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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Members of the ISTational Academy of Sci- 

 ences have been elected, as follows : Gregory 

 Paul Baxter, professor of chemistry. Harvard 

 University; Gilbert Ames Bliss, professor of 

 mathematics, University of Chicago; Marston 

 Taylor Bogert, professor of organic chemistry, 

 Coliunbia University; Otto Folin, professor of 

 biological chemistry. Harvard Medical School; 

 Leland Ossian Howard, chief of the Bureau of 

 Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture; 

 Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene, member in 

 biological chemistry, Rockefeller Institute; 

 Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, director of the 

 department of marine biology, Carnegie Insti- 

 tution; Eaymond Pearl, head of the depart- 

 ment of biology, Maine Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station; Frank Schlesinger, director of 

 the Allegheny Observatory, University cif 

 Pittsburgh. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Philosophical Society, members were elected, 

 as follows : "William Wallace Atterbuxy, rail- 

 way engineer, Philadelphia; Maxime Bocher, 

 professor of mathematics. University of Chi- 

 cago; Percy Williams Bridgeman, professor 

 of physics. Harvard University; James Mason 

 Crafts, professor emeritus of organic chemis- 

 try, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 

 Henry Piatt Cushing, professor of geology, 

 Adalbert College, Western Reserve Univer- 

 sity; Edward Murray East, professor of ex- 

 perimental plant pathology, Bussey Institu- 

 tion, Harvard University ; Frank Rattray 

 LiUie, professor of embryology. University of 

 Chicago; William E. Lingelbach, professor of 

 modern history, University of Pennsylvania; 

 Daniel Trembly MacDougal, director of the 

 department of botanical research, Carnegie 

 Institution; Charles Frederick Marvin, di- 

 rector of the U. S. Weather Bureau; Lafayette 

 Benedict Mendel, professor of physiological 

 chemistry, Yale University; Forest Ray 

 Moulton, professor of astronomy. University 

 of Chicago; Eli Kirk Price; Erwin Frink 

 Smith, pathologist in charge, laboratory of 

 plant pathology, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture; William Morton Wheeler, professor of 

 economic entomology, Bussey Institution, Har- 



vard University. Foreign residents were 

 elected as follows : Frank Dawson Adams, pro- 

 fessor of geology, McGill University ; Wilhelm 

 L. Johannsen, director of the plant physio- 

 logical laboratories. University of Copen- 

 hagen; Joannes Diderik van der Waals, pro- 

 fessor of mathematical physics. University of 

 Amsterdam. 



The board of directors of the Hospital for 

 Deformities and Joint Diseases announces that 

 a dinner will be given to Dr. Abraham Jacobi 

 at the Ritz Carleton Hotel on May 3. Dr. 

 Levi Strauss is chairman of the dinner com- 

 mittee. 



Professor Antonio Berlese, of Rome, and 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, of Washington, have been 

 elected to honorary fellowship in the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London to fill the vacancies 

 caused by the deaths of J. H. Fabre and 

 Brunner von Wattenwyl. 



Dr. Arthur D. Little, of Boston, has been 

 placed in charge of the organization of a Ca- 

 nadian Research Bureau in Montreal which 

 will aim to coordinate the work of scientific 

 men and experts engaged in research work in 

 all parts of the Dominion. 



Dr. J. C. Cain has been appointed chief 

 chemist of the British Dyes, Ltd., at present 

 under construction at Dalton, Huddersfield. 



Dr. Charles G. Wagner, superintendent of 

 the Binghamton, IST. T., State Hospital for the 

 Insane, was elected president of the American 

 Medico-Psychological Association, at the 

 seventy-second annual meeting held in N^ew 

 Orleans, on April 5. 



Dr. James V. May, head of the N'ew York 

 State Hospital Commission, was recently ap- 

 pointed superintendent of the Grafton, Mass., 

 State Colony for the Insane, succeeding Dr. 

 H. Louis Stick, whose resignation was ac- 

 cepted in March. 



Mr. Carl Whiting Bishop, of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania Museum, has returned to 

 Pekin after three months of exploration in 

 Szechuen province. Mr. Bishop was at 

 Chengtu, the capital of Szechuen province, 

 and traveled some distance northwest from 



