Maech 18, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



477 



with students who have had no training in 

 the exact and orderly expression of their ideas. 

 " Our main intention is riot, however, to of- 

 fer detailed suggestions, but to express our be- 

 lief that this question of the adaptation of 

 secondary education to modern conditions in- 

 volves problems that should not be left to 

 individual effort, or even to public legislative 

 control; that it is rather a subject in which 

 the universities of the United Kingdom might 

 be expected to lead the way and exert their 

 powerful influence for the benefit of the 

 nation." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



By order of its council the next meeting of 

 the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society 

 of America will be held in aiEliation with the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, at Philadelphia, during convoca- 

 tion week, 1904^05. 



Dr. Alexander Agassiz, director of the Har- 

 vard University Museum and president of the 

 National Academy of Sciences, has been ad- 

 vanced to a foreign associate of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Sir George Gabriel 

 Stokes. 



McGiLL University has conferred the de- 

 gree of LL.D. on Dr. Edward L. Trudeau of 

 Saranae Lake, IST. T., in recognition of his 

 work on the open-air treatment of tuberculosis, 

 and on Mr. Edward Weston, of Newark, N. J., 

 the investigator and inventor in electrical sci- 

 ence. 



Professor W. Ostwald, of Leipzig, has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Society 

 of Scientific Men at Moscow. 



The University of Utrecht has conferred an 

 honorary doctorate of medicine on Professor 

 J. H. van't Hoff, of Berlin. 



Professor G. H. Darwin, of Cambridge, has 

 been elected a foreign associate of the Belgian 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Lord Ejelvin is one of three nominees for 

 the chancelorship of the University of Glas- 

 gow. 



President Jordan, of Stanford University, 

 is expected to join the Albatross on about 



April 10 to make a biological examination of 

 Monterey Bay. Professor W. E. Eitter, of 

 the University of California, is at present 

 carrying on a survey of the coast between 

 San Diego and Catalina Island, under the 

 general direction of President Jordan. 



Bear Admiral George W. Melville, U.S.N. 

 (retired), and Mr. George Westinghouse ar- 

 rived in Paris at the beginning of March after 

 an extended European trip. The former is 

 making an investigation of the extent to 

 which" turbine engines are being applied in 

 naval construction. 



Professor H. 0. Ernst, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, has recently appeared before 

 a committee of the Massachusetts legislature 

 in opposition to the bill to restrict animal ex- 

 perimentation in the state. 



During the summer Assistant Professor J. 

 0. Snyder, of Stanford University, will un- 

 dertake for the government an examination 

 of the rivers and streams of northwestern 

 California, Nevada and Oregon. 



Dr. W. E. Brinckerhoff and Dr. E. E. 

 Tozzer, of the Harvard Medical School, mem- 

 bers of the expedition to the Philippines sent 

 out under the direction of Dr. Councilman, 

 have arrived in Manila. 



Professor Frederic S. Lee, who has re- 

 cently been promoted to a full professorship 

 of physiology at Columbia University, has 

 been granted leave of absence for the academic 

 year of 1904^5, and will spend the time in 

 European laboratories. 



• Sir David Gill, director of the Eoyal Ob- 

 servatory at the Cape of Good Hope, is on a 

 visit to Great Britain. 



It is stated in the newspapers that Professor 

 E. P. Lewis, of the University of California, 

 has received a grant of $500 from the Car- 

 negie Institution to purchase prisms and 

 lenses for the study of the spectra of gases 

 under different physical conditions. 



Sir William Hoggins, president of the 

 Eoyal Society, celebrated his eightieth birth- 

 day on February 7. 



Dr. August Doring, titular professor of phi- 

 losophy at Berlin, has celebrated his seventieth 

 birthday. 



