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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXV. No. 649 



May 11, 1907 — ' Some Problems in the Study of 

 Nutrition,' by Professor K. H. Chittenden, director 

 of Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. 



Thirty members have been elected to mem- 

 bership in the society during the year. At 

 the meeting on May 11 the following officers 

 were elected : 



President — Professor J. P. Iddings. 



Vice-president — Professor J. R. Angell. 



Recording Secretary and Treasurer — Professor 

 Carl Kinsley. 



Corresponding Secretary — Professor F. K. Moul- 

 ton. 



'National Councilor — ^Professor S. W. Williston. 



Memhers of the Electoral Board — Professors S. 

 W. Williston, E. H. Moore, R. A. Millikan, R. R. 

 Bensley, J. Stieglitz. 



The Davenport Academy of Sciences has 

 finished its annual popular scientific lecture 

 course, the lectures this year being by Pro- 

 fessor Eeuben G. Thwaites, of the Wisconsin 

 Historical Society ; Arthur Farwell, of Newton 

 Center, Mass.; Frank M. Chapman, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York; Professor Arthur Fairbanks, of the 

 University of Michigan; Professor Samuel 

 Calvin, of the University of Iowa; Professor 

 Thomas H. Macbride, of the University of 

 Iowa, and Professor Frederick Starr, of the 

 University of Chicago. 



Professor E. H. Chittenden, director of 

 the Sheffield Scientific School, Tale Univer- 

 sity, has accepted an invitation to deliver the 

 Sigma Xi lectures before the Universities of 

 Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri next 

 winter. These four universities have joined 

 together to obtain a man who is an authority 

 on some scientific subject to come west and 

 give a joint lecture course, delivering one lec- 

 ture before each university. Dr. Chittenden 

 will give the course during the latter part of 

 February, 1908. 



The Eobert Boyle lecture of Oxford Uni- 

 versity for 1907 was delivered by Professor 

 Karl Pearson, on ' The Scope and Importance 

 to the State of National Eugenics,' on May 17. 



Dr. David P. Barrows has completed his 

 courses of lectures, on the ' Peoples of the 

 Philippines and the Ethnology of Malaysia,' 



at the University of California. These are 

 probably the first regular courses of instruc- 

 tion given at any university in America on 

 the ethnology of these regions. Dr. Barrows 

 sails on July 5 to resume his work as director 

 of education of the Philippine Islands. 



The committee of one hundred, appointed 

 by the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science to further the promotion, 

 of national interest in health, met in New 

 York City, April 18, and organized by the 

 adoption of rules, the election of officers 

 and the appointment of an executive com- 

 mittee. Professor Irving Fisher, of New 

 Haven, presided as the temporary chairman 

 and was subsequently elected president. Ten 

 vice-presidents were elected, as follows : Presi- 

 dent Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University; 

 Felix Adler, New York; Dr. William H. 

 Welch, Baltimore; Eev. Lyman Abbott, New 

 York; President James B. Angell, University 

 of Michigan; Miss Jane Addams, Chicago; 

 Hon. Joseph H. Choate, New York; Et.-Eev. 

 John Ireland, St. Paul; Hon. Ben. B. Lind- 

 sey, Denver; Hon. John D. Long, Boston. 

 Mr. Champe S. Andrews was elected secretary. 

 Professor Irving Fisher, Dr. Thomas Darling- 

 ton, Professor J. P. Norton, Dr. John S. 

 Fulton, Dr. Eichard C. Newton, Professor F. 

 F. Wesbrook and Champe S. Andrews were 

 elected an executive committee. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that it is proposed to found a prize in memory 

 of the late Dr. Paul Julius Mobius of Leipzig, 

 well known for his contributions to the litera- 

 ture of neurology and psychiatry and by his 

 medico-literary studies on Goethe and other 

 celebrities. The prize is to be known by his 

 name, and is to be awarded every year fo'r the 

 best essay dealing with some neurological or 

 psychiatrical subject. A committee, which in- 

 cludes among its members Professor Edinger, 

 of Frankf ort-on-the-Main ; Professor Moeli, of 

 Berlin, and Dr. Lamhof er, of Leipzig, has been 

 formed to collect subscriptions for the purpose. 



Professor Henry Crew, Fayerweather pro- 

 fessor of physics in Northwestern University, 

 has been elected president of the Northwestern 

 Chapter of Sigma Xi. On May 24 Professor 



