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cial field was physical anthropology, in which 

 he did great service in Germany. He con- 

 tributed important studies to the anthro- 

 pology of Egypt, South India and Ceylon, and 

 particularly to that of the prehistoric times in 

 North America, which country he twice 

 visited. 



The election of officers for 1907-8 resulted 

 as follows: 



President — Ales Hrdli5ka. 



Vice-presidents — Section of Somatology, D. S. 

 Lamb; Psychology, J. W. Fewkes; Esthetology, 

 W. H. Holmea; Technology, Walter Hough; So- 

 ciology, Jame3 Mooney; Philology, J. N. B. Hew- 

 itt; Sophiology, Alice C. Fletcher. 



General Secretary — Walter Hough. 



Secretary to Board of Managers — J. R. Swan- 

 ton. 



Treasurer — Geo. C. Maynard. 



Curator — Marianna P. Seaman. 



Councilors — J. W. Fewkes, J. B. Nichols, James 

 Mooney, J. N. B. Hewitt, J. K. Swanton, W. E. 

 Safford, F. W. Hodge, J. M. Casanowicz, Sarah S. 

 James, P. Beckwith and F. O. Stetson. 



Committee on Communications — W. H. Holmes, 

 Alice C. Fletcher, James Mooney. 



J. M. Casanowicz, 

 Acting Secretary 



THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 175th regular meeting of the Chemical 

 Society of Washington, and joint meeting 

 with the American Society of Biological 

 Chemists was held at the Cosmos Club, May 

 9, 1907, Dr. Peter Fireman, of the Chemical 

 Society, and Dr. W. J. Gies, of the Bio- 

 logical Society, presiding. 



The following program was carried out: 

 Chemical and Bacteriological Standards now 

 in Use in Water Analysis: Joseph H. 

 Kastle. 

 Amrhonia in Milk and its Development dur- 

 ing Proteolysis under the Influence of 

 Strong Antiseptic: H. C. Sherman, W. N. 

 Berg, L. J. Cohen, and W. G. Whitman. 

 Studies on Apple Juice: H. O. Gore. 

 Sugar Metabolism: Hugh McGuigan. (Eead 



by title.) 

 The Presence of Secondary Decomposition 

 Products of Proteids in Soils: Oswald 

 ScHREiNER and Edmund Shorey. 



On Lysylglycin: P. A. Leveke and W. A. 

 Beatty. 



Negative Evidence of the Development of 

 Ferments of Dog's Saliva in Adaptation to 

 Diet: Walter E. Garry. (Read by title, 

 but results of investigation were discussed 

 by Dr. L. B. Mendel and Dr. W. J. Gies.) 



Some Azolitmin Compounds of Mucoids, 

 Nucleoproteins, and other Proteins, with 

 Exhibition of Products: Jacob Eosenbloom 

 and W. J. Gies. 



On the Quantitative Determination of Mu- 

 coid in Urine, Blood and Tissue Extracts: 

 C. E. May and W. J. Gies. 



J. A. LeClerc, 

 Secretary 



the torrey botanical club 



The meeting for May 14, 1907, was called 

 to order at the American Museum of Natural 

 History with President Eusby in the chair. 

 One hundred and four persons were present. 



The scientific program consisted of a sym- 

 posium of four papers on the subject of 

 ' Trees.' Each paper was illustrated by lan- 

 tern views. The symposium was opened by 

 Professor L. M. Underwood, who spoke on 

 ' Some Historic American Trees.' Mr. Will- 

 iam Solotaroff discussed ' The Planting and 

 Care of Shade Trees,' giving an interesting 

 account of the preparation for planting in the 

 nursery, methods of transplanting along high- 

 ways and streets, the dangers that threaten 

 shade trees, and briefly of the means of pro- 

 tecting against these dangers. 



Dr. E. B. Southwick spoke on ' Trees in 

 Winter,' showing views taken in Central Park, 

 and elsewhere in and about Greater New 

 York. The last number was by Dr. N. L. 

 Britton, who showed a selection of colored 

 lantern slides from the Van Brunt collection, 

 illustrating the flowers and fruits of common 

 trees. 



At the conclusion of the regular program, 

 Mr. Edward R Taylor, of Pen Yan, N. Y., 

 exhibited some beautiful, and botanically in- 

 teresting, samples of ' vegetable silk,' and 

 fabrics woven from it, together with the raw 

 material of which it is made. The process 

 of its manufacture from cotton-seed-cellulose 



