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gram of condolence to tlie president of the 

 "University of Illinois. On motion, such 

 nomination as the sectional committee of Sec- 

 tion 6 may make to fill the vacancy caused by 

 this death shall be final. 



A discussion followed with regard to the 

 arrangements for the New York meeting. It 

 was moved and carried that a committee con- 

 sisting of Messrs. Charles Baskerville, 1^. L. 

 Britton, J. McK. Cattell, Simon Flexner, 

 M. I. Pupin, Henry F. Osborn, J. J. Steven- 

 son and Edmund B. Wilson, be appointed an 

 executive committee to make the !N"ew York 

 arrangements. 



The report of the committee on the admin- 

 istration of the Colburn will fund was sub- 

 mitted by Professor Pickering. On motion, it 

 was moved to refer the report back to the com- 

 mittee for revision to include the administra- 

 tion of all research funds of the association, to 

 add Messrs. A. A. Noyes and W. B. Camion to 

 the committee, and to make a final report to 

 the committee on policy at its next meeting in 

 iNovember. It was suggested further that it 

 might be well to refer the first draft of the 

 report by mail to the members of the com- 

 mittee on policy. 



At 10.25 P.M., the committee adjourned. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 HiLGAED Hall has been selected as the name 

 for the new agricultural building being built 

 by the University of California, in honor of 

 the late Eugene "Woldemar Hilgard, for a gen- 

 eration professor of agriculture and dean of 

 the college of agriculture of the University of 

 California. 



At the meeting of the Franklin Institute, 

 Philadelphia, on May 17, Franklin medals will 

 be presented to Professor Theodore William 

 Eichards, director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memo- 

 rial Laboratory, Harvard University, and to 

 John J. Carty, chief engineer of the American 

 Telephone and Telegraph Company. The 

 Elliott Cresson medal will be presented to the 

 American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 

 Theodore !N". Vail, president. Addresses will 

 be made by Professor Richards on " The Fun- 

 damental Properties of the Elements," by Mr. 



Carty on "The Telephone Art" and by Mr. 

 Vail. 



H. H. Stoek, professor of mining engineer- 

 ing in the University of Hlinois, has been ap- 

 pointed by Governor Dimne, of Illinois, as a 

 member of the commission authorized to con- 

 sider legislation concerning mines. 



The Mary Putnam Jacobi Memorial Fellow- 

 ship has been awarded to Dr. Mildred Clark, 

 Johns Hopkins, 1914, who will use the fellow- 

 ship for research work in medical bacteriology 

 with Dr. Theodore C. Janeway at the Johns 

 Hopkins Hospital. 



Dr. Alvin Powell has been appointed 

 physician for men and roentgenologist in the 

 infirmary of the University of California. 



The position of horticultixrist to the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden has been filled by the 

 appointment of Mr. Alexander Lurie. Mr. 

 Lxirie is a graduate of Cornell University, and 

 has been in charge of greenhouses and in- 

 structor in floriculture, in the University of 

 Maine. 



Professor A. L. Kroeber, head of the de- 

 partment of anthropology in the University of 

 California, is spending the present academic 

 year in ISTew York City as a guest of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of ISTatural History. 



Because of iU health. Professor A. Fraenkel 

 retired from the directorship of the Eranken- 

 haus am Urban in Berlin, on April 1. He is 

 succeeded by Professor A. Plehn, who has been 

 the physician in chief of the medical division 

 for the past thirteen years. Most of his time 

 Ivas been devoted to the study of tropical dis- 

 eases and diseases of the blood. 



Dr. William Palmer Lucas, professor of 

 pediatrics, University of California, has gone 

 to Belgium for relief work in connection with 

 the infants' and children's dietetic problems 

 which have arisen there. 



Me. Shoitsu Hotta, assistant professor of 

 forestry at the Tokyo Imperial University, has 

 entered the Yale School of Forestry. Mr. 

 Hotta wiU be in the United States for a period 

 of two years. 



