Januae-e 26, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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way, New York, offers berths at the lowest 

 rates, provided that it is informed in time to 

 write to the Home Office to obtain concessions. 



The Hamburg-American Line, 35 and 37 

 Broadway, New Yorl?, offers berths as follows: 

 On the Moltke, $90, and up, on the Hamburg, 

 $85 and up, and on the Prinz Oskar and Prinz 

 Adalbert, $75 and up. They say that if a 

 party should sail at a time when the steamers 

 are not crowded : ' We shall be glad to give 

 them better accommodations than the above 

 rates call for.' Particulars of sailing can be 

 obtained by addressing any of the offices above 

 mentioned. 



The organization of the society into sections 

 is set forth in this Journal for July and 

 August, 1905, pages 66 and 72, respectively, of 

 the proceedings. 



Intending members may send their subscrip- 

 tions, twenty francs, directly to Professor E. 

 Paterno, or may send a check for four dollars 

 ($4) to the undersigned, who will forward the 

 amount of the subscription to Rome. 



American chemists intending to become 

 members and send papers are urged to act 

 without delay. Papers should be tjrpewritten 

 on thin paper and may be sent directly to the 

 secretary or to the undersigned at Washington, 

 who will undertake to forward them. The sec- 

 tion before which the paper is to be read 

 should be specified. It is suggested that the 

 typewritten copy be carefully revised by the 

 author to see that it is in form for printing, 

 as the Italian authorities will follow the copies 

 implicitly in printing the reports, and thus 

 avoid all possible errors. 



The Italian railways offer a reduction of 

 sixty per cent, on first-class rates to all mem- 

 bers of the congress who may wish to use the 

 railways while in Italy. 



Forty subscriptions have already been for- 

 warded by the chairman of the committee, and 

 many others have sent their subscriptions 

 directly. At the present time it appears that 

 fifty or sixty members of the American chem- 

 ists have become members of the congress. 

 It is to be hoped that a much larger number 

 may be secured. 



The chairman of the American committee 

 urges upon intending members the desirability 



of preparing papers for the congress, in order 

 that American chemistry may be as well 

 represented in this congress as it was at the 

 last one in Berlin. 



This will be the final notice published con- 

 cerning the congress unless some additional 

 instructions be received from the Italian com- 

 mittee. T^ .^ .^ 



H. W. Wiley, 



Chairman of the American Committee. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



We learn from the ' Year Book of the Car- 

 negie Institution,' just published, that Mr. 

 Alexander Agassiz has resigned as trustee of 

 the institution and that Dr. R. S. Woodward, 

 the president, has been elected a trustee to 

 fill the vacancy. The vacancy in the board 

 caused by the death of John Hay has not been 

 filled. Dr. Charles D. Walcott has resigned 

 the secretaryship of the board and is succeeded 

 by Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge. 



The Nichols medal of the American Chem- 

 ical Society for the year 1905 has been award- 

 ed to Professor Marston Taylor Bogert, of 

 Columbia University, for his researches on the 

 quinazolines. The medal will be formally 

 presented at the meeting of the New York 

 Section on February 9. 



Professoe a. Pedler, F.R.S., director of 

 public instruction in Bengal, has been knight- 

 ed by King Edward. 



Dr. Adolf Lieben, professor of chemistry 

 at Vienna, has been awarded the Lavoisier 

 medal of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 

 He has also been elected a foreign member 

 of the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. 



The Lagrange prize of the Belgian Academy 

 of Sciences has been awarded to Professor 

 Hecker, of the Geodetic Institute at Potsdam. 



Dr. Walther Nernst, professor of physical 

 chemistry at Berlin, has been elected a mem- 

 ber of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Daniel Olo'er, F.R.S. , emeritus pro- 

 fessor of botany in the University of London, 

 has been elected an honorary member of the 

 Royal Society of New South Wales. 



The past and present house officers of the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital are to have a life- 



