November 25, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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T. H. Morgan : ' An Analysis of the phenomena 

 of Organic Polarity.' (Introduced by E. B. Wil- 

 son.) 



E. B. Wilson : ' Experiments on Prelocalization 

 in the Annelid Ovum.' 



G. E. Mendenhall : ' The absolute value of the 

 Acceleration of Gravity determined by the Ring- 

 Pendulum Method.' (Presented by E. S. Wood- 

 ward. ) 



R. S. Woodward : ' The Double Suspension 

 Pendulum for measuring the Acceleration of 

 Gravity.' 



Edgar F. Smith : ' Biographical Memoir of 

 Robert Empie Rogers.' (By title.) 



Charles F. Hastings : ' A Determination of the 

 Dispersive Power of the Human eye.' 



Chables F. Chandler : ' The Air in the New 

 York Subway.' 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Hotel Walton, Locust and Broad Sts., 

 Philadelphia, has been chosen as the head- 

 quarters of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and affiliated so- 

 cieties, for the meeting that opens at the 

 University of Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, 

 December 28. 



The seventeenth winter meeting of the 

 Geological Society of America will be held 

 at Philadelphia, beginning on December 29. 

 The rneeting will be called to order by Presi- 

 dent J. 0. Branner, at 10 o'clock. 



The Eoyal Society has awarded its Eumford 

 medal to Dr. Ernest Rutherford, professor of 

 physics at McGill University, for his re- 

 searches on radioactivity. 



M. Perrot, professor of pharmacology. Uni- 

 versity of Paris ; M. Henri Moissan, professor 

 of chemistry. University of Paris; K. H. F. 

 Eosenbusch, professor of mineralogy and geol- 

 ogy. University of Heidelberg; Otto Biitschli, 

 professor of zoology and paleontology. Univer- 

 sity of Heidelberg; Wilhelm Ostwald, pro- 

 fessor of chemistry. University of Leipzig; 

 Wilhelm Pfeffer, professor of botany. Univer- 

 sity of Leipzig, have been elected correspond- 

 ing members of the Vienna Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The Rev. Stephen D. Peet, editor of the 

 Antiquarian, has been elected a corresponding 



member of the Anthropological Institute of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. • 



On the evening of November 14, a dinner 

 was given in Cambridge to Sir John Murray 

 and Professor Albrecht Penck, of Vienna, a 

 number of professors and students of Harvard 

 University being present. 



Dr. J. K. Small, curator of the Museum of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, is in Florida 

 studying the flora of that region. 



Under the auspices of the Corporation of 

 Newbury, a public museum was formally 

 opened in that borough, on October 26, by Mr. 

 Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S. 



Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, F.R.S., has 

 been made a perpetual delegate of the Uni- 

 versity Museum, Oxford. 



The following is a list of fellows who have 

 been recommended by the president and 

 council of the Royal Society for election into 

 the council for the year 1905, at the anni- 

 versary meeting to be held in November 30: 

 President, Sir William Huggins, K.C.B. ; 

 treasurer, Mr. Alfred Bray Kempe ; secretaries. 

 Professor Joseph Larmor, Sir Archibald 

 Geikie; foreign secretary, Mr. Francis Dar- 

 win; other members of the council. Dr. Shel- 

 ford Bidwell, Mr. George Albert Boulenger, 

 Colonel David Bruce, R.A.M.C, Mr. Frank 

 Watson Dyson, Professor Percy Faraday 

 Frankland, Professor Francis Gotch, Dr. 

 Ernest William Hobson, Professor John New- 

 port Langley, Mr. John Edward Marr, Sir 

 William Davidson Niven, K.C.B., Professor 

 William Henry Perkin, Jr., Professor John 

 Perry, Mr. Adam' Sedgwick, Dr. William 

 Napier Shaw, Professor William Augustus 

 Tilden, Rear-Admiral Sir William Wharton, 

 KO.B. 



Professor E. Salkowski, director of the 

 chemical department of the Pathological Labo- 

 ratory of the Charity Hospital at Berlin, well 

 known for his work in physiological chemistry, 

 celebrated his sixtieth birthday on October 11. 



Professor Theobald Smith, of Harvard 

 University, will deliver an address upon ' The 

 Place of Research in the University Medical 

 School,' before the Harvard Medical Society of 

 New York City, at the New York Academy of 



