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dent, Director William Trelease, of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, whose subject was 

 ' Critical Periods in the Life of a Naturalist.' 

 We hope to publish subsequently this address 

 and the discussion. 



At the annual meeting of the Geological 

 Society of America at St. Louis, Professor 

 H. L. Pairchild, University of Eochester, was 

 elected president; Professor J. C. Branner, 

 Stanford University, secretary, and Professor 

 I. 0. White, University of West Virginia, 

 treasurer. 



At the twelfth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Psychological Association held at St. 

 Louis last week, Professor William James was 

 elected president. This is the only occasion 

 on which a past president has been reelected 

 president of the association. Professor Liv- 

 ingston Farrand, Columbia University, will 

 continue as secretary, and the members of the 

 executive committee elected to succeed the re- 

 tiring members, Professor John Dewey, of the 

 University of Chicago, and Professor J. Mark 

 Baldwin, of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 were Professor Hugo Miinsterberg, of Harvard 

 University, and Dr. Henry Eutgers Marshall, 

 of New York City. 



At the third annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Association, held at Prince- 

 ton on December 29, 30 and 31, Professor G. 

 T. Ladd, of Yale University, was elected presi- 

 dent; Professor Frank Thilly, of the Univer- 

 sity of Missouri, vice-president, and Professor 

 H. N. Gardiner, of Smith College, secretary- 

 treasurer. The new members of the executive 

 committee are Professor James H. Tufts, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, and Professor H. Heath 

 Bawden, Vassar College. 



Officers of the New York Academy of Sci- 

 ences have been elected as follows : President, 

 Edmund B. Wilson. Vice-presidents: Sec- 

 tion of Geology and Mineralogy, James F. 

 Kemp ; Section of Biology, L. M. Underwood ; 

 Section of Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry, 

 Chas. Lane Poor; Section of Anthropology 

 and Psychology, F. J. E. Woodbridge. Corre- 

 sponding secretary, Eiohard E. Dodge. Re- 

 cording secretary, Henry E. Crampton. Treas- 

 urer, Charles F. Cox. Librarian, Ealph W. 



Tower. Editor, Chas. Lane Poor. Councilors 

 (to serve three years), Livingston Farrand, E. 

 O. Hovey. Finance committee, John H. Hin- 

 ton, C. A. Post, Henry F. Osborn. 



It is announced that Mr. John Morley will 

 deliver the principal address at the opening of 

 the Technical Institution, founded at Pitts- 

 burg by Mr. Carnegie, in the autumn of 1904. 



Oxford University has conferred the degree 

 of D.C.L. on Mr. Henry Wilde, F.E.S., in- 

 ventor of the dynamo electric machine. Mr. 

 Wilde is the founder of the Wilde Eeadership 

 in Mental Philosophy and of the John Locke 

 scholarship on the same subject. 



The large gold medal for services rendered 

 to art and science has been awarded by the 

 German government to Professor Paul Ehr- 

 lich, director of the Imperial Institute of Ex- 

 perimental Therapeutics at Frankfort. 



Mr. Eeginald Innes Pocock, F.Z.S., assist- 

 ant at the Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington, has been appointed resident super- 

 intendent of the Gardens of the London 

 Zoological Society. Mr. Pocock entered on 

 his duties on January 1, 1904. 



The United States Archeological and Eth- 

 nological Commission met at the State Depart- 

 ment on December 21. Dr. W J McGee, 

 the anthropologist of the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition, is chairman of the commission. 

 The other members are Mr. Volney W. Fost, 

 of Chicago, and Professor Francis B. Kelsey, 

 professor of Latin language and literature, 

 the University of Michigan. 



Mr. Gurdon Trumbull, the well-known 

 artist and ornithologist, died in Hartford, 

 Conn., on December 28, in the sixty-third year 

 of his age. 



A FIRE, on December 27, in the building in 

 Washington occupied by the U. S. Geological 

 Survey caused a loss estimated at $15,000, in- 

 cluding the destruction of some valuable maps 

 and records. 



The Matin announces that it has placed the 

 sum of 30,000/. at the disposal of Professor 

 d'Arsonval in order to enable him to continue 

 his researches in connection with the prop- 

 erties of radium. 



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