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ing, concerning which there was a general dis- 

 cussion. 



i^ter discussion of certain other matters 

 concerning which no action was taken the coiii- 

 mittee adjourned at 4 p.m. 



L. O. Howard, 



Secretary. 

 Washi^tgton, 

 October 23, 1904. 



SGIEJ^TIFIC NOTES AND NEWB. 



A SCIENTIFIC session of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held at Columbia 

 University, beginning on Tuesday, November 

 15, 1904. 



Dr. Charles Baskerville, head of the de- 

 partment of chemistry in the College of the 

 City of New York, has been presented with a 

 loving cup, designed by Tiffany and Company, 

 by his former colleagues and students at the 

 University of North Carolina, on the occasion 

 of the tenth anniversary of his doctorate. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that Dr. George M. 

 Sternberg, Surgeon-General, U. S. A. (retired), 

 has accepted the position of director of the 

 Wills Mountain Sanatorium, situated near 

 Cumberland, Md. The present efficient house 

 staff will be retained. Dr. Sternberg will 

 spend a considerable portion of his time at 

 the sanatorium, which is a health resort for 

 chronic invalids and convalescents. 



The department of botany, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, recently held an informal reception in 

 honor of Professor K. Goebel, of the Univer- 

 sity of Munich, and Professor Hugo de Vries, 

 of the University of Amsterdam, immediately 

 before their departure for their homes. 



At the meeting of the International Associa- 

 tion of Academies held in London last May 

 the following special conrmittee was appointed 

 ' to consider as to the best methods of making 

 accurate magnetic observations at sea with a 

 view to carrying out a magnetic survey around 

 a parallel of latitude ' : Professor von Bezold 

 (chairman). Professor Mascart, Professor Pal- 

 lazzo. Sir Arthur Eiicker, Lord Kelvin, Dr. 

 Bauer, Professor Liznar, General Eykathew, 

 Pi'ofessor Wiechert, Dr. Paulsen. 



Professor Pieeandrea Saccardo, of the Uni- 

 versity of Padua, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the Eeale Accademia dei 

 Lincei of Rome. 



Dr. Georg Gaffky, of the University of 

 Giessen, who recently succeeded Dr. Robert 

 Koch as director of the Berlin Institute for 

 Infectious Diseases, has been made an hon- 

 orary citizen of Giessen in recognition of his 

 services to the public health of the city. 



The French Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science will hold its annual meeting 

 at Cherbourg in 1905. The officers elected at 

 the recent meeting at Grenoble are as follows : 

 President, M. Giard, professor of the theory 

 of evolution at the University of Paris and 

 member of the Institute of France; Vice- 

 President, M. Lippmann, professor of phys- 

 ics at the University of Paris and member of 

 the Institute of France; Secretary, M. Gaston 

 Saugrain, of the Court of Appeals, Paris ; 

 Vice-Secretary, M. Carlo, Bourlet, professor of 

 mathematics at the Lycee St. Louis; Treas- 

 urer, for four years, M. Emile Galante. 



M. Gaston Bonnier, professor of botany at 

 the University of Paris, has been elected a 

 member of the Royal Microscopical Society 

 of London. 



Professor Wm. B. Alwood, for sixteen 

 years a member of the faculty of the Virginia 

 Polytechnic Institute, has resigned owing to 

 dissatisfaction with the conditions of scien- 

 tific work at Blacksburg. He will pursue 

 special investigations at Charlottesville, Va., 

 under direction of the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



At the recent celebration of the seventy- 

 fifth anniversary of McGill University, Prin- 

 cipal Peterson delivered an address in which 

 he sketched the history of the university and 

 the progress it had made. The lecture served 

 also to honor the anniversary of the birthday 

 of the late Hon. James McGill, its founder. 



According to The Botanical Gazette, the 

 Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna has 

 granted 4,000 Kroner to Professor Julius 

 Wiesner for his journey to the Yellowstone 

 National Park, where he expects to study the 

 light relations of the flora. 



