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scientific societies and institutions of repre- 

 sentative cooperating committees, and, if pos- 

 sible, to arrange for tlie establishment of such 

 committees. 



It was further voted that the executive com- 

 mittee invite each local member to contribute 

 the sum of $5 toward the general expenses of 

 the Convocation Week meetings. It was voted 

 to recommend to the executive committee that 

 Columbia University be the general head- 

 quarters of the meetings. The action of the 

 executive committee appointing Mr. J. McKeen 

 Cattell as local secretary was confirmed by 

 Tote. Finally it was voted to recommend to 

 the executive committee that a reception com- 

 mittee be formed, to consist of both men and 

 women, for the arrangement of such social 

 activities as may be deemed desirable. 



The meeting adjourned at 6.15 p.m. 



Henry E. Crampton, 



Acting Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Royal Society has elected as foreign 

 members: Prince Boris Galitzin, head of 

 the Eussian Meteorological Service; Dr. C. L. 

 A. Laveran, of Paris, discoverer of the ma- 

 larial parasite; Dr. Johan Hjort, director of 

 Iforwegian Fisheries; Professor Jules Bordet, 

 the bacteriologist of the University of Brus- 

 sels, and Professor H. Kamerlingh-Onnes, pro- 

 fessor of physics at Leyden. 



Although obituary notices of Ivan P. Paw- 

 low, the distinguished Russian physiologist, 

 have been printed in the Journal of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association, The Lancet, Das 

 Umschau and other journals, it was noted in 

 Science that there may have been confusion 

 with E. W. Pawlow, court surgeon, who died 

 in St. Petersburg on February 11. The Rus- 

 sian Embassy confii-ms the death of E. W. 

 Pawlow, but can give no information concern- 

 ing Ivan P. Pawlow. Dr. Francis G. Bene- 

 dict now writes us that a letter from Madam. 

 Pawlow to Mrs. Benedict, received on May 4, 

 and postmarked March 28, states that her hus- 

 band had not been quite well through the 

 winter. There is thus good reason to believe 

 that the report of his death is incorrect. 



Professor W. S. Thayer, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, gave the presidential ad- 

 dress before the Congress of American Physi- 

 cians at Washington, on May 9, his subject 

 being " Teaching and Practise." We hope to 

 have the privilege of printing this address in 

 the next issue of Science. 



The trustees of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity announce that the ninth course of lec- 

 tures on the Herter Foundation will be given 

 by Dr. Theobald Smith, director of the de- 

 partment of animal pathology, the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research, on May 11, 

 12 and 15. The subject is " The Relation of 

 Infectious and Immunizing Processes to the 

 General Phenomenon of Parasitism." 



Sir Almroth Wright, London, has been 

 elected a foreign associate of the Paris 

 Academic de Medecine. 



Dr. Giuseppe Sergi, professor of anthropol- 

 ogy in the University of Rome, has completed 

 his seventy-fifth year. In honor of the occa- 

 sion the Roman Anthropological Society has 

 decided to publish a volume of memoirs. 



At the annual meeting of the Iron and Steel 

 Institute, on May 4, the Bessemer gold medal 

 for 1916 was presented to Mr. F. W. Harbord. 



The Howard Taylor Rieketts prize for re- 

 search work done by students in the depart- 

 ments of pathology and bacteriology of the 

 University of Chicago, which is awarded each 

 year on May 3, the anniversary of Dr. Rick- 

 etts's death from typhus fever, has this year 

 been awarded to Oscar J. Elsesser. 



The Walker prize of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons (£100) has been awarded to Mr. W. 

 S. Handley, of the Middlesex Hospital Cancer 

 Research Laboratory, for his work on cancer. 



At the annual meeting of the Marine Bio- 

 logical Association of the United Kingdom in 

 the rooms of the Royal Society on April 12, 

 Sir E. Ray Lankester was reelected president, 

 and Dr. A. E. Shipley, chairman of council. 



Captain E. F. Dickins, former head of the 

 New York office of the United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, has been placed in 

 charge of the San Francisco office as the suc- 

 cessor of Captain Ferdinand Westdahl. 



