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one interested in having this organization on 

 as broad foundation as possible is earnestly 

 invited to present any suggestions that may be 

 helpful in that direction, in writing by the 

 middle of April, 1910, so that all these sugges- 

 tions may be properly classified and collated 

 and put in condition for most thorough con- 

 sideration before the meeting above referred 

 to actually takes place. Such communications 

 may be addressed to the temporary secretary, 

 Dr. B. C. Hesse, 90 William Street, New 

 York City. 



TEE GBAZ INTERNATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL 

 CONGRESS 

 The committee having the affairs of the 

 congress in hand have secured reduced rates 

 on all of the railroads of Austria for the 

 members and participants in the congress. 

 First-class travel will be given on payment of 

 second-class fares, and second-class for third- 

 class fares. This applies not only to the ex- 

 cursions but to all railway travel in Austria 

 from the moment the boundary is crossed, and 

 is available from the tenth of August until 

 the tenth of September. To avail themselves 

 of this privilige members must have their 

 membership cards before reaching Austria, 

 and therefore they should send the fees for 

 membership to the Steiermarkische Eskompte- 

 bank, Graz, Austria, so that the membership 

 cards may reach them in good season. The 

 money may be sent by postal order. Those 

 who have not yet received the preliminary 

 circulars of the congress, with the blanks for 

 membership and excursions, should address the 

 Praesidium des VIII Internationaler Zoologen- 

 kongress, Universitatsplatz 2, Graz, Austria. 

 A second circular relating to the congress will 

 probably be issued in March or early April. 

 This will be sent to all whose names have been 

 sent in, either as probable members or as 

 desiring further information. It may be well 

 to say that all persons intending to attend the 

 congress should engage their return passage 

 to America at the same time that they obtain 

 their outward accommodations. European 

 travel promises to be very heavy this year, 

 and early application is advisable. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Lord Eayleigh has been elected a foreign 

 associate of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 

 succession to the late Simon Newcomb. Sir 

 Patrick Manson has been elected a foreign 

 correspondent in the section of medicine and 

 surgery. 



The Edison medal of the American Insti- 

 tute of Electrical Engineers was presented to 

 Professor Elihu Thomson at the annual dinner 

 of the institute on February 24. 



For the meeting of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, which is to 

 take place this year at Sheffield, beginning on 

 August 31, under the presidency of the Eev. 

 Professor T. G. Bonney, F.E.S., the following 

 presidents have been appointed to the various 

 sections: Section A (Mathematical and Phys- 

 ical Science), E. W. Hobson, F.E.S. ; Section 

 B (Chemistry), J. E. Stead, F.E.S.; Section 

 C (Geology), Professor A. P. Coleman, Ph.D.; 

 Section D (Zoology), Professor G. C. Bourne, 

 D.Sc; Section E (Geography), Professor A. 

 J. Herbertson, Ph.D.; Section F (Economic 

 Science and Statistics), Sir H. Llewellyn 

 Smith, K.C.B.; Section G (Engineering), 

 Professor W. E. Dalby, D.Sc; Section H 

 (Anthropology), W. Crooke, B.A; Section I 

 (Physiology), Professor A. B. MacaUum, 

 F.E.S.; Section K (Botany), Professor J. W. 

 H. Trail, F.E.S.; Section L (Educational 

 Science), Principal H. A. Miers, F.E.S. 



The Athenseum Club has elected under the 

 provisions of the rule which empowers the 

 annual election of nine persons " of distin- 

 guished eminence in science, literature, the 

 arts, or for public services," Mr. William 

 Bateson, F.E.S., director of the John Innes 

 Horticultural Institute, Merton, and Professor 

 Henry Taylor Bovey, F.E.S., dean of the fac- 

 ulty of applied science of McGiU University. 

 Dr. a. E. Forsyth has resigned the Sad- 

 lerian professorship of pure mathematics at 

 the University of Cambridge. 



Sir William Huggins, F.E.S., the eminent, 

 astronomer, celebrated his eighty-sixth birth- 

 day on February 7 at his residence at Tulse- 

 hill. 



