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of the meeting. You can obtain your ticket 

 not earlier than June 25, nor later than June 

 30. Be sure when purchasing your going 

 ticket you request a certificate, and do not 

 make the mistake of asking for a receipt. On 

 your arrival at the meeting present your cer- 

 tificate to E. S. Clifton, assistant secretary, 

 general registration office, Goldwin Smith 

 Hall, Cornell University. A special agent of 

 the Trunk Line Association will be in attend- 

 ance to validate certificates on June 30 and 

 July 2. A fee of twenty-five cents will be 

 collected for each certificate validated. If you 

 arrive at the meeting and leave for home prior 

 to the special agent's arrival, or if you arrive 

 later than July 2, you can not have your cer- 

 tificate validated and will not get the benefit 

 of the reduction. No refund of fare will be 

 made on account of failure to have certificate 

 validated. It must be understood that the 

 reduction on the return journey is not guar- 

 anteed, but is contingent on an attendance of 

 not less than one hundred persons holding 

 certificates showing payment of full first-class 

 fare of not less than 75 cents. If the neces- 

 sary minimum is in attendance and your cer- 

 tificate is duly validated, you will be entitled 

 up to July 6 to a continuous passage ticket to 

 your destination by the route over which you 

 make the going journey at one third the lim- 

 ited fare. 



LOCAI. COMMITTEE. 



The officers are: 



Honorary Presidents: Jacob Gould Schur- 

 man, Andrew Dickson White. 



Chairman: Edward L. Nichols. 



Secretary: Willard W. Rowlee. 



Committee on Hotels and Accommodations : 

 Abram W. Kerr. 



Committee on Excursions : George F. Atkin- 

 son. 



Committee on Transportation: Holla C. 

 Carpenter. 



Committee on Finance: Henry S. Williams. 



Committee on Places of Meeting : Frederick 

 Bedell. 



Committee on Entertainment of Visiting 

 Ladies: Anna B. Comstock. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. L. a. B.4UER has accepted the permanent 

 directorship of the Department of Terrestrial 

 Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. Since the formation of this de- 

 partment on April 1, 1904, he has directed its 

 work in addition to the duties devolving upon 

 him as in charge of the magnetic survey and 

 observatory work of the United States under 

 the auspices of the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey. However, as soon as conditions will 

 permit, after July 1, he will relinquish the 

 charge of the latter work and devote his en- 

 tire time to the magnetic work of the Car- 

 negie Institution, which has been expanded 

 so that a ' general magnetic survey of the 

 globe is contemplated. 



Professor W. H. Welch, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, and Professor Nicholas Senn, 

 of the University of Chicago, have been 

 elected honorary members of the Imperial 

 Medical Society of Vienna. Professor J. J. 

 Abel, of the Johns Hopkins University; Dr. 

 John C. Hemmeter, of the University of 

 Maryland; Professor 0. A. Herter, of Co- 

 lumbia University; Dr. Graham Lusk, of the 

 University and Bellevue Hospital Medical 

 College; Professor L. Emmett Holt, of Co- 

 lumbia University, and Professor Jacques 

 Loeb, of the University of California, were 

 elected corresponding members. 



MoGiLL University will confer its doctorate 

 of laws on Dr. Donald Macalister, Linacre 

 lecturer of physics at Cambridge and presi- 

 dent of the General Medical Council. 



The honorary degree of doctor of civil law 

 has been conferred at a special convocation 

 of Durham University on Baron Takaki, the 

 Japanese surgeon-general. 



The French government has appointed a 

 commission on agricultural hygiene, with Dr. 

 Bruardel as president. 



Professor A. E. Kennelly, of Harvard 

 University, has been appointed by the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Electrical Engineers as a 

 delegate to the International Commission for 

 the standardization of nomenclature and 

 ratings of electrical machinery to meet this 

 summer in London. 



