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the reports of the committee of schedules be 

 adopted. 



12. On the motion of the chairman it was 

 resolved: That the report of the executive 

 committee be adopted and that all matters 

 therein not dealt with by this convention be 

 remitted to the executive committee with 

 power to act thereon. 



13. On the motion of Professor Korteweg, 

 seconded by Dr. Deniker, it was resolved that 

 thanks be given to Professor Armstrong for 

 presiding over the convention. 



Henry E. Armstrong, D. G. Metaxas, 

 OsKAR Uhlworm, J. Deniker. 



D. J. Korteweg, D. Pratn, 



August v. Bohm, E. ISTasini, 



Leonhard Stejneger, Ernesto Mancini, 

 I. Borodin, K. Matsubara, 



Roland Trimen, G. Darboux, 



Paul Otlet, Francisco A. de Icaza, 



H. La Fontaine, J. Larmor. 



fiClEXTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Major Ronald Ross and Dr. Rubert Boyce, 

 of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 

 have arrived in this country to cooperate with 

 the authorities at New Orleans in suppressing 

 the epidemic of yellow fever. 



Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the 

 English colonial office, arrived at San Fran- 

 cisco on August 14 to deliver a course of 

 lectures on tropical diseases at the Lane Hos- 

 pital. 



Professor John M. Coulter and Dr. H. C. 

 Cowles have leave of absence from the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, and expect to spend the au- 

 tumn and winter in Europe, returning to the 

 university in April. Professor Charles R. 

 Barnes, who has been spending six months in 

 Europe, will return to Chicago for the autumn 

 quarter. 



Dr. Oliver L. Fassig, of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau and the Johns Hopkins LTniversity, 

 has returned to this country from his Arctic 

 voyag-e in search of Captain Fiala. 



Dr. W. Wyssling, professor of electrical en- 

 gineering in the Zurich Polytechnicum, was 

 expected to arrive in ISTew York this week to 

 study developments of electrical engineering. 



Mr. Jesse M. Greenman^ of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed assistant curator of 

 the Department of Botany of the Field Colum- 

 bian Museum. 



Dr. R. von Wettstein^ professor of botany 

 at the University of Vienna, has been elected 

 a member of the Academy of Sciences at 

 Madrid. 



We learn from The British Medical Journal 

 that Dr. Paul Richer, member of the French 

 Academic de Medecine, and one of the editors 

 of the Iconographic de la Salpetriere, has been 

 elected a member of the Paris Academy of 

 Fine Arts. Dr. Richer is professor of anatomy 

 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, but he owes the 

 honor which has been conferred upon him to 

 his distinction as a sculptor. 



The Pharmaceutical Jownal says that the 

 research fellowship in chemistry offered by the 

 Company of Salters, and tenable in the re- 

 search laboratory of the Pharmaceutical So- 

 ciety, has this year been awarded to Miss Nora 

 Renouf, who has been engaged in original in- 

 vestigations for the past two years in the so- 

 ciety's laboratories as holder of the Redwood 

 and the Burroughs scholarships. 



Nature states that the editorship of the 

 'Fauna of British India,' rendered vacant by 

 the death of Dr. W. T. Blanford, has been 

 offered by the secretary of state for Lidia to 

 Lieut.-Colonel C. T. Bingham. 



A MEMORIAL window has been placed in St. 

 John's in the Wilderness, Paul Smith's, in the 

 Adirondacks, in memory of the late Dr. Ed- 

 ward L. Trudeau, Jr. 



Dr. Louis H. Laudy^ tutor in general chem- 

 istry in Columbia University, died in New 

 York on August 17. Dr. Laudy was a fellow 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Lyman LIall^ president of the Georgia 

 School of Technology, Atlanta, died on August 

 17 at the age of forty-five years. He was a 

 graduate of the West Point Military Academy 

 and became professor of mathematics in the 

 Georgia School of Technology in 1888. 



