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to April 1, 1916. A constitution which had 

 been drafted by the organization committee 

 was adopted, and the following officers were 

 elected: President, Professor V. E. Shelford, 

 of the University of Illinois; vice-president. 

 Professor W. M. Wheeler, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity; secretary-treasm-er. Dr. Forrest Shreve, 

 of the Desert Laboratory. The first regular 

 annual meeting will be held in New York 

 during the nest convocation week, where a pro- 

 gram will be arranged in harmony with the 

 programs of other societies, so as to minimize 

 serious conflict. Frequent field meetings will 

 be held under the auspices of the society — four 

 having already been arranged for the coming 

 summer. Several proposals for the carrying 

 out of cooperative investigations are also being 

 entertained by the members of the society. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A BANQUET will be held in commemoration 

 of the one hundredth anniversary of the or- 

 ganization of the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey on April 6, at the new Wil- 

 lard Hotel, Washington, D. C. The speakers 

 will be: the President of the United States, 

 the Swiss minister, the secretary of the navy, 

 the secretary of commerce and Dr. Thomas 

 Corwin Mendenhall. 



The American Chemical Society will hold 

 its annual session at the University of Illinois 

 from April lY to 21. On April 19, in connec- 

 tion with these sessions, the new chemistry 

 building of the university will be dedicated. 

 The equipment for the new laboratory is ar- 

 riving daily and is being installed as rapidly 

 as possible to facilitate the preparation for the 

 dedication of the building. At the dedication 

 exercises Governor Edward F. Dunne will 

 preside and deliver an address. Other ad- 

 dresses will be given by Dr. W. R. Whitney, 

 of the General Electric Company and a mem- 

 ber of the U. S. ITaval Board, and Professor 

 Alexander Smith, of Oolmnbia University, by 

 President James and others. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 will give the evening lecture at the general 



meeting of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety, on the evening of April 14. The sub- 

 ject will be " On Some Disease-bearing In- 

 sects." 



The Avogadro Medal has been awarded to 

 Professor H. IST. Morse, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, for the most important contribu- 

 tion to molecular physics made since the meet- 

 ing held in Turin in 1911, to celebrate the cen- 

 tennial of the announcement of the hypothesis 

 of Avogadro. 



The niinois Academy of Science has elected 

 the following officers for the ensuing year: 

 President, Dr. William B. Trelease, head of 

 the department of botany. University of Illi- 

 nois; Vice-president, Dr. Griffith, of Knox 

 College; Secretary, Dr. J. L. Pricer, of Nor- 

 mal University; Treasurer, Dr. H. S. Pepoon, 

 of the Lakeview High School of Chicago. 



Dr. Hael Schwarzschildt, director of the 

 Astrophysical Observatory at Potsdam, has 

 been given an honorary professorship in the 

 University of Berlin. 



Professor Karl Graebe, professor of chem- 

 istry at Geneva from 1898 to 1910, discoverer 

 with Liebemann of artificial alizarin, has 

 celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. 



Professor 0. C. Glaser has been appointed 

 director of the Biological Station of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. 



The Associated Geological Engineers have 

 opened a New York office in charge of Fred- 

 erick G. Olapp, managing geologist of the pe- 

 troleum division. 



The University of Toronto has granted 

 Velyien E. Henderson, associate professor of 

 pharmacy and pharmacology, leave of absence 

 on his appointment as major in Canadian over- 

 seas expeditionary force. 



Dr. E. W. Olive, curator at the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden, sailed on February 19 for 

 Porto Rico to study and collect parasitic fungi 

 and other plants. 



Mr. and Mrs. Roy Chapman Andrews are 

 leaving on an expedition to southern China to 

 make collections of mammals for the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History. 



