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(Auckland), mineralogist, and Mr. A. Hamil- 

 ton (Wellington). 



James Deummond 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Silliman lectures at Tale University 

 will next year be given by Dr. Albreebt 

 Penck, professor of geography at tbe Uni- 

 versity of Berlin. 



The following have been elected by the 

 council of the British Association to be presi- 

 dents of sections at the meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation to be held in Dublin in September 

 next under the general presidency of Mr. 

 Francis Darwin, F.E.S. : Section A (Mathe- 

 matical and Physical Science), Dr. W. N. 

 Shaw, F.E.S., director of the Meteorological 

 Office; Section B (Chemistry), Professor F. S. 

 Kipping, F.E.S., professor of chemistry in 

 University College, Nottingham; Section C 

 (Geology), Professor J. Joly, F.E.S. , Professor 

 of geology and mineralogy in the University 

 of Dublin; Section D (Zoology), Dr. S. F. 

 Harmer, superintendent of the University 

 Museum of Zoology, Cambridge; Section E 

 (Geography), Major E. H. Hills, C.M.G.; 

 Section F (Economic Science and Statistics), 

 Lord Brassey; Section G (Engineering), Mr. 

 Dugald Clerk, M.Inst.C.E.; Section H (An- 

 thropology), Professor W. Eidgeway, professor 

 of archeology in Cambridge University; Sec- 

 tion I (Physiology), Dr. John Scott Haldane, 

 F.E.S., university reader in physiology at 

 Oxford; Section K (Botany), Dr. F. F. 

 Blackman, F.R.S., professor of botany in the 

 University of Leeds; Section L (Educational 

 Science), Professor L. C. Miall, formerly pro- 

 fessor of biology in the University of Leeds. 

 Invitations to deliver evening discourses dur- 

 ing the meeting of the association at Dublin 

 have been accepted by Professor H. H. Turner, 

 F.E.S., Savilian professor of astronomy at 

 Oxford, who will take as his subject " Halley's 

 Comet " ; and Professor W. M. Davis, of Har- 

 vard University, whose lecture will be entitled 

 " The Lessons of the Colorado Canon." 



The following Americans expect to attend 

 the Fourth International Congress of Mathe- 

 maticians, to be held in Eome, April 6-11 : 



Professor E. H. Moore, University of Chicago ; 

 Professor T. S. Fiske and D. E. Smith, Co- . 

 lumbia University; Professor G. D. Olds, Am- 

 herst College; Professor Virgil Snyder, 

 Cornell University; Professor C. A. Noble, 

 University of California; Professor J. G. 

 Hardy, Williams College; Dr. W. D. A. West- 

 fall, University of Missouri; Dr. C. L. E. 

 Moore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



Professoe Theodore W. Eichards, of Har- 

 vard University, has been elected an honorary 

 and foreign member of the Chemical Society 

 of London. 



The gold medal of the Eoyal Astronomical 

 Society was awarded to Sir David Gill by the 

 Eoyal Astronomical Society at its annual 

 meeting on February 14, in recognition of his 

 contributions to the astronomy of the southern 

 hemisphere. 



Professor George H. Darwin and Mme. S. 

 Curie have been elected corresponding mem- 

 bers of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sci- 

 ences. 



Mr. C. M. Conner, agronomist at the North 

 Carolina College and Station, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant commissioner of agriculture 

 for the Philippine Islands. 



Dr. August Maetin, professor of g-ynecol- 

 ogy at the University of Greifswald, will visit 

 this country next summer to attend the annual 

 session of the American Medical Association. 



Professor C. W. Hall, head of the geology 

 department of the University of Minnesota, 

 has been chosen to represent the university 

 at the Pan-American Scientific congress to be 

 held at Santiago, Chili, next December. 



Dr. W. N. Shaw, Emmanuel College, Cam- 

 bridge University, has been appointed to 

 represent the university at the meeting of 

 Imperial and Colonial meteorologists, con- 

 vened by the Eoyal Society of Canada, to be 

 held at Ottawa in May, 1908. 



Dr. J. P. EowE, professor of geology in the 

 University of Montana, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Montana State Teachers Associa- 

 tion. 



The Montana Academy of Science, Arts 

 and Letters held its annual meeting at Mis- 



