February 20, 1903.] 



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chemists has been compiled, but it is far from 

 complete. All interested in receiving these 

 circulars of information should address a re- 

 quest to that effect to the chairman of the 

 American Committee on Organization. 



Intending members are requested to send 

 a cheek for $4.85 to Dr. H. W. Wiley, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, who will give a receipt therefor and 

 transmit the amount to Berlin. 



Titles of papers should be sent to the Amer- 

 ican chairmen of the various sectional com- 

 mittees. (See Science, No. 414, December 5, 

 1902, p. 899.) 



It is hoped that the interest which has 

 already been manifested by American chem- 

 ists in this congress will continue, and that 

 nest to Germany we may have the largest 

 number of members enrolled. 



H. W. Wiley, 

 Chairman, American Committee 

 on Organization. 



SCIEXTIFIC \OTES .lA'D NEWS. 



Dr. Albert B. Prescott, professor of chem- 

 istry in the University of Michigan, has been 

 given the degree of LL.D. by Northwestern 

 University. 



Dr. 1L\rl Gegexbaur, professor of anatomy 

 at the University of Heidelberg, has been 

 made a knight of the Prussian order ' Pour 

 le merite ' ; and Professor Luigi Cremona, di- 

 rector of the School of Engineering at Rome, 

 has been made a foreign member of the same 

 order. 



Dr. Friedrich Schottky, professor of 

 mathematics at Marburg, has been elected a 

 member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



The Carnegie Institution has made a grant 

 of $1,000 to Professor H. V. Wilson of the 

 University of North Carolina, for the prosecu- 

 tion of an investigation on the morphology and 

 classification of sponges. 



Professor S. W. Williston, of the Univer-. 

 sity of Chicago, has received a grant from the 

 Carnegie Institution for a monographic study 

 of the plesiosaurs. Professor E. C. Case, of 

 the State Normal School of Milwaukee, Wis., 



has received a similar grant to aid him in re- 

 searches on the Permian reptiles. 



A PRESS despatch states that the Carnegie 

 Institution has made grants of money to pro- 

 fessors of the Johns Hopkins University as 

 follows : Professor R. W. Wood, professor of 

 exi)erimental physics, $1,000 to maintain a re- 

 search assistant in his laboratory; Dr. H. N. 

 Morse, professor of analytical chemistry, 

 $1,500 to enable him to retain the services of 

 an assistant during the current year in his 

 investigations upon his newly discovered 

 method of measuring osmotic pressures; Dr. 

 Harry C. Jones, professor of physical chemis- 

 try, $1,000 for an assistant ; and Dr. J. J. Abel, 

 professor of physiological chemistry, $1,000 

 for the purchase of api^aratus necessai-y in his 

 work. 



Professor E. B. Poulton, of Oxford Uni- 

 versity, has been elected president of the 

 Entomological Society of London. 



An Electrochemical Society has been estab- 

 lished in Great Britain, with Dr. J. W. Swan 

 as president. The vice-presidents are Pro- 

 fessor A. Crum-Brown, Sir Oliver T. Lodge, 

 Dr. Ludwig Mond, Lord Eayleigh, Mr. Alex- 

 ander Siemens and Mr. J. Swinburne. 



M.\yor Low, of New York city, has ap- 

 pointed a commission to pass on the plan of 

 the new Manhattan bridge over the East 

 River, consisting of Lieut. Col. Charles W. 

 Raymond, U.S.A., Mr. George S. Morrison, 

 Mr. Charles C. Schneider, vice-president of 

 the American Bridge Company; Mr. Henry 

 W. Hodge and Professor Mansfield Merriman, 

 of Lehigh University. 



Professor W. S. Franklin, of Lehigh Uni- 

 versity, delivered a lecture before the Pitts- 

 burgh Academy of Science, on Februai-y 5, 

 on the subject of ' Lens imperfections and 

 their compensation.' 



Professor Conway MacMillan, of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, is recovering from a 

 serious -attack of tyijhoid fever which has kept 

 him from the university since January 6. 



Joseph Burtt Davy, instructor in botany 

 in the University of California, has accepted 

 the position of state agrostologist and botanist 



