October 30, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



631 



G. H. Parker — The coming problems of eugenics. 

 Stuart Paton' — Modem aspects of the study of the 



mind. 

 H. F. Osborn — The museum in the public service. 



The address of Dr. Mayer, tlie retiring 

 Vice-president of Section F, will be given at 

 the close of the Naturalists' banquet, Thurs- 

 day evening, December 31. Dr. Mayer vfili 

 speak with lantern illustrations upon the 

 work of the Tortugas Laboratory. 



As under the rules of the American As- 

 sociation the officers of national societies take 

 charge of the program of joint meetings, the 

 program of the Philadelphia m^eeting will be 

 in the hands of the officers of the American 

 Society of Zoologists. All titles and ab- 

 stracts of papers therefore should be sent to 

 Professor Caswell Graves, Johns Hopkins 

 University, before the first of December. 

 But members of Section F, American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, who 

 are not members of the American Society of 

 Zoologists, may send them to H. V. Neal, 

 Tufts College, Mass. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The National Academy of Sciences will 

 hold its autumn meeting at the University of 

 Chicago on December 7, 8 and 9. 



The Association of German Scientific Men 

 and Physicians will hold no meeting this year. 

 The past and present members of the scien- 

 tific staff of the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research gave a dinner at Delmon- 

 ico's to Dr. Simon Flexner on October 16, in 

 celebration of the tenth anniversary of the 

 opening of the laboratories of the institute 

 under his direction. The members of the 

 board of scientific directors and of the board 

 of trustees were present but the dinner was 

 not public. Dr. S. J. Meltzer presided; a 

 short address, engrossed on parchment and 

 signed by the members of the staff, was read 

 and presented to Dr. Flexner. The following 

 spoke: Dr. W. H. Welch, Mr. F. T. Gates, 

 Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Dr. Peyton Rous, 

 Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Dr. F. R. Fraser, Dr. 

 Jacques Loeb, Dr. Rufus Cole and Dr. Flex- 



The Ohservatory states that among the 

 visitors to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 

 during September, were Professor and Mrs. 

 W. W. Campbell, Professor H. D. Curtis and 

 party of the Lick Observatory, and Professor 

 C. D. Perrine and Mr. Mulvey, of the Cordoba 

 Observatory. Both parties were returning 

 from eclipse expeditions in Russia, neither of 

 which, unfortunately, met with success, owing 

 to cloudy skies. The Lick Observatory party 

 was stationed near Kiev, practically on the 

 central line, while the Cordoba observers were 

 near Theodosia with Professor and Mrs. 

 Newall. 



Dr. Albrecht Pence, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Berlin, and Dr. Otto Maas, professor 

 of zoology at Munich, who attended as guests 

 the meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in Australia, are, ac- 

 cording to a press despatch, detained in Eng- 

 land. Dr. Otto Lutz, professor of biology in 

 the Institute Nacional de Panama, the author 

 of an article in the last number of Science, 

 is held there as a prisoner of war. 



Leave of absence has been granted by the 

 trustees of Princeton University to Professor 

 Pierre Boutroux, of the department of mathe- 

 matics, who is in the French service, and to 

 Professor Joseph H. W. Wedderburn, of the 

 same department, who has returned to Eng- 

 land to enlist in the British army. 



Dr. Robert W. Geddes, professor of anat- 

 omy in McGiU University, has been called by 

 the British war office to take command in one 

 of the home regiments. Dr. Geddes was a 

 reservist of the British army, having served 

 with distinction in the South African War. 

 He became professor of anatomy in McGill in 

 1912. 



The New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society has appointed a committee 

 to examine into the feasibility of expanding 

 the manufacture of chemicals and dyestuffs in 

 the United States. This committee is com- 

 posed of H. A. Metz, I. F. Stone, J. B. F. 

 Herreshoff, David Jayne, J. M. Matthews, 

 Allen Rogers and B. C. Hesse, chairman. 



