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the Municipal Art Commission for acceptance. 

 The site of the memorial of the great Swedish 

 naturalist is notably appropriate, as it lies 

 between the Botanical Garden and the 

 Zoological Park. 



At the unveiling exercises an address will 

 be made by Dr. N. L. Britton, president of 

 the Academy of Sciences, and a number of 

 documents will be deposited within the tablet. 

 A speech accepting the tablet on behalf of 

 the city will be made by Joseph I. Berry, park 

 commissioner of the Bronx, and a representa- 

 tive of the New York Historical Society will 

 accept the key of the tablet for safe keeping 

 until May 23, 1957. Addresses will be de- 

 livered by Dr. George F. Kunz, president of 

 the American Scenic and Historic Preserva- 

 tion Society, and Emil P. Johnson, president 

 of the United Swedish Societies of New York. 



In the New York Zoological Park, from 5 

 to 6 :30 P.M., there will be an examination of 

 the collections, with special reference to 

 animals known to Linnsus, in the charge of 

 William T. Hornaday, the director, and C. 

 William Beebe, E. L. Ditmars and Dr. W. 

 Eeid Blair, of the Park staff. 



At the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, 

 between 7:30 and 9 p.m., there will be ad- 

 dresses, including one by the director, 

 Mr. P. A. Lucas, on ' Linnseus and Ameri- 

 can Natural History.' Prom 8:30 till 10:30 

 P.M., at the New York Aquarium, in Battery 

 Park, there will be demonstrations of features 

 of marine life recognized by Linnaeus, by 

 Charles H. Townsend, the director; Professor 

 0. L. Bristol, of New York University, and 

 Professor Bashford Dean, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity. All the exercises will be open to 

 the public. 



The committee consists of Dr. N. L. Brit- 

 ton, Dr. H. C. Bumpus, P. A. Lucas, William 

 T. Hornaday, Charles H. Townsend and Pro- 

 fessor Wm. M. Wheeler. 



80IENTIFIG NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the meeting of the National Academy 

 of Sciences, held in Washington last week. 

 President Ira Remsen, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, was elected president to succeed 

 Mr. Alexander Agassiz. The vacancy in the 



vice-presidency thus created was filled by the 

 election of Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, and Mr. Ar- 

 nold Hague was reelected home secretary. 

 Members were elected as follows: Joseph P. 

 Iddings, professor of petrology. University of 

 Chicago; Harmon N. Morse, professor of 

 chemistry, Johns Hopkins University; Frank- 

 lin P. Mall, professor of anatomy, Johns 

 Hopkins University, and Elihu Thomson, 

 Thomson-Houston and General Electrical 

 Companies. The four following foreign asso- 

 ciates were elected: Sir James Dewar, LL.D., 

 F.E.S., London; Professor A. E. Forsythe, 

 Cambridge, England; Professor Dr. David 

 Hilbert, Gottingen, Germany; Professor J. C. 

 Kapteyn, Groningen, Holland. The council is 

 constituted as follows : Mr. Alexander Agassiz, 

 Cambridge, Mass.; Professor E. H. Chitten- 

 den, New Haven, Conn.; Professor Geo. E. 

 Hale, Pasadena, Calif.; Professor Henry F. 

 Osborn, New York City; Dr. W. H. Welch, 

 Johns Hopkins University; Dr. E. S. Wood- 

 ward, Carnegie Institution, Washington. The 

 autumn meeting will be held at Columbia 

 University, New York, the sessions beginning 

 on November 19. 



Dr. Franz Boas, professor of anthropology 

 in Columbia University, was presented on 

 April 16 with a volume of researches by his 

 colleagues and former students in honor of the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of his doctorate. The 

 presentation was made by President Butler in 

 the presence of the council, members of the 

 division of philosophy, psychology and anthro- 

 pology and invited guests. 



Count de Montessus de Ballore, of Abbe- 

 ville, France, one of the leading authorities 

 on earthquakes, has accepted a call from the 

 government of Chili to establish for them a 

 seismological service of the first rank. This 

 action on the part of the Chilian government 

 is a direct result of the disastrous Valparaiso 

 earthquake of last August, and sets' a good 

 example to some more advanced nations. The 

 service in question wiU, at the beginning, in- 

 clude one station of the first rank and three 

 of the second, to be subsequently further en- 

 larged. The count will travel via New York 



