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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 358. 



The work of the past season was carried on 

 in the rented building which has served as 

 temporary quarters for the laboratory since its 

 iaauguration three years ago. Ground was 

 broken for the new building in September, and 

 another year should see the station in its per- 

 manent home. H. V. Wilson. 

 University of North Carolina, 

 October 21, 1900. 



EXHIBITION OF A STUDENTS' SOCIETY OF 

 SCIENCE. 



The Students' Society of Science, formed by 

 and of students in the New York City high 

 schools, held its second annual exhibition on 

 October 11, 1901, at the home of the president. 

 Exhibits were shown in the departments of 

 botany, zoology, conchology, mineralogy, pale- 

 ontology, geology and anthropology. 



The exhibits were in every case explained 

 and described by printed cards. Colored plates 

 prepared by the boys accompanied each collec- 

 tion and showed how the various classifications 

 were made. The collections themselves were 

 prepared so as to show variations of certain 

 properties which defined each group. Thus 

 there v^ere separate divisions in the department 

 of mineralogy, which described and explained 

 each of the several properties of hardness, 

 cleavage, color, refraction and crystallization. 



The department of biology presented collec- 

 tions and plates explanatory of the morpholog- 

 ical differentiation and evolution of animals, the 

 progressive specialization of the cell, and inter- 

 esting cases of plant and animal reproduction. 

 Special studies were shown of marine inverte- 

 brate zoology, the Arthropoda, and of the 

 structure and anatomy of birds. 



The Jones conchological collection, compris- 

 ing several thousand specimens from all parts 

 of the world, and a large number of selections 

 from the Hawley herbarium, were of particular 

 interest and beauty. 



Several large colored plates descriptive of the 

 American fossil beds accompanied the paleon- 

 tological collection, the gaps in the collection 

 being filled by sketches and plates, which 

 showed a remarkable degree of ingenuity and 

 correctness of knowledge on the part of the 

 young collectors. 



The entire exhibition showed what can be 

 done by a few earnest young students of nature 

 v^ho take the trouble to go below the surface of 

 mere collecting for sport. When we consider 

 that the oldest member of this young society is 

 but fifteen years of age, and that they received 

 no outside aid whatever in the preparation of 

 their collections, the result of their work is 

 truly remarkable. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



A MEMORIAL meeting in honor of the late 

 Henry Augustus Rowland was held at the Johns 

 Hopkins University, on October 16. The prin- 

 cipal address was made by Dr. T. C. Mendenhall. 



The Sociedad espanola de Historia Naturel 

 of Madrid has established a new class of socios 

 honorarios, limited to ten in number and at a 

 special meeting in March last elected the fol- 

 lowing eight persons : Sir Archibald Geikie of 

 London, Ph. van Tieghem of Paris, Adolph 

 Engler of Berlin, Santiago Ramon y Cajal of 

 Madrid, Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl of 

 Vienna, Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock), of 

 England, Albert Gaudry of Paris and Samuel 

 H. Scudder of Cambridge, Mass. 



On the occasion of the celebration of Vir- 

 chow's eightieth birthday last month, his bust 

 in marble was presented to the Pathological In- 

 stitute at Berlin. 



Dr. Charles E. Munroe, professor of chem- 

 istry and dean of graduate studies in Columbian 

 University, has been appointed by the Swedish 

 Academy of Sciences one of the representatives 

 to recommend candidates for the Nobel prize 

 in chemistry. 



Dr. and Mrs. T. C. Mendenhall sailed from 

 New York for the Azore Islands on October 29. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief entomologist of 

 the Department of Agriculture, returned to 

 Washington on October 27 from a protracted 

 tour of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, 

 Mexico and Texas, where he has been conduct- 

 ing field investigations and examining the work 

 of field agents. 



Dr. Andrew D. White, ambassador to 

 Germany and ex-president of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, returned to his post in Berlin on 

 October 31. 



