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SCIENCE. 



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tory of the Forest,' ' Methods of Forest Crop 

 Production, Silviculture,' ' Methods of Busi- 

 ness Conduct, Forest Economy,' ' Principles 

 and Methods of Forest Policy,' ' Forest Policies 

 of Foreign Nations,' ' Forest Conditions of the 

 United States,' ' The Forestry Movement in 

 the United States.' There is also an appendix 

 of valuable notes and tables. From the titles 

 of the chapters, as well as that of the book, 

 it is seen that it deals v^ith the forestry prob- 

 lem from the standpoint of the political econ- 

 omist, and is in fact a contribution to one 

 phase of this science, as well as to technical 

 forestry. A full and satisfactory index closes 

 this timely book, which we are sure must find 

 its way into general use by all who are inter- 

 ested in the subject of forestry in any of its 

 more general aspects. 



Charles E. Bessey. 

 University of Nebraska. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Nobel prizes for 1902 were formally 

 awarded on December 10. As we have already 

 announced, the prize in chemistry was awarded 

 to Professor Emil Fischer, of Berlin; the 

 prize in medicine to Professor Eonald Eoss, 

 of Liverpool University, and the prize in 

 physics was awarded divided between Pro- 

 fessor H. A. Lorentz, of Leiden, and Professor 

 P. Zeeman, of Amsterdam. The value of 

 each of the prizes is about $40,000. 



The American Philosophical Society elected 

 officers on January 2 as follows: President, 

 Edgar F. Smith; Vice-Presidents, George F. 

 Barker, Samuel P. Langley, William B. Scott; 

 Secretaries, I. Minis Hays, Edwin G. Conklin, 

 Arthur W. Goodspeed, Morris Jastrow, Jr.; 

 Treasurer, Henry La Barre Jayne; Curators, 

 Charles L. Doolittle, William P. Wilson, Al- 

 bert H. Smyth; Councilors, George R. More- 

 house, Patterson Du Bois, Ira Eemsen, Isaac 

 J. Wistar. 



At the Washington meeting of the Astro- 

 nomical and Astrophysical Society of America 

 the following officers were elected to serve for 

 the ensuing year: 



President — Simon Newcomb. 



First Vice-President — George E. Hale. 



Second Vice-President — William W. Campbell. 



•Secretary — George C. Comstock. 



Treasurer — C. L. Doolittle. 



Councilors — E. C. Pickering, R. S. Woodward, 

 Ormond Stone, W. S. Eichelberger. 

 The time and place of the next meeting were 

 left for subsequent decision by the council. 



The first appointments to the newly es- 

 tablished honorary position of associate of 

 the Harvard University Museum are as fol- 

 lows: Andrew Grey Weeks, Jr., of Boston, in 

 zoology; Herbert Haviland Field, Ph.D., of 

 Zurich, in zoology, and Robert LeMoyne Bar- 

 rett, A.B., of Chicago, in geography. Mr. 

 Weeks is a specialist in Lepidoptera; Dr. 

 Field is the editor of the well-known Con- 

 cilium Bihliographicumj Mr. Barrett is en- 

 gaged in exploration in Central Asia. 



Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine 

 Hospital Service, has returned from Cali- 

 fornia, where he went to investigate the al- 

 leged existence of bubonic plague in San 

 Francisco. 



Three members of the scientific depart- 

 ments of Syracuse University have leave of 

 absence for the purpose of study abroad — 

 Dr. Charles W. Hargitt, professor of biology, 

 sails for Naples in January, to be absent one 

 year; Dr. T. C. Hopkins, professor of geol- 

 ogy, will study volcanoes and glaciers in 

 Italy, France and Switzerland, and Dr. Har- 

 old Pender proposes to repeat his experiments 

 on electricity and magnetism at the Univer- 

 sity of Paris. 



The state commissioners of education of 

 New South Wales, headed by Dr. G. H. 

 Ejiibbs, president of the University of Syd- 

 ney, have come to the United States to study 

 our educational system. 



Major Ronald Ross was given a reception 

 by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool on December 

 22 in recognition of the award to him of the 

 Nobel prize. 



The curators in the Zoological Museum of 

 the University of Berlin, Dr. Wilhelm Welt- 

 ner. Dr. Gustav Tomier and Dr. Paul 

 Matschie have been made professors. 



We learn from Nature that the First Lord 

 of the Treasury has appointed a committee to 

 inquire and report as to the administration by 



