December 1, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Through the kindness of Harvard students 

 of psychology and philosophy, a limited num- 

 ber of dormitory rooms in Cambridge have 

 been placed at the disposal of the Harvard 

 department for assignment to members of the 

 visiting associations. By the courtesy of the 

 Bertram Hall committee and of Radcliffe stu- 

 dents, twenty rooms in Bertram Hall, the 

 Radcliffe College dormitory, vpill be placed at 

 the disposal of vpomen attending the meetings, 

 preference being given to regular members of 

 the association. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, for- 

 merly Waynflete professor of iDhysiology and 

 regius professor of medicine at Oxford, has 

 died at the age of seventy-seven years. 



Dr. George H. Darwin, E.R.S., Plumian 

 professor of astronomy and experimental 

 philosophy at Cambridge, has been knighted 

 by King Edward. 



The Southeastern Passenger Association 

 has granted a rate of one fare plus twenty- 

 five cents to those attending the ISTew Orleans 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. Other roads will 

 probably make similar arrangements. 



The American Chemical Society will meet 

 in New Orleans in connection with Section 

 C of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science from December 29 to 

 January 2, 1905-06. The president of the 

 society is Dr. Francis P. Venable, of Chapel 

 Hill, N. C, the secretary. Dr. William A. 

 Noyes, of the Bureau of Standards, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. The chairman-elect of Section C 

 is Professor Charles F. Mabery, of the Case 

 School of Applied Science, Cleveland, 0., the 

 secretary is Professor Charles L. Parsons, of 

 Durham, N. H. 



The Botanical Society of America will meet 

 in New Orleans from January 1 to 4, 1906, 

 under the presidency of Professor R. A. Har- 

 per, of the University of Wisconsin. The 

 headquarters are at the Hotel St. Charles, 

 and the sessions will be held in the rooms of 

 Tulane University. Mr. Frederick V. Co- 



ville, the retiring president, has chosen as the 

 subject of his address ' Botanical Explora- 

 tions in Alaska.' 



Professor V. F. Bjerknes, of the Univer- 

 sity of Stockholm, has arrived in this country 

 to give the course of lectures at Columbia 

 University that has already been announced. 



A TESTIMONIAL banquet was given to Dr. 

 Nicholas Senn, at the Auditorium Hotel, Chi- 

 cago, on November 11, with about seven hun- 

 dred physicians in attendance. Dr. Joseph 

 D. Bryant, of New York City, presented a 

 gold medallion to Dr. Senn, miniature replicas 

 of which were distributed among those in at- 

 tendance. On one side of the medallion was 

 a likeness of Dr. Senn; on the other the in- 

 scription : " To Nicholas Senn, the Master 

 Surgeon, from his Fellows, November 11, 

 1905." Dr. L. G. Nolte, of Milwaukee, Wis., 

 presented Dr. Senn with a silver loving cup, 

 given by his former private pupils. 



Professor Jacob Reighard, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, lectured on ' The Habits of 

 Fishes ' at the University of Kansas on No- 

 vember 16. This lecture was under the aus- 

 pices of the Sigma Xi Society of the univer- 

 sity. On Friday morning following he gave 

 the convocation address before the students 

 and faculty upon the subject of ' Instincts of 

 Man.' On Friday evening Dr. Reighard was 

 the guest of honor at a reception, giving him 

 an opportunity to meet the faculty of the 

 university. 



Dr. W. a. Noyes, of the U. S. Bureau of 

 Standards and editor and secretary of the 

 American Chemical Society, lectured last 

 week before the chemical students of Lafayette 

 College, Easton, Pa., on ' The History of the 

 Discovery of the Composition of Water.' 



Dr. Maximillian Maurer has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Meteorological Station 

 of Zurich. 



Dr. Wilhelm WuNSTORF'has been appointed 

 geologist in the Berlin Geological Bureau. 



Professor Koehler, the president of the Im- 

 perial Bureau of Health at Berlin, has retired. 



The members of the council of the Royal 

 Society for the ensuing year, in addition to 



