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secretary, Dr. Isaiah Bowman, Broadway and 156th 

 St., New York City. 



The Paleontological Society. — December 29-30. 

 President, Dl. E. 0. Ulrich, U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey; secretary, Dr. E. S. Bassler, U. S. National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 27-31. President, F. W. Hodge, Bureau 

 of American Ethnology; secretary. Professor 

 George Grant MacCurdy, Tale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



The American FoXk-Lore Society. — Convocation 

 Week. President, Dr. P. E. Goddard, American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York City; sec- 

 tary. Dr. Charles Peabody, 197 Brattle St., Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



The American Economic Association. — December 

 28-30. President, Professor W. F. Willcox, Cor- 

 nell University; secretary. Professor Allyn A. 

 Young, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Sociological Society. — December 

 28-31. President, Professor E. A. Eoss, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin; secretary. Professor Scott E. 

 W. Bedford, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



NEW HAVEN 



The Association of American Anatomists. — De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor G. Carl 

 Hnber, University of Michigan; secretary. Dr. 

 Charles E. Stockard, Cornell University Medical 

 School, New York City. 



UESANA 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Dr. D. H. Bergey, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania; secretary, Dr. A. Parker 

 Hitchens, Glenolden, Pa. 



NEW YORK CITY 



The American Mathematical Society. — De- 

 cember 27-28. President, Professor E. W. Brown, 

 Yale University; secretary. Professor F. N. Cole, 

 501 West 116th St., New York City. 



CHICAGO 



The American Psychological Association, — ^De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor John B. Wat- 

 son, The Johns Hopkins University; secretary. 

 Professor E. M. Ogden, University of Kansas, 

 Lawrence, Kansas. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The American Philosophical Association. — ^De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor A. C. Arm- 

 strong, Wesleyan University; secretary, Professor 

 E. G. Spaulding, Princeton, N. J. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Eoyal medals of the Eoyal Society tave 

 been awarded to Sir Joseph Larmor, F.E.S., 

 for his contributions to mathematical and 

 physical science, and to Dr. W. H. E. Eivers, 

 F.E.S., for his contributions to ethnography 

 and ethnology. The Copley medal is awarded 

 to Professor Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov, for his 

 investigations in the physiology of digestion 

 and of the higher centers of the nervous sys- 

 tem; the Davy medal to Professor Paul Saba- 

 tier, for his researches on contact action and 

 the application of finely-divided metals as 

 catalytic agents, and the Hughes medal to Pro- 

 fessor Paul Langevin, for his contributions to 

 electrical science. 



The Symons Memorial gold medal of the 

 Eoyal Meteorological Society has been awarded 

 to Dr. C. A. Angot, director of the French 

 Meteorological Bureau. 



Dr. Heney Shoemaker Conaed, professor of 

 botany at Grinnell College, has been appointed 

 visiting lecturer on botany at Harvard Uni- 

 versity for the second half of the academic 

 year. 



Dr. "W. a. Oeton and Dr. C. L. Shear, of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 have been appointed delegates from the Amer- 

 ican Phytopathological Society to the Second 

 Pan- American Congress meeting in Washing- 

 ton, December 27 to January 8. 



Staff-Surgeon G. M. Levick has been spe- 

 cially promoted to the rank of fleet surgeon in 

 the British navy for his services with the Brit- 

 ish antarctic expedition in 1910. 



Dr. Wilfrid T. Grenfell, known for his 

 work in Labrador, has accepted an invitation 

 to take charge of a division of a hospital unit 

 sent to France by Harvard University. He 

 will return in the spring to Labrador. 



De. William H. Heath, of Buffalo, has been 

 appointed executive medical adviser and sani- 

 tarian to the king of Siam. His duty will be 

 to establish modern sanitary conditions in that 

 country. 



H. H. Clayton, in charge of the forecast de- 

 partment for the Argentine Weather Bureau, 

 is returning to this country for a visit. 



