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Sturgeon in Economic Relation to Fliea and Live- 

 stock," " Observations on the Natural Food of 

 Small-mouthed Bass Fry at Mammoth Springs 

 Station, Arkansas." 



The follffwing members have also indicated 

 that they will present papers, but the titles 

 have not been received: 



Frank N. Clark, Superintendent U. S. Fisheries 

 Station, Northville, Mieh. 



Professor T. L. Hankinson, Zoologist, Charles- 

 ton, 111. 



R. S. Johnson, Chief of Division of Fish Culture, 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 



C. D. Joslyn, President State Board Fish Com- 

 missioners, Detroit, Mich. 



Dwight Lydell, Michigan Fish Commission, 

 Comstock Park, Mich. 



Professor E. E. Prince, Dominion Commissioner 

 of Fisheries, Ottawa, Canada. 

 A. Rosenberg, Kalamazoo, 5Iich. 

 A special anniversary program will be in 

 readiness for distribution at the meeting. 

 Members are requested to send to the chair- 

 man as soon as possible, the titles of all addi- 

 tional papers which should be included in the 

 program, and to correct such errors as may be 

 found in this announcement. 



C. H. TowNSEND, Chairman, 

 W. E. Meehan, 

 Trakk N. Clark, 

 Hugh M. Smith, 

 George P. Slade, 

 Raymond C. Osburn, 

 Special Anniversary Committee 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor Joseph A. Holmes, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, formerly professor of geol- 

 ogy and natural history at the University of 

 North Carolina and state geologist, has been 

 appointed by President Taft director of the 

 newly-established Bureau of Mines. 



At the second Congress of Anatomists held 

 at Brussels last month, papers were presented 

 by Professor C. S. Minot, on " The Nomen- 

 clature and Morphology of Blood Cells " ; by 

 Professor G. S. Huntington and Professor F. 

 W. McClure, on " The Development of the 

 Lmphatic System " ; by Professor Thomas G. 

 Lee, on " The Implantation of the Ovum in 



Rodents," and by Professor G. C. Huber, on 

 " Renal Tubules in Mammals." 



Dr. William Osler, regius professor of 

 medicine in Oxford University, England, is 

 visiting this country. 



Captain" Scott and the members of the 

 Antarctic expedition were entertained at Cape 

 Town on August 21 at a banquet. Mr. S. S. 

 Hough, the astronomer royal at the Cape, and 

 Sir J. Rose-Innes proposed the principal 

 toasts. 



Mr. F. E. Matthes has been detailed by the 

 U. S. Geological Survey this summer to make 

 surveys for a detailed topographic map of the 

 Mount Rainier National Park in the state of 

 Washington. Mr. Matthes hopes, among other 

 tilings, to make an accurate determination of 

 the altitude of Mt. Rainier that will settle 

 once and for all the dispute as to whether that 

 peak is the highest point within the United 

 States or not. 



Professor George W. Patterson, of the 

 electrical engineering department of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., is 

 now in Europe on a year's leave of absence. 



Charles W. Hill, who received his degree 

 of doctor of philosophy at the University of 

 Wisconsin this spring, has been made research 

 chemist for the National Carbon Company at 

 Cleveland, O. 



Mr. Antonio Guell, research fellow in the 

 engineering experiment station of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, having received the degree of 

 electrical engineer from that institution, has 

 entered the employ of the General Electric 

 Company at Lynn, Mass. 



Mrs. Margaret E. Gray provides $50,000 

 for the New York Academy of Medicine to 

 establish the Landon Carter Gray Memorial 

 Eund for the library in memory of her hus- 

 band, who died about ten years ago. 



The Scientific American states that a move- 

 ment has been started having for its object a 

 memorial to Robert Davidson, of Aberdeen, 

 Scotland, who in 1839 exhibited over a large 

 part of Great Britain a model electric railway, 



