OCTOBKK -2, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Anthropology. 



Sir John Kvans, ' Archeologioal and Etlinolog- 

 ical Researches in Crete,' flOO. 



Dr. R. Munro, ' Researches in Glastonbury Lake 

 Village,' £25. 



Professor A. Macalister, ' Anthroponietiie In- 

 vestigation on Egyptian Troops,' £10. 



Dr. A. J. Evans, ' Excavations on Roman Sites 

 in Britain,' £25. 



Physiology. 



Professor W. D. Halliburton, ' The State of 

 Solution of Proteids,' £20. 



Professor F. Gotch, ' Metabolism of Individual 

 Tissues,' £40. 



Botany. 



Professor S. H. Vines, ' Completion of Mono- 

 graph on Potamogcton,' £10. 



Professor L. C. Miall, ' Botanical Photographs,' 

 £5. 



Professor M. Ward, ' Respiration of Plants,' 

 £15. 



Professor !M. Ward, ' Experimental Studies in 

 Heredity,' £35. 



Corresponding Societies. 

 Mr. W. Whitaker, £20. 

 Making a total of £900. 



The following resolutions by the committee 

 of recommendations were agreed to: 



That, as urged by the president in his address, 

 it is desirable that scientific workers, and per- 

 sons interested in science, be so organized that 

 they may exert permanent influence on public 

 opinion in order more effectively to carry out 

 the third object of this association, originally laid 

 down by the founders — namely, to obtain a more 

 general attention to the objects of science, and a 

 removal of any disadvantages of a public kind 

 which impede its progress — and that tlie council 

 be recommended to take steps to promote such 

 organization. 



That the council be requested to consider the 

 desirability of urging upon the Government, by a 

 deputation to the First Lord of the Treasury or 

 otherwise, the importance of increased national 

 provision being made for University education. 



A resolution was also approved to the effect 

 that the sectional committees should be con- 

 tinued in existence until their successors were 

 appointed, and should be authorized to bring 

 to the notice of the council, in the intervals 

 between the meetings of the Association, any 



matters in which the action of the council 

 might be desirable. The appointment of 

 twenty-six committees without grants was ap- 

 proved. 



The following resolutions presented to the 

 committee of recommendations by section A 

 were approved : 



That the attention of the council be called to 

 the utility which would result from obtaining 

 more uniformity in the units adopted in meteorol- 

 ogy and to the fact that the moment has come for 

 bringing about such uniformity. 



That the systematic investigation of the upper 

 currents of the atmosphere by means of kites or 

 balloons is of great importance to meteorology, 

 and that the council be asked to take such steps 

 as they may think fit to urge upon the treasury 

 the importance of providing the Meteorological 

 Council with the funds necessary for the purpose. 



At a meeting of the general committee the 

 names of Professor Simon Newcomb, of 

 Washington, Professor L. Boltzmann, of 

 Leipzig, and Ph'ofessor Mascart, of Paris, 

 were added to the vice-presidents of Section 

 A. Dr. W. A. Ilerdman was elected one of the 

 secretaries of the Association in the room of 

 Dr. B. II. Scott. The Association will meet 

 on August 17, 1904, at Cambridge, under the 

 presidency of Mr. Arthur Balfour, the prime 

 minister. The following year the meeting will 

 be in South Africa, the governments of Cape 

 Colony, Natal and other colonies having ap- 

 propriated £6,000 to assist in the transporta- 

 tion of members. 



SCW^fTlFlC X0TE8 AXD XEWS. 



Dr. W. a. Xove!^, of the Rose Polytechnic 

 Institute, has accepted the position of chem- 

 ist in the National Bureau of Standards. 

 Diiring the present year while the laboratories 

 are in course of erection. Professor Noyes 

 will enjoy the hospitality of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University. 



PiiOFESsoR George II. D.\rwis, of Cambridiro 

 University, has been elected associate of the 

 Belgian Academy of Sciences in the room of 

 the late Professor Stokes. 



Dr. M. p. R.wenel has been appointed as- 

 sistant medical director and chief of the 



