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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 
THE RoyaL Society held its anniversary 
meeting at the Burlington House on the after- 
noon of November 30th and its anniversary din- 
ner on the evening of the sameday. The med- 
als were presented in accordance with the 
announcement already made, and the officers 
were re-elected, with the exception ofsome mem- 
bers of the Council. The officers elected are as 
follows: President, Lord Lister ; Treasurer, Sir 
John Evans; Secretaries, Professor Michael 
Foster, Professor Arthur William Rucker ; For- 
eign Secretary, Sir Edward Frankland ; other 
members of the Council, Professor William 
Grylls Adams, Professor Thomas Clifford A1I- 
butt, Sir Robert Stawell Ball, Rev. Thomas 
George Bonney, Professor John Cleland, Pro- 
fessor Robert Bellamy Clifton, Professor James 
Alfred Ewing, Alfred Bray Kempe, John New- 
port Langley, Joseph Larmor, Professor Nevil 
Story Maskelyne, Professor Raphael Meldola, 
Professor Edward Bagnall Poulton, William 
James Russell, Dukinfield Henry Scott, Profes- 
sor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon. 
Lord Lister delivered the anniversary address, 
beginning by enumerating the fellows and for- 
eign members who had died during the year, 
and paying a tribute to those whose scientific 
services had been the most noteworthy, includ- 
ing Sylvester, Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, 
the Rey. Dr. Houghton, Edward Ballard, James 
Heywood, Weierstrass, DesCloizeaux, Julius 
von Sachs and du Bois-Reymond. 
Lord Lister then proceeded to report on the 
activities of the Royal Society during the year, 
including the address of congratulation pre- 
sented to the Queen, the deputation of the 
Society to urge upon the government the estab- 
lishment of a National Physical Laboratory, 
and its relations with the India office in regard 
to the treatment of the plague. Lord Lister 
further referred to Dr. Copeland’s researches 
on variola and vaccinia and to the contributions 
collected by the Society for the National Pasteur 
Memorial. At the anniversary dinner toasts 
were proposed or responded to by the President, 
Sir John Evans, the Duke of Devonshire, the 
American Ambassador, Professor Forsyth, Lord 
Kelvin and Professor Campbell. 
SCIENCE. 
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THE NEW YORK STATE SCIENCE TEACHERS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
Tuts Association will, as we have already an- 
nounced, hold its second annual meeting at: 
Ithaca on December 30th and 31st, following 
the sessions of the American Society of Natu- 
ralists and the affiliated societies. The objects. 
of such an Association should commend them- 
selves to all men of science, and it is hoped that 
as many as possible attending the other meet- 
ings will remain at Ithaca over Thursday and 
Friday, and that all resident in New York State 
will join the Association. The program ar- 
ranged for the meeting is as follows: 
Thursday afternoon at 3 p. m., address of 
welcome by President J. G. Schurman; paper 
by Miss Mary E. Dann, of the Girls’ High 
School, Brooklyn, on ‘ Physical Laboratory 
Work in Secondary Schools.’ Discussion opened 
by Professor John F. Woodhull, Teachers’ Col- 
lege, New York; followed by Professor D. L. 
Bardwell, Cortland Normal School, and Pro- 
fessor Irving P. Bishop, of Buffalo Normal 
School. 
At the evening session, in the Physical Lec- 
ture Room, an address will be given by the Presi- 
dent of the Association, Professor Nichols, on 
‘The Use of the Lantern in Science Teaching ” 
(illustrated by numerous experiments). After 
the evening session there will be an informal 
reception at the house of the President. 
On Friday morning the report of the com- 
mittee of nine will be presented on the three 
following subjects: (1) The recognition of 
science as a requirement for entrance to Col- 
leges. (2) Science courses for secondary schools. 
(8) Nature study in elementary schools. A 
paper by Professor L. M. Underwood, of Colum- 
bia University, on ‘The Teaching of Botany 
in Secondary Schools,’ will be followed by a 
discussion by Miss Sarah Y. Chollar, of Pots- 
dam Normal School, and Professor W. H. Len- 
non, of Brockport Normal School. 
In the afternoon there will be round tables. 
for the discussion of science teaching, as fol- 
lows: I. ‘Union Schools and Academies,’ led 
by Principal Thomas B. Lovell, of Niagara Falls 
High School. II. ‘Normal Schools,’ led by 
Professor Howard Lyon, of Oneonta Normal 
School. III. ‘Colleges,’ led by Professor B. 
