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April 1, 1904. C. L. BRISTOL. 



SGIENTIFW NOTES AND NEWS. 



At the meeting of the National Academy 

 of Sciences last week members were elected 

 as follows: Professor William Morris Davis, 

 Harvard University; Professor William Pogg 

 Osgood, Harvard University; Professor Will- 

 iam T. Councilman, Harvard Medical School ; 

 Professor John U. Nef, University of Chi- 

 cago. The foreign associates elected were: 

 Professor Paul Ehrlich, Pranldiurt; Professor 

 H. Eosenbusch, Heidelberg; Professor Emil 

 Fischer, Berlin; Sir William Eamsay, Lon- 

 don ; Sir William Huggins, London ; Professor 

 George H. Darwin, Cambridge; Professor 

 Hugo de Vries, Amsterdam; and Professor 

 Ludwig Boltzmann, Vienna. The Draper 

 gold medal was presented to Professor George 

 E. Hale, of the Yerkes Observatory, Wiscon- 

 sin, for his researches in astrophysics. 



The Station for Experimental Evolution 

 of the Carnegie Institution has established 

 the class of associates including biologists of 

 this country who are engaged in work in ex- 

 perimental evolution and who receive especial 

 assistance from the Carnegie Institution or 

 its station for this work. The station and 

 its associates will work in a cooperative way, 

 especially in the exchange of material for 

 investigation. The following have become 

 associates of the station for the year 1904: 

 Professor N. L. Britton, New York Botanical 

 Garden; Professor W. E. Castle, Harvard 

 University; Professor H. E. Crampton, Co- 

 lumbia University; Professor D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal, New York Botanical Garden; Pro- 

 fessor E. L. Mark, Harvard University; Pro- 



fessor W. J. Moenkhaus, Indiana University; 

 Professor W. L. Tower, University of Chi- 

 cago; Professor E. B. Wilson, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



The Prussian gold medal for science has 

 been presented to Professor Wilhelm Hittorf, 

 the eminent physicist and chemist, on the 

 occasion of his eightieth birthday. 



M. C. E. Bertrand has been elected a cor- 

 responding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences in the section of botany. 



Miss N. M. Stevens, A.B. (Stanford), Ph.D. 

 (Bryn Mawr), has been appointed Carnegie 

 research assistant and reader in experimental 

 morphology at Bryn Mawr College. 



Associate Professor George C. Price, of 

 the department of physiology of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, who has been in Europe on his sab- 

 batical leave of absence, recently arrived in 

 Boston, where he will spend the next three 

 months at work in the embryological labora- 

 tory of Professor C. S. Minot of the Harvard 

 Medical School. 



Professor G. N. Calkins, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, will spend the summer abroad, visiting 

 zoological laboratories. 



Me. Raymond S. Dugan, formerly assistant 

 to Professor Todd, in Amherst College Observ- 

 atory, later for three years in charge of the 

 Beyrout Observatory and now assistant to Dr. 

 Max Wolf in Heidelberg, has discovered a new 

 planet which he has named Amherstia, in 

 honor of his Alma Mater. Mr. Dugan gradu- 

 ated at Amherst College in 1899. 



The annual congress of French learned so- 

 cieties met at the Sorbonne, Paris, beginning 

 on April 5. M. Levasseur presided. 



The congress of the French societies of 

 geography was held at the beginning of the 

 present month at Tunis under the presidency 

 of M. Pichon. 



Dr. Bowdlee Sharpe, of the British Natural 

 History Museum, has lately returned to Eng- 

 land with some rare specimens of birds from 

 the Cayman Islands. 



Dr. M. Miyajima, instructor in the Imperial 

 Hygienic Institute of Tokyo, has reached St. 

 Louis to supervise the installation of the ex- 



