June 9, 1916 



SCIENCE 



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to secure special certificates when purcliasing 

 their tickets to San Diego, paying one full fare 

 from the point of departure to San Diego. 

 These certificates when signed by the secretary 

 of the Pacific Division and by a railway repre- 

 sentative at San Diego will entitle the holder 

 to a return ticket upon the payment of one 

 third of the regular fare, plus the validation fee 

 of fifty cents. 



Tickets will be on sale in California, Ari- 

 zona, Utah and Nevada from August 7 to 15, 

 inclusive, and in Oregon, Washington, Idaho 

 and British Columbia from August 2 to 11, in- 

 clusive. Tickets will be honored for return 

 from August 9 to 17, inclusive. 



Visitors attending the San Diego meeting 

 from the north may include a trip to the 

 Tosemite Valley on either portion of the trip 

 by choosing a route over the San Joaquin 

 Valley lines of the Southern Pacific or Santa 

 Pe Railways. Transfer from the main lines 

 is made at Merced and the additional cost of 

 the trip from Merced to the Tosemite Valley, 

 including automobile transportation from the 

 end of the railroad at El Portal into the 

 Valley, is $18.50. If the trip is extended to 

 the Wawona and Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, 

 the charge is $33.50, and if by way of Glacier 

 Point, $37.50. 



One fare rates to San Diego have been 

 quoted as follows : 



Los Angeles $3.75 



Tucson 23.20 



Salt Lake City, via San Francisco 43.85 



via Salt Lake Route 34.35 



Eeno 22.20 



San Francisco 16.80 



Portland 34.70 



Seattle 40.30 



Vancouver 44.55 



Moscow 45.80 



Special exposition rates have been made 

 from points in Utah to San Diego, direct or by 

 way of San Francisco, over lines of the San 

 Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railway 

 Salt Lake Route. Full information concern- 

 ing these rates may be secured from local 



good for thirty days, $17.00, including berth and 

 meals; from Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Van- 

 couver to San Diego and return, round trip good 

 for thirty days, $53.00, including berth and meals. 



By the Pacific Navigation Company, from San 

 Praueiseo to San Diego, round trip tickets on sale 

 from June 1 to September 30, good for ninety 

 days, return date not later than October 31, $12.50, 

 berth and meals extra. 



By the Great Northern Pacific Steamship Com- 

 pany, from Portland to San Francisco by steamer 

 and from San Francisco to San Diego by rail, one 

 way fare, $31.70 ; return ticket in conjunction with 

 railway rate, authorized on receipt certificate plan, 

 $14.70. 



Steamship rates have been quoted as follows : 



By the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, round 

 trip from San Francisco to San Diego and return, 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The fourteenth annual session of the South 

 African Association for the Advancement of 

 Science will be held at Maritzburg on July 3 

 to 8, inclusive, under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor L. Crawford, professor of mathematics. 

 South African College, Cape Town. 



On May 20 the former students and friends 

 of Professor Gage gave him a complimentary 

 dinner on his sixty-fifth birthday. The dinner 

 was attended by more than 100, including sev- 

 eral of his former students from out of the 

 city. A large number of letters and telegrams 

 of congratulation were received from those un- 

 able to attend. At this dinner a fund was pre- 

 sented to the university for the purpose of 

 establishing at Cornell University a Simon 

 Henry Gage Fellowship in Animal Biology in 

 honor of Professor Gage. 



A COMPLIMENTARY dinner was given to Dr. 

 S. J. Meltzer, at the Chemists Club on May 15, 

 by a group of friends and associates. The 

 speakers at the occasion were Drs. Haven 

 Emerson, W. J. Gies, H. 0. Jackson, Frederic 

 S. Lee, Jacques Loeb, Graham Lusk, L. B. 

 Mendel, T. H. Morgan and E. B. Wilson. 



A COMPLIMENTARY dinner was extended to 

 Dr. Daniel W. Hering, professor of physics and 

 dean of the graduate school of New York Uni- 

 versity by his colleagues of the faculties of the 

 college of pure arts and sciences, the school of 

 applied science and the graduate school on 

 May 29 at the Hotel Manhattan. Dean Hering 

 retires in June. 



