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SCIENCE 



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The secretary wishes this year to gather 

 together a varied assortment of printed and 

 mimeographed syllabi, outlines, laboratory 

 directions, charts, blanks, bibliographies of 

 supplementary and suggested readings, review 

 questions, examination questions and the like, 

 so that we may all see something of the minor 

 aids to instruction which our colleagues are 

 employing. He begs that each one who reads 

 this announcement will take the few moments 

 of time necessary to mail to him at once a 

 packet containing samples of all material of 

 this sort which happens to be accessible. 

 W. V. Bingham, 



Secretary 



Dartmouth College 



THE DANA CENTENAEY 

 In commemoration of the great geologic 

 work of James Dwight Dana, Yale University 

 will hold a centenary celebration next Decem- 

 ber, to consist of a series of lectures, culmi- 

 nating in a Dana Memorial volume on " Prob- 

 lems of American Geology." The lectures 

 will be given on the Silliman Foundation, and 

 are open to all interested persons. The speak- 

 ers and their respective subjects are as 

 follows : 



PEOBLEMS OP AMEEICAN GEOLOGY 



Introduction 

 "The Geology of James Dwight Dana," Pro- 

 fessor William North Eice, of Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity, Tuesday, December 2, 8 p.m. 



I. Problems of the Canadian Shield 

 "The Archeozoic and its Problems," Professor 

 Frank Dawson Adams, of McGill University, 

 Thursday and Friday, December 4 and 5, 5 P.M. 

 ' ' The Proterozoic and its Problems, ' ' Professor 

 Arthur Philemon Coleman, of the University of 

 Toronto, Wednesday and Thursday, December 10 

 and 11, 5 p.m. 



II. Problems of the Cordilleras 

 "The Cambrian and its Problems," Dr. Charles 

 Doolittle Walcott, of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 Monday, December 15, 5 P.M. 



"The Igneous Geology and its Problems," Pro- 

 fessor Waldemar Lindgren, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, Tuesday, December 16, 



5 P.M. 



' ' The Tertiary Structural Evolution and its 

 Problems, ' ' Dr. Frederick Leslie Eansome, of the 

 United States Geological Survey, Wednesday, De- 

 cember 17, 5 P.M. 



"The Tertiary Sedimentary Eecord and its 

 Problems," Dr. William Diller Matthew, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, Thursday 

 and Friday, December 18 and 19, 5 p.m. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



It is announced that M. Charles Eichet, pro- 

 fessor of physiology in the University of 

 Paris, has been awarded the Nobel prize for 

 medicine. 



The Eoyal Society of Edinburgh has 

 elected honorary fellows as follows : Professor 

 Horace Lamb, F.R.S., professor of mathe- 

 matics in the University of Manchester; Sir 

 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., F.E.S., 

 formerly director of the Eoyal Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Kew; Dr. G. E. Hale, director of the 

 Mount Wilson Solar Observatory (Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington) ; Professor Emil 

 C. Jungfleisch, professor of organic chemistry 

 in the College of France, Paris; Professor S. 

 Eaymon y Cajal, professor of histology and 

 pathological anatomy in the University of 

 Madrid; Professor V. Volterra, professor of 

 mathematics and physics in the University of 

 Eome; Professor C. E. Zeiller, professor of 

 plant paleontology in the National Superior 

 School of Mines, Paris. 



Professor W. M. Davis, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been granted an appropriation 

 from the Shaler Memorial Fund to defray in 

 part the expense of his trip to the South Pa- 

 cific to study the physiographic evidence re- 

 lating to the problem of coral reefs. 



At its last meeting held on November 12, 

 1913, the Eumford committee of the Ameri- 

 can Academy appropriated the sum of $250 to 

 Professor Louis V. King, of McGill Univer- 

 sity, to defray the expenses of computation 

 for his research on " The Scattering and Ab- 

 sorption of Solar Eadiation in the Earth's At- 

 mosphere." 



The council of the Eoyal Meteorological 

 Society has awarded the Symons Gold Medal 

 to Mr. W. H. Dines, F.E.S., in recognition of 



