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tween Asia and the New World : and the social 

 aspects of race factors in the Pacific area. 



Two general topics will be considered in the 

 agricultural sessions: The relation of agri- 

 culture to the food supply of the country, and 

 problems of agricultural conservation. In the 

 treatment of these topics sessions will be de- 

 voted to problems of animal production, nutri- 

 tion, agronomy, soil analysis, general problems 

 of agricultural chemistry and progress in 

 horticultural science. 



Papers upon any of these subjects are cor- 

 dially invited from all members of the Ameri- 

 can Association and of societies participating 

 in these meetings. Contributions of important 

 work in any other lines of research will also 

 be welcomed and will be included in the 

 programs in so far as time will permit. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The present number of Science completes 

 the fortieth volume and the twentieth year of 

 the journal under the present editorship. 

 Science was established in 1883 by Dr. A. 

 Graham Bell and Gardiner G. Hubbard. The 

 president of the board of directors was D. C. 

 Gilman, the vice-president, Simon ISTewcomb 

 and the editor S. H. Scudder. In 1900 Science 

 became the official organ of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 and its membership has since increased from 

 1,721 to over 8,000. The journal has witnessed 

 and to a certain extent assisted the remark- 

 able advance in scientific research which has 

 taken place in America in the course of the 

 past forty years. 



At a joint session of the physiological, bio- 

 chemical, pharmacological and pathological 

 societies, meeting at St. Louis, on December 

 28, papers will be presented in memory of S. 

 Weir Mitchell, by Professor Edward T. Eeich- 

 ert. University of Pennsylvania, and of 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot, by Professor Fred- 

 eric S. Lee, Columbia University. 



Professor Edward S. Morse, director of 

 the Peabody Museum, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, succeeding the late Professor Charles 

 Sedgwick Minot. 



Propessoe George Quincke, the distin- 

 guished physicist of the University of Heidel- 

 berg, has celebrated his eightieth birthday. 



Dr. James Withycombe, who was director 

 of the Oregon Agricultural College for nearly 

 fourteen years, will soon enter upon his new 

 duties as governor of Oregon, to which office 

 he was recently elected by an unprecedented 

 majority. 



At the annual meeting of the trustees of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington there 

 were elected as trustees Senator Henry Cabot 

 Lodge, of Massachusetts; Dr. George Wharton 

 Pepper, of Philadelphia, formerly professor of 

 law in the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. 

 Theobold Smith, who has resigned the chair 

 of comparative pathology at Harvard Univer- 

 sity to become a member of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research, and Mr. 

 Charles Payne Eenner, of Louisiana. Dr. 

 Simon Plexner, director of the laboratories of 

 the Rockefeller Institute, has resigned as a 

 trustee of the Carnegie Institution. 



The statement regarding the award of the 

 Hayden Memorial gold medal by the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, in 

 Science for December 18 requires a correc- 

 tion. After the modification of the deed of 

 trust in 1900, the first gold medal was given 

 to Sir Archibald Geikie, in 1902, the second 

 to Dr. Charles Walcott in 1905, the third to 

 Dr. John Mason Clarke in 1908, and the 

 fourth to Dr. John Casper Branner in 1911. 



At its last meeting, the Rumf ord Committee 

 of the American Academy made the following 

 appropriations: For the purchase of a refrig- 

 erating apparatus for the academy, the same 

 to be loaned to Professor C. A. Kraus for his 

 research on solutions in liquid ammonia, $300. 

 For the purchase of a motor generator for the 

 academy, the same to be loaned to Dr. H. P. 

 Hollnagel for his research on the extreme 

 infra-red portion of the spectrum, $300. 



The National Society for the Promotion of 

 Industrial Education, at its recent meeting 

 at Richmond, has elected the following offi- 

 cers: President, WiUiam C. Redfield, secre- 

 tary of commerce; Vice-president, Cheesman 

 A. Herrick, president of Girard College; 



