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Garden; Secretary, Professor E. L. Thorn- 

 dike, Columbia University; additional mem- 

 hers of the Executive Council, Professor W. 

 E. Castle, Harvard University, and Dr. 

 Charles B. Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor, 

 N. T. The society will meet next year at 

 Chicago in convocation week. 



Dr. Eeanz Boas, of Columbia University, 

 has been elected president of the American 

 Anthropological Association. 



Professor J. H. Comstock, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been elected president of the 

 American Entomological Society, which was 

 organized in New York City during convoca- 

 tion week. 



Marston Taylor Bogert, professor of or- 

 ganic chemistry at Columbia University, has 

 been elected president of the American Chem- 

 ical Society for the year 1907. 



Dr. William Bateson, fellow of St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, well known for his work 

 on variation and heredity, will give the Silli- 

 man memorial lectures at Tale University 

 nest year. The preceding lecturers on this 

 foundation have been Professor J. J. Thom- 

 son, of Cambridge; Professor C. S. Sher- 

 rington, of Liverpool; Professor Ernest 

 Eutherford, of McGill, and Professor Walther 

 Nemst, of Berlin. 



Dr. Otto Lummer, professor of experi- 

 mental physics at Breslau, will begin his 

 course of ten lectures at Columbia University 

 on February 15. Dr. Joseph Larmor, of St. 

 Johns College, Cambridge, will begin a course 

 of six lectures on March 27. 



Professor Ernest W. Brown, who goes at 

 the end ®f the present academic year from 

 Haverford College to Tale University, has 

 been awarded the gold medal for 1907 by the 

 Eoyal Astronomical Society for his work on 

 the movements of the moon. 



The council of the Geological Society of 

 London has made the following awards : The 

 Wollaston medal to "W. J. Sollas, F.E.S., 

 professor of geology at Oxford ; the Murchison 

 medal to A. Harker, F.E.S. of Cambridge; 

 the Lyell medal to J. F. Whiteaves, paleon- 

 tologist to the geological survey of Canada; 



the Bigsby medal to A. W. Rogers, director of 

 the geological survey of Cape Colony; the 

 Wollaston fund to A. Vaughan, for his work 

 on zoning the Carboniferous Limestone of 

 England; the Murchison fund, to F. Oswald, 

 for his book on the geology of Armenia; the 

 Lyell fund, divided between T. Sheppard, of 

 Hull, Torkshire, and T. C. Cantrill, of the 

 Geological Survey of England. 



An oil portrait of Dr. J. C. Branner, vice- 

 president of Leland Stanford Jr. University, 

 and lately state geologist of Arkansas, has 

 been presented him by the members of the 

 former survey as an expression of their high 

 regard and of their appreciation of his 

 example and inspiration as a geologist and 

 as a man. The portrait was painted by Mrs. 

 Eichardson, of San Francisco. 



It appears from the daily papers that a vote 

 has been taken in Germany on the twelve 

 greatest Germans now living: Dr. Eobert 

 Koch, Professor Ernst Haeckel, Professor 

 Konrad Eontgen and Professor Ernst von 

 Behring occupy, respectively, the third, 

 fourth, fifth and eleventh positions in this 

 list. 



The Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 has made a grant of $3,000 a year for a period 

 of four years to Dean W. F. M. Goss, of Pur- 

 due University, for the purpose of deter- 

 mining the value of superheated steam in 

 locomotive service; first, in connection with 

 single expansion engines; and second, in con- 

 nection with compound engines. This is the 

 second grant which the institution has made 

 to Dean Goss. While given to him person- 

 ally, its effect will be to stimulate and to make 

 more effective the work of the Purdue Loco- 

 motive Laboratory. Funds thus received will 

 be employed in supplementing the resources 

 of the laboratory as derived from all other 

 sources. The results of Dr. Goss's previous 

 research under the auspices of the Carnegie 

 Institution, which was for the purpose of de- 

 termining the value of different steam pres- 

 sures in locomotive service, are now in press. 



King Edward has granted to Professor Sir 

 Eubert William Boyce, Professor Major Eon- 

 aid Eoss, C.B., and Mr. John Lancelot Todd 



