December 10, 1915] 



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The funeral services took place at his late 

 residence, 475 Bellefontaine Street, Pasadena, 

 the Eev. Robert Freeman officiating. There 

 were present to do honor to his memory many 

 prominent people from all parts of southern 

 California. The active pallbearers, selected 

 from among the intimate personal friends of 

 Dr. Holder, were: 0. D. Daggett, Dr. Francis 

 F. Eowland, Walter Wotkins, Walter Eay- 

 mond, William R. Staats and A. Stephen 

 Halsted. ISTotable among the many letters of 

 condolence received by Mrs. Holder, was a 

 warm tribute of regard from Gifford Pinchot, 

 who was in strong sympathy with Dr. Holder's 

 tireless work in behalf of the conservation of 

 wild life in our land. 



George F. Kunz 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Officers of the Eoyal Society were elected 

 at the anniversary meeting on November 30 

 as follows: President, Sir J. J. Thomson in 

 succession to Sir William Crooks; Treasurer, 

 Sir A. B. Kempe; Secretaries, Professor A. 

 Schuster and Mr. W. B. Hardy; Foreign Sec- 

 retary, Dr. D. H. Scott; Other Members of the 

 Council, Professor J. G. Adami, Sir T. Clif- 

 ford Allbutt, Dr. F. F. Blackman, Dr. Dugald 

 Clerk, Sir William Crookes, Professor A. 

 Dendy, Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, Dr. H. 

 Head, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, Professor A. E. 

 H. Love, Major P. A. MacMahon, Professor 

 A. Smithells, Professor E. H. Starling, Mr. 

 E. Threlfall and Sir Philip Watts. 



M. Maurice Caulleet, professor of organic 

 evolution in the University of Paris and 

 president of the Zoological Society of France, 

 has been appointed to be exchange professor 

 from the French universities at Harvard Uni- 

 versity and will lecture at Cambridge during 

 the second semester. 



Charles Clark Willoughby has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Peabody Museum of 

 American Archeology and Ethnology of Har- 

 vard University. 



At the annual dinner of the Geographic So- 

 ciety of Chicago, which will be held in the 

 Congress Hotel on January 8, the gold medal 



of the society will be presented to General 

 William C. Gorgas. 



Dr. Ernst Ehlers, professor of zoology at 

 Gottingen, has celebrated his eightieth birth- 

 day. 



The prize of the Martin Brunner founda- 

 tion in JSTiirnberg has been awarded to Dr. 

 Jakob Wolff, of Berlin, for his work on cancer. 



On November 23 at Aberdeen, S. D., the 

 South Dakota State Academy of Science was 

 organized with the following officers: 



President, H. I. Jones. 



First Vice-president, E. A. Fath. 



Second Vice-president, O. E. Overman. 



Treasurer, A. Mahre. 



Secretary, E. J. Gilmore. 



The meetings of the organization are held at 

 the same time and place as the State Educa- 

 tional Association. 



At the annual meeting of the American As- 

 sociation of Clinical Eesearch, held recently 

 in Philadelphia, the following officers were 

 elected: President, Dr. Coleman, of New 

 York City; First Vice-president, Dr. William 

 B. Snow, of New York City; Second Vice- 

 president, Dr. Leon T. Ashcraft, of Philadel- 

 phia. Dr. James Kraus, of Boston, is Perma- 

 nent Secretary of the organization. 



At the annual meeting of the Faraday So- 

 ciety, London, Sir Eobert Hadfield was elected 

 president. 



The following, as we learn from Nature, 

 have been elected officers of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society for the ensuing session: 

 President, Professor Newall; Vice-presidents, 

 Dr. Shipley, Dr. Fenton, Professor Edding- 

 ton; Treasurer, Professor Hobson; Secretaries, 

 Mr. A. Wood, Dr. Arber, Mr. G. H. Hardy; 

 New Memhers of the Council, Dr. Bromwich, 

 Dr. Doncaster, Mr. C. G. Lamb, Dr. Marr, Mr. 

 J. E. Purvis. 



There is also given in Nature the list of 

 officers elected at the anniversary meeting of 

 the Mineralogical Society which follows: 

 President, W. Barlow; Vice-presidents, Pro- 

 fessors H. L. Bowman, A. Hutchinson; Treas- 

 urer, Sir William P. Beale, Bart.; General 

 Secretary, Dr. G. T. Prior; Foreign Secretary, 



