July 16, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



87 



S. W. Young (introduced by C. F. Tolman, Jr.), 



"Certain Chemical Factors Governing Secondary 



Enrichment" (45 minutes). 



Inasmuch as tlie secretary of the society is 

 now leaving on an expedition which will keep 

 him out of the country for about three months, 

 requests for further information regarding the 

 summer meeting of the society should he sent 

 to Mr. TafE at the address given above. Addi- 

 tional titles of papers to be presented at the 

 meeting should likewise be sent to him direct. 



The summer meeting of the Paleontological 

 Society will be held at Berkeley and Stanford 

 University in affiliation with the Geological 

 Society on the same dates. Details of the 

 program and excursions may be learned from 

 Dr. E. S. Bassler, TJ. S. National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C, or Dr. J. C. Merriam, 

 Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford 

 University, California. 



The meeting of Section E of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 will be merged in that of the Geological Soci- 

 ety of America. Members of the section are 

 cordially invited to attend the sessions and 

 take part in the open discussions. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Secretary 



American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Eichard H. Creel, of the United States 

 Public Health Service, has, after first declin- 

 ing on account of his health, now accepted the 

 appointment as health commissioner of the city 

 of Boston. 



The American Ambassador to France pre- 

 sented on June 24 the American Geographical 

 Society's gold medal to M. Vidal de Lablache, 

 the distinguished Erench geographer. 



The British Institution of Mining Engi- 

 neers has awarded its medal this year to Dr. 

 J. S. Haldane, E.E.S., in recognition of his 

 work on the causes of death in colliery explo- 

 sions and other subjects connected with mines. 



Professor Milton J. Eosenau, of the Har- 

 vard Medical School, has been elected president 



of the American Society of Tropical Medicine. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Surgical Association held in Eochester, Minn., 

 last month, the following officers were elected: 

 President, Dr. Eobert G. Le Conte, Philadel- 

 phia; vice-presidents, Drs. Charles L. Gibson, 

 New York City, and Archibald MacLaren, St. 

 Paul; secretary, Dr. John H. Gibbon, Phila- 

 delphia; recorder. Dr. John F. Binnie, Kansas 

 City, Mo.; and treasurer, Dr. Charles H. 

 Peck, New York City. The 1916 meeting will 

 be held in Washington. 



Dr. C. Judson Herrick, professor of neurol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago, has been 

 elected president of the honorary scientific 

 society, Sigma Xi, at that institution. Di- 

 rector Edwin Brant Erost, of the Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory, has been elected vice-president. 



Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, of Toronto, was elected 

 president of the Geological Section of the 

 Eoyal Society of Canada at its recent annual 

 meeting. 



The Alabama Polytechnic Institute has con- 

 ferred the degree of doctor of science upon 

 Altus Lacy Quaintance, in charge of deciduous 

 fruit insect investigations in the U. S. Bu- 

 reau of Entomology. Dr. Quaintance was at 

 one time a student at this institution taking 

 his master's degree there. This is the first 

 doctorate of science conferred by the institu- 

 tion. 



The honorary degree of doctor of laws has 

 been conferred by the University of Cambridge 

 on Professor G. B. Mathews, E.E.S., formerly 

 fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and 

 on Dr. G. S. Middleton, president of the Asso- 

 ciation of Physicians of Great Britain and 

 Ireland. 



At Cambridge University the Wiltshire 

 prize in geology and mineralogy has been 

 awarded to Mr. D. B. Briggs, of Jesus College. 

 The Frank Smart prize in botany has been 

 awarded to Mr. E. J. Maskell, Emmanuel Col- 

 lege, and that in zoology to Mr. L. T. Hogben, 

 of Trinity College. 



Professor E. B. Poulton has been elected 

 president of the Linnean Society. 



