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Inspectors. — December 29-30. Chairman, Dr. W. 

 E. Britton, New Haven; secretary, Professor J. G. 

 Saunders, Madison, Wis. 



The American Microscopical Society. — ^Decem- 

 ber 29. President, Professor Charles Brookover, 

 Little Eock, Ark.; secretary, T. W. Galloway, 

 James Millikin University, Decatur, 111. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 28-31. President, Professor Roland B. 

 Dixon, Harvard University; secretary, Professor 

 George Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



The American FoTk-Lore Society.- — Convocation 

 Week. Secretary, Dr. Charles Peabody, 197 

 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass. 



The American Psychological Association. — De- 

 cember 30-January 1. President, Professor E. S. 

 Woodworth, Columbia University; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor E. M. Ogden, University of Tennessee, Nash- 

 ville, Tenn. 



The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psy- 

 chology. — December 31-January 1. President, 

 Professor John B. Watson, The Johns Hopkins 

 University; secretary. Professor W. C. Euediger, 

 George Washington University, Washington, D. C. 



The American Association for Lahor Legisla- 

 tion.- — December 28-29. President, Professor 

 Henry E. Seager, Columbia University; secretary. 

 Dr. John B. Andrews, 131 East 23d St., New York 

 City. 



Society of Sigma XI.- — ^December 29. President, 

 Professor J. McKeen Cattellj Columbia Univer- 

 sity; secretary. Professor Henry B. Ward, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



ST. LOUIS 



The American Physiological Society. — December 

 28-30. President, Professor W. B. Cannon, Har- 

 vard Medical School, Boston, Mass.; secretary, 

 Professor A. J. Carlson, University of Cliicago, 

 Chicago, 111. 



The Association of American Anatomists. — De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor G. Carl 

 Huber, University of Michigan; secretary. Dr. 

 Charles E. Stoekard, Cornell University Medical 

 School, New York City. 



The American Society of Biological Chemists. — 

 December 28-30. President, Professor Graham 

 Lusk, Cornell University Medical School; secre- 

 tary. Professor Philip A. Shaffer, Wasliington 

 University Medical School, St. Louis, Mo. 



The Society for Pharmacology and Experimental 

 Therapeutics.— Deaeaibex 28-30. President, Dr. 

 Torald SoUmann, Western Eeserve University 



Medical School, Cleveland, Ohio; secretary, Dr. 

 John Auer, Eockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, New York City. 



CHICAGO 



Americam, Mathematical Society. — December 28- 

 29. President, Professor E. B. Van Vleck, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin. 



The Association of American Geographers. — De- 

 cember 29-31. President, Professor A. P. Brig- 

 ham, Colgate University; secretary. Professor 

 Isaiah Bowman^ Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn. 



The American Philosophical Association. — ^De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor J. H. Tufts, 

 University of Chicago; secretary. Professor E. G. 

 Spaulding, Princeton, N. J. 



PRINCETON 



The American Economic Association. — December 

 28-31. President, Professor John D. Gray, Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota; secretary. Professor AUyn 

 A. Young, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Sociological Society. — ^December 

 28-31. President, Professor E. A. Eoss, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin; secretary. Professor Scott E. 

 W. Bedford, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



NEW TOKK CITY 



The American Mathematical Society. — January 

 1-2. President, Professor E. B. Van Vleck, Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin; secretary. Professor E. N. 

 Cole, 501 West 116th St., New York City. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 In addition to the award of a Eoyal medal 

 to Professor E. W. Brown, F.E.S., for Hs in- 

 vestigations in astronomy, chiefly in lunar 

 theory, recently announced in Science, the 

 president and council of the Eoyal Society 

 have awarded a Eoyal medal to Professor 

 W. J. SoUas, F.E.S., for his researches in 

 paleontology, especially in the development of 

 new methods; the Copley medal to Sir Joseph 

 Thomson, O.M., F.E.S., for his discoveries in 

 physical science; the Eumford medal to the 

 Et. Hon. the Lord Eayleigh, O.M., F.E.S., for 

 his numerous researches in optics; the Davy 

 medal to Professor W. J. Pope, F.E.S., for his 

 researches on stereochemistry and on the rela- 



