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Senator Elihu Eoot has been made chair- 

 man of the board of trustees, the other mem- 

 bers of which are as follows: 



Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of 

 Columbia University; Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, 

 president of the Carnegie Foundation for the 

 Advancement of Teaching; Joseph H. Choate, 

 lawyer, ex-ambassador to Great Britain; Albert 

 K. Smiley, Lake Mohonk, educator and humani- 

 tarian; Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of 

 Harvard University; James Brown Scott, solicitor 

 of the State Department; John W. Foster, la-wyer, 

 ex-Secretary of State; Andrew J. Montague, 

 lawyer, ex-governor of Virginia; William M. 

 Howard, lawyer, congressman, Lexington, Ga. ; 

 Judge Thomas Burke, Seattle, Wash.; James L. 

 Slayden, congressman, San Antonio, Tex.; Andrew 

 D. White, ex- Ambassador to Germany; Robert S. 

 Brooking, lawyer, St. Louis; Samuel Mather, 

 banker, steel manufacturer, Cleveland; J. G. 

 Schmidlapp, railroad man, Cincinnati; Arthur 

 William Foster, regent University of California, 

 San Francisco; R. A. Franks, banker, Hoboken, 

 N. J.; Charlemagne Tower, ex-ambassador to 

 Germany and Russia; Oscar S. Straus, ambas- 

 sador to Turkey; Austen G. Fox, lawyer, New 

 York; John L. Cadwalader, lawyer, New York; 

 John Sharp Williams, senator-elect from Missis- 

 sippi; C. L. Taylor, of Pittsburgh, chairman of 

 the Carnegie Hero Commission; George W. Per- 

 kins, of New York, financier and philanthropist; 

 Robert S. Woodward, of Washington, and Cleve- 

 land H. Dodge, of New York, the president and 

 secretary, respectively, of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science holds its opening meeting at 

 Minneapolis on the evening of Tuesday, De- 

 cember 27, at eight o'clock, when the retiring 

 president, Dr. David Starr Jordan will give 

 his address which is entitled " The Making of 

 a Darwin." A list of the societies meeting at 

 Minneapolis in affiliation with the association 

 and of the societies meeting at Ithaca, New 

 Haven, Pittsburgh, Providence and New York, 

 is given elsewhere in this issue. 



The Eoyal Belgian Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences has awarded the Charles Lagrange 

 Prize of 1,200 francs to Dr. L. A. Bauer, di- 

 rector of the department of terrestrial mag- 



netism of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington. This prize is awarded for the best 

 printed or unprinted treatise which shall 

 form a contribution of material value in 

 geophysics. The prize was awarded on Dr. 

 Bauer's publication, " The United States 

 Magnetic Tables and Magnetic Charts for 

 1905 " and for his general contributions to 

 terrestrial magnetism. 



Dr. Alexander Graham Bell has been 

 elected an honorary member of the Eoyal 

 Institution, London. 



Professor J. G. Kapteyn, of Groningen, 

 Holland, has been elected an honorary fellow 

 of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh. 



Professor Eaphael Meldola, F.E.S., pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in Finsbury Technical 

 College, London, has received the doctorate 

 of science from Oxford University. 



Captain E. E. Peary has deposited in the 

 U. S. National Museum the series of sixteen 

 gold and two silver medals that have been 

 awarded to him. They include the great gold 

 medal of the National Geographic Society of 

 Washington, presented to him for his " dis- 

 covery of the North Pole," and the great gold 

 medal of the Eoyal Geographical Society of 

 London, designed by Mrs. Scott, wife of the 

 leader of the British South Polar Expeditions 

 and presented to Captain Peary for " Arctic 

 Exploration, 1896-1909." 



Dr. George Bruce Halsted has been 

 elected corresponding member of the Societe 

 des Sciences physiques et naturelles, Bordeaux, 

 in whose Memoires appeared his " La contribu- 

 tion non euclidienne a la philosophie." 



Mr. Walter Campbell Smith, of Corpus 

 Christi College, Cambridge, has been ap- 

 pointed to an assistantship in the mineralog- 

 ical department of the British Museum. 



The Japanese Antarctic expedition, under 

 Lieutenant Shirase, started on November 28 

 from Shinagawa Bay aboard the 150-ton 

 schooner Eainan Maru. 



Professor Josiah Eoyce, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has accepted the invitation of the 

 trustees of Lake Forest University to deliver 



