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will be held at the Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Eesearch at La Jolla, near San 

 Diego, from June 26 to August 5. The Marine 

 Biological Station of the University of South- 

 ern California at Venice and the Laguna 

 Beach Marine Laboratory of Pomona College 

 will also be open throughout the summer. At 

 Pacific Grove on Monterey Bay the Marine 

 Laboratory of Stanford University will be 

 open during the greater part of the summer, 

 and will offer a summer session which will 

 begin May 22, continuing for six weeks. 



The general plans for the San Diego meet- 

 ing are in the hands of the officers and execu- 

 tive committee of the division, which are as 

 follows : 



President, W. W. Campbell, Lick Observatory, 

 Mount Hamilton, California. 



Vice-president, D. T. MacDougal, Desert Botan- 

 ical Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona. 



Secretary-Treasurer, Albert L. Barrows, Univer- 

 sity of California, Berkeley. 



Executive Committee: D. T. MacDougal, chair- 

 man, Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Ari- 

 zona; W. W. Campbell, ex-officio, Lick Observa- 

 tory, Mount Hamilton, California; Edward C. 

 PranklLn, Stanford University, California; Theo- 

 dore C. Frye, University of Washington, Seattle; 

 C. E. Grunsty, San Francisco, California; George 

 E. Hale, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasa- 

 dena, California; Vernon L. Kellogg, Stanford 

 University, California; A. C. Lawson, University 

 of California, Berkeley; E. P. Lewis, University of 

 California, Berkeley. 



Plans for meetings in special branches of 

 science are in charge of the societies represent- 

 ing these several branches and the arrange- 

 ments at San Diego are to be made for the 

 meeting by a local committee of which Dr. 

 Fred Baker, of Point Loma, is the chairman. 

 Railroad and steamer rates for attendance at 

 this meeting will be announced later. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. John A. Beashear, president of the 

 American Society for Mechanical Engineers, 

 was given the doctorate of laws at the Charter 

 Day exercises of the University of Pittsburgh 

 on March 20. On the evening of that day, a 

 dinner was held in honor of the late Samuel 



P. Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Iq- 

 stitution and previously director of the Alle- 

 gheny Observatory. The speakers included 

 Dr. John A. Brashear and Dr. J. "W. Holland. 



We learn from Nature that a committee rep- 

 resentative of British geologists and friends of 

 Sir Archibald Geikie has presented to the Mu- 

 seum of Practical Geology a marble bust. On 

 March 14, a number of Sir Archibald Geikie's 

 friends assembled in the museum to witness 

 the presentation. Dr. A. Strahan, director of 

 the Geological Survey and Museum, briefly 

 recapitulated the history of the movement. 

 Sir William Garforth unveiled the bust and 

 spoke of Sir Archibald's contributions to sci- 

 ence and literature, and then, on behalf of the 

 subscribers, presented the bust to the museum. 

 The Eight Hon. J. Herbert Lewis accepted the 

 gift on behalf of the Board of Education; lie 

 remarked that it was a source of gratification 

 to the board that the artist commissioned to 

 execute the bust happened to be another of its 

 distinguished servants, Professor E. Lanteri, 

 who had done so much to uphold the stand- 

 ards of the Eoyal Collge of Art. The Eight 

 Hon. Lord Eayleigh then, on behaK of the 

 subscribers, presented to Sir A. Geikie a 

 marble replica of the bust. In acknowledging 

 his appreciation of the gift, Sir Archibald 

 spoke of the powerful effect the Museum of 

 Practical Geology had had upon him in his 

 early student days, and of the great educa- 

 tional value of its collections. 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh has elected 

 feUows as follows : Dr. E. J. T. Bell, Dr. F. E. 

 Bradley, Mr. H. Briggs, Mr. C. T. Clough, 

 Dr. E. J. Crombie, Mr. E. H. Cunningham 

 Craig, Dr. A. W. Gibb, the Hon. Lord Guthrie, 

 Professor P. T. Herring, Sir Duncan A. John- 

 ston, Mr. H. Levy, Dr. J. E. Mackenzie, Dr. 

 W. F. P. M'Lintock, Professor E. Muir, Dr. 

 J. Eitchie, Mr. D. Eonald, the Hon. Lord E. 

 T. Salvesen, Mr. D. E. Steuart, Mr. J. Martin 

 White. 



Professor Ludwig Becker, a native of Ger- 

 many, at the desire of the secretary for Scot- 

 land, has withdrawn from the chair of astron- 

 omy in the University of Glasgow. 



