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SCIENCE 



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in reference to recommendations concerning 

 earthquake-proof construction — Messrs. Law- 

 s6n, McGee and Campbell. (3) A committee 

 for carrying out resolution 5 — Messrs. Eeid, 

 Marvin and Hayford. 



The committee then adjourned to reassemble 

 during the meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion in December next, when the association 

 will be asked to make a grant for defraying 

 • the necessary expenses of the committee. 

 William H. Hobbs, 



Secretary 



SGIENTIPW NOTES AND NEWS 



Sm William Eamsay has been elected an 

 honorary member of the Academy of Sciences 

 of Christiania. 



The degree of doctor of science will be con- 

 ferred by Cambridge University on Sir Clem- 

 ents Robert Markham, Colonel Sir Thomas 

 Hungerford Holdich and Sir Thomas Eichard 

 Fraser, professor of materia mediea and of 

 clinical medicine in the University of Edin- 

 burgh. 



The Eoyal Institution has awarded the 

 Actonian prize of one hundred guineas to 

 Madame Curie. 



M. Henri Poincare, professor of mathemat- 

 ical astronomy at the University of Paris, has 

 been appointed a member of the Council of 

 the Teaching of Pine Arts in the room of the 

 late M. Berthelot. 



Dr. Prank Billings, dean of the Eush Med- 

 ical College, University of Chicago, has been 

 elected president of the National Association 

 for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. 



Dr. George A. Piersol, professor of anat- 

 omy at the University of Pennsylvania, was 

 on May 2 elected president of the Pennsyl- 

 vania chapter of the Society of Sigma Xi. 



At the annual banquet of the Alumni Asso- 

 ciation of the Philadelphia College of Phar- 

 macy, held on May 14, there was presented to 

 the college an oil portrait of Professor Joseph 

 P. Eemington, given in honor of his thirty- 

 fifth anniversary as member of the faculty. 



Dr. L. E. Abrams, of Stanford University, 

 has been granted a leave of absence to enable 



him to review the manuscripts of a series of 

 volumes in course of preparation by the Cree 

 Publishing Company, giving a popular account 

 of the plant-breeding work of Mr. Luther Bur- 

 bank. Dr. Abrams moved to Santa Eosa, Cal., 

 and assumed his new duties on May 1. 



Dr. Edward Cairo, the master of Balliol 

 College, Oxford, has been compelled by ill 

 health to resign the mastership, to which he 

 was elected in 1893, in succession to Professor 

 Jowett, having been formerly fellow of Mer- 

 ton College and professor of moral philosophy 

 in the University of Glasgow. 



Charles C. Adams, of the University of 

 Cincinnati, has resigned the directorship of 

 the museum of the Cincinnati Society of Nat- 

 ural History. 



Plans have recently been perfected for a 

 detailed and systematic investigation of the 

 Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain stratigraphy 

 and paleontology, several State Surveys, in- 

 cluding North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama 

 and Mississippi acting in cooperation with the 

 United States Geological Survey in the 

 studies. The aim of the work is to determine 

 the extent of the subdivisions recognized in 

 New Jersey and Maryland on the north and 

 Alabama on the south, to determine their rela- 

 tions to one another, and in general to estab- 

 lish satisfactory correlations throughout the 

 district between the Potomac and the Missis- 

 sippi Eiver. Economic studies, especially on 

 the phosphates, will also be made incidentally. 

 The general supervision of the work rests with 

 a board of supervising geologists, consisting 

 of the state geologists in the Coastal Plain 

 districts and the chief geologist and chief 

 hydrographer of the national survey. Dr. W. 

 B. Clark being chairman. The field work is 

 in charge of Mr. M. L. EuUer, who will put 

 seven parties into the field the coming sum- 

 mer. It is hoped to complete the iavestigation 

 in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina 

 and Florida during the next year, while the 

 work in the remaining states will be finished 

 in 1908 and 1909. 



The medical corps of the navy htis not been 

 able to get enough surgeons to meet the needs 



