December 11, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



847 



THE PHILADELPHIA MEETING 



The local oommittee for tlie Philadelphia 

 meeting of the American Association make 

 the following announcements: 



The hotels are either near the center of the 

 city or in close proximity to the University of 

 Pennsylvania. The headquarters of the asso- 

 ciation will be the Hotel Adelphia, 13th and 

 Chestnut Streets, two blocks distant from both 

 the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia & Reading 

 Eailroads. The Adelphia is the newest and 

 most modern hotel in Philadelphia. Members 

 are urged to make hotel reservations as early 

 as possible. 



The meetings of the association will be held 

 at the University of Pennsylvania in West 

 Philadelphia, ten minutes by trolley from the 

 center of the city. The university can be 

 reached by taking cars, route 13, on Walnut 

 Street, one block south of the association head- 

 quarters, or cars route 11 or 34 on the subway 

 surface lines on Market Street, one block 

 north. Persons arriving on the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad and desiring to go directly to the 

 University of Pennsylvania or to hotels near 

 the university should get off at West Philadel- 

 phia Station, six minutes' walk to the univer- 

 sity. 



The Houston Club, Spruce Street near 34th 

 Street, has been designated as the association 

 headquarters at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. This building is the geographical center 

 of the university and all meetings of the 

 association will be held in university build- 

 ings within a radius of two blocks from this 

 point. The privileges of the club are extended 

 to all of the members of the association and 

 affiliated societies. Mail may be addressed 

 here. 



The general meeting of the association wiU 

 be held in Weightman Hall, gymnasium of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, 33d and Spruce 

 Streets, on Monday evening, December 28, 

 at 8 o'clock. 



Luncheon will be served in the gymnasium, 

 daily at one o'clock, during the convention, 

 and all in attendance are cordially invited. 



The provost of the University of Pennsyl- 



vania will give a reception to the members of 

 the association in the university museum im- 

 mediately after the address of President Wilson. 



Placards of the university campus will indi- 

 cate meeting places of the various sections. 



The Geological and Paleontological Society 

 will hold its meeting at the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, 19th and Race Streets. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The De Morgan medal of the London 

 Mathematical Society was presented at its 

 annual meeting to Sir Joseph Larmor in rec- 

 ognition of his researches in mathematical 

 physics. 



Professor H. F. Newall has been elected 

 president of the Cambridge Philosophical So- 

 ciety. The vice-presidents are Dr. E. W. 

 Barnes, Dr. A. C. Seward and Dr. A. E. Ship- 

 ley. 



Professor Wilhelm Erb, the distinguished- 

 neurologist of Heidelberg, has celebrated the 

 fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. 



President Charles Richard Van Hise, of 

 the University of Wisconsin, will be the con- 

 vocation orator at the University of Chicago. 



Professor Robert M. Terkes, who on the 

 invitation of the authorities of the German 

 Anthropoid Station at Orotava, Tenerife, had 

 planned to spend the greater part of the year 

 1915 at the station in an experimental study 

 of the chimpanzee and orang-outang, has been 

 forced to abandon his plan because of the con- 

 dition of war in Europe. He will instead con- 

 duct his investigations during the spring and 

 summer of 1915 at Montecito, California, in 

 conjunction with Dr. G. V. Hamilton, in the 

 latter's private laboratory. Erom February 

 to October, 1915, Professor Terkes may be ad- 

 dressed at Santa Barbara, California. 



Professor J. C. Bose, of Calcutta, known 

 for his work in plant physiology, is in thia 

 country. He is to be in the east until Jan- 

 uary 11, on which date he addresses the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, and before which 

 time he will speak at various universities and 

 to scientific bodies. During the latter part of 



