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endeared him more than another to all in con- 

 tact with him, it was his instinctive considera- 

 tion for others and his warm sympathy. No 

 matter how busy he was, he always welcomed 

 one with a warm clasp of the hand and that 

 charming, tender smile; no matter how long 

 one stayed, it was always too soon to go; no 

 matter how often one came, here was a friend 

 who wished you to come more often. Those in 

 trouble came to him. Every tie of affection, 

 gratitude and respect bound us to him. Every 

 meeting with him was a reinspiration in those 

 splendid ideals of which his whole life was the 

 expression. 



We have lost a most loyal and afEectionate 

 friend, a great scientist and scholar, a truly 

 noble and simple man. 



Albert P. Mathews 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the Pittsburgh meeting, December 27- 

 29, 1910, of the Geological Society of America 

 the following officers were elected for the year 

 1911 : 



President — W. M. Davis, Cambridge, Mass. 



First Vice-president — W. N. Rice, Middletown, 

 Oonn. 



Second Vice-president — W. B. Scott, Princeton, 

 N. J. 



Secretary — Edmund Otis Hovey, New York 

 City. 



Treasurer — William Bullock Clark, Baltimore, 

 Md. 



Editor — Joseph Stanley-Brown, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, N. Y. 



Librarian — H. P. Cushing, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Councilors (1911-13) — Heinrich Ries, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., and A. H. Purdue, Fayetteville, Ark. 



At the recent Pittsburgh meeting of the 

 American Paleontological Society, Professor 

 William B. Scott, of Princeton University, 

 was elected president. The statement in re- 

 gard to the presidency, taken from the daily 

 papers and printed in the last issue of 

 Science, was incorrect. Other officers of the 

 society are as follows: First Vice-president, 

 Arthur Hollick, New York City; Second 

 Vice-president, W. D. Matthew, New York 

 City; Third Vice-president, Stuart Weller, 

 Chicago, 111.; Secretary, E. S. Bassler, Wash- 



ington, D. C; Treasurer, Eichard S. LuU, 

 New Haven, Conn.; Editor, Charles E. East- 

 man, Cambridge, Mass. Correspondents were 

 elected as follows: Professor 6. Alfred Nath- 

 orst, Stockholm; Professor E. Koken, Tiibin- 

 gen; S. S. Buckman, England, and Professor 

 Charles Deperet, France. 



Professor Ealph S. Tarr, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, was chosen president of the Associa- 

 tion of American Geographers at its recent 

 meeting in Pittsburgh. 



Professor L. B. Mendel, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, was elected president of the Society of 

 Biological Chemists at the New Haven meet- 

 ing. 



At the annual election of the American 

 Philosophical Society held on January 6 the 

 following officers were chosen for the ensuing 

 year : President, William W. Keen ; Vice-presi- 

 dents, William B. Scott, Albert A. Michelson, 

 Edward C. Pickering; Secretaries, I. Minis 

 Hays, Arthur W. Goodspeed, James W. Hol- 

 land, Amos P. Brown; Curators, Charles L. 

 Doolittle, William P. Wilson, Leslie W. 

 Miller; Treasurer, Henry La Barre Jayne; 

 Councilors (to serve for three years), Henry 

 E. Osborn, Joseph G. Eosengarten, Edward 

 W. Morley, Henry H. Donaldson. 



A MARBLE bust of President Emeritus Eliot, 

 the work of Mr. Louis Parker, of New York, 

 has been placed in the faculty room of Har- 

 vard University. 



Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, who has been a 

 trustee of the University of Pennsylvania 

 since 18Y5, has resigned. 



The Zoological Society of London has 

 elected as corresponding members Mr. Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt and Mr. W. H. Osgood ; Mr. S. 

 H. Scudder as foreign member. 



Dr. H. C. Bumpus, director of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, has been 

 decorated by King Charles, of Eoumania, 

 with the grand cross of the commander of the 

 order of the crovm. 



Sir T. Carlaw Martin, LL.D., editor of the 

 Dundee Advertiser, has been appointed direc- 

 tor of the Eoyal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. 



