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with an annual appropriation to each of $15,000 

 for conducting investigations and experiments and 

 printing and distributing the results; and further 



Resolved that the committee urges each of the 

 ten thousand members of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science to use all proper 

 efforts to bring the importance of the measure be- 

 fore members of the Congress and to the attention 

 of the public. 



J. MoKeen Cattell, 



June 20, 1916 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. William J. Mayo, of Rochester, Minne- 

 sota, has been elected president of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association, in succession to 

 Surgeon General Rupert Blue, U. S. N. 



Dr. a. B. Macallum, professor of physiol- 

 ogy in the University of Toronto, has been 

 elected president of the Royal Society of 

 Canada. 



Professor William J. Beal, formerly pro- 

 fessor of botany at the Michigan Agricultural 

 College, has received the degree of doctor of 

 agriculture from Syracuse University. 



Three degrees of doctor of laws were con- 

 ferred at the recent commencement exercises of 

 the University of Missouri at Columbia, as 

 follows : Curtis F. Marbut, graduate and 

 former professor of geology in the University 

 of Missouri, now in charge of the national soil 

 survey organized by the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture; Henry Jackson Waters, presi- 

 dent of the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, a graduate and former dean of the agri- 

 cultural faculty of the University of Missouri ; 

 and Roscoe Pound, dean of the Harvard Uni- 

 versity School of Law. 



Professor Edwin 6. Conklin, of Princeton 

 University, will give the William EUery Hale 

 lectures at the autumn meeting of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences. 



Sir Arthur Evans, F.R.S., will preside over 

 the eighty-sixth annual meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 to be held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Septem- 

 ber 9. The following are the presidents of 

 sections : A (mathematical and physical sci- 



ence). Dr. A. N. Whitehead; B (chemistry). 

 Professor G. G. Henderson; C (geology). 

 Professor W. S. Boulton; D (zoology). Pro- 

 fessor E. W. MacBride; E (geography), Mr. 

 D. G. Hogarth; F (economic science and sta- 

 tistics). Professor A. W. Kirkaldy; G (engi- 

 neering), Mr. G. G. Stoney; H (anthropology). 

 Dr. R. R. Marett; I (physiology). Professor 

 A. R. Cushny; K (botany). Dr. A. B. Rendle; 

 L (educational science), Rev. W. Temple; M 

 (agriculture). Dr. E. J. Russell. 



Sir David Prain, director of the Ivew Botan- 

 ical Gardens, has been elected president of the 

 Linnean Society. 



Dr. Emil von Beheing, professor of hygiene 

 at Marburg and director of the Institute of 

 Experimental Therapy, has for reasons of 

 health retired from active service. 



Dr. L. H. Bailey has assembled the ad- 

 dTyg,3es delivered by him as vice-president of 

 Section M (agriculture) of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, which 

 were published in Science, and two others of 

 similar character, and published them privately 

 under the title " Ground Levels in Democ- 

 racy." He oilers to send the booklet free, as 

 long as the supply lasts, to persons interested, 

 upon application to his home address, Ithaca, 

 N. T. 



Professor Herbert E. Gregory, of Tale 

 University, who has been spending the winter 

 in the Australian deserts, has returned to New 

 Haven. 



The International Health Commission of 

 the Rockefeller Foundation sent to Brazil to 

 make a general medical survey of the south- 

 ern part of the country, has returned. The 

 commission consisted of Professor Richard M. 

 Peirce, of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 chairman; Major Bailey K. Ashford, of the 

 U. S. Medical Corps; Dr. John A. Ferrell, of 

 the International Health Commission, and a 

 secretary. They were absent for about four 

 months and the work included a study of the 

 general educational system in Brazil, the med- 

 ical schools, hospitals and dispensaries, and 

 public health organization. 



