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[N. S Vol. XLII. No. 1078 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Society of Zoologists will 

 meet from December 28 to December 31, inclu- 

 sive, at the State University of Ohio, Colum- 

 bus, simultaneously with the meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



Officers of the American Astronomical 

 Society were elected at the Pacific Coast Meet- 

 ing as follows : 



President, Edward C. Pickering. 



First Vice-president, W. W. Campbell. 



Second Vice-president, Frank Schlesinger. 



Secretary, Philip Pox. 



Treasurer, Miss Annie J. Cannon. 



Councillors, W. S. Eielielberger, J. S. Plaskett, 

 E. B. Prost, Joel Stebbins. 



The Swiss Society of the Natural Sciences, 

 the national association for the advancement 

 of science, meets this year at Geneva, from 

 September 12 to 15. It is the ninety-seventh 

 annual meeting of the society and the hun- 

 dredth anniversary of its foundation, but in 

 view of the existing circumstances this anni- 

 versary will be celebrated in only a simple 

 way, and the usual invitations to foreign sci- 

 entific societies and scientific men are this 

 year omitted. The papers before the general 

 sessions, partly in French and partly in Ger- 

 man, are as follows : " New Light in the Inves- 

 tigation of the Jura Mountains," by Professor 

 A. Heim, of Zurich ; " Results of Forty Years 

 of Measurements of the Glacier of the Rhone," 

 by Professor E. L. Mercanton, of Lausanne; 

 " An Archipelago of the Pacific," by Dr. Fritz 

 Sarasin, of Basle ; and " The International 

 Phyto-geographic Excursion through North 

 America," by Dr. E. Riibel, of Zurich. 



Ohaeles Lee Crandall, professor of railway 

 engineering and geodesy in the college of civil 

 engineering of Cornell University, from which 

 institution he graduated in the first class and 

 where he became a teacher in 1872, has retired 

 from active service. Both the university fac- 

 ulty and the trustees have passed resolutions 

 in appreciation of his services to the univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. Albert C. Seward, professor of botany 

 in the University of Cambridge, has been 



elected master of Downing College, in succes- 

 sion to the late Professor Howard Marsh. 



The Moxon gold medal of the Royal College 

 of Physicians has been awarded to Professor 

 J. J. Dejerine, and the Baly gold medal to Dr. 

 F. Gowland Hopkins. 



The Munich School of Technology has con- 

 ferred its doctorate of engineering on Dr. von 

 Brill, professor of mathematics at Tiibingen, 

 and on Dr. Schwager, of the Geological Sur- 

 vey. 



Dr. M. Standfuss and Dr. A. Querbain have 

 been made honorary professors in the Univer- 

 sity of Zurich, the former in entomology, the 

 latter in meteorology. 



Dr. Ernst Schmidt, professor of pharmaco- 

 logical chemistry at Marburg, has celebrated 

 his seventieth birthday. 



Professor Behal has been made director of 

 a department for the study of questions of 

 chemical manufacture with special reference 

 to the war, established by the French ministry 

 of commerce in the Paris School of Pharmacy. 



Dr. Jakob von Weyrauch, professor of engi- 

 neering in the Stuttgart School of Technol- 

 ogy, has retired from active service. 



An action was brought in the Chancery Di- 

 vision by Professor Arthur Schuster, one of 

 the secretaries of the Royal Society, against 

 the publishers and printer of Pearson's Weekly, 

 in respect of an article suggesting that Pro- 

 fessor Schuster's private wireless apparatus 

 was discovered and " seized." Defendants 

 offered an ample apology, paid the costs, and 

 gave fifty guineas to the Red Cross funds. 



Professor E. L. Nichols, of the department 

 of physics of Cornell University, who has leave 

 of absence for the first term of the coming 

 year, will spend that period in the far east. 



Dr. a. J. Herbertson, of Wadham College, 

 Oxford, professor of geography in the univer- 

 sity, and well known for his contributions to 

 geography and meteorology, died on July 31, 

 at the age of fifty years. 



Dr. Edmund Owen, a London surgeon who 

 had made contributions to surgery and anat- 

 omy, died on July 23. 



