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It is desirable that a person thus appointed 

 should work under the supervision of an in- 

 vestigator who is known to the authorities of 

 the Carnegie Institution to be engaged in an 

 important field of scientific research, and in 

 a place where there is easy access to libraries 

 and apparatus — but there may be exceptions 

 to this. 



Applications for appointments may be pre- 

 sented by the head of, or by a professor in, 

 an institution of learning, or by the candidate. 

 They should be accompanied by a statement 

 of the qualifications of the candidate, of the 

 research work he has done, and of that which 

 he desires to follow, and of the time for which 

 an allowance is desired. If he has already 

 printed or written anything of interest, a copy 

 of this should be enclosed with the application. 



Communications upon this subject should 

 be distinctly marked on the outside envelope, 

 and on the inside, 'Research Assistant,' and 

 should be addressed to the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, Bond Building, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 As all our readers know, the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science, the 

 American Society of Naturalists and about 

 twenty affiliated societies are meeting this 

 week at St. Louis. Several of the most im- 

 portant national societies devoted to the bio- 

 logical sciences, or their eastern branches, are 

 meeting in Philadelphia. The American Philo- 

 sophical Association is meeting at Princeton, 

 and there are more or less local meetings in 

 other cities. At the time of going to press 

 information in regard to these meetings has 

 not reached us; but we shall as usual publish 

 full reports in the issue of next week and in 

 subsequent issues. 



M. Emile Bertin has been elected a member 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the sec- 

 tion for geography. 



M. H. Grbhant, professor of physiology in 

 the Paris Museum of Natural History, has 

 been elected a correspondent of the Philadel- 

 phia Academy of Natural Science. 



Professor Ludwig Boltzmann, of Leipzig, 

 has been elected an honorary member of the 

 Academy of Sciences at Moscow. 



Professoe Otto Butschli, professor of zool- 

 ogy and paleontology of the University of 

 Heidelberg, has been appointed an honorary 

 member of the Universities of St. Petersburg 

 and Moscow. 



The honorary doctorate of the University 

 of Marburg has been conferred on Dr. Thedor 

 Tschernyshew, of St. Petersburg, director of 

 the Russian Geological Committee. 



The University of Munich has conferred an 

 honorary doctorate of philosophy on Mr. L. 

 Cockayne, of . Christ Church, New Zealand. 



Mr. A. J. EvELAND, a graduate student in 

 geology and mineralogy of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, has been appointed geologist to the 

 Mining Bureau established by the United 

 States Government in the Philippine Islands. 



Mr. John Shafer, formerly custodian of 

 botany at the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburg, 

 has been appointed custodian of the Museum 

 of the New York Botanical Gardens. 



Professoe Paul Ehrlich, director of the 

 Royal Institute for Experimental Therapeu- 

 tics at Frankfurt, a/M, will deliver the first 

 course of Herter lectures at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University Medical School. Professor 

 Ehrlich's lectures will be in German, and will 

 probably present the results of his researches 

 on immunity. 



Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, professor of pathol- 

 ogy at Cambridge University and member of 

 the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, gave 

 the third Henry Phipps Institute lecture on 

 December 29 at Philadelphia, his subject being 

 ' Paths of Infection in Tuberculosis.' 



The Bradshaw lecture was delivered before 

 the Royal College of Surgeons on December 

 9 by Mr. Henry Morris, the subject being 

 ' Cancer and its Origin.' 



A special meeting of the Scottish Geograph- 

 ical Society was held at Edinburgh on Decem- 

 ber 17, under the presidency of Professor 

 James Geikie. An address was delivered by 

 Sir Thomas H. Iloldieh on ' The Patagonian 

 Andes.' 



