January 9, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 and Professor J. McKeen Cattail, of Colum- 

 bia University, were elected additional mem- 

 bers of the executive committee. The time 

 and place of the next meeting of the society 

 were referred to the executive coromittee in 

 consultation with the secretaries of the 

 affiliated societies, but will doubtless be at 

 St. Louis in conjunction with the meeting of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



Professor J. H. Long, of Northwestern 

 University, was elected president of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society, in succession to Presi- 

 dent Ira Remsen, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Mathematical Society the following officers 

 were elected: President, Professor Thomas S. 

 Fiske, Columbia University; Vice-Presidents, 

 Professor W. P. Osgood, Harvard University, 

 Professor Alexander Ziwet, University of 

 Michigan, Professor D. E. Smith, Teachers 

 College, Columbia University; Secretary, Pro- 

 fessor F. N. Cole, Columbia University; 

 Treasurer, W. S. Dennett. Librarian, Pro- 

 fessor D. E. Smith; Committee of Publica- 

 tion, Professor F. N. Cole, Professor Alex- 

 ander Ziwet, Professor D. E. Smith; Mem- 

 iers of the Council, Professor James Hark- 

 ness, Bryu Mawr College, Heinrich Maschke, 

 University of Chicago, Irving Stringham and 

 W. H. Tyler. 



Mr. William Lutley Sclatee has been 

 selected by the council of the Zoological So- 

 ciety of London to succeed his father, Mr. 

 Philip Lutley Sclater, as secretary of the so- 

 ciety. Mr. Sclater holds the position of 

 director of 'the South African Museum at 

 Cape Tovm. 



Me. Willis L. Mooee, of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, and M. C. A. Angot, of the Central 

 Meteorological Bureau of France, have been 

 elected members of the Eoyal Meteorological 

 Society. 



Dr. J. Wiesnee, of Vienna, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the Linean So- 

 ciety of London and a corresponding member 

 of the Academy of Sciences at Gottingen. 



On the occasion of his jubilee Lord Lister 

 has been created, by the King of Denmark, a 

 Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of 

 Dannebrog. 



In accordance with the recommendation of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences, M. Darboux 

 has been appointed a member of the Bureau of 

 Longitude in the room of the late M. Comu. 



Dr. Hermann Nothnagel, professor of 

 clinical medicine and therapeutics in the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna, has been nominated a life 

 member of the upper house of the Austrian 

 Parliament. 



Dr. Frederick W. Teue, executive curator 

 of the National Museum, has been placed in 

 charge of the exhibits of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution and National Museum at the St. 

 Louis Exposition. 



Dr. Rudolf Aderhold has been made di- 

 rector of the Berlin Bureau of Health. 



De. Chaeles J. Bell, professor of chem- 

 istry in the University of Minnesota, died on 

 January 4, aged forty-eight years. 



The scientific fraternity, the Sigma Xi So- 

 ciety, has established a chapter at Columbia 

 University. 



The Colorado Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers has been organized at Denver with the 

 following officers : Chairman, Henry L. 

 Doherty; Vice-Chairman, J. W. Stearns; Sec- 

 ond V ice-Chairman, A. H. Weber; Secretary, 

 Eugene Sayer; Treasurer, A. M. Ballou. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS. 



It is announced that among the New Tear's 

 benefactions of Dr. D. K. Pearsons, of Chi- 

 cago, will be: Illinois College, Jacksonville, 

 111., $50,000; Fargo College, Fargo, N. D., 

 $50,000; West Virginia Conference Seminary, 

 Buchanan, W. Va., $50,000; Fairmount Col- 

 lege, Wichita, Kas., $25,000. This would make 

 the total of Mr. Pearsons's contributions to 

 colleges $4,000,000. 



The Board of Trustees of Hamline Univer- 

 sity in Minneapolis announces that an endow- 

 ment of $250,000 for the university has been 

 raised, principally in Minnesota. Messrs. 

 James J. Hill and M. G. and J. L. Norton, of 

 Winona, gave large sums. 



