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SCIENCE. 



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The American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences has elected as foreign honorary members, 

 Charles Emile Picard, of Paris, in place of the 

 late H. A. E. A. Faye, and Joseph Larmor, 

 of Cambridge, England, in place of the late 

 Sir George Gabriel Stokes. 



The daily papers state that the scientific 

 committee of the Congress of Arts and Sci- 

 ences of the St. Louis Exposition, consisting 

 of Dr. Simon Newcomb, Washington; Pro- 

 fessor Hugo Miinsterberg, Harvard UniverBity, 

 and Professor Albion W. Small, the University 

 of Chicago, made its report in New York 

 on October 14 to the director of congresses, 

 Mr. Howard J. Rogers, and to President 

 Nicholas Murray Butler, chairman of the ad- 

 ministrative board. The members of the com- 

 mittee were in Europe for four months, and 

 of the invitations presented to leading scien- 

 tific men and scholars, 114 have been accepted. 



Professor Cakl H. Eigenmann, of Indiana 

 University, has gone to Cuba to continue the 

 work of investigating the blind fishes of that 

 island. 



Mr. G. H. Marx, assistant professor of me- 

 chanical engineering at Stanford University, 

 has received a year's leave of absence which 

 he will spend in Germany. 



Dr. E. D. Starbuck, assistant professor of 

 education in Stanford University, has been 

 granted a year's leave of absence, and is at 

 present in England. It is said that he will 

 not return to Stanford University, but will 

 accept a position in the east. 



M. L. H. Uillier, professor of physics at the 

 Lyceum at Nantes, has been made director of 

 the Meteorological Observatory in that city. 



It is stated in Nature that Mr. H. Max- 

 well Lefroy, who has been appointed ento- 

 mologist to the Government of India, is to be 

 stationed at Surat, in the Bombay Presidency, 

 pending the establishment of the permanent 

 headquarters of the Imperial Agricultural De- 

 partment now being organized under the 

 orders of Lord Curzon. 



Mr. S. I. KuwANA, M.S. (Stanford), has 

 been appointed entomologist at the Central 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Nishiga- 



hara, Tokyo. Mr. Kuwana's special studies 

 have been given largely to scale insects and to 

 the Coccidse of Japan (No. XXVIL, Contrib. 

 to Biology, Hopkins Seaside Lab., 1902). He 

 has monographed the Japanese species as at 

 present known. 



Charles V. Piper, of the Washington Col- 

 lege and Station, has accepted an appointment 

 as botanist in the Division of Agrostology, and 

 will also have charge of the herbarium of 

 grasses. 



Alfred M. Sanchez, an assistant in the Bu- 

 reau of Soils, has been appointed in the Bu- 

 reau of Agriculture of the Philippines, where 

 he will continue the soil investigations car- 

 ried on last year by C. W. Dorsey. 



Professor C. P. Gillett, entomologist at 

 the Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Col., 

 has been appointed chief entomologist of the 

 St. Louis Exposition. 



The twenty-first congress of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union will convene in Phila- 

 delphia on Monday, November 16, at 8 p. m. 

 The evening session will be devoted to the elec- 

 tion of ofBcers and the transaction of other 

 routine business. The meetings, open to the 

 public and devoted to the reading and discus- 

 sion of scientific papers, will be held in the 

 lecture hall of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences (Logan Square), beginning on Tues- 

 day, November 17, and continuing for three 

 days. Information regarding the congress can 

 be had by addressing the secretary, Mr. John 

 H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



A meeting of the American Physical So- 

 ciety will be held at Columbia University on 

 October 31 



The American Institute of Mining Engi- 

 neers held its eighty-fifth meeting on October 

 13 in New York City, under the presidency of 

 Mr. Albert E. Ledoux. 



The fifth International Congress of Gyiie- 

 cology will be held at St. Petersburg in Sep- 

 tember, 1905. 



An international exhibition of the manufac- 

 ture and industrial applications of alcohol will 

 be held in Vienna in April and May, 1904. 



