August 2, 1901.] 



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ticket or tickets for the return journey should be 

 sold. No refund of fare can he expected because 

 of failure to secure such certificates. 



3. Tickets for the return journey will be sold 

 at one-third the fii'st-class tariff fare only to 

 persons holding certificates of the standard 

 form duly signed by the Permanent Secretary 

 of the A. A. A. S., and signed by the special 

 agent appointed for that purpose. 



4. No certificate will be honored that was 

 procured more than three days (Sunday not in- 

 cluded) before the meeting assembles (except 

 that when meetings are held at distant points 

 to which the authorized transit limit is more 

 than three days, the authorized transit limit will 

 govern), nor more than two days (Sunday not 

 included) after the first day of the meeting. 

 No certificate will be honored for return ticket 

 unless presented during the time that the meet- 

 ing is in session, or within three days (Sunday 

 not included) after adjournment. 



5. Tickets for return journey will be limited 

 to continuous passage on first train after pur- 

 chase. 



6. Certificates will not be honored by con- 

 ductors ; they must be presented to ticket 

 agents. 



7. Neither the certificates nor tickets fur- 

 nished for this occasion are transferable, and if 

 presented by any other person than the original 

 purchaser, they will not be honored but will be 

 forfeited. 



Members desiring longer time than that 

 allowed in connection with certificate reduc- 

 tion, viz., 3 days before the meeting assembles 

 to 3 days after adjournment (Sunday not in- 

 cluded), are advised to take advantage of the 

 Colorado tourist fares or summer excursions, 

 which, while costing a little more than the fare 

 and one third, are good from July 10 to Octo- 

 ber 31. 



If a sufficient number of passengers can be 

 guaranteed, arrangements can be made for 

 through Pullman service, to connect at Chi- 

 cago or St. Louis, so that members from differ- 

 ent sections of the country can make the trip 

 to Denver together. The Permanent Secre- 

 tary therefore invites all members who plan to 

 attend the meeting and who wish to take ad- 

 vantage of this through Pullman service to 



communicate with him at once, stating the 

 name of the road over which they intend to 

 travel and the date of their departure. If a 

 sufficient number of replies are received, the 

 arrangement will be made and members notified. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Smithsonian Institution, having pro- 

 visionally undertaken to represent the ' Inter- 

 national Catalogue of Scientific Literature ' in 

 the United States, begs to bring this fact to the 

 attention of men of science in the United 

 States, and to request them to furnish the In- 

 stitution with copies of all their writings which 

 appear in separate form. It is intended to index 

 all original scientific matter published since 

 January 1, 1901. 



The position of State Geologist of New Jer- 

 sey, vacant by the resignation of Mr. John P. 

 Smock, has been offered to Professor I. C. Rus- 

 sell, of the University of Michigan. Professor 

 Kussell agreed to accept the office a year hence, 

 and the board of managers has not yet decided 

 whether to wait. In the meanwhile Dr. H. B. 

 Kiimmel is acting geologist. 



Professor H. C. Beeler has been appointed 

 state geologist of Wyoming. 



Professor George E. Hale, director of the 

 Yerkes Observatory, has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Societa degli Spettroscopisti 

 Italiani. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 M. Maupas, of Algiers, a corresponding mem- 

 ber in the section of anatomy and zoology. 



We learn from Nature that Professor A. W. 

 Riicker will resign the secretaryship of the 

 Eoyal Society in consequence of his appoint- 

 ment as principal of the University of London. 



Professor Pasquale Villeri has been 

 elected president of the Reale Accademia dei 

 Lincei, of Rome. 



Professor E. B. Poulton, of Oxford Uni- 

 versity, will give one of the lectures at the 

 Fifth International Congress of Zoology which 

 meets next week at Berlin. His subject is 

 ' Mimicry and Natural Selection.' 



Professor William B. Scott, of Princeton 

 University, has arrived in La Plata, Argentina, 



