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SCIENCE 



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'Myths of the Shasta Indians of Northern 

 California.' 



It is hoped that the following collection will 

 also be published at an early date: 



Livingston Fareand, Ph.D., professor of an- 

 thropology, Columbia University, ' The Alsea 

 Indians of Oregon.' 



H. H. St. Clair, 2d, ' Texts collected among 

 the Coos Indians of Oregon.' 



The price will be approximately $2.00 for a 

 volume of three hundred pages, and propor- 

 tionately for larger or smaller volumes. It is 

 hoped to bring out about two volumes a year. 

 James Grant Wilson, President. 

 Peanz Boas, Vice-President. 

 Harlan I. Smith^ 



Corresponding Secretary. 

 Marshall H. Saville, 



Recording Secretary. 

 George H. Pepper, Treasurer. 



SOIENTIFIG NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. E. L. Nichols, professor of physics at 

 Cornell University, president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 was elected president of the American Phys- 

 ical Society at the New York meeting. 



Professor George P. Atkinson, of Cornell 

 University, has been elected president of the 

 Botanical Society of America. 



Officers of the Association of American 

 Geographers were elected at the New York 

 meeting as follows : 



President — Professor Angelo Heilprin, Sheffield 

 Scientific School. 



First Vice-president — Professor Ralph S. Tarr, 

 Cornell University. 



Second Vice-president — Mr. G. W. Littlehales, 

 U. S. Hydrographic Office, Washington, D. C. 



Secretary and Treasurer — Professor A. P. 

 Brigham, Colgate University. 



Councillors — Professor W. M. Davis, Harvard 

 University; Mr. Cyrus C. Adams, American Geo- 

 graphical Society; Professor .J. Paul Goode, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



The Brazilian government proposes to 

 establish a national geological survey under 

 the direction of Dr. O. A. Derby, who was for 

 many years geologist of the state of S. Paulo. 

 Dr. Derby went to Brazil in 1875 as a member 



of the extinct Commissao Geologica, of which 

 Professor C. F. Hartt was the chief. He has 

 lived in Brazil ever since, and is the leading 

 authority on Brazilian geology. 



The lords commissioners of the admiralty 

 have appointed Sydney S. Hough, Esq., 

 F.R.S., chief assistant to the astronomer at 

 the observatory. Cape of Good Hope, to be 

 astronomer at that observatory on the retire- 

 ment of Sir David Gill, KC.B. 



Professor Arthur Schuster has resigned 

 his position as Langworthy professor of 

 physics and director of the physical labora- 

 tories at Manchester. Dr. Schuster's con- 

 nection with the university dates from 18Y1, 

 when he entered Owens College as a student. 

 In 1873 he held the post of demonstrator under 

 Professor Balfour Stewart, and in 1881 he 

 was appointed to the newly created chair of 

 applied mathematics, which he resigned to be- 

 come professor of physics in 1888. Both the 

 council and the senate have placed on record 

 by formal resolutions their regret at Professor 

 Schuster's resignation. 



Professor L. C. Miall, D.Sc., F.E.S., will 

 retire from the chair of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Leeds in June, after thirty-one 

 years' service. 



Dr. G. R. Parkin has sailed from Liverpool 

 to supervise the examinations for Rhodes 

 scholarships throughout Canada and the 

 United States. His address till the middle of 

 February will be McGill University, Montreal. 



Mr. H. J. Mackinder, M.A., director of the 

 London School of Economics, has been ap- 

 pointed to represent the university at the 

 Ninth International Congress of Geography 

 to be held at Geneva in the summer of 1908. 



Sir Alfred Jones, president of the British 

 Cotton-growing Association, has invited a 

 party to accompany him to the West Indies 

 in the interests of cotton-growing in the 

 British colonies. 



On December 18 Dr. William Osier unveiled 

 a portrait of the late Dr. J. E. Graham, 

 formerly professor of medicine in Toronto 

 University, a gift by the widow and son, Dr. 

 J. S. Graham, to the Ontario Medical Library. 



The Rev. Alexander Harper, M.A., 

 Wishaw, has presented to the University of 



