Septembee 2, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



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J. Playfair McMurrich, the University of To- 

 ronto : " The Genus Arachnactis." 



S. 0. Mast, Goucher College, Baltimore: "Re- 

 actions of Amoeba to Light." 



Maynard M. Jletcalf, Oberlin College: "Studies 

 on Amoeba. I. On the Localization of the Ex- 

 cretory Function in Amoslia proteus." 



T. H. Morgan, Columbia University : " Studies 

 on Eggs Subjected to Centrifugal Force." 



Henry F. Nachtrieb, University of Minnesota: 

 " The Primitive Pores of Polyodon spathula {Wal- 

 baura) ." 



Henry Leslie Osbom, Hamline University: " On 

 the Structure of Cryptogonimus (nov. gen.) 

 chyli (n. sp.) an Aberrant Distome, from Fishes 

 of Michigan and New York." 



G. C. Price, Leland Stanford Jr. University: 

 " The Structure and Function of the Adult Head 

 Kidney of Bdellosioma stouti." 



A. M. Reese, West Virginia University: "The 

 Lateral Line System of Chimcera colliei." 



Samuel Rittenhouse, Olivet College: "The Em- 

 bryology of Stomotoca apicata." 



David H. Tennent, Biyn Jlawr College : " Varia- 

 tion in Echinoid Plutei." 



Albert H. Tuttle, University of Virginia : " Mi- 

 tosis in CEdogonium." 



Edmund B. Wilson, Columbia University: 

 " Studies on Chromosomes." 



H. V. Wilson, University of North Carolina : 

 " A Study of Some Epithelioid Membranes in 

 Monaxonid Sponges." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 William James, emeritias professor of phi- 

 losophy in Harvard University, died at his 

 summer home at Chocorua, N. H., from heart 

 disease on August 26, in his sixty-ninth year. 



Dr. Sigmund Exner will preside over the 

 International Physiological Congress which 

 meets at Vienna at the end of September. 



Professor Schultze, the eminent biological 

 chemist of the Zurich School of Technology, 

 has been made an honorary doctor of Heidel- 

 berg University, on the occasion of his seven- 

 tieth birthday. 



Dr. Edmund Weiss, professor of astronomy 

 at Vienna, has celebrated the fiftieth anni- 

 versary of his doctorate. 



Dr. Albert Eulenberg, professor of neu- 

 rology at Berlin, celebrated his seventieth 

 birthday on August 10. 



Dr. a. E. Kennelly, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and Mr. C. F. Scott represented the 

 United States at the informal conference of 

 the International Electrical Commission, held 

 at Brussels in August. 



At the University of Washington, on June 

 14, an address before the Sigma Xi was given 

 by Professor Alexander Smith, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of the University of Chi- 

 cago, his subject being " The Balance Sheet 

 of Science." At the summer session of the 

 same university Professor Smith gave a 

 series of twelve lectures on the subject of 

 " The Teaching of Chemistry." 



Dk. H. C. Cooper, associate professor of 

 chemistry, Syracuse University, is delivering 

 a course of twelve lectures on " Physieo- 

 Chemical Analysis " during the summer 

 quarter of the University of Chicago. 



The inaugural address on the occasion of 

 the opening of the winter session of the Lon- 

 don School of Tropical Medicine wiU be de- 

 livered by Professor Miers, of the University 

 of London, on October 14. 



WiLLUM Earl Dodge Scott, curator of the 

 department of ornithology of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, has died at the age of fifty-eight 

 years. 



Chaeles Barton Hill, formerly connected 

 with the Lick Observatory and the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, died at San Francisco 

 on August 25, at the age of forty-seven years. 



Dr. Egbert Amory, a Boston physician, at 

 one time lecturer on physiology at Harvard 

 Medical School, and professor of physiology 

 at Bowdoin College, died on August 27, at the 

 age of fifty-eight years. 



Dr. Paul Manteg.azza, the eminent Italian 

 anthropologist, died on August 28, at the age 

 of seventy-nine years. 



The New York State Civil Service Com- 

 mission wiU hold an examination on Septem- 

 ber 24, to fill the position of clinical patholo- 



