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Switzerland. — Basel: Professor Dr. Koll- 

 mann, Professor Dr. Metzner. Bern: Pro- 

 fessor Dr. Strasser, Professor Dr. Kronecker. 

 Genf : Professor Dr. Laskowski, Professor Dr. 

 Prevost. Lausanne : Professor Dr. Bugnion, 

 Professor Dr. Herzen. Zurich: Professor Dr. 

 Euge, Professor Dr. Gaule. 



Belgium : Professor Dr. Swaen, Professor 

 Dr. Ed. van Beneden, Professor Dr. Fredericq. 



Denmark : Professor Dr. P. C. C. Hansen. 



England: Professor Dr. Edw. Albert 

 Sehaefer. 



Greece: Professor Dr. Sclavunos. 



Holland: Professor Dr. Pekelharing. 



Italy: Professor Dr. Guglielmo Eomiti. 



Portugal: Professor Philomano da Camara. 



Russia : Professor Exz. Tarenetzki. 



Sweden : Professor Dr. G. Eetzius. 



Norway: Professor Dr. Guldberg. 



Spain : Professor Dr. S. Ramon Cajal. 



Hungary: Professor Dr. von Lenhossek. 



United States : Professor Dr. Charles S. 

 Minot. 



Canada : Professor Dr. Ramsay Wright. 



Chile: Professor Dr. Jzquierdo. 



Argentine: Professor Dr. Rodolf de Gainza. 



Brazil: Professor Dr. Jhering. 



Mexico : Professor Dr. Fernando Altami- 

 vano. 



Asia — Calcutta : Professor Captain J. B. 

 Kelly. 



Japan : Professor Dr. J. Kaganii. 



Australia : Professor Dr. James F. Wilson. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Charles D. Walcott, director of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, was elected secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution by the regents 

 at their meeting on January 23. 



M. Chauveau, of the section of agriculture, 

 has been elected president of the Paris Acad- 

 emy of Sciences to siicceed M. Poincare, of the 

 section of mathematics. 



M. BouQtJET, director of technical instruc- 

 tion in the French Ministry of Commerce, 

 has been appointed director of the Conserva- 

 toire National des Arts et Metiers, to succeed 

 M. Chandeze, who has retired from active 

 service. 



Professor A. Moller has been appointed 

 director of the Forest Academy at Eberswald. 



Professor W. G. Farlow, having with- 

 drawn from the American editorship of the 

 Annals of Botany, Professor Roland Thaxter 

 has been chosen as his successor. 



Mr. Roosevelt has been elected one of the 

 ten honorary members of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



Dr. Thomas A. Storey, director of the gjrm- 

 nasium of the College of the City of New 

 York, has been elected to the presidency of the 

 Society of College Gymnasium Directors of 

 the United States. 



Professor Charles W. Brown, of Brown 

 University, has gone to Jamaica to study the 

 geological phenomena connected with the re- 

 cent earthquake. 



Mr. Archer M. Huktington has been 

 elected president of the American Geograph- 

 ical Society in succession to Commander 

 Robert E. Peary. 



Dr. Georg Schweinwurth, the African 

 explorer and botanist, celebrated on December 

 39 his seventieth birthday. 



Professor Julius Arnold, who has held the 

 chair of pathological anatomy at the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg, has retired from active 

 service. 



Dr. Theodor Schott, of Nauheim, will give 

 lectures in Boston and elsewhere on diseases 

 of the heart. 



Professor Angelo Heilprin lectured be- 

 fore the Franklin Institute on January 17, on 

 ' Conceptions regarding Earthquake Phe- 

 nomena and the Relationship of these Phe- 

 nomena to Volcanic Disturbances.' 



Dr. S. a. Mitchell, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, will lecture at Vassar College on 

 March 1, on ' Personal Experiences in Spain 

 at the Recent Total Eclipse.' 



Professor Frank H. Bigelow, of the U. S. 

 Weather Bureau, gave, on January 22 and 

 23, two public lectures in m.eteorology at the 

 University of Chicago, under the auspices of 

 the departments of geography and economics. 

 His topics were ' The Circulation of the Sun's 

 Atmosphere as the First Cause of the Annual 



