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tary, Professor C. W. Doten, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, Boston, Mass. 



SulUvant Moss Society.— Meets on Thursday, 

 December 28, in the Business High School. Secre- 

 tary, Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, 78 Orange Street, 

 Brooklyn, N. T. Acting Secretary, W. E. Maxon, 

 U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. 0. 



Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. 

 — Meets on Friday and Saturday, December 29 

 and 30, in the George Washington Medical School. 

 Joint meeting with American Psychological Asso- 

 ciation on date to be announced. Secretary, Dr. 

 E. M. Ogden, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 

 Tenn. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



It is cabled from Stockholm that the ISTohel 

 prize for chemistry has been awarded to Mme. 

 Curie, of the University of Paris. These pre- 

 liminary announcements are usually but not 

 always correct. The Nobel prize in 1903 was 

 awarded half to Professor Pierre Curie and 

 Mme. Curie and half to Professor Beequerel. 



The daily papers state that Dr. J. M. T. 

 Finney, A.B. (Princeton '84), M.D. (Har- 

 vard '89), of the surgical staff of Johns Hop- 

 kins Hospital, has been offered the presidency 

 of Princeton University. 



Dr. Elmer E. Brown, late U. S. commis- 

 sioner of education, was installed as chancellor 

 of New York UniTersity on November 9. 



Professor Ernest W. Brown, of Tale Uni- 

 versity, has been elected an honorary fellow 

 of Christ's College, Cambridge. 



At the annual meeting of the Eoyal So- 

 ciety of Edinburgh on October 23, Sir Wil- 

 liam Turner, K.C.B., F.E.S., was elected 

 president, and Professor J. C. Ewart, F.E.S., 

 Dr. J. Home, F.E.S., Dr. J. Burgess, Pro- 

 fessor T. Hudson Beare, Professor F. 0. 

 Bower, F.E.S. and Sir Thomas E. Eraser, 

 F.E.S., were elected vice-presidents. 



The following astronomers have been 

 elected honorary members of the Astronomical 

 Society of Mexico: Professor A. Abetti, Flor- 

 ence; Professor G. Fayet, Nice; Professor E. 

 H. Baker, University of Missouri; Professor 

 F. W. Dyson, Astronomer Eoyal of England; 

 Professor S. A. Mitchell, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, and Professor W. Ebell, Kiel. 



Dr. George Blumer, dean of the faculty of 

 Yale Medical School, was elected president of 

 the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene, 

 at the third annual meeting of the society, 

 held recently in New Haven. 



The fellowship of the International School 

 of American Archeology and Ethnology at 

 Mexico City, has been awarded by Harvard 

 University to George Plummer Howe, A.B. 

 1900, M.D. 1910, of Lawrence, Mass. 



Dr. Willis W. Waite has resigned as city 

 bacteriologist of Syracuse, N. Y., to become 

 director of Dr. Hugh Crause's Clinical Lab- 

 oratory, of El Paso, Texas. 



Professor E. T. Crawford, of the Berkeley 

 astronomical department, University of Cali- 

 fornia, is absent on leave during the academic 

 year and is at present in Germany. During 

 his absence Professor D. W. Morehouse, of 

 Drake University, has been appointed instruc- 

 tor in astronomy. 



Dr. Osten Eergstrand has been appointed 

 professor of astronomy and director of the 

 Observatory at Upsala. 



Professor W. J. Hcssey, who left Ann 

 Arbor in June to assume the directorship of 

 the Observatory of the National University 

 of La Plata, Argentina, is engaged in the re- 

 organization of the scientific work of that in- 

 stitution and is prosecuting his own re- 

 searches in the field of visual double stars 

 with gratifying results. Professor Hussey 

 retains his connection with the Observatory 

 of the University of Michigan and is develop- 

 ing the plan of cooperation in astronomical 

 work between the universities of Michigan 

 and La Plata, announced in Science earlier 

 in the year. 



Dr. W. a. Cannon, of the Desert Labora- 

 tory, has returned to this country after travel- 

 ing sixteen months in Europe and north 

 Africa. He visited deserts adjacent to the 

 Nile Eiver in Upper Egypt, and the southern 

 part of Algeria. In the latter country he 

 explored the region little known to botanists 

 between Ghardaia and Ouargla, and visited 

 Tougourt and the Oued Eirh. 



