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SCIENCE 



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the secretaries of the respective sections and 

 suggests that each secretary of a section cor- 

 respond with the member of the committee 

 named above in connection with his section. 

 The first point is to learn whether the section 

 will hold a summer meeting at Hanover. If 

 that is decided in the affirmative, the section 

 representative will be pleased to correspond 

 as to the arrangements. Address at Hanover, 

 N. H. 



The chairman of the committee announces 

 that an invitation has been received from the 

 president of the Blue Mountain Forest Asso- 

 ciation, Mr. Austin Corbin, for members of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science to visit the Blue Mountain 

 Forest, otherwise known as the Corbin Blue 

 Mountain Park or Preserve covering about 

 40,000 acres, where the celebrated herds of 

 buffalo, deer, mountain goats, boars, etc., may- 

 be seen. The western entrance to this 

 reservation is about sixteen miles from Han- 

 over, and it may be feasible to arrange for 

 such a visit with a party not too large. 

 Whether this is expedient or not will depend 

 somewhat on the advices received as to how 

 many may wish to make this trip. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. J. J. Thomson, Cavendish professor of 

 experimental physics, at Cambridge, will pre- 

 side at the meeting of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science to be held in 

 Winnepeg next year. 



The Turin Academy of Science has con- 

 ferred the Bressa prize of about $2,000 on Dr. 

 Ernest Rutherford, professor of physics at 

 Victoria: University, Manchester. 



President Eliot, of Harvard University, 

 has been appointed Grand Officer of the Order 

 of the Crown of Italy by King Victor Em- 

 manuel. President Eliot celebrated his 

 seventy-fourth birthday on March 20. 



Mr. Thomas A. Edison has so far recovered 

 from the recent operation for mastoiditis and 

 aural abscesses that he has been able to go to 

 his Florida place at Fort Myers. 



Professor S. E. Chaille, professor of phys- 

 iology and comparative anatomy and dean of 



the medical department of Tulane University, 

 has been awarded a retiring pension by the 

 Carnegie foundation. Professor Chaille was 

 born in 1830 and graduated from Harvard 

 University in 1851. 



Professor S. A. Lattimore, head of the de- 

 partment of chemistry at the University of 

 Rochester, will retire in June, after forty 

 years of service as professor of chemistry in 

 that institution, and having reached the age 

 of eighty years. 



Mr. F. B. Weeks, who has been connected 

 with the U. S. Geological Survey for the past 

 eighteen years, has recently resigned. His ad- 

 dress for two or three months while complet- 

 ing certain reports for the survey will be 1201 

 Euclid Street, Washington, D. C. 



Professor A. Schuberg, of Heidelberg, has 

 been made head of the department of protozoa 

 investigation in the Royal Bureau of Health 

 at Berlin. 



Andrew L. Winton, for many years chemist 

 at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has been appointed chief of the food 

 and drug laboratory of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture for the city of Chicago. 



At the termination of the course on national 

 forests the senior class of the Forest School of 

 Yale University presented Mr. William B. 

 Greeley with a loving cup. Mr. Greeley will 

 leave New Haven soon and resume his work 

 at Hot Springs, Cal., as supervisor of the 

 South Sierra National Forest. 



At the University of Kansas the board of 

 regents has granted leave of absence to Pro- 

 fessor C. H. Ashton, of the department of 

 mathematics and to Professor E. F. Stimpson, 

 of the department of physics. Professor Ash- 

 ton will spend sixteen months in Europe at 

 the University of Munich; Professor Stimp- 

 son will study at some eastern university for 

 a year. 



Dr. F. M. Andrews, associate professor of 

 botany at Indiana University, has received the 

 research table of the Smithsonian Institution 

 at the Naples Zoological Station for the 

 months of April and May. 



At the recent meeting of the faculty of arts 

 and sciences of Harvard University the fol- 



