Mat 17, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



797 



Afternoon. Departure for Washington. 

 Wednesday, September 4- 



10 A.M. General meeting in the assembly hall 

 of the Cosmos Club, Washington, at which ad- 

 dresses of welcome will be given by the secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, the president of 

 the Carnegie Institution and the president of the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences; and the details 

 of the program for the Washington visit will be 

 announced. This will be followed by a visit to 

 the National Zoological Park, to the Congressional 

 Library, the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, the Hygienic Laboratory and other points 

 of zoological interest. 



Evening. Reception by the Cosmos Club. 

 Thursday, September 5. 



A visit by boat on the Potomac Biver to Mt. 

 Vernon, the home of George Washington and to 

 the United States Navy Proving Station at Indian 

 Head, with dinner at Marshall Hall. 



Evening. Reception at the United States Na- 

 tional Museum. 

 Friday, September 6. 



Morning or afternoon. Return to New York. 



On September 7, there will be an excursion to 

 Niagara Falls and across Lake Ontario to Toronto. 

 In case at least fifty members agree to take part 

 in an excursion to Bermuda, one will be arranged 

 on September II or 14. 



80IENTIFI0 NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. Edward B. Moobe, assistant commis- 

 sioner of patents, has been appointed commis- 

 sioner to succeed Mr. Frederick I. Allen, who 

 has resigned. 



Professor Trancis Humphreys Storer, S.B. 

 (Harvard, 1855), since 1870 professor of agri- 

 cultural chemistry at Harvard University and 

 at the same time dean of Bussey Institution, 

 has resigned and has been appointed professor 

 emeritus from September 1. 



Dr. W. L. Eichardson has resigned the chair 

 of obstetrics and the deanship of the Harvard 

 Medical School. Dr. Eichardson graduated 

 from Harvard College in 1864 and from the 

 medical school in 1867. 



Professor Aime Witz, of Lille, has been 

 elected a corresponding member in the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences in the section of physics, 

 in the room of the late Professor Boltzmann. 



M. Darboux, permanent secretary of the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences and professor of 



mathematics in the University of Paris, has 

 been named a member of the national bureau 

 of weights and measures in the room of the 

 late M. Berthelot. 



Major James Carroll, U.S.A., will receive 

 the degree of doctor of laws from the Univer- 

 sity of Maryland at its centennial celebration 

 to be held from May 30 to June 2. 



New York University has conferred the 

 degree of doctor of laws on Dr. Joseph D. 

 Bryant, professor of surgery in the institution 

 and president of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation. 



Dr. J. Playfaib McMurrich, professor of 

 anatomy at the University of Michigan, has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the 

 London Zoological Society. 



Professor Ernst von Leyden, the eminent 

 surgeon of Berlin, has been made a privy- 

 councillor, with the title of excellency. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, E.E.S., has been ap- 

 pointed an honorary member of the New 

 Zealand Institute. 



Professor John Adams, who holds the chair 

 of education in the University of London, and 

 Dr. J. M. E. McTaggart, lecturer in moral 

 science. Trinity College, Cambridge, will take 

 part in the work of the summer school of the 

 University of California, which opens on June 

 24. 



Dr. William Hallook, dean of the faculty 

 of pure science, has been elected president of 

 the Columbia chapter of the Society of Sigma 

 Xi. 



During the college year 1906-7 the Sigma 

 Xi Society of the Ohio State University has 

 offered the following course of open scientific 

 lectures : 



November 27 — ' The Cellular Basis of Inherit- 

 ance and Evolution,' Dr. E. G. Conklin, Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. 



January 10 — ' The Source and Utilization of 

 Our Fuel Supply,' Professor E. E. Sommermeier, 

 Ohio State University. 



March 14—' Modern Methods in Water Purifica- 

 tion,' Mr. John H. Gregory, Engineer in charge 

 of Improved Water and Sewage Works, Columbus, 

 Ohio. 



April 18 — ' The Coal Tar Products and their 



