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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The colleagues and friends of Professor A. 

 A. Michelson and those who appreciate the 

 honor done to this country by the conferring 

 on him of the Copley medal of the Royal 

 Society and the Nobel prize in physics, have 

 arranged to unite in a dinner at Chicago on 

 January 3, the last day of the meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



The Munich Academy of Sciences has 

 elected as corresponding members Mr. G. K. 

 Gilbert, of the U. S. Geological Survey, and 

 Professor J. J. Thomson, professor of ex- 

 perimental physics at Cambridge University. 



The Hayden memorial geological medal of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia will be presented to Mr. Charles D. 

 Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution on Tuesday evening, January 7. The 

 presentation address will be made by Dr. Persi- 

 for Frazer. 



Sir W. H. Bennett has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Institute of Hygiene, London, in 

 succession to the late Sir W. H. Broadbent. 



Dr. Berthold Laufer, lecturer in anthro- 

 pology in Columbia University, has accepted 

 the position of curator in the Field Museum of 

 Natural History in Chicago and will proceed 

 on January 7 to Thibet, where he will spend 

 three years. The money for the expedition 

 has been given anonymously. 



Professor Dugald C. Jackson, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 

 has consented to act as temporary technical 

 assistant of the expert accountant engaged in 



devising a system of bookkeeping by which the 

 city can keep informed of the financial opera- 

 tions of the Chicago Telephone Company 

 under the new ordinance. 



Dr. Geo. I. Adajis, has returned to Wash- 

 ington from Peru, where since 1905 he has 

 been chief geologist to the government of 

 Peru. 



A Smithsonian grant has just been ap- 

 proved by Secretary Walcott in favor of Pro- 

 fessor William Hallock, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York, to investigate a 3,300-foot 

 well near Oakland, Maryland. Among other 

 things, Dr. Hallock will determine, if possible, 

 the conductivity of gas at this extreme depth 

 and will try to get information as to the pos- 

 sible radioactivity of rock far below the sur- 

 face. 



Professor Henry B. Ward, of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Russian Imperial Society for 

 the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants. 



The Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris has 

 elected Dr. Ales Hrdlicka an associate foreign 

 member. Heretofore he had been a corre- 

 sponding member. 



Dr. Stroud proposes to resign the Caven- 

 dish professorship of physics in Leeds Uni- 

 versity, after twenty-two years' service. 



Dr. Hermann Graf zu Solms Laubach, 

 professor of botany at the University of 

 Strasburg, has retired from active service. 



Dr. Gustav Jager, of Stuttgart, known for 

 his contributions to hygiene, has celebrated 

 the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. 



It is stated in Nature that Mr. Haffkine 

 has accepted an appointment to a post at Cal- 

 cutta offered to him by the secretary of state 

 for India. It will be remembered that Mr. 

 Haffkine was held responsible for an unfor- 

 tunate accident that occurred in the Punjab 

 in connection with plague inoculation, an acci- 

 dent for which a large body of scientific opin- 

 ion has pronounced him to be in no way to 

 blame. 



We learn from the Geographical Record 

 that Mr. Leo Frobenius, the German ethnolo- 

 gist and explorer, whose researches along the 



