December 27, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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The American Chemical Society will meet at the 

 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (December 

 30 and 31). 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology 

 meets at Columbia University, New York City (De- 

 cember 31 and January 1 and 2). 



The American Mathematical Society and the 

 American Physical Society meet at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City (December 27 and 28) . 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Dr. Adolf Meyer has been selected as di- 

 rector of the Pathological Institute of the New 

 York State Hospitals. Dr. Meyer is at present 

 director of the clinical work and laboratory of 

 the Worcester Insane Asylum and docent in 

 psychiatry in Clai'k University. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has filled the 

 vacancy in the section of physics, caused by the 

 death of Dr. Eaoult, by the election of M. 

 Gouy, of Lyons, to corresponding membership. 



Lord Avebury has been elected a foreign 

 member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. 



President Eemsen, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, was entertained by the alumni in 

 Boston on December 16. Speeches were made 

 by President Remsen, President G. Stamley 

 Hall, of Clark University, Professor A. L. 

 Kimball, of Amherst College, Professor L. P. 

 Kinnicut, of the Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute, Professor W. T. Sedgwick, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, and others. 



President Eliot, of Harvard University, 

 has planned a trip to the Pacific Coast and the 

 South, during which he will make many ad- 

 dresses. He will leave Cambridge about Feb- 

 ruary 20, and will return the latter part of 

 April. 



President Harper, of the University of 

 Chicago, has declined the directorship of the 

 International Congress at the St. Louis Exposi- 

 tion. 



Professor W. W. Rowlee, of the botanical 

 department of Cornell University, and Pro- 

 fessor J. C. Giflbrd, of the College of Forestry, 

 have gone on an expedition to Cuba to study 

 the forests and botany of western Cuba and the 

 Isle of Pines. 



Professor John Macfarlane and a party 

 of students from the University of Pennsylvania 

 are spending the Christmas holidays in botanical 

 field work in Florida. 



M. IzARE Weillar has come to the United 

 States commissioned to study the organization 

 of our technical schools and business methods. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Division of 

 Entomology, Department of Agriculture, lec- 

 tured before the Biological Club of the Woman's 

 College of Baltimore last week, on ' Mosquitoes 

 and their Relation to Disease.' 



Professor F. W. Cragin has recently ob- 

 tained a new Colorado meteorite. It is from 

 the eastern part of the State, and, like the three 

 or four others hitherto found in Colorado, is an 

 iron ; the date of the fall is unknown. It is of 

 square-lenticular form, strongly pitted, and 

 weighs forty-two pounds. 



Dr. Sven Anders Hedin, the Swedish 

 traveler, who has been exploring in the Gobi 

 Desert and Thibet, has reached Ladakh, Kash- 

 mir, on his way home. 



Baron Toll says that his winter quarters 

 have been established on the Nerpenskaye 

 coast, in the neighborhood of the Lena Delta, 

 and that an observation station has been opened 

 at Kotelnys Island. During the summer the 

 expedition reached latitude 77 degrees 32 

 minutes, in New Siberia. 



The memorial to Robert Fulton in Trinity 

 Churchyard, New York City, to which we have 

 already referred, was unveiled on the occasion 

 of the recent meeting of the American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers. 



A BUST of Alphonse Milne-Edwards has been 

 completed by the sculptor Marqueste and will 

 be placed in the Hall of Zoologj' in the Paris 

 Museum of Natural History. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Royal 

 Society, held on November 30, attention was 

 called to the^ deaths of the following fellows 

 and foreign members. The deceased fellows 

 were Sir John Conroy, died December 15, 

 1900, aged 55 ; Lord Armstrong, died Decem- 

 ber 27, 1900, aged 91 ; Dr. William Pole, died 

 December 30, 1900, aged 86 ; Professor George 

 Francis Fitzgerald, died February 22, 1901, 



