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[N. S. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 991 



At the annual meeting of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences on December 15, Dr. 

 George F. Kunz was elected president. Vice- 

 presidents for the sections were elected as fol- 

 lows : Professor Charles P. Berkey, Professor 

 Raymond C. Osburn, Professor Charles 

 Baskerville and Dr. Clark Wissler. 



De. E. E. Gates has been awarded the 

 Huxley gold medal and prize for research in 

 biology at the Royal College of Science, 

 London. 



The special board for biology and geology 

 at Cambridge University has adjudged the 

 Walsingham medal for 1913 to Mr. Franklin 

 Kidd, B.A., fellow of St. John's, for his essay 

 entitled " On the Action of Carbon Dioxide in 

 the Moist Seed in Maturing, Resting, and 

 Germinating Conditions." 



Mr. H. S. Jones, B.A,, now one of the chief 

 assistants at the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, has been elected to a fellowship at Jesus 

 College, Cambridge. 



Dr. W. Dawson Johnston has resigned the 

 librarianship of Columbia University to be- 

 come librarian of the St. Paul Public Library. 



Professor A. W. Whitney, of the Univer- 

 sity of California, has resigned to accept a 

 position in the state board of insurance. 



Professor Charles Richmond Henderson, 

 head of the department of practical sociology 

 in the University of Chicago, has been made 

 chairman of the educational committee on 

 Chicago philanthropy, which was recently 

 organized to keep the public informed of the 

 needs of the city's poor. 



Professor Clara A. Bliss, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of Wells College, has been 

 granted leave of absence for the year, and Miss 

 Minnie A. Graham, formerly professor of 

 chemistry at Lake Erie College, is substituting 

 for her as- head of the department. 



The magnetic survey vessel, Carnegie, has 

 returned to Brooklyn, thus completing the cir- 

 cumnavigation cruise begun in June, 1910, 

 and covering a distance of over 70,000 miles. 

 The vessel has been throughout under the com- 

 mand of W. J. Peters, and her work has been 

 to determine the magnetic elements at sea in 



fulfillment of the plan of a general magnetic 

 survey of the globe under the direction of the 

 department of terrestrial magnetism of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



A magnetic expedition covering a greater 

 part of the District of Patricia, Canada, was 

 undertaken this summer by the department of 

 terrestrial magnetism and brought to a suc- 

 cessful conclusion under the charge of Dr. H. 

 M. W. Edmonds, assisted by Observer D. M. 

 Wise. A particularly interesting and im- 

 portant feature of this field work was the 

 proximity of the line of observations to the 

 supposed region of maximum total intensity 

 first disclosed by Lefroy in 1845. The party 

 left Washington May 16, 1913, and returned 

 at the end of October. The main part of the 

 work comprised the canoe route of approxi- 

 mately 2,000 miles, of which over 500 miles 

 was over an unsheltered open coast along 

 Hudson Bay and James Bay from Fort Severn 

 to Fort Albany. Complete magnetic observa- 

 tions were secured at 38 different points. 



The annual lecture before the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washington was given on Decem- 

 ber 16, in the assembly room of the Adminis- 

 tration Building on " Measurement of En- 

 vironic Components and Their Biologic 

 Effects " by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of 

 the Desert Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona. 



The department of anthropology of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York City, offers a course of four lectures deal- 

 ing with the social and religious customs and 

 beliefs of primitive peoples. On January 8 

 and 15, Dr. Robert H. Lowie will lecture on 

 " Social Organization," and on January 22 

 and 29 Dr. Pliny E. Goddard will lecture on 

 " Religious Observances " and " Religious 

 Beliefs." 



Professor W. W. Atwood, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, presented on November 29 to the 

 Chaos Club, an organization composed of the 

 members of the science faculties of the Uni- 

 versities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Northwestern 

 and Chicago, an account of his recent dis- 

 covery of glacial material of Eocene age in 

 the San Juan Mountains of southwestern 

 Colorado. This Eocene till is the only evi- 



