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more welcome to him than the establishment 

 of a permanent fund for this purpose. 



The present movement was begun by the 

 formation of a central committee, under the 

 chairmanship of Professor von Graff, the presi- 

 dent of the congress, with Professor Boveri as 

 general secretary. This committee designated 

 a number of persons to organize the work in 

 various countries; and to this end national 

 subcommittees have now been formed and are 

 at work in most of the European countries. 

 The American subcommittee includes about 

 thirty biologists, and in addition a consid- 

 erable number of others whose immediate in- 

 terests do not lie in the field of scientific study. 

 The hospitality and consideration which so 

 many American students and investigators owe 

 to Professor Dohrn, and the important influ- 

 ence exerted by the station on the progress of 

 American science, justify the hope that this 

 country will make generous response to an 

 appeal for funds. The American subcommit- 

 tee has formed an executive committee with 

 the following membership: 



Charles E. Crane, Chicago, 111., president of the 

 board of trustees of the Marine Biological Labo- 

 ratory at Woods Hole. 

 Charles B. Davenport, director of the Carnegie 

 Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, L. I., N. T. 

 Trank E. Lillie, University of Chicago, director of 

 the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. 

 Jacques Loeb, Eockefeller Institute, New York, 



N. T. 

 Hon. Seth Low, New York City. 

 Alfred G. Mayer, director of the Carnegie Marine 



Laboratory, Tortugas, Fla. 

 Henry P. Osborn, president of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York City. 

 Stuart Baton, Princeton University. 

 George H. Parker, Harvard University. 

 William E. Bitter, director of the San Diego 



Marine Laboratory, La Jolla, Cal. 

 Isaac N. Seligman (treasurer). New York City. 

 Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian 



Institution, Washington, D. C. 

 Paul M. Warburg, ilSTew York City. 

 Edmund B. Wilson (chairman), Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York, N. Y. 



Mr. Seligman has kindly consented to serve 

 as treasurer for the American subcommittee. 



Subscriptions of any amount, however small, 

 will be welcomed. Checks should be drawn to 

 the order of the Anton Dohrn Memorial and 

 sent to Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, treasurer, care 

 of J. and W. Seligman & Co., No. 1 "William 

 St., New York, N. Y. 



Edmund B. Wilson, 

 Chairman of the Amer- 

 ican Buhcommittee 

 Columbia University, 

 New York, N. Y. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. Waldemar Lindgeen, who has been con- 

 nected with the U. S. Geological Survey since 

 1884 and since 1907 has been in charge of the 

 investigations of metalliferous deposits and 

 of metal statistics, has been elected chief 

 geologist in succession to Dr. C. Willard 

 Hayes. 



It is reported that the Nobel prize for 

 medicine will be awarded this year to Pro- 

 fessor Allvar GuUstrand, of the Upsala Uni- 

 versity, for his work on the dioptrics of the 

 eye. 



Dr. Charles E. Van Hise, president of the 

 University of Wisconsin and formerly pro- 

 fessor of zoology, has been elected a fellow of 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 of Boston. 



Dr. Simon Flexner has received from the 

 German government an appointment as hon- 

 orary member of the Institute for Experi- 

 mental Therapy at Frankfort-on-the-Main. 



The doctorate of science has been conferred 

 by the University of Bristol on Mr. A. P. 

 Chattock, sometime professor of physics in the 

 university; Professor Julius Wertheimer, 

 B.Sc, principal of the Merchant Venturers' 

 College and dean of the faculty of engineer- 

 ing in the university, and Professor Sir Wil- 

 liam Eamsay, F.E.S., sometime principal of 

 University College, Bristol. 



Mr. Eli S. Haynes, who has been in charge 

 of the Laws Observatory at the University of 

 Missouri, has been appointed a university 

 fellow in astronomy at the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



