 leave with his family for Germany on May 24. 



Dr. J. C. Arthur, of Purdue University, 

 Indiana, is spending the month of January 

 consulting the cryptogamic and phanero- 

 gamic collections of Harvard University, 

 while Mr. Frank D. Kern, of the same insti- 

 tution, is engaged in similar work at the New 

 York Botanical Garden. It is expected that 



another installment of the rusts of North 

 America will soon be made ready for publica- 

 tion. As the rusts are strictly parasitic, the 

 work requires an almost equal familiarity with 

 the systematic position of fungi and the flow- 

 ering hosts. 



At a stated meeting of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, on Friday evening, January 

 21, Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, president of 

 Dartmouth College, and late professor of ex- 

 perimental physics in Columbia University, 

 read a paper entitled " Some Eecent Investi- 

 gations in Physics." 



A JOLNT meeting of the American Ethnolog- 

 ical Society and the Section of Anthropology 

 and Psychology of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences was held at the American Museum 

 of Natural History on Monday, January 24, 

 when a public lecture was given by Professor 

 Franz Boas, of Columbia University, on " The 

 Changes in the Physical Characteristics of the 

 Immigrants to the United States." 



Dr. L. a. Bauer addressed the students of 

 physics and engineering at Northwestern Uni- 

 versity on January 12 and at the University 

 of Cincinnati on January 14, his subject be- 

 ing " The Non-magnetic Yacht Carnegie and 

 her Work." 



On January 14 Professor C. J. Keyser, of 

 Columbia University, delivered a lecture at 

 Princeton University on " Ways to Pass the 

 Walls of the World; or. Scientific Specula- 

 tions regarding the Figure and the Dimen- 

 sions of Space." 



At McGill University the following are 

 acting as special lecturers during the present 

 session : 



Professor J. F. Kemp, of Columbia University, 

 on " The Application of Geology to certain Engi- 

 neering Problems." 



J. B. Tyrrell, Esq., F.G.S., on "The Geological 

 Relations of Alluvial Gold Deposits, as Illustrated 

 more Particularly by those of the Yukon District." 



D. B. Dowling, Esq., of the Geological Survey 

 of Canada, on " The Geology of Coal, with especial 

 reference to the Coal Deposits of the Province of 

 Alberta." 



F. W. Cowie, Esq., C.E., chief engineer of the 



