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hending, this process of migration as it con- 

 tributes to form a people of the future, 

 information regarding the kind of selective 

 influence exerted by migration would have 

 a practical value. Wisdom would dictate 

 that the nation which is in process of for- 

 mation should exert some selective influence 

 on its own account, but, from all the facts 

 in hand, the part of wisdom would be to 

 select the best individuals available from 

 every source, rather than, trusting to the 

 illusory appearance of great racial differ- 

 ences in mental and moral traits, to make 

 the selection in terms of races or nations. 



E. S. WOODWOETH 



Columbia University 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Geological Society of London has 

 awarded the Wollaston medal to Professor W. 

 B. Scott, of Princeton University, " in recog- 

 nition of his many valuable contributions to 

 our knowledge concerning the mineral struc- 

 ture of the earth, and especially in relation 

 to the tertiary mammalia and tertiary strati- 

 graphical geology of North America and Pata- 

 gonia." 



At the recent meeting in Boston, Dr. 

 George A. Piersol, professor of anatomy, was 

 elected president of the American Association 

 of Anatomists. 



Drs. Chaeles H. Feaziee, John H. Musser, 

 David L. Edsall and A. G. Abbott have been 

 appointed by Provost Harrison, of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, managers of the 

 Phipps Institute for the purpose of entering 

 upon the construction of the new building 

 with the money contributed by Mr. Phipps. 



Me. a. F. Woods left Washington on Jan- 

 uary 23 to take up his new duties at the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota. On the evening of 

 January 22 he was tendered a reception by the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, at which time a 

 silver service was presented to him in com- 

 memoration of his long service in the bureau. 

 Addresses were made by Assistant Secretary 



Hays, Mr. D. G. Faircbild and Dr. Erwin P. 

 Smith. 



A DiNNEE in honor of Professor James Tru- 

 man, emeritus professor in the University of 

 Pennsylvania Dental School, was given at the' 

 Waldorf-Astoria, in New York City, on Jan- 

 uary 23. 



On the occasion of the inaguration of Dr. 

 H. H. Apple, as president of Franklin and 

 Marshall College, on January 7, the degree of 

 LL.D. was conferred on Dr. Edgar F. Smith,, 

 vice-provost of the University of Pennsylvania 

 and professor of chemistry, and on Dr. J. H. 

 Musser, professor of clinical medicine of the- 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Albert Ladenbueg, professor of chem- 

 istry at Breslau, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Dr. Otto N. Witt, professor of industrial 

 chemistry in the Berlin School of Technology, 

 has been made an honorary member of the- 

 Eoyal Institution, London. 



Mr. T. Case, Waynflete professor of moral 

 and metaphysical philosophy and president of 

 Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, 

 has resigned his professorship. 



Dr. C. O. Townsend, pathologist in charge- 

 of sugar beet investigations, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, has resigned from the government 

 service. He left Washington on January 17, 

 for Garden City, Kansas, where he has ac- 

 cepted a position as consulting agriculturist 

 for a large sugar beet company. 



Peopessoe F. W. Morse, formerly chemist 

 of the New Hampshire Experiment Station- 

 and professor of organic chemistry in the 

 New Hampshire College, has been engaged 

 temporarily as research chemist at the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. 



The board of directors of the Metropolitan 

 Life Insurance Company has appointed Dr. 

 Jay Bergen Ogden, to be assistant medical 

 director of the company. 



De. Hans Halliee, conservator of the Eoyal 

 Herbarium at Leyden, has been visiting the 

 botanical gardens of the United States. 



