Apeil 28, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



653 



fessor of radio-chemistry, Tale University; 

 James Furman Kemp, professor of geology, 

 Columbia University; Arthur Louis Day, di- 

 rector of the Geophysical Laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution; Robert Aimer Harper, 

 professor of botany at the University of Wis- 

 consin. Foreign associates were elected as 

 follows : Professor Ernest Rutherford, Uni- 

 versity of Manchester, England; Professor 

 Vito Volterra, University of Rome, Italy. 

 At the annual dinner of the academy on April 

 19 the Draper Gold Medal was presented to 

 Mr. C. G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, for his researches on the infra-red re- 

 gion of the solar spectrum and his accurate 

 measurements, by improved devices, of the 

 solar " constant " of radiation. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlioka, of the U. S. National 

 Museum, has been made a corresponding mem- 

 ber of the Societe des Americanistes de Paris, 

 and a foreign associate of the Societa Italiana 

 d'Antropologia. 



Dr. J. S. Flett has been appointed to suc- 

 ceed Dr. J. Home, F.R.S., as assistant in 

 Scotland to the director of the Geological 

 Survey. 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, has sailed from 

 New York for Colombia, South America, 

 where he is to join Mr. William B. Richard- 

 son, who has been in that locality collecting 

 birds and mammals for the museum for sev- 

 eral months. Mr. Chapman expects to get into 

 a region where no collecting of birds has been 

 done; there he will make a systematic survey, 

 probably obtaining some undescribed species 

 and many new to the museum collections. He 

 will also get material for several new bird 

 groups. He has taken an assistant and expects 

 to remain until July, when Mr. Richardson 

 and the assistant will continue the work. 



Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, of the geo- 

 graphical department of Yale University, is 

 at present making explorations in New Mex- 

 ico. Mr. Huntington is making his head- 

 quarters temporarily at Sante Fe in the old 

 governor's palace, now used as the Museum of 

 the Archeological Institute of America. The 



field of exploration will cover the old Pueblo 

 ruins and cliff dwellings. 



Mr. W. a. Orton, pathologist in the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, Washington, sailed on 

 April 22 for Hamburg, and will spend six 

 months in the study of plant diseases and the 

 sugar beet industry in Germany, Austria, 

 Russia, France and England. He will attend 

 the fourth International Conference on 

 Genetics at Paris and present a paper entitled 

 " The Development of Disease-resistant Va- 

 rieties of Plants." 



Dr. Yandell Henderson, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, is to make, during the coming summer in '^ 

 company with Drs. Haldame and Douglas, of 

 Oxford University, an extensive exploration 

 around Pikes Peak, for the purpose of study- 

 ing the effects of high altitudes on men and 

 animals. 



Professor Eduard Seler, of Berlin, on 

 leave of absence in Mexico, has discovered a 

 set of ancient paintings on the walls of one of 

 the apartments of the Palenque Palace. 



The Prince of Monaco has appointed as 

 members of the first council of the new Insti- 

 tute of Human Paleontology in Paris : MM. 

 Salomon Reinach, Boule, Berneau, Cartailhac, 

 Capitan, Villeneuve, for France; Sir Ray 

 Lankester for the British Isles; Professor von 

 Luschan for Germany; Professor Hoernes for 

 Austria-Hungary; Professor Issel for Italy, 

 and Professor G. Retzius for the Scandinavian 

 countries. 



Dr. a. E. Kennelly, of Harvard University, 

 has accepted an invitation from the University 

 of London to deliver a short series of lectures 

 in London, at the end of May next, on " The 

 Application of Hyperbolic Functions to Elec- 

 trical Engineering Problems." 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of the Ala- 

 bama Polytechnic Institute, has recently lec- 

 tured before the staff and students of the de- 

 partments of botany and zoology of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, on " The Behavior of 

 Tannin in Persimmons during Ripening." 



On the evening of April 10, Dr. Wallace W. 

 Atwood, of the University of Chicago, gave an 

 illustrated lecture before the Geographic So- 



