Mabcii 1, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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NOTES AND NEWS. 

 A. A. A. S. TABLK AT WOODS HOLL LA- 

 BORATORY. 



In joint session of Sections F and G, the 

 following resolutions of the Committee of 

 the A. A. A. S., on a tal)le at the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Woods Holl, 

 Ma#s., were oflered by Dr. S. H. Gage for 

 adoption by the Sections : 



The Sections of Zoology and Botanj' (F 

 and G) request that the Association con- 

 tinue its subscription of -SlOO for an inves- 

 tig;itor"s table at the Marine Biological La- 

 boratory at Woods Holl. Mass. 



The two Sections in joint Session also 

 make the following suggestions for the 

 award and government of the table sub- 

 scribed for by the Association : 



1. That the table shall be known as the 

 A. A. A. S. table. 



2. That the award of this table shall be 

 entrusted to a committee of five, consistmg 

 of the vice-president and secretary-elect of 

 each Section (F and G). and of the director 

 of the Marine Biological Laboratory (at 

 present CO. Whitman). 



3. Xw\ fellow or member of the A. A. A. 

 S. shall be eligible for appointment to the 

 table. (An applicant for membership in 

 the Association will be considered as a 

 member, and therefore eligible.) 



4. Applications for the table are to be 

 made to the pei-manent secretary, who shall 

 forward them to the senior vice-president 

 of Sections F and G, senioritj' being deter- 

 mined as in S 11 of the Constitutiou, L e., 

 according to continuous membership. 



o. That the holders of the Association's 

 table are expected to give proper credit for 

 the use of the table in all published results 

 of investigations carried on at the table. 



[The gi-ant for the table was made bj- 

 Council.] 



GENERAL. 



PBOFES.SOR T. H. MoRG.AJV and Professor 

 Herbert Osborn have been awarded the 



Smithsonian Table at the Naples Zoological 

 Station for periods lasting until October S, 

 1895. After that date the table will be 

 vacant and applications for it may be ad- 

 dressed to Professor Langlej-, Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



Lord Acton succeeds the late Professor 

 Seeley in the professorship of modern his- 

 torj- at the University of Cambridge. 



Professor W. W. Clendenin, of the State 

 Universitj- of Louisiana, has been appointed 

 geologist in charge of a sui-vey of the State. 



Dr. Lombard, known for his ^^Titings on 

 climatologj', died at Geneva on January 2'J, 

 in his ninety-second year. 



According to The American Xaturalisf, Mr. 

 R. T. Hill, of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 is in Panama, and Dr. H. C. Mercer, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, is in Yucatan. 



The New York Assembly has passed a 

 bill appropriating .51,175,000 for the pur- 

 chase of a new site, and the erection of 

 buildings for the College of the City of New 

 York. 



The American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory has applied to the Legislature for 

 §500,000, for an addition wing, which 

 would complete the southern front of the 

 building. 



The Arizona Legislative Assembly has 

 presented a memorial to Congress, request- 

 ing that the district in Apache county 

 covered with trunks of petrified trees be 

 withdrawn from entry with a view to pre- 

 venting destruction and injury until the 

 district has been made a public park. 



There have been so manj' requests for 

 copies of Prof. Charles S. Minot's article in 

 the Popular Science Monthly for July, 1893, en- 

 titled ' The Structural Plan of the Human 

 Brain,' that the article has been reprinted 

 and copies may now be obtained at twenty 

 cents each, from Mr. Charles B. Wormclle, 

 6 Menlo Street, Brighton District, Boston, 

 Mass. 



