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SCIENCE 



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Dr. H. M. Smith, commissioner, U. S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries: "The Need for a National Institution 

 for the Technical Instruction of Fisherfolk." 



L. L. Dyehe, state fish and game warden, Kan- 

 sas: "One Year's Work at the Kansas Fish 

 Hatchery, " " The Possibilities of an Acre Fish 

 Pond. ' ' 



Jacob Eeighard: "A Plea for the Preservation 

 of Records concerning Fish," "Improvement of 

 Fishing through a Knowledge of the Breeding 

 Habits of Fish." 



Phil C. Zalsman: "Experiments in Fish Culture 

 while in the Employment of the Michigan and 

 Wisconsin Fish Commissions." 



Charles H. Nerley : ' ' Small Mouth Black Bass. ' ' 



J. P. Snyder: "Notes on Striped Bass." 



J. T. Nichols : ' ' Concerning Young Bluefish. ' ' 



Dr. George W. Field, chairman, Massachusetts 

 Fish and Game Commission : ' ' The Alewif e Fish- 

 ery of Massachusetts." 



Dr. T. H. Bean, state fish culturist, New York: 

 "The Bearing of Small -mouthed Black Bass." 



N. E. Buller, commissioner, Pennsylvania Fish- 

 eries Department: "The Work of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Fisheries Department. ' ' 



Charles G. Atkins, superintendent, TJ. S. Fish- 

 eries Station, Craig Brook, Maine: "The Atlantic 

 Salmon. ' ' 



Dr. Irving H. Field, Clark University, Worcester, 

 Massachusetts: "The Development of the Salt 

 Water Mussel Industry." 



Professor Henry B. Ward, Urbana, Illinois: 

 "Fish Eefuges." 



W. E. Meehan, director, Philadelphia Aquarium : 

 ' ' The Establishment of an Aquarium in Phila- 

 delphia. ' ' 



Professor E. E. Prince: "Some Animals and 

 Conditions Inimical to Fish Eggs and Larvse in 

 the Sea," "A Perfect Fish Pass; Some Sugges- 

 tions as to Defects in Fish Passes and How to 

 Overcome Them. ' ' 



Henry C Eowe, president, Oyster Growers and 

 Dealers Association of North America : ' ' The 

 Oyster Industry." 



David L. Belding, biologist, Massachusetts Fish 

 and Game Commission: "Conditions Influencing 

 the Growth of Clams {Myra arenaria)." 



Professor G. H. Parker, Harvard University: 

 "The Senses of Fishes." 



The next annual meeting will be held in 

 New Orleans beginning on September 30, 

 1914. 



CBEMISTMT AT THE ATLANTA MEETING 

 OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



At the meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science to he 

 held in Atlanta, it is planned to hold sessions 

 of Section C (Chemistry), of which no ses- 

 sions were held at Cleveland in 1912. The 

 general idea is to endeavor to have before Sec- 

 tion C papers on chemical topics of wide and 

 general interest, especially to workers in other 

 branches of science and to laymen, leaving to 

 the American Chemical Society the field 

 which they already occupy, namely, the pre- 

 sentation of chemical papers to and for chem- 

 ists. In pursuance of this plan it is proposed 

 to have some short addresses, each of which 

 will either deal with some general topic or be 

 of the nature of reports of recent progress in 

 some of the large branches of the subject of 

 chemistry. A second day may, if it prove de- 

 sirable and practicable, be devoted to a joint 

 meeting of Section C with the local sections 

 of the American Chemical Society, in which 

 case papers dealing with more special subjects 

 would be read. The secretary of Section C is 

 Dr. John Johnston, Geophysical Laboratory, 

 Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The University of Birmingham on Septem- 

 ber 11 conferred its doctorate of laws on the 

 following foreign representatives in attend- 

 ance at the meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion: Madame Curie (Sorbonne, Paris), Pro- 

 fessor H. A. Lorentz (Leyden), Professor 

 Keibel (Preiburg), Professor E. W. Wood 

 (Johns Hopkins) and Professor Svante Ar- 

 rhenius (Stockholm). 



The evening discourses at the Birmingham 

 meeting of the British Association were given 

 by Sir Henry Cunynghame, of the Home 

 Office, on " Coal Dust Explosions and the 

 Means of Preventing Them," and by Dr. 

 Smith Woodward, F.E.S., of the British Mu- 

 seum, on " Missing Links among Extinct 

 Animals." 



Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald, the distinguished 

 physical chemist and philosopher, celebrated 

 his sixtieth birthday on September 2. 



