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iS. A. Barrett, of the Milwaukee Public Museum. 



George A. Dorsey, of the Field Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. 



Arthur C. Parker, of the Museum of the State of 

 New York. 



C. F. Lummis, of the Southwest Museum, Los 

 Angeles. 



George Grant MacCurdy, of the Tale University 

 Museum. 



John E. Swanton, of the Anthropological Society 

 of Washington. 



T. Mitchell Prudden, of the American Ethnolog- 

 ical Society, New York. 



Clark Wissler, of the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, New York. 



Pliny E. Goddard, of the American Polk-Lore 

 Society. 



Waldo Lincoln, of the American Antiquarian So- 

 ciety. 



Sylvanus G. Morley, of the Carnegie Institution. 



Edgar L. Hewett, of the School of American 

 Archeology. 



H. M. Whelpley, of the Missouri Historical So- 

 ciety. 



J. C. Branner, of Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity. 



Mr. W. C. Mills, of the Ohio State University. 



For this section some of the most distin- 

 guished scientists in Pan-America have been 

 invited to prepare papers on the subjects de- 

 scribed in the preliminary program, edition of 

 April 15, a copy of vrhich may be obtained on 

 request to the secretary general of the con- 

 gress. 



The following topic has been proposed by 

 Section I for the series of Pan-American con- 

 ferences : " The desirability of uniform laws 

 throughout the Pan-American countries for 

 the protection of antiquities, the systematic 

 promotion of anthropological research and the 

 collection and scientific treatment of museum 

 materials." 



The Nineteenth International Congress of 

 Americanists will meet in Washington during 

 the same week with the Pan-American Scien- 

 tific Congress, and joint conferences will be 

 held for the discussion of subjects of com- 

 mon interest to members of the two organiza- 

 tions. This will be especially advantageous, 

 since a large number of students from all parts 

 of America, as well as from the Old World, 



interested in these branches, will thus be 

 brought together on common ground. 



Glen Levtn" Swiggett, 

 Assistant Secretary General 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the Manchester meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Sir Arthur J. Evans, P.E.S., the archeologist, 

 honorary keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 

 Oxford, was elected president for next year's 

 meeting, to be held at ISTewcastle-on-Tyne. 

 The meeting of 1917 will be held at Bourne- 

 mouth. 



A. GiBB Maitland, director of the geological 

 Survey, Western Australia, has been elected 

 president of the Eoyal Society of Western 

 Australia for the ensuing session. 



The International Engineering Congress 

 met at San Francisco from September 20 to 25. 

 Major-general G. W. Goethals, honorary presi- 

 dent of the congress, delivered the principal 

 address. 



The office of state entomologist has recently 

 been established in Wisconsin, to take over 

 the nursery and orchard inspection and ad- 

 ministration of the laws governing insecticides 

 and fungicides. It is to be independent of the 

 University of Wisconsin, with headquarters 

 in the state capitol at Madison. Professor 

 J. G. Sanders goes from the College of Agri- 

 culture to be the first incumbent of the office 

 and Dr. S. B. Fracker, instructor in the same 

 department, has been appointed assistant ento- 

 mologist. 



Professor Ewald Hering, the eminent 

 physiologist of Leipzig University, will retire 

 at the close of the winter semester. 



Dr. Charles K. Mills has resigned from 

 the medical faculty of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, where since 1893 he had been pro- 

 fessor of mental diseases and of neurology. 



Professor Anthony Zeleny, of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, has this year leave of ab- 

 sence and wiU spend the time in research in 

 physics at Princeton University. 



