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sylvania, seeretarj', Dr. Herbert Rand, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Association of American Afiatomists. — De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor George A. 

 Piersol, University of Pennsylvania; secretary, 

 Professor G. Carl Huber, 1330 Hill St., Ann 

 Arbor, !Micli. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor V. A. Moore, 

 Cornell University; secretary, Charles E. Mar- 

 shall, Michigan Agricultural College, East Lan- 

 sing, Mich. 



New Haven 



The American Physiological Society. — Decem- 

 ber 27-29. President, Professor W. H. Howell, 

 Johns Hopkins University; secretary. Professor 

 A. J. Carlson, University of Chicago. 



The American Society of Biological Chemists. — 

 December 28-30. President, Thomas B. Osborne, 

 Connecticut Agricultural College; secretary, Dr. 

 Alfred M. Richards, University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



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The Geological Society of America. — December 

 29, 31. President, Dr. Arnold Hague; secretary, 

 Dr. E. 0. Hovey, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York City. 



The Association of American Geographers. — 

 December 30-January 1. President, Professor 

 Henry C. Cowles, University of Chicago; secre- 

 tary, Professor Albert P. Brigham, Colgate Uni- 

 versity, Hamilton, N. Y. 



The American Paleontological Society. — Decem- 

 ber 28-29. Secretary, Dr. R. S. Bassler, U. S. 

 National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



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The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 28-31. President. Dr. W. H. Holmes, 

 Bureau of Ethnologj'; secretary, Dr. Geo. Grant 

 MacCurdy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



The American Folk-lore Society. — Week of De- 

 cember 29. President, Dr. Henry M. Belden, 

 University of Missouri ; secretary, C. Peabody, 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



New Yokb. City 

 The American Mathematical Society. — Decem- 

 ber 28-29. President, Professor Maxime BOcher, 

 Hars-ard University; secretary, Professor F. N. 

 Cole, .501 West 116th St., New York City. 



SCIEXTIFIC yOTES AXD NEWS 

 Dr. Ch.\kles Otis Wiiitmak, head of the 

 department of zoology of the University of 



Chicago since 1892 and director of the Woods 

 Hole Marine Biological Station for twenty 

 years, died of pneumonia at his home at Chi- 

 cago on December 6. 



Mr. E. a. Sampson, F.E.S., professor of 

 mathematics and astronomy in the University 

 of Durham, has been named astronomer royal 

 for Scotland and professor of practical astron- 

 omy in the University of Edinburgh, in suc- 

 cession to Mr. F. W. Dyson, F.R.S. 



Sir Joseph John Thomson, Cavendish pro- 

 fessor of experimental physics at Cambridge, 

 and Sir Victor Horsley, the London surgeon, 

 have been elected corresponding members of 

 the Prussian Eoyal Academy of Sciences. 



Lord Avebury has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences in the section of anatomy and zool- 

 ogy. 



We learn from Nature that Emperor 

 Francis Joseph has conferred the Austrian 

 great gold medal of science and literature 

 upon Mr. E. Torday, the leader of the scien- 

 tific expedition sent out by the British Mu- 

 seum to study the native tribes in the Kasai 

 basin of the Congo. 



The city of Philadelphia, on the recom- 

 mendation of the Franklin Institute, has 

 awarded the John Scott legacy premium and 

 medal to Dr. L. H. Baekeland, of Tonkers, 

 New York, for his invention of bakelite. The 

 Franklin Institute has awarded Elliott Cres- 

 son medals for " distinguished, leading and 

 directive work," in their respective fields of 

 endeavor to the following: Dr. Harvey W. 

 Wiley, chief chemist to the Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, for his work in the 

 fields of agricultural and physiological chem- 

 istry. John Fritz, Bethlehem, Pa., for his 

 work in the development of the iron and steel 

 industries. John A. Brashear, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., for his work in the production and per- 

 fection of instruments for astronomical re- 

 search. Edward Weston, Newark, N. J., for 

 his work in electrical discovery and in the ad- 

 vancement of electrical application. Ernest 

 Rutherford, professor of physics. Owens Col- 

 lege, Victoria University, Manchester, Eng., 



