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Waller, Professor A. D. — Anesthetics 20 



Sherrington, Professor C. S. — Mental and 



Muscular Fatigue 25 



Starling, Professor E. H. — Dissociation of 



Oxyhemoglobin 25 



Botany 

 Scott, Dr. D. H. — Structure of Fossil Plants 15 

 Darwin, Dr. F. — Experimental Study of 



Heredity 45 



Johnson, Professor T. — Survey of Clare Island 20 

 Oliver. Professor F. W. — Registration of Bot- 

 anical Photographs 10 



Education 

 Findlay, Professor J. J. — Mental and Phys- 

 ical Factors 10 



Corresponding Societies Committee 

 Whitaker, W. — For Preparation of Report . . 20 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Sir William Ramsay has been elected presi- 

 dent of the British Association for the meet- 

 ing to he held next year at Portsmouth. The 

 meeting of 1912 will be at Dundee. The 

 meeting of 1914 will be held in Australia in 

 the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Sidney and 

 Brisbane. The commonwealth government 

 has voted £10,000 toward the expenses of the 

 meeting, and the several states will make addi- 

 tional contributions. 



The Accademia dei Lincei of Rome has 

 elected foreign members as follows : E. G. van 

 de Sande Bakhuyzen in astronomy; John 

 Henry Poynting for physics ; Armand Gautier 

 in chemistry; Wilhelm Waldeyer and Richard 

 Hertwig for zoology and morphology, and Max 

 Verworn and Ludimar Hermann for physi- 



Dr. Willy Wien", professor of physics in the 

 University of Wiirzburg; Dr. Felix Marchand, 

 professor of pathology at the University of 

 Leipzig; Dr. Friedrich Merkel, professor of 

 anatomy at the University of Gottingen; Dr. 

 Gustav Schwalbe, professor of anatomy at the 

 University of Strasburg, and Dr. Oswald 

 Schmiedeberg, professor of pharmacology at 

 the University of Strasburg, have been elected 

 corresponding members of the Berlin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Professor Czerny will preside over the sec- 

 ond International Conference for the Study 

 of Cancer to be held in Paris from October 

 1 to 5. 



At the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the 

 American Public Health Association, held in 

 Milwaukee, September 6 to 9, Dr. Robert M. 

 Simpson, of Winnipeg, Man., was elected 

 president. 



Dr. Herman A. Spoehr, assistant in chem- 

 istry in the University of Chicago, has been 

 appointed a member of the staff of the de- 

 partment of botanical research of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington. Dr. Spoehr 

 is investigating certain problems in plant 

 physiology which lend themselves to the ap- 

 plication of chemical methods. 



Mr. D. p. Roberts, electrical engineer at 

 London, Ont., Canada, has been appointed 

 electrical expert and inspector for the British 

 Columbia government. 



Several collections of bees from the British 

 Museum and from the Berlin Museum were 

 classified by Professor Theodore D. A. Cock- 

 erell at the request of those institutions this 

 summer. During the latter part of the sum- 

 mer he has been working on a collection of 

 fossils sent to him for classification by the 

 American Museum of Natural History of New 

 York. 



Dean Milo S. Ketchum returns to the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado after a year's leave of ab- 

 sence. As a member of the firm, Crocker and 

 Ketchum, consulting engineers, Denver, he 

 has been designing and constructing bridges, 

 viaducts, dams and reinforced concrete struc- 

 tures. He is now consulting engineer for the 

 Albion dam which the city of Boulder is to 

 build. 



Professor Josephine Tilden, of the de- 

 partment of botany of the University of Min- 

 nesota, who spent the year in New Zealand 

 studying the algse of the southern Pacific, has 

 returned to the university. 



It is proposed to name the new hospital for 

 contagious diseases at Buffalo after the late 

 Dr. Ernest Wende, as a memorial of his serv- 

 ices as a sanitarian and health officer. 



