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SCIENCE 



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American Microscopical Society. — Will hold 

 executive eommittee luncheon on Tuesday, De- 

 cember 28, at 12:30 p.m., followed by business 

 meeting, same date, at 5 p.m. President, C. A. 

 Kofoid. Secretary, Professor T. W. Galloway, 

 James Millikin University, Decatur, 111. 



American Mathematical Society (Chicago Sec- 

 tion). — Meets on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 

 December 30 to January 1. Will hold joint meet- 

 ing with Section A, A. A. A. S., on Thursday, De- 

 cember 30, at 2 P.M. Secretary, Chicago Section, 

 Professor H. E. Slaught, 5548 Kenwood Avenue, 

 Chicago, 111. 



American Federation of Teachers of the Mathe- 

 matical and the Natural Sciences. — ^Will meet on 

 dates to be announced. Secretary, Professor Wil- 

 liam A. Hedrick, McKinley Manual Training 

 School, Washington, D. C. 



American Nature-Study Society. — Meets on 

 Thursday and Friday, December 30 and 31. Will 

 hold joint session with School Garden Association 

 of America on Thursday, December 30, at 2:30 

 P.M. President, L. H. Bailey. Secretary, Pro- 

 fessor E. E. Downing, University of Chicago, Chi- 

 cago, 111. 



School Garden Association of America. — Meets 

 in joint session with American Nature-Study So- 

 ciety on Thursday, December 30, at 2:30 p.m. 

 President, Van Evrie Kilpatrick, 124 West 30 th 

 St., New York, N. Y. 



Society of the Sigma XL — Will meet on dates to 

 be announced. President, Dr. Charles S. Howe, 

 Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Wilson Ornithological Club. — Will meet on dates 

 to be announced. President, T. C. Stephens, 

 Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa. 



Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity. — 

 Will meet on dates to be announced. Recorder, L. 

 C. Johnson, 613 West Michigan Avenue, Urbana, 

 111. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The ISTobel prize for physics for 1914, ac- 

 cording to a Eeuter dispatch from Stockholm, 

 has been awarded to Professor Max von Lane, 

 of Franljfort-on-Main, for his discovery of the 

 diffraction of rays in crystals. The prize for 

 chemistry for the same year has been awarded 

 to Professor Theodore William Eichards, of 

 Harvard University, for fixing the atomic 

 weights of chemical elements. 



Dr. Wallace Butterick, director of the 

 China Medical Board, of the Eockefeller 



Foundation, Dr. Simon Flesner, of the Eocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Eesearch, and Dr. 

 William H. Welch, professor of pathology at 

 Johns Hopkins University, were the guests of 

 honor at the recent dedication of the new 

 Sleeper-Davis Memorial Hospital, Peking, 

 China. The new building is a five-story struc- 

 ture erected by the Methodist-Episcopal 

 Church at a cost of $180,000. 



The Eomanes lecture before the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford will be delivered this year by 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, Hope professor of 

 zoology in the university, on December 7. The 

 subject will be " Science and the Great War." 



The honorary degree of D.Sc. was conferred 

 on October 26 on Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, di- 

 rector of the recently established Imperial 

 Bureau of Entomology. 



Dr. J. HoRNE has been elected president of 

 the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh. The vice- 

 presidents of the Eoyal Society are: Pro- 

 fessor F. O. Bower, Sir T. E. Eraser, Dr. B. 

 K Peach, Sir E. A. Schafer, the Eight Hon. 

 Sir J. H. A. Macdonald and Professor E. A. 

 Sampson. 



The Berlin Geographical Society has 

 elected General von Beseler as its president. 



Dr. Sven von Hedin has been elected a cor- 

 responding member of the Vienna Academy 

 of Sciences. 



We learn from Nature that Mr. W. Mar- 

 riott has retired from the post of assistant sec- 

 retary of the Eoyal Meteorological Society 

 held by him for the last forty years, and has 

 been succeeded by Mr. A. H. Brown, the chief 

 clerk of the society. 



Dr. Herman Eischer, formerly professor of 

 surgery in Breslau, has celebrated his eighty- 

 fifth birthday. 



Dr. Alfred Werner has been made a mem- 

 ber of the Reichsanstalt, Berlin. 



Dr. Karl H. Van JSTgrman, first assistant 

 superintendent of Johns Hopkins Hospital, 

 has resigned to accept a captaincy in a Ca- 

 nadian regiment. 



Professor E. J. Alway, of the department 

 of chemistry of soils of the University of Min- 

 nesota, has been elected president of the Min- 



