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dom of holding such a meeting late in August 

 or early in September, to suggest localities in 

 which the meeting might he held, and to state 

 whether or not they might attend such a 

 meeting. 



Up to date nearly 300 replies have been 

 received. Of these 100 think it wise to hold 

 a summer meeting this year; 50 are doubtful; 

 105 think it unwise. No replies have been 

 received from about 650. As about 50 have 

 signiiied that they may attend a meeting if 

 held early in September, it seems to the secre- 

 tary that the probabilities are that a party of 

 at least 25 would attend a meeting if held in 

 one of the following localities : (1) Nantucket 

 and Marthas Vineyard; (2) Chautauqua, N. 

 T. ; (3) Shawangunk Mountains, Lake Mo- 

 honk and Delaware Water Gap; (4) seaside 

 resorts near New York City, on Long Island 

 Sound and the New Jersey coast. 



The secretary would respectfully ask all who 

 read this notice, and who would attend a meet- 

 ing in any one of these four localities, to write 

 him at once, stating their preference. 



F. P. Gulliver, 

 Secretary Section E 



30 Huntington Lane, 

 NoEwicH, Conn. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the recent commencement season the 

 University of Alabama conferred the doctorate 

 of laws on Dr. William C. Gorgas, chief sani- 

 tary oiBcer at Panama; Syracuse University 

 conferred its doctorate of science on Dr. Lewis 

 Boss, director of the Dudley Observatory, 

 Albany, and the University of Wisconsin con- 

 ferred the same degree on Dr. Franklin Hiram 

 King, formerly professor of agricultural phys- 

 ics in the university. 



Me. Wilford M. Wilson, director of the 

 Ithaca Weather Bureau, has been made hon- 

 orary professor of meteorology by the faculty 

 of the College of Agriculture, Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Frank H. Bigelow has resigned his 

 positions in Washington, D. C, as professor 

 of meteorology, U. S. Weather Bureau (1S91), 

 professor of astrophysics, George Washington 



University (1894), and assistant minister of 

 St. John's Church (1891), in order to travel in. 

 Europe for a few months. He will then re- 

 sume his studies in solar physics and terres- 

 trial meteorology. 



Mr. HoiiEE B. Latijier, of the University 

 of Minnesota, has recently been appointed to 

 a position as scientific assistant, U. S. Bureau 

 of Fisheries, and assigned to the fish-cultural 

 station of the bureau at Homer, Minn. 



Dr. Walter L. Hahn, head of the depart- 

 ment of biology in the State Normal School 

 at Springfield, South Dakota, has been ap- 

 pointed naturalist in the Fur-seal Service, 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. The salary is 

 $3,000. Dr. Hahn will sail from San Fran- 

 cisco early in August for Saint Paul Island, 

 Bering Sea, where he will remain for two 

 years. He will have immediate charge of aU 

 matters pertaining to the investigation, study 

 and management of the fur-seal herd, the blue 

 fos herd and all other animal and plant life 

 on and about the Seal Islands. 



Mr. James A. Lord, of the U. S. Census 

 Ofiice and formerly of the U. S. Immigration 

 Commission, has been appointed statistician 

 of the newly-organized Bureau of Railway 

 Economics at Washington. 



Dr. William N. Lynn has been appointed 

 superintendent of the Lincoln Memorial Hos- 

 pital at KnosviUe, Tenn. 



Professor T. W. Galloway, of James Milli- 

 kin University, Decatur, Bl., has been elected 

 secretary of the American Microscopical So- 

 ciety, and Professor T. L. Hankinson, of the 

 State Normal, Charleston, Bl., treasurer, to 

 fill vacancies caused by the resignation of the 

 previous officials. At a recent meeting of the 

 executive committee the plans of the new 

 board for continuing the quarterly publication 

 of the society were approved, contracts for 

 printing and circulating the quarterly trans- 

 actions authorized, and other routine business 

 transacted. 



A P.ARTY from the department of botany of 

 the University of Chicago consisting of Drs. 

 Coulter, Chamberlain and Land and Mr. 

 Brown, will engage in research work in Mex- 



