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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXIII. No. 836 



Society of Naturalists: President, Professor 

 H. S. Jennings, Johns Hopkins University; 

 Vice-president, Dr. Geo. H. Shull, Carnegie 

 Institution; Treasurer, Professor E. M. East, 

 Bussey Institute; Secretary, Professor Chas. 

 R. Stockard, Cornell Medical School; addi- 

 tional members of the Executive Committee, 

 Professor W. L. Tower, University of Chi- 

 cago, and Dr. B. M. Davis, Cambridge, Mass. 



Professor W. G. PARLOVi', of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, was elected president of the Botan- 

 ical Society of America at the meeting held 

 last week at Minneapolis. 



Dr. W. H. Dall, of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, was elected president of the American 

 Paleontological Society at its recent Pitts- 

 burgh meeting. 



The American Psychological Association at 

 the Minneapolis meeting elected Professor 

 C. E. Seashore, State University of Iowa, as 

 president, and Professor Walter V. Bingham, 

 Dartmouth College, as secretary. 



Professor Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 

 professor of philosophy at Columbia Univer- 

 sity, has been elected president of the Ameri- 

 can Philosophical Association and Professor 

 Walter T. Marvin, of Eutgers College, vice- 

 president. 



M. Aemand Gautier has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Paris Academy of Sciences for 

 1911. M. Lippmann becomes vice-president. 



Dr. Lewis Boss, director of the Dudley Ob- 

 servatory at Albany, and Dr. Frederick 

 Kiistner, professor of astronomy at Bonn, 

 have been elected corresponding members of 

 the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Eichard Hertwig, professor of zoology 

 in the University of Munich, has been made 

 knight of the Maximilian order for art and 

 science. 



Professor J. H. Poynting, F.E.S., has been 

 elected a foreign fellow in the Reale Acca- 

 demia dei Lincei. 



Mr. Sydney Chapman, M.Sc, of the Uni- 

 versity of Manchester, has been appointed a 

 chief assistant in the Eoyal Observatory, 

 Greenwich. 



M. Ernest Fourneau has been elected 

 director of a newly-established laboratory for 

 researches in the chemistry of therapeutics in 

 the Pasteur Institute, Paris. 



Dr. Karl Neumann, professor of mathe- 

 matics in the University of Leipzig, has re- 

 tired. 



Dr. John L. Todd, associate professor of 

 parasitology at McGill University, will join 

 the expedition sent by the Liverpool School of 

 Medicine to Gambia, Africa, for the study of 

 tropical diseases. 



The movement set on foot by the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine in commemora- 

 tion of the work of Dr. J. E. Dutton, who lost 

 his life on the Congo through contracting 

 spirillum fever while on the twelfth research 

 expedition of the school in 1905, has now been 

 completed. The school has been able to offer 

 Liverpool University £10,000 for the establish- 

 ment of a chair in tropical entomology. At a 

 meeting of the council of the university it was 

 resolved gratefully to accept the offer. 



At the New York Academy of Medicine 

 meeting, December 15, the president. Dr. John 

 A. Wyeth, gave a brief memorial address on 

 the late Dr. Eobert Koch, honorary fellow of 

 the academy. Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, who 

 was a student under Dr. Koch, presented a 

 portrait of Dr. Koch. 



Dr. Willis 6. MacDonald, professor of 

 surgery in Albany Medical College, died on 

 December 30 at the age of forty-seven years. 



Dr. Franz Konig, formerly professor of 

 surgery in Gottingen and Berlin and later 

 head of the surgical Hospital of the Charite, 

 Berlin, known for his work in the treatment 

 of articular tuberculosis, died on December 

 12, at the age of seventy-eight years. 



The death is announced of Dr. A. Kraemer, 

 formerly professor of agriculture in the Zurich 

 Polytechnic Institute, at the age of seventy- 

 eight years. 



The Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund 

 was established by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, 

 of Stamford, Conn., " for the advancement 

 and prosecution of scientific research in 

 its broadest sense." The income from this 



