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Francisco, California; referred to the Com- 

 mittee on Industrial Arts and Expositions. 



On January 8 Senator Smoot introduced a 

 bill for the protection of wild animals in the 

 Grand Canyon Forest Eeserve; referred to 

 Committee on Forest Eeservations and Pro- 

 tection of Game. 



On January 9 Eepresentative Lacey intro- 

 duced a bill for the preservation of American 

 antiquities; referred to the Committee on 

 Public Lands. 



On January 10 Senator Perkins introduced 

 a bill for the protection of animals, birds and 

 fish in the forest reserves; referred to the 

 Cormnittee on Forest Eeservations and the 

 Protection of Game. 



The bill for the incorporation of the Amer- 

 ican National Institute at Paris has passed 

 the senate. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. William Eainey Harper, president of 

 the University of Chicago, died on January 

 10, at the age of forty-nine years. At the 

 funeral exercises at Chicago, on January 14, 

 addresses were made by President Faunce, of 

 Brown University; Chancellor Andrews, of 

 the University of Nebraska; Dean Judson, of 

 the University of Chicago, and Dr. Lyman 

 Abbott, of New York City. It is intended 

 to bui-y the body ultimately in a memorial 

 chapel and crypt to be built on the university 

 grounds. Memorial exercises were also held 

 at Columbia University, addresses being made 

 by President Butler, President Wilson, of 

 Princeton University, and President Hall, of 

 the Union Theological Seminary. 



Professor J. P. Iddings, of the University 

 of Chicago, was elected president of the Geo- 

 logical Society of America at the recent 

 Ottawa meeting. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, has been elected 

 president of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Dr. a. L. Kroeber, of the University of 

 California, has been elected president of the 

 American Folk-lore Society. 



Professor Henry M. Howe, head of the 

 department of metallurgy in Columbia Uni- 



versity, has been elected "a foreign member of 

 the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. The 

 other Americans holding this honor are Pro- 

 fessor Simon Newoomb, Dr. Samuel Pierpont 

 Langley, President Charles E. van Hise, Dr. 

 Alexander Agassiz and Mr. Thomas A. Edison. 

 Dr. Burton E. Livingston has resigned his 

 position in charge of the Division of Soil 

 Fertility of the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to accept a place on the 

 staff of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution, at Tucson, Ariz. 



The resignation of Dr. D. T. MacDougal 

 as assistant director has brought about a re- 

 organization of work at the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden. Dr. W. A. Murrill, who has been 

 serving as a curator for parts of two years, 

 having succeeded to the position left vacant 

 by the resignation of Professor F. S. Earle to 

 accept the work of directing the Cuban Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, has been, ap- 

 pointed first assistant, and the duties of Mr. 

 Percy Wilson, administrative assistant, have 

 been increased. Dr. C. S. Gager, who has 

 pursued investigations at the garden for some 

 time under the direction of Dr. MacDougal, 

 has been appointed director of the laboratories. 

 Mr. E. S. Williams, who has done much field 

 work on behalf of the garden during the past 

 five years in the Yukon Territory, Bolivia and 

 the Philippine Islands, has been appointed an 

 assistant curator. Mr. C. B. Eobinson, who 

 has been a student of the garden, giving spe- 

 cial attention to the study of the stone-worts, 

 and to the Philippine Island collections formed 

 by Mr. Williams, has also been appointed an 

 assistant curator. 



At the annual election of the American 

 Philosophical Society, held on January 5, the 

 following ofiicers were elected for the ensuing 

 year: 



President — Edgar P. Smith. 



Vice-Presidents — George F. Barker, William B. 

 Seott, Simon Newoomb. 



Secretaries — I. Minis Hays, Edwin G. Conklin, 

 Arthur W. Goodspeed, Morris Jastrow, Jr. 



Treasurer — Henry La Barre Jayne. 



Curators— Charles L. Doolittle, William P. Wil- 

 son, Albert H. Smyth. 



Councillors — Patterson Du Bois, Samuel Dick- 

 son, Ernest W. Brown, William Keith Brooks. 



