Mat 26, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



739 



By expenses of Washington office: 

 To salary of permanent 



secretary 1,500.00 



To salary of assistant sec- 

 retary 1,500.00 



To extra help 1,100.23 



To postage 1,308.00 



To office supplies 112.77 



To expressage, telephone 



and telegrams 47.81 5,568.81 



By miscellaneous disbursements: 



To treasurer, life member- 

 ship commutations .... 530.00 



To committee of One Hun- 

 dred on Scientific Re- 

 search 18.80 548.80 



$29,551.42 



By balance to new accoxmt $4,616.04 



$34,167.46 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The late Lady Kelvin has bequeathed to 

 Glasgow University £5,000 for promoting re- 

 search and the teaching of physical science in 

 connection with the chair of natural philos- 

 ophy, long held by Lord Kelvin. The decora- 

 tions and medals conferred on Lord Kelvin 

 are also given to the university. 



The British Chemical Society has decided 

 to publish portraits of the three past presi- 

 dents, Sir Henry Eoscoe, Dr. Hugo Miiller and 

 Professor Eaphael Meldola, who have died dur- 

 ing the past year. The portraits will be suita- 

 ble for framing or for binding with the 

 Journal. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 as corresponding members Professors Lia- 

 pounof, of Petrograd, and C. J. de la Vallee 

 Poussin, of Louvain. 



The Paris Academy of Medicine has elected 

 as foreign associates Professor Hector Treub, 

 of Amsterdam, and Sir Almroth Wright, of 

 London. 



Dr. "Wilhelm Branca, professor of geology 

 at Berlin, has been elected a member of the 

 Academy of Sciences at Halle. 



Dr. George W. Crile, professor of surgery 

 at the Western Eeserve University, received 

 the honorary degree of doctor of letters from 

 Wooster College on May 12. 



Dr. Chas. G. Wagner, superintendent of the 

 State Hospital for the Insane at Binghamton, 



New York, was elected president of the Amer- 

 ican Medico-Psychological Association at the 

 recent New Orleans meeting. 



Harold Winthrop Buck, vice-president of 

 the engineering firm of Viele, Blackwell & 

 Buck, of New York City, has been elected 

 president of the American Institute of Elec- 

 trical Engineers. 



Sir Thomas H. Holland, F.E.S., professor 

 of geology in the University of Manchester, 

 has been appointed chairman of a commission 

 which the British government is forming to 

 survey the economic resources and industrial 

 possibilities of India. 



Dr. H. S. Halloway, Boston, has been ap- 

 pointed state bacteriologist of Alabama. 



W. F. HoRTON, mining technologist of the 

 bureau of mines, has resigned to accept a posi- 

 tion with a steel company. 



Frederick J. H. Merrill, from 1899 until 

 1904 state geologist of New York, from 1905 

 until 1913 consulting geologist and mining 

 engineer in Mexico, Arizona and California, 

 and since 1913 field assistant of the California 

 State Mining Bureau, has moved to Los 

 Angeles, where he will resume consulting prac- 

 tise in geology and mining engineering. 



J. D. Thompson, Jr., assistant in geology at 

 Cornell University, has accepted a position as 

 geologist with an oil company in Oklahoma. 



Professor A. S. Hitchcock, systematic 

 agrostologist of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, will leave about May 28 for Honolulu 

 to study and collect the grasses of the Ha- 

 waiian Islands. He will be accompanied by 

 his son, Albert E. Hitchcock, as assistant. 



Mr. Arthur W. Sampson was at the New 

 York College of Forestry, from May 10 to 12 

 inclusive, holding seminars and lecturing upon 

 grazing in the national forests. Mr. Sampson 

 is plant ecologist in the Forest Service and 

 director of the Utah Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion in central Utah. 



At a meeting of the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences on May 11, Dr. Erwin F. Smith, 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, delivered an 

 illustrated address on " Eesemblances between 

 Crown Gall in Plants and Human Cancer." 



