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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 701 



At the annual meeting of the American As- 

 sociation of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, 

 held in Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 17 and 

 18, Dr. Harold C. Ernst, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, was elected president. 



Columbia University has conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of science on Professor Charles 

 P. W. McClure, professor of comparative 

 anatomy at Columbia University. 



The Boylston Medical Prize for 1908 has 

 been av^arded by Harvard University to Pro- 

 fessor James Homer Wright for an essay 

 entitled " The Histogenesis of the Blood- 

 Platelets." 



Professor Otto BiJTSCHLi, of Heidelberg, 

 and Professor A. G. Nathorst, of Stockholm, 

 have been elected foreign members of the Lin- 

 nean Society, London. 



Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.E.S., has been elected 

 a member of the Athenaeum Club for " dis- 

 tinguished eminence in science." 



At the annual meeting of the Harvey So- 

 ciety, held May 15, 1908, the following officers 

 were elected for the coming year: President, 

 James Ewing ; Vice-president, Simon Plexner ; 

 Treasurer, Edward E. Dunham; Secretary, 

 F. C. Wood; Council, Graham Lusk, S. J. 

 Meltzer, Adolf Meyer. The society adopted 

 a resolution as follows : 



Resolved, That, in the desire of Dr. Graham 

 Lusk not to undertake again the duties of presi- 

 dent of the Harvey Society, its members express 

 to him their cordial appreciation of the great 

 value of his services to the medical sciences in 

 this country in founding the society, in success- 

 fully administering its aifairs during its early 

 growth, and in placing it upon a substantial 

 basis. The place now occupied by it abundantly 

 demonstrates the wisdom of Dr. Lusk in organ- 

 izing a medium of communication between the 

 laboratory and the medical practitioners; and 

 whatever the society shall accomplish in the fu- 

 ture will be due in no small part to the worthy 

 example which he has set. 



The annual meeting of the International 

 Association of the Marey Institute will be 

 held at Paris on June 8. The following phys- 

 iologists have undertaken to give demonstra- 

 tions : Messrs. Barcroft, Bull, Carvallo, De- 



moor, Grutzner, Hurthle, Lapicque, Nogues, 

 Pachon, Pliillippson, Tchiriew, Tissot, Weiss 

 of Koenigsberg, Weiss of Paris, Zwaarde- 

 maker. 



The Sigma Xi Society, of the University 

 of Chicago, held its reg-ular spring meeting 

 on May 19, 1908. Five new members were ad- 

 mitted to the society. Professor J. U. Nef 

 gave the address of the evening upon " The 

 Chemistry of the Sugars from the Standpoint 

 of Methylene-dissociation." 



The eleventh annual meeting of the Medi- 

 cal Library Association was held in the John 

 Crerar Library and the Chicago Public 

 Library on June 1, under the presidency of 

 Dr. George Dock, of the University of 

 Michigan. 



Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman represented the 

 United States at the International Polar Con- 

 gress, which convened at Brussels on May 29. 



Dr. C. F. Wahrer was elected president of 

 the Iowa State Medical Society, at the session 

 held at Des Moines on April 22. 



Dr. R. p. Hibbaed, soil bacteriologist of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, has been elected 

 to the position of soil bacteriologist and plant 

 pathologist in the Mississippi State Experi- 

 ment Station. He will have charge of the 

 new department from June 1. 



Dr. Adolph Cluss, professor of agricul- 

 tural chemistry and technology in the Im- 

 perial Agricultural High School of Vienna, 

 Germany, is visiting the colleges of agricul- 

 ture and experiment stations of the United 

 States. 



On May 21, Dr. Alexander Scott gave the 

 first of a course of three lectures at the Eoyal 

 Institution on "The Chemistry of Photog- 

 raphy." 



Professor William Arnold Anthony, since 

 1894 professor of physics and electrical engi- 

 neering at the Cooper Union, New York, died 

 on May 29, at the age of seventy-three years. 



Mr. Francis B. Forbes, author of a work 

 on the flora of China, died in Boston on May 

 21, at the age of sixty-eight years. 



Drs. Raikes and Wray, government med- 

 ical officers at Singapore, have died of plague 



