SCIENCE 



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versity; Lewis Boss, director of the Dudley 

 Observatory, Albany, N. T. ; John Mason 

 Clarke, state geologist and paleontologist and 

 director of the State Museum and Science 

 Division of the Educational Department, 

 Albany, E". T.; W. M. L. Coplin, professor of 

 pathology and bacteriology, Jefferson Med- 

 ical College, Philadelphia; John Dewey, pro- 

 fessor of philosophy, Columbia University; 

 L. 0. Howard, chief of the Division of Ento- 

 mology, U. S. Department of Agriculture; 

 Joseph P. Iddings, Washington, D. C; Alba 

 B. Johnson, Baldwin Locomotive Works, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; A. A. Noyes, professor 

 of physical chemistry, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology; G. H. Parker, professor of 

 zoology. Harvard University; A. Lawrence 

 Eotch, director of the Blue Hill Meteorolog- 

 ical Observatory and professor of meteorol- 

 ogy. Harvard University; Dr. Leo S. Eowe, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. William T. Sedgwick, 

 professor of biology at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology and biologist of the 

 Massachusetts State Board of Health, and Dr. 

 Augustus Trowbridge, professor of physics at 

 Princeton University. The following foreign 

 residents were elected: Dr. Svante Arrhenius, 

 director of the Nobel Institute, Stockholm; 

 J. B. E. Bornet, Paris; Sir John Murray, 

 Edinburgh. 



Professor Ugo Mondella, director of the 

 geophysical observatory at Leghorn, has been 

 appointed director of the Observatorio Ee- 

 gional do Eio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 

 Brazil. 



The delegates of the University Museum, 

 Oxford, have appointed Dr. H. L. Bowman, 

 fellow of Magdalen College and Waynflete 

 professor of mineralogy, to be their secretary, 

 in place of Mr. H. Balfour, curator of the 

 Pitt-Eivers Museum, who resigns that office 

 next month. 



Mr. J. Clyde Marquis, instructor in agri- 

 cultural journalism and agricultural editor at 

 the University of Wisconsin, has accepted the 

 position of agricultural editor of the Country 

 Gentleman, recently purchased by the Curtis 

 Publishing Company, Philadelphia. Mr. 



John T. Beaty, associate editor of Farm and 

 Home and the Orange Judd Farmer, has 

 been appointed instructor in agricultural 

 journalism and agricultural editor in place of 

 Mr. Marquis. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has appointed the following delegates : 

 Professor Carlo Emery to the fifty-year jubi- 

 lee of Professor Giovanni Capellini, Professor 

 G. 0. Sars to the centennial anniversary of 

 the founding of the University of Christiania 

 and Mr. Henry G. Bryant to the tenth Inter- 

 national Geographical Congress. 



Professor W. B. Heems, of the University 

 of California, is on his way to Europe where, 

 during the summer, he will visit the principal 

 parasitological laboratories of England, 

 France, Germany and Italy. He will repre- 

 sent the University of California as author- 

 ized delegate to the International Hygiene 

 Exhibit at Dresden. 



Me. Willlam Bateson, F.E.S., has been ap- 

 pointed Herbert Spencer Lecturer at Oxford 

 for 1911. 



De. William T. Sedgwick, professor of biol- 

 ogy in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, will give the commencement address 

 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute on 

 " Science and the State." 



Professor W. J. V. Osterhout addressed 

 the Biological Society of Smith College, May 

 18, on " Some Aspects of the Action of Min- 

 eral Salts on Plants." 



Dr. G. B. D. de Nanceede, of the medical 

 department of the University of Michigan, 

 will give the commencement address before 

 the Medical College of the University of 

 Nebraska, at Omaha, May 18. His subject 

 will be " False and True Professional Suc- 

 cess." 



Professor H. H. Turner delivered the Hal- 

 ley Lecture at Oxford on May 22, his subject 

 being " The Movements of the Stars." 



Professor B. G. Wilder was born in Bos- 

 ton, not (as stated in our last issue) in 

 Brookline, where his boyhood was passed. 



