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of poultry husbandrj, Cornell University. 

 W. E. Graham, manager and lecturer, poultry 

 department, Ontario Agricultural College. 



Veterinary Medicine. — Professor James Law, 

 director of the New York State Veterinary 

 College, and professor of principles and prac- 

 tise of veterinary medicine, veterinary sani- 

 tary science and parasitism; Professor V. A. 

 Moore, professor of comparative and veter- 

 inary pathology and bacteriology, and of meat 

 inspection. New York State Veterinary Col- 

 lege. Professor J. W. Connaway, professor 

 of veterinaiy science, University of Missouri. 



Entomology. — Dr. L. O. Howard, chief, U. 

 S. Bureau of Entomology; Professor S. A. 

 Forbes, professor of zoology. University of 

 Illinois; Professor M. V. Slingerland, assist- 

 ant professor of economic entomology, Cornell 

 University; P. J. Parrott, entomologist. New 

 York Agricultural Experiment Station; Dr. 

 James G. Needham, assistant professor of 

 limnology, Cornell University; Dr. A. D. 

 MacGillivray, assistant professor of entomol- 

 ogy, Cornell University; Dr. W. A. Riley, 

 assistant professor of entomology, Cornell 

 University; Professor E. Dwight Sanderson, 

 director and entomologist, New Hampshire 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The annual session of the National Aca- 

 demy of Sciences will be held in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, beginning Tuesday, April 21, at 

 11 A.M. The place of meeting will be the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Arthur L. Day, 

 director of the Geophysical Laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, invites' 

 the Jjiembers interested to inspect the labora- 

 tory on April 22, at 4:30 p.m. The members 

 of the academy are invited by the Smithsonian 

 Institution to attend the Hamilton lecture in 

 the Hubbard Memorial Hall on Wednesday 

 evening, April 22, 1908, at 8 :30. The lecture 

 will be given by Professor George E. Hale, 

 of the Solar Research Observatory, Mount 

 Wilson, California ; his subject being " Some 

 Recent Advances in our Knowledge of the 

 Sun." 



The American Philosophical Society, Phila- 

 delphia, will hold a general meeting on April 



23, 24 and 25. The opening session will be 

 held on Thursday afternoon, April 23, at 2 :30 

 o'clock, in the hall of the society in Inde- 

 pendence Square. The morning sessions are 

 from 10 :30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the afternoon 

 sessions from 2 :30 to 5. Luncheon for the 

 members will be served in the rooms of the 

 society on Friday and Saturday. A reception 

 will be held in the hall of the Historical So- 

 ciety of Pennsylvania on Friday evening, 

 April 24, at the conclusion of a lecture by 

 Professor Henry F. Osborn on " Results of 

 the American Museum Exploration in the 

 Fayum Desert of Northern Egypt." The 

 annual dinner of the society will be held at 

 the Bellevue-Stratford, on Saturday evening, 

 at 7:30 o'clock. 



Provision will be made by the Canadian 

 government in the estimates for the coming 

 financial year for a grant of $25,000 by the 

 Dominion parliament towards the expenses of 

 the visit of the British Association to Winni- 

 peg. The city of Winnipeg proposes to make 

 a grant of $5,000. The week of the meeting 

 will probably be from August 25 to September 

 1, 1909. 



Dr. W. M. Davis, Sturgis-Hooper professor 

 of geology, has been selected by the German 

 government as Harvard visiting professor at 

 the University of Berlin for the academic year 

 1908-9. Professor Davis's term of service 

 will probably fall in the second semester. 



Major General A. W. Greely, eminent for 

 his arctic explorations and his services to 

 meteorology, having reached the age of sixty- 

 four years on March 27, was transferred to 

 the retired list in accordance with law. 



Professor Alfred Marshall, of Cambridge 

 University, who succeeded the late Professor 

 Henry Fawcett in the year 1884, intends to 

 resign the professorship of political economy, 

 at the beginning of the Easter term. 



Dr. Theobald Smith, professor of compara- 

 tive pathology at Harvard University, has been 

 elected honorary fellow of the Society of 

 Tropical Medicine and Hygiene of London and 

 honorary member of the recently organized 

 Societe de Pathologie Exotique, Institut 

 Pasteur, Paris. 



