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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 591. 



lections,' by S. L. Moseley, shows how much 

 harm may be wrought by the private collector 

 and pleads for a more public spirit. The 

 number is specially rich in notes on art mu- 

 seums and records the ' discovery ' of a num- 

 ber of paintings by Turner in the cellars of 

 the National Gallery. 



The Museum News of the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute for April contains articles on * Zuni Pot- 

 tery-making,' the ' Great Anteater ' and ' The 

 Care of an Aquarium,' besides numerous notes 

 relating to the collections and libraries of the 

 museums. 



The Bulletin of the College of Charleston 

 Museum has articles on the ' Birds of the 

 Coast Region of South Carolina ' and a syn- 

 opsis of the museum lecture on tjrphoid fever. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The regular annual session of the National 

 Academy of Sciences was held in Washington, 

 April 16 to 18, inclusive. 



The following members were present during 

 the session: Messrs. Abbot, Agassiz, Becker, 

 Billings, Boss, Brewer, Brush, Campbell, Cat- 

 tell, Chittenden, Crafts, Dall, Button, Em- 

 mons, Gill, Hague, Hale, Holmes, Howell, 

 Merriam, Morley, Morse, Newcomb, Noyes, 

 Osborn, Peirce, Pupin, Remsen, Trelease, 

 Walcott, Webster, Welch, Wells and Wood- 

 ward. 



The following new members were elected: 

 Benjamin O. Peirce, Cambridge, Mass.; Wil- 

 liam B. Scott, Princeton, N. J. ; Josiah Royce, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, of Leipzig, and 

 Professor H. A. Lorentz, of Leiden, were 

 elected foreign associates. 



Messrs. Billings, Chittenden, Hale, Osborn, 

 Welch and Woodward were reelected members 

 of the council for one year. 



The Draper medal was presented to Mr. W. 

 W. Campbell at a dinner given by Mr. Alex- 

 ander Agassiz at the New Willard Hotel on 

 Tuesday evening, April lY. 



The following program was presented: 



J. McK. Cattell: 'The Distribution of Ameri- 

 can Men of Science.' 



C. S. Peibce : ' Recent Developments of Ex- 

 istential Graphs and their Consequences for Logic' 

 Theo. Holm : ' Commelinaceae. Morphological 

 and Anatomical Studies of the Vegetative Organs 

 of Some North and Central American Species.' 

 (Presented by Theo. Gill.) 



A. Agassiz and H. L. Claek; 'On the Classifi- 

 cation of the Cidaridse.' 



Theo. Gill : ' Interference of Oviposition of a 

 Sargasso Fish with a Flying Fish.' 



H. F. OSBOEN : ' Faunal and Geological Succes- 

 sion in Eocene and Oligocene Basins of Rocky 

 Mountain Region.' 



W. J. SiNCLAiB: 'Volcanic Ash in the Bridger 

 Beds of Wyoming.' (Presented by H. F. Osborn.) 



C. E. DuTTON : ' Radioactivity and Volcanoes.' 



C. D. Walcott : ' Cambrian Faunas of China ' 

 (with lantern illustrations). 



Geoege E. Hale : ' Recent Solar Investigations ' 

 (with lantern illustrations). 



W. W. Campbell and C. D. Perkiite : ' Some 

 Recent Solar Eclipse Results.' 



M. I. Pdpin : ' Feeble Rapidly Alternating 

 Magnetization of Iron.' 



J. M. Ceatts : ' Primary Standards for Tem- 

 perature Measurements between 100° and 350°.' 



Asaph Hall: 'Biographical Memoir of Ad- 

 miral John Rodgers.' 



W. M. Davis : ' Biographical Memoir of George 

 P. Marsh.' 



Theo. Gill: 'The Life History of Pterophryne.' 



SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND 

 MEDICINE. 



The fifteenth meeting of the Society for 

 Experimental Biology and Medicine was held 

 in the Physiological Laboratory of the New 

 York University and Bellevue Hospital Med- 

 ical College on Wednesday evening, February 

 21, 1906. The president, Edmund B. Wilson, 

 was in the chair. 



Memhers Present. — Auer, Beebe, Brooks, 

 Calkins, Emerson, Field, Gies, L. Loeb,' Lusk, 

 A. R. Mandel, J. A. Mandel, Meltzer, W. G. 

 MacCallum,' Murlin, Opie, Park, Richards, 

 Salant, Shaffer, Sherman, Torrey, Wallace, 

 Wilson, Wolf. 



Memhers Elected. — Walter R. Brinckerhoff, 

 Warren P. Lombard, B. T. Terry, E. E. Tyzzer. 



Officers Elected. — President, Simon Flexner; 

 vice-president, E. K. Dunham; librarian, Gra- 



' Non-resident. 



