Jantary is, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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the liands of the Secretary at least three 

 months before the meeting of the Society 

 which is to act on tlieni. Two months be- 

 fore said meeting, the Secretary sliall cause 

 to be prepared and sent to each active 

 member of tlie Society- a list of the nomi- 

 nees, indicating the residence, occupation 

 and qualilications of each and the names of 

 those recommending him." 



" The otticers of this Society shall be a 

 President, Vice-President. Secretarj- and 

 Treasurer. Tlieir duties shall be those us- 

 ually performed by such officers in other 

 bodies, and such additional duties as may 

 be prescribed by the Constitution of this 

 Society. They shall hold office thi'ough the 

 annual meeting following the year of elec- 

 tion, and until their successors have been 

 elected and qualified. An addi-ess shall be 

 delivered by the President at the annual 

 meeting two years after his election." 



" The officers, together with the last 

 Past-President and two members elected 

 by the Society at its annual meeting, shall 

 constitute a Council, which shall be charged 

 with such duties as are prescribed by the 

 Society, and shall represent the Society in 

 the interval between meetings of the lat- 

 ter, reporting any ad interim action at the 

 next general meeting of the Society ; but 

 acts of the Council not .specified in the 

 Constitution, or for which special power 

 has not been conferred by the Society, shall 

 be binding on the latter only after they 

 have been reported and approved at such 

 general meeting. The Coimcil shall con- 

 stitute a Publication Committee, charged 

 with editing, publishing and distributing 

 such publications as may be authorized by 

 the Society, and they shall have the power 

 to select from their own number or the 

 mcnibei'ship of the Society an editor to 

 whom they may delegate the uumediate 

 duty of editing such publications. They 

 shall all constitute a Board of Curators 

 for tlie property of the Society, subject to 



such rules as are jirovided in the Constitu- 

 tion or otherwise prescribed by the Soci- 

 ety." 



•' The Society shall hold an annual meet- 

 ing at such time and place as the Council 

 each year may select ; and special meetings 

 for the presentation of papers or the trans- 

 action of business, at such other times and 

 places as the Society or Council may from 

 time to time deem necessarj-." 



The officers for the present year are : 

 Prof. Wm. Trelease, Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, President ; Prof. N. L. Britton, 

 Columbia College, New York City, Vice- 

 President ; Prof. C. R. Barnes, University 

 of AVisconsin, Madison, AVis., Secretarj'. 



rsYcnoLOGY. 

 The department of Philosophy and Psy- 

 chologj' at Chicago has been made this year 

 one of the strongest in America. Professor 

 Dewey, formerly of the University of Michi- 

 gan, has accepted a call to the Head Pro- 

 fessorship of Philosophy; Mr. G. H. Mead, 

 also of the University of Michigan, has 

 been made assistant Professor of I'hiloso- 

 phy; Mr. J. R. Angell, formerly of the 

 University of ^Minnesota, has been made as- 

 sistant Professor of Psychology, and >Ir. S. 

 F, McLennan has been made assistant in 

 Psychology. 



AltTICLES ox SCIENCi;. 



Among the articles of scientific interest 

 in the popular magazines are the following : 



A New Flying ^lachine, Abram S. Maxim 

 (Jan. Centiinj) ; Want of Economy in the 

 Lecture System, John Trowbridge ; The 

 Genius of France. Havelock Ellis ; Gallia 

 Rediviva, Adolphe Cohn (Jan. Aflanfic 

 Monthly') ; The World's Debt to Astronomy, 

 Simon Xewcomb {Dec. Cliantauquan) ; The 

 "Worlds Debt to Chemistry, IT. B. Corn- 

 wall (Jan .Cliautauqmin); Mental Character- 

 ists of the Japanese, George Trumbull 

 Ladd (Jan. Seribncrs) ; Heredity, Part 

 III., St. George Mivart (Jan. Hnmanita- 



