OCTOBEE 28, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



589 



Stockard, Cornell Medical School, New York 

 City, is the secretary. 



The ninth annual meeting of the central 

 branch of the American Society of Zoologists 

 will be held in joint session with Section F of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science at Minneapolis, Minnesota, 

 beginning December 27, 1910. Titles of 

 papers in order to appear on the printed pro- 

 gram must be in the hands of the secretary, 

 H. V. Neal, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, 

 not later than December 10. Nominations for 

 membership must also be in the hands of the 

 secretary by that date. 



The Central Association of Science and 

 Mathematics Teachers will hold its annual 

 meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, on November 25 

 and 26. Reports of committees will be made 

 and papers given in biology, chemistry, earth 

 science, mathematics and physics. Addresses 

 will be given by Harvey W. Wiley, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C; Dayton C. Miller, of Cleve- 

 land; David Eugene Smith, of New York; J. 

 F. Gilbert, of Dlinois; Mark Jefferson, of 

 Ypsilanti, and others. The program contains 

 the names of forty-one speakers. Full infor- 

 mation regarding the program, place of 

 meeting, hotels, railroad rates, etc., may be 

 obtained by addressing the secretary, James 

 F. Millis, 330 Webster Ave., Chicago, HI. 



At the semi-annual meeting of the Phila- 

 delphia College of Pharmacy, the following 

 scientific men were elected to honorary mem- 

 bership : Wilhelm Ostwald, formerly pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the University of Leip- 

 zig; Josef Moeller, professor of pharmacology 

 and pharmacognosy at the University of 

 Graz; H. Wefers Bettink, director of the 

 pharmaceutical institute of the University of 

 Utrecht; Charles E. Bessey, professor of bot- 

 any, University of Nebraska. 



At the recent celebration at Smith College 

 the degree of Sc.D. was conferred upon Miss 

 Florence E. Sabin, associate professor of his- 

 tology at Johns Hopkins University. 



The U. S. Fisheries steamer Albatross re- 

 turned in May from her Philippine cruise in 

 the interests of the fish and fisheries of the 



archipelago, and is now at Sausalito, Cal. 

 The chief naturalist of the Albatross, Mr. F. 

 M. Chamberlain, will spend the winter in 

 Washington engaged in the study of the fishes 

 collected in the Philippines. Mr. Waldo L. 

 Schmitt has been transferred from the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry to be assistant naturalist 

 on the Albatross. 



Dr. Frederick Bedell, professor of ap- 

 plied electricity at Cornell University, has 

 returned from a year's residence in Europe. 



Mr. J. A. Douglas, demonstrator in geol- 

 ogy at Oxford University, has gone on an ex- 

 pedition to Peru. The expedition has been 

 sent out by Mr. W. E. Balston to take ad- 

 vantage, for geological research, of the exca- 

 vations now in progress in the construction 

 of new railways. 



Mr. Samuel F. Hildebrand, of the class of 

 1910, of the Indiana State Normal School, has 

 been appointed scientific assistant in the Bu- 

 reau of Fisheries at Washington. Mr. Austin 

 F. Shira, of the class of 1910, of the University 

 of Ohio, has likewise been appointed scientific 

 assistant at the U. S. Fish Cultural Station 

 at Homer, Minnesota. 



The International Medical Society, consist- 

 ing of representatives from Mexico, United 

 States and foreign countries will meet in El 

 Paso, Texas, October 27-29. Dr. von Ehrlieh, 

 of Berlin, and Drs. Charles Wardell Stiles and 

 Claude H. Lavinder, of the U. S. Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, will de- 

 liver addresses. 



Dr. Frederic S. Lee will give this year the 

 Jesup lectures of Columbia University at the 

 American Museum of Natural History. His 

 subject will be " The scientific features of mod- 

 ern medicine," and the dates will probably be 

 February 7, 14, 21 and 28 and March 7, 14, 

 21 and 28. 



Dr. Erxst Gr-^witz, of the University of 

 Berlin, lectured at the Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital on October 11 on " Diseases of the 

 Blood." 



Dr. Charles W.^rdell Stiles, U. S. Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, began a 



