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the post of fellow in cytology in the medical 

 school, Western Eeserve University. Pro- 

 fessor Van der Stricht will devote his time to 

 research. 



The Perkin medal of the Society of Chem- 

 ical Industry will be presented to Dr. L. H. 

 Baekeland on the evening of January 21 at a 

 meeting held at Rumford Hall, the Chemists' 

 Club, New York City. The address of pres- 

 entation will be made by Dr. Charles P. 

 Chandler, senior American past-president of 

 the Society of Chemical Industry. 



At the fifteenth annual meeting of the 

 American Philosophical Association held at the 

 University of Pennsylvania on December 2S, 

 29 and 30, in honor of Professor Josiah Eoyce, 

 of Harvard University, and, in celebration of 

 his sixtieth birthday, the afternoon session on 

 Tuesday and morning session of Wednesday 

 were devoted to the reading and discussion of 

 papers on his philosophy. The speakers at 

 these sessions were Drs. John Dewey, H. H. 

 Home, R. C. Cabot, J. W. Hudson, M. W. Cal- 

 kins, E. G. Spaulding, W. H. Sheldon, E. E. 

 Southard and C. M. Bakewell. At the annual 

 banquet on Wednesday evening the guest of 

 honor was Professor Royce, who made the only 

 address. 



At the two hundred and ninety-first regular 

 meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington the constitution was amended so 

 as to permit the election of an honorary presi- 

 dent, such ofiice to be tendered only to active 

 members who have been especially prominent 

 in the affairs of the society and to convey with 

 it expressions of gratitude, respect and honor. 

 After creating this office, the society elected 

 unanimously Mr. E. A. Schwarz as first honor- 

 ary president. Mr. Schwarz was one of the 

 charter members of the society, has held the 

 ofS.ce of president for two terms, vice-president 

 for a mmiber of terms and secretary for a 

 number of terms and has taken an active in- 

 terest in the affairs of the society. He has 

 attended every meeting of the society when he 

 has been in Washington, has contributed 

 greatly to its financial support and has enter- 

 tained the society more than any other mem- 



ber. He is an internationally recognized 

 authority on Coleoptera and has contributed 

 materially to the advancement of his favorite 

 group and also to the general science of 

 entomology. 



At the seventh annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Phytopathological Society, held at Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, from December 28 to 31, the follow- 

 ing ofiicers were elected : President, Dr. Erwin 

 P. Smith, Bureau of Plant Industry, Wash- 

 ington, D. C; Vice-president, Dr. Mel. T. 

 Cook, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, New Brunswick, !N". J.; Secretary- 

 Treasurer, Dr. C. L. Shear, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Washington, D. C; Councilor, Dr. 

 P. D. Kern, Pennsylvania State College, State 

 College, Pa. Dr. E. C. Stakman, Minnesota 

 Agricultural College, Minneapolis, Minn., was 

 elected a member of council vice Dr. Mel. T. 

 Cook. Dr. W. A. Orton was elected one of the 

 chief editors of Phytopathology, and Professor 

 H. T. Gussow, Dr. C. W. Edgerton, Dr. E. C. 

 Stakman and Dr. V. B. Stewart were elected 

 associate editors. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Anthropological Association held in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, December 27-31, the following 

 ofiicers were elected for the year 1916 : Presi- 

 dent, F. W. Hodge, Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, Washington, D. C; Secretary, 

 George Grant MacCurdy, Tale University, 

 New Haven, Conn.; Treasurer, Neil M. Judd, 

 U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C; 

 Editor, Pliny E. Goddard, American Museima 

 of Natural History, New York, N. Y. 



Dean Haskell, of the college of civil engi- 

 neering of Cornell University, has been ap- 

 pointed a member of a board of consulting 

 engineers which is to advise State Engineer 

 Williams about the work of completing the 

 New York barge canal. 



The directors of the port of Boston have 

 requested Professor C. M. Spofford, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to act 

 with Mr. Guy C. Emerson and the engineer of 

 the board, Mr. P. W. Hodgdon, as consulting 

 engineers on the construction of the great 

 new dry dock. Already the port directors had 



