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SCIENCE. 



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shaw.. secretary; W. K. Brooks, H. C. Bumpus, 

 E. G. Conklin, C. B. Davenport, C. H. Eigen- 

 mann, L. O. Howard, D. S. Jordan, J. S. 

 Kingsley, F. E. LiUie, E. L. Mark, C. S. 

 Minot, T. H. Morgan, H. F. Osborn, G. H. 

 Parker, E. Eathbun, J. Eeighard, W. E. 

 Eitter, W. T. Sedgwick, C. W. Stiles, A. E. 

 Verrill, C. O. Whitman, E. B. Wilson and 

 E. E. Wright. 



The meetings will open in Boston, where 

 the scientific sessions will be held, and from 

 which excursions will be made to Harvard 

 University and to other points of interest. At 

 the (lose of the Boston meeting the congress 

 will proceed to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 

 visiting the Station of the United States Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries, the Marine Biological Labo- 

 ratory and the collecting grounds of the ad- 

 jacent seacoast. The journey to New York 

 will be by sea through Long Island Sound. 

 In New York the congTess will be entertained 

 by Columbia University, the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History and the New York 

 Zoological Society, and excursions will be 

 made to Yale University, to Princeton Uni- 

 versity and to the Carnegie Station for Ex- 

 perimental Evolution. From New York the 

 members will proceed to Philadelphia and 

 Washington. Tours will be planned to Niagara 

 Falls, to the Great Lakes, Chicago and to the 

 West. It is hoped that arrangements can be 

 made for reduced transportation for members 

 of the congress on transatlantic lines and on 

 the American routes. 



The first formal circular announcing the 

 preliminary program of the congress will be 

 issued in October, 1906. All inquiries should 

 be addressed to G. H. Parker, Seventh In- 

 ternational Zoological Congress, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, U. S. A. 



MINUTE OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE 

 OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY ON THE RE- 

 TIREMENT OF PROFESSOR BOWDITCH. 



In parting with their colleague, Henry 

 Pickering Bowditch, the members of the fac- 

 ulty of medicine of Harvard University wish 

 formally to express to him their feelings of 

 affection and respect. 



They desire to record their recognition of 

 the great value of his researches in physiology, 

 the wide range and originality of his work, 

 his public service as a courageous defender 

 of the freedom of research, and the inspira- 

 tion given to his pupils now teachers in other 

 schools in this country. 



They feel under especial obligation to him 

 for his leadership in their councils, for his 

 efficient aid in the reform of medical educa- 

 tion, and for that good judgment and fore- 

 sight which through many years have aided 

 them in developing a school of medicine of a 

 character deserving the position it holds in the 

 science and civilization of their day. 



It is a source of gratification that his life's 

 work has been recognized by many great cen- 

 ters of learning; but by no body of men has 

 it been more thoroughly appreciated than by 

 his comrades of the medical faculty. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science opens its special summer 

 meeting at Ithaca on June 29, under the 

 presidency of Professor William H. Welch, of 

 the Johns Hopkins University. Excellent 

 programs are promised by the sections de- 

 voted to physics, chemistry, mechanical science 

 and engineering, zoology and social and eco- 

 nomic science. The sections devoted to geol- 

 ogy and geography, and to botany will be con-" 

 cemed especially with field work. Eeports of 

 the meetings of the association and of the 

 affiliated societies will be reported in subse- 

 quent numbers of Science. 



The announcement has been made of the 

 resignation of Dr. William T. Harris, com- 

 missioner of education, and of the nomination 

 of his successor. Professor Elmer E. Brown, 

 of the University of California. Dr. Harris's 

 retirement has been made possible by a re- 

 tiring allowance from the Carnegie Founda- 

 tion for the Advancement of Teaching. This 

 action was taken by the trustees of the founda- 

 tion under one of their rules which permits 

 of such action in the case of extraordinary 

 and unusual service to education. Dr. Harris 

 has been the commissioner of education since 



