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SCIENCE. 



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NOTES AND NEWS. 

 THE HELMHOLTZ MEMORIAL. 



The following subscriptions have been 

 paid to Prof. Hugo Miinsterberg, Secretary 

 and Treasurer of the American Committee, 

 Cambridge, Mass. Further subscriptions 

 should be sent to him at an early date : 



A. Agassiz, Cambridge, $ 25 



S. P. Avery, New York, 10 



Clarence J. Blake, Boston, 20 



Francis Blake, Boston, 50 



H. P. Bowditch, Boston, 20 



W. ]Sr. BuUard, Boston, 10 



J. McK. Cattell, ISTew York, 5 



F. A. Christie, Meadville, Pa., 2 



■Clarence N. Clark, Philadelphia, 25 



A. Donner, Boston, 25 



Mrs. M. A. P. Draper, 'New York, 50 



W. G. Farlow, Cambridge, 5 



H. 1^. Gardiner, ^Northampton, 3 



E. Griining, New York, .■ 15 



■C. C. Harrison, Philadelphia, 100 



A. Jacobi, New York, 10 



W. James, Cambridge, 5 



J. Jeflries, Boston, 5 



H. Knapp, New York, 100 



Seth Low, New York, 100 



Oswald Ottendorfer, New York, 200 



E. C. Pickering, Cambridge, 20 



J. J. Putnam, Boston, 5 



W. A. S., New York, 10 



G. de Schweinitz, Philadelphia, 25 



N. S. Shaler, Cambridge, 5 



Society of Eye Surgeons, San Francisco, 25 



D. P. Todd, Amherst, Mass., 10 



O. F. Wadsworth, Boston, 20 



H. C. Warren, Cambridge, 25 



D. Webster, New York, 5 



Henry W. Williams, Boston, 25 



N. Wilmer, Washington, 10 



Total, $970 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 



The Geological Society of America will 

 liold its seventh Summer Meeting at Spring- 



field, Mass., Tuesday and Wednesday, Au- 

 gust 27 and 28. The Council will meet 

 Monday evening and the Society will con- 

 vene Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. 



The Fellowship of this Society includes 

 nearly all the working geologists upon the 

 continent. The roU now contains 223 

 names of Fellows. 



The former Presidents of the Society have 

 been James Hall, James D . Dana, Alexander 

 Wiachell, G. K. Gilbert, J. WHUam Daw- 

 son and T. C. Chamberlin. 



The ofi&cers for 1895 are as follows : 



President, N. S. Shaler, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



Vice-Presidents, Joseph Le Conte, Uni- 

 versity of California; Charles H. Hitch- 

 cock, Dartmouth College. 



Secretary, H. L. Fairchild, University of 

 Rochester. 



Treasurer, I. C. White, Morgantown, W. 

 Va. 



Editor, J. Stanley-Brown, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Councillors : 



F. D. Adams, McGill College, Montreal. 



E. W. Ells, Geological Survey of Canada. 



I. C. Eussell, University of Michigan. 



E. A. Smith, University of Alabama. 



C. R. Van Hise, University of Wisconsin. 



C. D. Walcott, U. S. Geological Survey. 



The Society has just completed the sixth 

 volume of its Bulletin, which is a handsome 

 octavo, with 528 pages and 27 plates. This 

 volume includes twenty-one brochures. 



Information concerning the Societj' and 

 its publications can be obtained bj' addi-ess- 

 ing the Secretary, H. L. Fairchild, Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. 



NOMINATIONS BEFORE THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



The following fifteen candidates were 

 selected by the Council of the Royal Society 

 to be recommended for election into the 

 Societj^: J. Wolfe Barry, ci^^l engineer, 

 Vice-President of the Institution of Civil 



