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taries at as early a date as practicable and not later 

 than February 15, 1902, the titles of the papers, 

 accompanied by a brief abstract, so that they may be 

 duly announced on the programme which will be 

 issued immediately thereafter and which will give in 

 detail the arrangements for the meeting. 



The Publication Committee, under the rules of the 

 Society, will arrange for the immediate publication 

 of the papers presented. 



It should be borne in mind that the Society, by 

 means of its publications, which present a series 

 covering 140 years and include Transactions in quarto 

 and Proceedings in octavo, with its large exchange 

 list embracing, practically, the scientific societies of 

 the world, and with its exceptional facilities for im- 

 mediate issue, offers unrivalled avenues for prompt 

 publication and wide circulation of the papers read 

 before it. 



Mindful of the brilliant history of the Society, ex- 

 tending back into the first half of the eighteenth 

 century, its members should obviously be solicitous 

 that its career at the outset of the tvpentieth century 

 shall fully maintain the high prestige which the pre- 

 ceding centuries have given to it both at home and 

 abroad. Hence it is felt that with their cordial and 

 active cooperation secured the proposed general meet- 

 ings may be made a powerful factor in advancing the 

 interests for the promotion of which the Society was 

 founded. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



A MEETING of the executive comnaittee of the 

 American Society of Naturalists was held at 

 Boston on October 19, to complete the arrange- 

 ments for the Chicago meeting of the Natural- 

 ists and aflSliated societies. The meeting of the 

 Naturalists will be on Tuesday and Wednesday 

 of Convocation week, that is December 31 and 

 January 1. The discussion before the Natural- 

 ists will be on Wednesday afternoon, and the 

 annual dinner, at which the president, Professor 

 Wm, T. Sedgwick, will give the address, 

 will take place in the evening. The subject 

 selected for the discussion is ' The Relations of 

 the American Society of Naturalists to other 

 Scientific Societies.' 



Dr. Wilhelm Waldeyer, pi*ofessor of anat- 

 omy in the University of Berlin, has been sent 

 by the University of Berlin and the Berlin 

 Academy of Sciences as their representative at 

 the bicentennial exercises of Yale University. 



A GOLD plaque will be presented to M. Bert- 

 helot next month to celebrate the fiftieth anni- 



versary of his entering as an assistant the 

 chemical laboratory of the College de France. 



Mr. Barbour Lathrop, of Chicago, and Mr. 

 D.^G. Fairchild, of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, will leave San Francisco next 

 month on another expedition, with a view to 

 investigating exotic plants that might be intro- 

 duced into the United States. They go first to 

 the South Sea Islands and Australia and later 

 to India. 



Professor W. B. Scott, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, is still in South Amei'ica, working on 

 the Patagonian Expedition Eeports. When 

 last heard from he was at Buenos Ayres, ex- 

 amining specimens in the museums of that 

 place. 



The Hanbury gold medal for 1901 was pre- 

 sented on October 1 to Dr. George Watt by the 

 president of the Pharmaceutical Society. This 

 medal, which was established as a memorial to 

 Daniel Hanbury, is awarded biennially for 

 original research in the chemistry and natural 

 history of drugs. 



The council of the Institution of Civil Engi- 

 neers has, in addition to the medal and prizes 

 given for communications discussed at the 

 meetings of tlie institution in the last session, 

 made the following awards in respect of other 

 papers dealt with in 1900-1901 : A Telford 

 medal and a Telford premium to Reginald Pel- 

 ham Bolton (New York); a Watt medal and a 

 Telford premium to J. Emerson Dowson (Lon- 

 don); a George Stephenson medal and a Telford 

 premium to W. T. C. Beckett (Calcutta); a 

 Manby premium to E. K. Scott (London); a 

 Trevithick premium to T. A. Hearson, R.N. 

 (London); a Telford premium to J. A. W. Pea- 

 cock (Tantah, Lower Egypt). 



Dr. Norman Moore gave the Harveian Ora. 

 tion before the Royal College of Physicians, 

 London, on October 18. 



Professor Robert Koch has been sent by 

 the German Government to Gelsenkirchen, 

 where there is a serious outbreak of typhus, as 

 many as fifty cases being reported in a single 

 day. 



Dr. Charles Henry Brown, a New York 

 physician, who has given special atteution to 

 nervous diseases and had for many years been 



