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mittee to enquire into tenure of office there 

 and elsewhere, and, as a result of their report, 

 the trustees have passed amendments to the 

 statutes, according to which as a rule profes- 

 sors shall only be promoted or appointed in 

 consultation with the departments concerned. 

 It is provided that there shall be four grades 

 in the faculty : professor, assistant professor 

 instructor and assistant. Professors are to be 

 appointed for an indefinite term; assistant 

 professors will receive a first appointment for 

 three years and re-appointments for terms of 

 five years; instructors and assistants will be 

 appointed for one year. The section dealing 

 with the removal of a professor or assistant 

 professor follows : 



A professor or an assistant professor shall be 

 removed by the bo&rd of trustees only after a con- 

 ference between a committee, consisting of one 

 representative from each of the faculties in the 

 university (such representatives being chosen by 

 the faculty of which the representative is a mem- 

 ber) and a committee of equal number from the 

 board of trustees, at which conference the provost 

 shall preside, and upon a report from such con- 

 ference to the board of trustees for consideration 

 and action by them. 



TEE PAN-AMESICAN SCIENTIFIC CON- 

 GRESS 



As part of the second Pan-American Scien- 

 tific Congress a number of receptions have 

 been arranged, including the following: 



December 30. 4:30 to 7 p.m. Reception by the 

 president of the congress, the Ambassador of 

 Chile, Senor Don Eduardo Suarez Mujica, at the 

 Chilean Embassy, 1013 Sixteenth St. 



December 30. 9 p.m. Reception tendered by 

 the secretary and board of regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution to the members of the congi-ess. 



December 31. 8:30 p.m. Theater party by the 

 Secretary of State and United States delegation 

 to the Latin-American delegations at the New Na- 

 tional Theater. Other members of the congress 

 are requested to make their reservations at once 

 with the management of the theater. 



January 1. 9 P.M. Reception by the Governing 

 Board of the Pan-American Union to members of 

 the congress at the Pan-American Union. 



January 3. 3 to 6 p.m. Reception tendered to 

 the members of the congress by the president and 

 officers of the Cosmos Club. 



January 3. 8 P.M. The members of the Sec- 

 ond Pan-American Scientific Congress will be the 

 guests of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science on the occasion of a special 

 meeting to be held in Memorial Continental Hall. 



January 4. 9 P.M. The trustees of the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington (16th and P 

 iSts.) will tender a reception to the members of 

 the congress. 



January 7. Friday night the President will give 

 a reception to members of the congress at the 

 White House. 



January 8. Saturday night (hour to be an- 

 nounced). The Secretary of State and the United 

 States delegation will give a banquet to the mem- 

 bers of the congress at the Pan-American Union. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



There is published in this issue of Science 

 the address given at Columbus by Dr. Charles 

 W. Eliot, the retiring president of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence. "We hope to publish in subsequent issues 

 other addresses given before the association 

 and the other scientific societies meeting dur- 

 ing convocation week, together with accounts 

 of their proceedings. 



Professor M. I. Pupin, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been elected president of the 'New 

 Tork Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. W. p. Hay, of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, was elected president of the Biological 

 Society of Washington at the annual meeting 

 held in December. 



Dr. Fritz Haber, director of the Kaiser 

 Wilhelm Institute for Physiology, and Dr. 

 Karl Bosch, of the Baden Anilin Factory, have 

 received honorary doctorates from the Karls- 

 ruhe Technical School. 



Dr. Ludwig Eadlkofer, professor of botany 

 at Munich, who is now in his eighty-sixth 

 year, has celebrated the sixtieth anniversary 

 of his doctorate. 



Dr. Paul Baetsch and Dr. J. IST. Eose have 

 been selected as delegate and alternate to rep- 

 resent the Biological Society of Washington 

 at the Pan-American Scientific Congress. 



According to the Bulletin of the American 

 Geographical Society a letter received from 



