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Boas and Professor A. C. Haddon. Among 

 the speakers at the meetings of the club have 

 been, in addition to the honorary members, 

 Professor A. M. Lythgoe, Professor George 

 F. Moore, Professor Leo Wiener, Professor 

 A. L. Kroeber, Professor Marshall H. Saville, 

 Mr. Stewart Culin, Professor E. H. Nichols, 

 Dr. J. M. Bell, Professor John Murdock, 

 Professor G. H. Chase and Mr. E. B. Drew. 

 Alfred M. Tozzeb 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 On the death of W. S. Yeates, the late 

 state geologist of Georgia, Professor S. W. 

 McCallie, for a number of years the senior 

 assistant geologist of the survey, was ap- 

 pointed state geologist. S. P. Jones, some 

 years back assistant state geologist, who has 

 recently been doing special work in petrog- 

 raphy at the University of Wisconsin and at 

 the Shetfield Scientific School, at Yale Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed assistant state geol- 

 ogist. The stail of the survey now consists of S. 

 W. McCallie, state geologist; Otto Veatch, as- 

 sistant state geologist; S. P. Jones, assistant 

 state geologist, and Edgar Everhart, chemist. 



The British home secretary has appointed 

 E. A. S. Redmayne, M.Sc, professor of mi- 

 ning in Birmingham University, to the newly- 

 created post of chief inspector of mines. 



Dr. Fridjof Nansen has retired as ISTor- 

 wegian Ambassador to Great Britain. 



The fiftieth anniversary of Dr. S. E. 

 Chaille as teacher in the medical department 

 of Tulane University will be celebrated by 

 the alumni on May 19. It is the intention 

 to establish a memorial fund for the endow- 

 ment of a chair of physiology or hygiene to 

 be named after Dr. Chaille. 



Professor A. Lawrence Rotch, founder 

 and director of the Blue Hill Meteorological 

 Observatory, has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Eoyal Meteorological Society 

 of London. 



At the annual general meeting of the 

 American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 

 held on April 23, 24 and 25, new members 



were elected as follows : Martin Grove Brum- 

 baugh, Philadelphia, superintendent of public 

 schools; Walter Bradford Cannon, Boston, 

 Mass., professor of physiology in Harvard 

 University; James Christy, Philadelphia, con- 

 sulting engineer; William Hallock, New 

 York City, professor of physics in Columbia 

 University; Edward Washburn Hopkins, 

 New Haven, Conn., professor of Sanskrit and 

 comparative philology at Yale University. 

 Leonard Pearson, Philadelphia, dean of the 

 faculty of veterinary medicine in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania; Josiah Royce, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., professor of the history of phi- 

 losophy in Harvard University; Jacob G. 

 Schurman, Ithaca, N. Y., president of Cornell 

 University; Charles Henry Smyth, Princeton, 

 N. J., professor of geology at Princeton Uni- 

 versity; Herbert Weir Smyth, Cambridge, 

 Mass., Eliot professor of Greek literature in 

 Harvard University; Henry Wilson Spangler, 

 Philadelphia, professor of mechanical engi- 

 neering in the University of Pennsylvania; 

 Edward Anthony Spitzka, professor of gen- 

 eral anatomy at Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, Philadelphia; John Robert Eitling- 

 ton Sterrett, Ithaca, N. Y., professor of 

 Greek language and literature, Cornell Uni- 

 versity; Richard Hawley Tucker, Mount 

 Hamilton, Cal., astronomer in the Lick Ob- 

 servatory; Robert Williams Wood, Baltimore, 

 professor of experimental physics in Johns 

 Hopkins University. As foreign members 

 were elected: Ernest Nys, Brussels, judge of 

 the Court of Appeals and professor of law in 

 the University of Brussels; Albert E. K. 

 Penck, Berlin, professor of geography in the 

 University of Berlin. 



A SOLUTION of the difficulty caused by the 

 interference of summer teaching with profes- 

 sional investigation is suggested by the in- 

 structors in the department of geology and 

 geography at Harvard, who announce in the 

 pamphlet lately issued by the Harvard Sum- 

 mer School of Arts and Sciences that they 

 will receive properly qualified students in 

 connection with the various studies that they 

 propose to undertake themselves. Field work 

 in historical and structural geology in Mon- 



