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of the committee that issued the first call for 

 organization of the American Morphological So- 

 ciety, the forerunner of the American Society of 

 Zoologists, and he was president of the society 

 for the first four years, 1891-94. He was organ- 

 izer of the Journal of Morphology and its editor 

 for many years, and in this capacity also exerted 

 a strong infiuence on the development of zoolog- 

 ical research in America. As director of the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory for twenty-one 

 years, he exerted an even more powerful and 

 entirely unique influence in the development of 

 biological science. As an investigator he was 

 painstaking, enthusiastic and thorough, as a 

 thinker on biological problems profound and far- 

 sighted. Devoted to principle, his uncompromising 

 personality sometimes made enemies, but the 

 charm of his character made him devoted friends. 

 His influence will long remain as one of the most 

 important forces in the history of zoology in 

 America. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



John William Draper, eminent for his 

 contributions to physics, chemistry and phys- 

 iology, was born on May 5, 1811, and the 

 centenary of his birth is being celebrated by 

 Neve York University, where he was professor 

 from 1839 until 1873. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 as corresponding members Professor Svante 

 Arrhenius, of Stockholm, in the section for 

 physics, and Professor I. P. Pawlow, of St. 

 Petersburg, in the section of medicine. 



As already announced, the British Associa- 

 tion will meet at Portsmouth on August 30. 

 On the evening of that day. Sir William 

 Eamsay will give the presidential address. 

 Public lectures will be given by Mr. Leonard 

 Hill on the "Physiology of Submarine Work," 

 and by Professor A. C. Seward on " Links 

 with the Past in the Plant World." 



The Association of German Men of Science 

 and Physicians will hold its eighty-third 

 meeting at Karlsruhe from September 24 to 

 30. 



Me. J. H. Grisdale has been appointed 

 director of the experimental farm system of 

 Canada, to succeed Dr. William Saunders. 



Professor Louis Doremus Huntoon, M.E., 

 of the department of mining and metallurgy, 



Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 

 has resigned his position to engage in work in 

 the Canadian gold fields. 



Dr. F. W. Woll, professor of agricultural 

 chemistry in the University of Wisconsin, has 

 been designated as the delegate of the univer- 

 sity at the celebration of the centennial of 

 the University of Christiania, Norway, Sep- 

 tember 2 to 6, 1911. Dr. Woll is a graduate 

 of the University of Christiania. 



President Taft has appointed the follow- 

 ing as the official representatives of the re- 

 spective bureaus of the federal government on 

 the organizing committee of the International 

 Congress of Applied Chemistry: Department 

 of the Treasury — Dr. Eeid Hunt, Hygienic 

 Laboratory, Marine Hospital Service; Dr. A. 

 B. Adams, Internal Revenue Service. De- 

 partment of the Interior — Mr. George Seiger, 

 Geological Survey; Dr. George S. Ely, Patent 

 Office; Professor Nathaniel W. Lord, Ohio 

 State University, Columbus, O., to represent 

 Bureau of Mines. Department of Agriculture 

 —Dr. H. W. Wiley, Chief, Bureau of Chem- 

 istry; Dr. C. P. Langworthy, Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations; Professor W. W. Cooke, Bio- 

 logical Survey; Mr. William L. Hall, Forest 

 Service; Dr. Frank E. Cameron, Bureau of 

 Soils; Professor W. J. Humphreys, Weather 

 Bureau; Dr. E. H. True, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry; Dr. Marion Dorset, Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry; Dr. W. F. Hillebrand, Chief 

 Chemist, Bureau of Standards. 



Professor K. L. Hatch, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, has been elected president of the 

 newly founded American Association for the 

 Advancement of Agricultural Teaching in 

 Secondary Schools, which was launched in 

 Chicago at a meeting of all the heads of de- 

 partments of agricultural education in the 

 universities and colleges in the north central 

 states. Representatives from the United 

 States Department of Agriculture were also 

 present. The purpose of the new society is to 

 organize and systematize agricultural mater- 

 ial so that it can be used with greater effi.- 

 ciency in propagating agricultural education 

 through the medium of the high schools of the 

 nation. 



