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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXII. No. 831 



E. Clements, University of Minnesota, as early 

 as possible. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Henry F. Osborn", of Columbia Uni- 

 versity and the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, and Professor E. B. Wilson, of 

 Columbia University, have been elected cor- 

 responding members of the Munich Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Principal Peterson, of McGill University, 

 has been elected chairman of the board of 

 trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the 

 Advancement of Teaching. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, president of the 

 Eoyal Society, has received the doctorate of 

 laws from the University of Liverpool. 



The Silliman lectures at Tale University, 

 which, as already almounced, will be given 

 by Professor Svante Arrhenius, of Stockholm, 

 are now announced for April, 1911. 



We learn from Nature that prior to the an- 

 niversary meeting of the Mineralogical So- 

 ciety in the Geological Society's rooms at 

 Burlington House on ISTovember 15, Dr. Laz- 

 arus Fletcher, F.R.S., was presented with his 

 portrait, painted by Mr. Gerald Festus Kelly, 

 in recognition of the services he had rendered 

 to the society during the past quarter of a 

 century. The presentation was made by Pro- 

 fessor W. J. Lewis, F.E.S., on behalf of the 

 members and other subscribers. For three 

 years, 1885-88, Dr. Fletcher was president, and 

 for twenty-one years, 1888-1909, general sec- 

 retary, of the society. He resigned the secre- 

 taryship upon his appointment as director of 

 the Natural History Museum. 



The Eoyal Geological Society of Corn- 

 wall at its annual meeting at Penzance, 

 awarded to Dr. George J. Hinde, F.E.S., the 

 Bolitho gold medal. 



Dr. Charles K. Mills, professor of neurol- 

 ogy, and Dr. W. G. Spiller, professor of neu- 

 ropathology at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, have been elected corresponding 

 members of the Gesellschaft der Deutschen 

 Nervenartzen. 



Mr. R. N. Lyne, has been appointed director 

 of the department of agriculture recently es- 

 tablished in Portuguese East Africa. Mr. 

 Lyne has been for fourteen years director of 

 agriculture for Zanzibar. 



Dr. WiLLLiM Austin Cannon, of the Desert 

 Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona, is spending the 

 year abroad. In the summer he visited sev- 

 eral of the leading botanical gardens in 

 Europe and now (November) is making ob- 

 servations on the desert flora in the vicinity 

 of Ghardaia, southern Algeria. He plans 

 visiting the Egyptian deserts between Wady 

 Haifa and Berber, early in 1911. His Euro- 

 pean address is 17, Marche aux Herbes, 

 Bruges, Belgium. 



Professor W. A. Henry, formerly dean of 

 the College of Agriculture of the University 

 of Wisconsin, and now emeritus professor of 

 agriculture, will sail shortly for Europe where 

 he will investigate European agriculture and 

 prepare a series of articles on country life in 

 foreign countries. 



, At the annual general meeting of the Lon- 

 don Mathematical Society, held on November 

 11, the following were, as we learn from 

 Nature, elected to be the council and officers 

 for the session 1910-11 (the names of members 

 not on the retiring council are printed in italic 

 type): President, Dr. H. F. Baker, F.E.S.; 

 vice-presidents, Mr. J. E. Campbell, F.R.8., 

 Major P. A. MacMahon, F.E.S., Sir William 

 Niven, K.C.B., F.E.S.; treasurer. Sir Joseph 

 Larmor, F.E.S.; secretaries. Professor A. E 

 H. Love, F.R.S., Mr. J. H. Grace, F.E.S. 

 other members of the council, Mr. G. T. Ben 

 nett. Dr. T. J. I'A. Bromwich, F.E.S., Dr. W 

 Burnside, F.R.S., Mr. E. Cunningham, Mr 

 A. L. Dixon, Dr. L. N. G. Filon, Dr. E. W. 

 Hobson, F.E.S., Professor H. M. Macdonald, 

 F.B.8., and Dr. A. E. Western. 



The Huxley lecture at the University of 

 Birmingham was delivered on November 23 

 by Professor Percy Gardner, professor of class- 

 ical archeology in the University of Oxford. 

 The subject of the address was " Eationalism 

 and Science in relation to Social Movements." 



