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stitution, they had made magnetic surveys in 

 South Africa with the aid of various grants 

 and had thus gained the requisite experience 

 for the larger task entrusted them by the in- 

 stitution. 



At the recent holiday meeting of the Okla- 

 homa State Teachers' Association, those en- 

 gaged in the teaching of the sciences organ- 

 ized the Oklahoma Academy of Science. 

 Forty-four members v?ere at the initial meet- 

 ing, but the lists for charter membership v^ill 

 be kept open till March 1. It is expected that 

 the charter membership will not be less than 

 100. The following officers were elected: 

 President, H. H. Lane, Norman; First Vice- 

 president, C. E. Sanborn, Stillwater; Second 

 Vice-president, D. D. Dunkin, Wilburton; 

 Secretary, F. B. Isely, Tonkana; Assistant 

 Secretary, D. W. Ohern, Norman; Treasurer, 

 H. I. Jones, Muscogee; Curator, G. W. Ste- 

 vens, Alva. At the first meeting several papers 

 were read touching the various lines of in- 

 vestigation in which the workers are en- 

 gaged. Meetings will be held annually at the 

 Thanksgiving recess. 



NoETH Dakota has an Academy of Science 

 organized in 1909. Originally the academy 

 was organized on the basis of the natural sci- 

 ences, but opinion now prevails that the polit- 

 ical and social sciences should be included. 

 The purpose of the academy is to promote 

 cooperation among the workers in the difi^er- 

 ent sciences, to secure more representative 

 support and to improve the several forms of 

 scientific work throughout the state. North 

 Dakota is an enormous empire with a host of 

 unsolved problems waiting for trained work- 

 ers, especially in the fields of geology, biol- 

 ogy and chemistry. The conservation of 

 resources will find a very large place in the 

 work of this academy, notably in the develop- 

 ment and utilization of the almost immeas- 

 urable supply of lignite coal, valuable pottery 

 and fire clays, and the great undeveloped work 

 of forestation. The rapid growth of towns 

 and the increasing needs for taxation will 

 afford the sciences of sociology and political 

 economy large fields of service. One of the 

 important lines of biological activity which is 

 being pushed by the members of the North 



Dakota Academy of Science is that of hydro- 

 biology. A helpful ally in this work will be 

 the new biological station which has been es- 

 tablished at Devils Lake and is under the 

 direction of the state university. The officers 

 of the academy for the current year are: 

 President, M. A. Brannon, of the State Uni- 

 versity; Vice-president, C. B. Waldron, of the 

 State Agricultural College; Secretary-treas- 

 urer, L. B. McMullen, State Normal School, 

 Valley City. 



The third annual meeting and dinner of 

 the Clark University Alumni Association was 

 held in Worcester on Tuesday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 1, the event being a part of the day's 

 festivities in connection with the inaugura- 

 tion of Dr. Edmund C. Sanford as president 

 of Clark College. The meeting was made 

 notable by the celebration of President Stan- 

 ley Hall's birthday, he being presented with a 

 memorial from his former students in the 

 form of individual letters and a loving cup. 

 The dinner was attended by about 100. It 

 was presided over by Dr. Hermon 0. Bumpus, 

 who introduced the following speakers: Dr. 

 Sanford; Dr. Ferry, dean of Williams Col- 

 lege; Dr. Thurber, of Ginn & Co.; President 

 Lancaster, of Olivet College. At the business 

 meeting, Dr. W. M. Wheeler, of Harvard 

 University, was elected president and Dr. J. S. 

 French, principal of the Morris Heights 

 School, Providence, E. I., secretary. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that the American Association 

 for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mor- 

 tality, which was organized recently in New 

 Haven, has established permanent headquar- 

 ters at the new building of the Medical and 

 Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and will in- 

 stitute an active campaign. The section on 

 federal, state and municipal prevention of in- 

 fant mortality will be under the chairmanship 

 of Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore; Dr. L. 

 Emmett Holt, New York City, will be_ chair- 

 man of the medical section, and Dr. Helen C. 

 Putnam, Providence, of the section on educa- 

 tion. Dr. Hastings H. Hart, New York City, 

 director of the department of child-helping of 

 the Sage Foundation, is chairman of the sec- 

 tion on philanthropic prevention and Miss 



