December 8, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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1905. The Milwaukee Museum is to be con- 

 gratulated on the promptness with which its 

 report has been issued and on the progress 

 made during the year. The special stress laid 

 upon educational exhibits, and its relations 

 with and assistance to the public schools is of 

 interest, as one of many reminders of the 

 great changes that have taken place in mu- 

 seums. The Milwaukee Museum is fortunate 

 in having a small lecture room for the use of 

 schools, although the lectures given are by a 

 special teacher of the public school system, 

 and not by a member of the museum staff. 

 In this connection it is somewhat amusing to 

 note the claims made by different institutions 

 regarding the value of their educational work, 

 and it may be suggested that besides Pitts- 

 burg and Milwaukee, the American Museum 

 of Natural History, with its loan collection 

 studied, or at least seen, by 365,000 children 

 and its lectures to thousands of pupils, should 

 not be overlooked. There is also the New 

 Tork Botanical Garden with its museum and 

 lectures, and the Children's Museum of the 

 Brooklyn Institute with its 100,000 visitors, 

 25,000 readers and lectures attended by all 

 who can crowd in. However, Scripture says 

 that we should not hide our (educational) 

 lights under bushel baskets, and it is well for 

 the public to know that much earnest effort 

 is being expended to make museums interest- 

 ing and of value to school children. 



. SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETIES. 



There will meet at New Orleans: 

 The American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. — The week beginning on December 28. 

 Retiring president, Professor W. G. Farlow, Har- 

 vard University; president-elect, Professor C. M. 

 Woodward, Washington University, St. Louis, 

 Mo.; permanent secretary, Dr. L. 0. Howard, 

 Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C; general secre- 

 tary. Professor C. A. Waldo, Purdue University, 

 Lafayette, Ind. ; secretary of the council. Dr. John 

 F. Hayford, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Local Executive Committee. — Honorary presi- 

 dent, President E. B. Craighead, Tulane Univer- 

 sity; executive president. Professor George E. 



Beyer, Tulane University; secretary, Henry M. 

 Mayo, The New Orleans Progressive League; 

 treasiirer, Mr. Clarence F. Low, of the Liverpool, 

 London and Globe Insurance Company. 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. — Vice- 

 president, Dr. W. S. Eichelberger, U. S. Naval 

 Observatory, Washington, D. C. ; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor L. G. Weld, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 

 Iowa. 



Section B, Physics. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Henry Crew, Northwestern University, Evanston, 

 111.; secretary. Professor Dayton C. Miller, Case 

 School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Section C, Chemistry. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Charles F. Mabery, Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence, Cleveland, Ohio; secretary. Professor Charles 

 L. Parsons, New Hampshire College of Agricul- 

 ture, Durham, N. H. 



Section D, Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

 — ^Vice-president, Professor F. W. McNair, Hough- 

 ton, Mich. ; secretary. Professor Wm. T. Magruder, 

 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



Section E, Geology and Geography. — Vice-presi- 

 dent, Professor Wm. North Rice, Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, Middletown, Conn. ; secretary. Dr. Edmund 

 0. Hovey, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York, N. Y. 



Section F, Zoology. — ^Vice-president, Professor 

 Henry B. Ward, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 

 Nebr. ; secretary, Professor C. Judson Herrick, 

 Denison University, Granville, Ohio. 



Section G, Botany. — Vice-president, Dr. Erwin 

 F. Smith, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C; secretary. Professor F. E. Lloyd, 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 

 N. Y. 



Section H, Anthropology. — ^Vice-president, Dr. 

 George Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New 

 Haven, Conn.; secretary, George H. Pepper, Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. 



Section I, Social and Economic Science. — Pro- 

 fessor Irving Fisher, Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn:; secretary. Dr. J. F. Crowell, Bureau of 

 Statistics, Washington, D. C. 



Section K, Physiology and Experimental. MetZt- 

 cme.— Vice-president, Professor Wm. T. Sedg- 

 Avick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos- 

 ton, Mass.; secretary. Dr. Wm. J. Gies-, College 

 of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 

 New York City. 



At New Orleans in conjunction with the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science' there will meet : ■ 



The American Chemical Society. — President, 



