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[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 990 



At a special meeting of the Royal Spanish 

 Society of Natural Science held in Madrid on 

 November 28, Dr. W. J. Holland, the director 

 of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, was 

 elected an honorary member to fill the vacancy 

 in the list of honorary members created by the 

 death of Lord Avebury. At the same meeting 

 Mr. Arthur S. Coggeshall, of Pittsburgh, was 

 elected a corresponding member of the society. 



Professor R. W. Wood, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, who is spending the year 

 abroad, is engaged in research work in the 

 laboratories of the Sorbonne and the Ecole 

 Normal Superieur (Paris) in collaboration 

 with Hemsalech, Dunoyer and Ribaud. His 

 address is 14 Ave. Charles Floquet, Paris. 



At the annual meeting of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Washington, held on Decem- 

 ber 4, 1913, the following officers were elected : 

 President, W. D. Hunter; First Vice-presi- 

 dent, A. N. Caudell; Second Vice-president, 

 E. R. Sasscer; Editor, W. D. Hunter; Corre- 

 sponding Secretary-Treasurer, S. A. Rohwer 

 (F. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C.) ; 

 Additional Members of the Executive Com- 

 mitee. Dr. L. O. Howard and Messrs. E. A. 

 Sehwarz and August Busek. These officers 

 will be installed at the first meeting in Janu- 

 ary. 



Mr. N. Cunliffe, B.A., Trinity College, has 

 been appointed assistant to the superintendent 

 of the Museum of Zoology of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Sebastian Albrecht has been appointed 

 astronomer at the Dudley Observatory, 

 Albany. 



E. J. McCaustland, professor of municipal 

 and highway engineering at the University of 

 Washington, Seattle, has been appointed by 

 the county commissioners as consulting engi- 

 neer for King County. In conjunction with 

 the state highway commissioner Mr. Mc- 

 Caustland will act as adviser to the county 

 engineer in the expenditure of three million 

 dollars for permanent highways. 



At the regular fall meeting of the Chicago 

 chapter of the Sigma Xi held on December 

 first, the society was addressed by Professor 



Jacques Loeb, of the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, who spoke on " Recent Ex- 

 periments in Artificial Parthenogenesis." 



During the week of December 1-6. Pro- 

 fessor Lafayette B. Mendel, of the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University, gave ad- 

 dresses on " Viewpoints in the Study of 

 Growth " and " Pood Pads " before chapters 

 of the Sigma Xi society at the University of 

 Kansas, University of Missouri and Washing- 

 ton University in St. Louis. 



Professor Douglas W. Johnson delivered 

 the following series of illustrated lectures on 

 " The Interpretation of American Scenery " 

 before the Institute of Arts and Sciences of 

 Columbia University on Saturday evenings 

 during the month of November: The Scenery 

 of American Rivers ; Shoreline Scenery of the 

 Atlantic Coast; The Sculpture of Mountains 

 by Glaciers, and the Scenery of the Grand 

 Canon District. 



On the evening of November 14, Professor 

 W. W. Atwood, of Harvard University, pre- 

 sented an illustrated lecture to the Geographic 

 Society of Chicago on " The Ascent of Un- 

 compagre and a Trip through the San Juan 

 Mountains of Colorado." 



Professor Arthur H. Blanchard, of Co- 

 lumbia University, on December 6, delivered 

 an illustrated lecture on " Modern Develop- 

 ments in Highway Engineering," before the 

 Drexel Institute of Philadelphia. 



Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald, Privatdozent at the 

 University of Leipzig, editor of the Kolloid- 

 Zeitschrift and the Kolloidchemische Beihefte, 

 and known for his many scientific contribu- 

 tions to biology and chemistry, has been in- 

 vited by the Cincinnati branch of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society and the Cincinnati Re- 

 search Society to give a series of five lectures 

 on colloid-chemistry in the University of Cin- 

 cinnati during the week of January 5 to 10. 

 The lectures embrace a discussion of the gen- 

 eral properties of colloids with scientific and 

 technical applications. In the week of Jan- 

 uary 12 to lY these lectures will be repeated at 

 the University of Illinois; January 19 to 24 



