NOVEMBER 12, 1897.] 
characteristic of Pliocene fossils. This is 
a confirmation of the geological and paleon- 
tological evidence as to the age of the fossil. 
Some time since Dr. Matteucci announced 
the discovery of selenium in the fumarole 
products of Vesuvius. He now adds, in 
the Rendiconti of the Naples Academy, 
bromin and iodin, found for the first time in 
these products, though their existence was 
theoretically probable. 
From an Associated Press dispatch of 
October 15th, we note the following, dated 
Berkeley, Cal.: “Gold from silver is not an 
impossibility, according to Edmund O'Neill, 
associate professor of chemistry at the 
University of California.” 
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS. 
THE American Society of Naturalists and the 
affiliated societies will meet at Ithaca, N. Y., 
on December 28th, 29th and 30th. All the so- 
cieties will assemble in Sage College at 1 p. m., 
on Tuesday, December 28th, when an address 
of welcome will be made by President Schur- 
man. The chief meeting of the Naturalists in 
which the other societies join is on Wednesday 
afternoon, for which the following program has 
been arranged : 
I. Reports of Committees. 
II. Election of new members. 
III. Appointment of Special Committees. 
IV. Discussion. The Biological Problems of To- 
Day. 
Paleontology, Professor H. F. Osborn, Columbia 
University. 
Botany, Professor Wm. Trelease, Missouri Botanic 
Gardens. 
Anatomy, Professor Burt G. Wilder, Cornell Uni- 
versity. 
Psychology. Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Colum- 
bia University. 
Physiology, Professor Jacques Loeb, University of 
Chicago. 
Developmental Mechanics, Professor T. H. Morgan, 
Bryn Mawr College. 
Morphogenesis, Professor Charles B. Davenport, 
Harvard University. 
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( The time allowed each speaker will be limited to 
ten minutes. ) 
Special Papers. 
In the evening there will be the business 
session of the Naturalists and the annual dinner 
of the societies, at which the President, Profes- 
sor C. O. Whitman, will make an address. 
The Ithaca Hotel will be the headquarters, but 
there are many excellent boarding houses at 
the campus, and the University will provide a 
luncheon each day. The members of the local 
committee are: Chairman, Professor S. H. 
Gage; Secretary, Professor W. W. Rowlee; 
Professor G. C. Caldwell, Professor B. G. 
Wilder, Professor I. P. Roberts, Professor S. G. 
Williams, Professor R. 8S. Tarr, Professor P. A. 
Fish, Professor E. L. Nichols, Professor L. A. 
Wait, Professor E. B. Titchener, Professor G. 
F. Atkinson, Professor L. H. Bailey. 
The officers of the Naturalists are: President, 
C. O. Whitman; Vice-Presidents, H. P. Bow- 
ditch, E. B. Wilson, W. P. Wilson; Secretary, 
H. C. Bumpus; Treasurer, John B. Smith; 
other members of the Executive Committee, 
elected from the Society-at-large, Leslie A. Lee, 
George H. Parker. 
The other societies meeting with the Natural- 
ists are: The Association of American Anato- 
mists, The Association for Botanical Morphol- 
ogy and Physiology, The American Morpho- 
logical Society, The American Physiolgical 
Society, The American Psychological Associa- 
tion, Section H. (Anthropology) of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 
The New York State Science Teachers’ Asso- 
ciation will meet at Ithaca, December 30th 
and 31st. 
GENERAL. 
THE National Academy of Sciences will hold 
its winter meeting next week in Boston, begin- 
ning on Tuesday, November 16th. 
A CoPpE memorial meeting will be held in the 
Hall of the American Philosophical Society, 
Philadelphia, this evening, under the auspices 
of institutions with which Professsor Cope was 
connected. Addresses on the services to sci- 
ence by Edward Drinker Cope will be delivered 
as follows: Dr. Theodore Gill, Work in Fishes, 
Batrachia and Reptiles; Professor Henry F. 
