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from other parts agrees with the shape, size 

 and thickness of the scale and the motion of 

 the part. If this conclusion stands it will 

 seriously modify systems of classification em- 

 ploying radii as characters. 



Messrs. William J. Crozier and Selig Hecht, 

 of the College of the City of New York, who 

 were assigned to the director for duty, accom- 

 panied the various collection trips, made ex- 

 tensive collections of fishes and kept a com- 

 plete record of all observations, devoting spe- 

 cial attention to those relating to the food, 

 habits, rate of growth, relative abundance and 

 distribution of the fishes taken. They also 

 studied correlations among weight, length and 

 other body measurements of the squeteague 

 {Cynoscion regalis). The coeiScient of corre- 

 lation of weight and length and the constant, 

 which if multiplied by the cube of the length 

 gives the weight of the fish, were determined. 

 Stomach contents of a large number of ex- 

 amples of this species were examined. The 

 results indicate that the relative proportions 

 of the forms of life commonly eaten depend 

 upon the size of the fish and that the food 

 varies with the locality. 



Lewis Eadcliffe, 



Director 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Professor William Bateson, director of 

 the John Innes Horticultural Institution, has 

 been elected president of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science for the 

 meeting which will be held next year in Au- 

 stralia. 



On the occasion of the meeting of the In- 

 ternational Geological Congress at Toronto, 

 the University of Toronto conferred the de- 

 gree of' doctor of laws on the following geol- 

 ogists: T. C. Chamberlin, IJ. S. A.; W. G. 

 MiUer, Canada; P. M. Termier, France; E. 

 Beck, Germany; J. J. Sederholm, Finland; 

 T. Tschermyschev, Russia, and A. Strahan, 

 England. 



Professor Lillien J. Martin, professor of 

 psychology at Stanford University, has had 

 the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy 

 conferred upon her by the University of Bonn. 



Professor Bier and Professor Korte, of 

 Berlin, have been named as honorary mem- 

 bers of the Royal College of Surgeons in 

 London. 



According to a note in The Ohservatory 

 the American astronomers present at the 

 meeting of the Solar Union at Bonn were: 

 Campbell, St. John and Burns, from Cali- 

 fornia; Stebbins, from Illinois; Parkhurst, 

 Slocum and Gingrich, from Terkes; Schles- 

 inger, from Allegheny; Eussell and Shapley, 

 from Princeton; Ames, from Baltimore; Doo- 

 little, from Philadelphia; Nichols, from Cor- 

 nell; Pickering, Bailey, Miss Cannon and 

 Mrs. Hastings, from Harvard; Miss Whiting 

 and Miss Allen, from Wellesley, and Plaskett, 

 from Ottawa. 



Dr. Carl Correns, professor of botany at 

 Munster, has been appointed director of the 

 Research Institute for Biology of the Kaiser 

 Wilhelm Society. Dr. Spemann, professor of 

 zoology at Eostock, has been appointed assist- 

 ant director. 



Prince Galitzin has become director of the 

 Observatoire Physique Central Nicolas, St. 

 Petersburg. 



Mr. Aksel S. Steen has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Meteorological Institute of Nor- 

 way, in succession to Dr. H. Mohn, who has 

 retired. 



Mr. C. a. McLendon, for the past five 

 years botanist and plant-pathologist to the 

 Georgia Experiment Station, in charge of 

 plant-breeding investigations, has tendered 

 his resignation to take effect October the first, 

 after which date he expects to be engaged in 

 private business. 



L. F. Hawley, Ph.D. (Cornell), formerly in 

 charge of the section of wood distillation and 

 chemistry of the U. S. Forest Service, is now 

 the director of a forest products department 

 recently established by Arthur D. Little, In- 

 corporated, Boston, Mass. 



Dr. Calvert M. DeForest has been ap- 

 pointed deputy health officer of the Port of 

 New York. Dr. DeForest has recently re- 

 turned from Libau, Eussia, where he has been 

 in the Public Health Service for the last five 

 years. 



