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July 6, "The Seals of the PribilofE Islands," by 

 Professor G. H. Parter. 



July 9, ' ' Some Experimental Studies on the De- 

 velopment of the Membranous Labyrinth in the 

 Tadpole," by Professor G. L. Streeter. 



July 13, "Effects of Centrifugal Force on the 

 Structure and Development of the Egg, ' ' by Pro- 

 fessor E. G. C'onklin. 



July 16, "The Nature of Intelligent and Pur- 

 posive Action from a Physiological Point of 

 View, ' ' by Professor E. S. Lillie. 



July 19, "The Control of Infection as Affected 

 by Variation among Parasitic Microorganisms, ' ' 

 by Professor Simon Flexner. 



July 24, "Protozoa and the Cancer Problem," 

 by Professor G. N. Calkins. 



July 30, "Inheritance of Sex in Lychnis," by 

 Professor George Shull. 



August 3, ' ' Heredity of Criminality, ' ' by Pro- 

 fessor C. B. Davenport. 



August 6, "The Story of Bubonic Plague," by 

 Dr. Martin Edwards. 



August 10, "The Eole of Adsorption in Nerve 

 Conduction," by Dr. Alfred G. Mayer. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the request of President Wilson the N'a- 

 tional Academy of Sciences has appointed the 

 following to investigate and report on the con- 

 trol of the Panama slides: President C. R. 

 Van Hise, University of Wisconsin, chair- 

 man ; General H. L. Abbott, Cambridge, Mass. ; 

 Dr. George F. Becker, United States Geological 

 Survey; Professor J. 0. Branner, Stanford 

 University; Dr. Whitman Cross, United 

 States Geological Survey; Dr. Arthur L. Day, 

 Carnegie Institution; Dr. J. L. Hayford, 

 Northwestern University; Professor Harry 

 Fielding Eeid, Johns Hopkins University; 

 Dr. E. S. Woodward, Carnegie Institution; 

 C. Carpenter, Ithaca, IST. T. ; August P. Davis, 

 United States Reclamation Service; John E. 

 Freeman, Providence, E. I. 



Professor William B. Scott, of Princeton, 

 and Professor A. A. Michelson, of Chicago, 

 have been appointed representatives from the 

 American Philosophical Society to the Second 

 Pan-American Congress meeting in Washing- 

 ton, December 27 to January 8. 



Dr. Egbert Barany, of the University of 

 Vienna, who has been awarded the Nobel prize 



in medicine for his work on the diseases of 

 the ear, is at present a prisoner of war in Si- 

 beria, having been serving as a surgeon at 

 Przemysl when it was taken by the Eussians. 



Dr. E. W. Wood, professor of physics at 

 Johns Hopkins University, has returned to 

 Baltimore from the Mount Wilson Observa- 

 tory, where he has been engaged in photo- 

 graphing the moon, Saturn and Jupiter by yel- 

 low light and ultra violet and infra red rays. 



At a recent meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee of the American Museiun of Natural 

 History, New York, the new position of re- 

 search associate was created on the scientific 

 staff of the institution. Dr. C. E. Eastman 

 was appointed research associate in vertebrate 

 paleontology, and Mr. M. C. D. Crawford, re- 

 search associate in textiles. 



Professor Otto Baschin, of Berlin, has re- 

 ceived from the Eoyal Prussian Academy of 

 Sciences the silver Leibnitz medal in recogni- 

 tion of his services to geography. 



At the annual meeting of the Eoyal Fac- 

 ulty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 

 Dr. Ebenezer Duncan was elected president, 

 and the retiring president. Dr. John Barlow, 

 a councillor. 



Mr. E. D. Merrill, who has been spending 

 several months in Washington, D. C, returns 

 to Manila in December to resume his duties 

 as botanist at the Bureau of Science and pro- 

 fessor of botany in the University of the 

 Philippines. 



The annual meeting of the Southern Med- 

 ical Association was held at Dallas, Texas, on 

 November 9, 10 and 11. The principal ad- 

 dress was delivered by Dr. Rupert Blue, sur- 

 geon-general of the United States Public 

 Health Service, on " Sanitary Preparedness." 

 Other addresses were given by Dr. W. L. Rod- 

 man, president of the American Medical As- 

 sociation, and Dr. Isador Dyer, of New Or- 

 leans. 



On November 23 Dr. R. P. Strong, pro- 

 fessor of tropical medicine at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, gave a public lecture on his experi- 

 ences as head of the physicians who went to 

 Serbia to combat the epidemic of typhus fever. 



