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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXIV. No. 869 



Wednesday, November 22 



moening session 



Dairy Products: G. W. Cavanaugh, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Poods and Feeding Stuffs: G. M. MacNider, 



Baleigh, N. C. 

 Sugar: W. E. Cross, New Orleans, La. 

 Committee B on Eeeommendations of Referees : 



E. M. Chaee, Wasliington, D. C. 

 Eeports of Committees (resolutions, nominations, 



etc.) : J. S. Eogers, Washington, D. C. 



APTEENOON SESSION 



Medicinal Plants and Drugs: L. F. Kebler, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Medicinal Plants: Albert Schneider, San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal., and H. H. Eusby, New York City. 



Synthetic Products: W. O. Emery, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Medicated Soft Drinks: H. C. Fuller, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Special papers closely connected with the 

 work of the association, and not exceeding 10 

 minutes in length, will be given place on the 

 program if the titles are sent to the secretary 

 ten days before the meeting. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Oilman A. Drew, since 1900 professor 

 of biology at the University of Maine, and 

 since 1909 assistant director of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, has been appointed 

 resident assistant director of the laboratory, 

 and will devote his entire time to the work at 

 Woods Hole. 



In the Geodetic Institute of Potsdam, Pro- 

 fessor Andreas Galle has been appointed chief 

 of department, and Dr. Wilhelm Schweydar, 

 observer. 



The fifteenth anniversary of the doctorate 

 of Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer was celebrated on 

 July 22. The Prussian minister of education 

 and the Prussian war office presented him 

 with gold medals. Dr. Hans Virchow with a 

 Festschrift, and Dr. Paul Ehrlich with a vol- 

 ume of his own. 



Dr. Woldemar Voigt, professor of physics 

 at Gottingen, has been elected a member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



The first award of the Dr. Jessie Mac- 

 gregor memorial prize has been made to 



Agnes Ellen Porter, M.D. Edin. The prize 

 has been awarded to Dr. Porter for work done 

 in the last three years, mainly in the depart- 

 ments of bacteriology and physiology, and es- 

 pecially for her work on the precipitatire re- 

 action in tuberculosis. 



President Taft, Mr. John Hays Hammond, 

 Mr. James J. Hill and Mr. Walter Fisher, 

 secretary of the interior, will be the principal 

 speakers at the annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Mining Congress, to be held in Chicago 

 on September 26, 2Y, 28 and 29. 



The Carnegie Peace Foundation Confer- 

 ence was opened at Berne on August 2 under 

 the presidency of Professor Clark, of Co- 

 lumbia University. 



Professor L. E. Jones, of the College of 

 Agriculture of the University of Wisconsin, 

 is engaged in the study of a new disease which 

 affects the pea crop of this state and of a kind 

 of black rot which attacks the cabbages. 



Professor A. S. Hitchcock, systematic 

 agrostologist, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has gone to Panama to join the Smith- 

 sonian expedition for the biological surrey of 

 the Panama Canal Zone. He has also been 

 authorized by the Department of Agriculture 

 to visit the five Central American Republics, 

 for the purpose of investigating the grasses. 

 He is accompanied by his son, Frank H. 

 Hitchcock, as assistant. 



Professor Franklin H. King, who was 

 born in Wisconsin in 1848, died in his home 

 at Madison, Wis., of heart failure, on August 

 4, aged sixty-three years. He was well known 

 for his publications on agriculture, especially 

 in connection with agricultural physics and 

 the soil. Professor King was just about to 

 publish a new work " Farms of Forty Cen- 

 turies," containing an account of Chinese and 

 Japanese farming as observed by him during 

 a recent sojourn in the Orient. He was ably 

 assisted by his cultured wife in the prepara- 

 tion of his publications, and she will doubt- 

 less be able to complete the editorial work on 

 the forthcoming volume. 



M. Ernest Mercadier, formerly professor of 

 physics at the Ecole Superieure de Telegraphic 



