Januaey 5, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



39 



honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his con- 

 nection with the University, which occurred on 

 December 31st. 



Peofessoe C. H. Eigenmann, director of the 

 Indiana University Biological Station, since its 

 establishment, has severed his connection with 

 the Station, and Dr. E. E. Lyons, professor of 

 chemistry, has been appointed as his successor. 



Peofessor R. W. Wood of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has accepted an invitation to lec- 

 ture before the Royal Photographic Society, 

 London, and vpill leave New York early in 

 January to be absent about six weeks. 



Peofessor William James, of Harvard 

 University, and Professor G. T. Ladd, of Yale 

 University, have been elected delegates from 

 the American Psychological Association to the 

 International Congress of Psychology meeting 

 next year at Paris. 



Dr. J. W. Geegoey, of the Natural History 

 Museum, South Kensington, has been appointed 

 to the chair of geology in the University of Mel- 

 bourne, vacant by the death of Sir. J. M'Coy. 

 It is an open secret that Dr. Gregory applied for 

 the post because the trustees of the British Mu- 

 seum refused to recommend him for the position 

 of a first-class assistant, while they at the same 

 time checked the flow of promotion by retain- 

 ing Henry Yroodward as head of the Geological 

 Section of the Museum after the time for his 

 retirement under the age limit. Dr. Gregory 

 will receive four times the salary at Melbourne 

 that he has been receiving at the British Mu- 

 seum, and will have excellent opportunities for 

 research in Victoria. It appears, however, that 

 the trustees of the British Museum have made 

 a serious mistake in refusing to promote from a 

 second-class assistantship a naturalist whose 

 work as explorer and scientific investigator has 

 already won him distinction, and whose services 

 to the Museum during the past twelve years 

 have been most important. 



Mr. James Lyman Whitney, who for over 

 thirty years has been connected with the Boston 

 Public Library, has been elected librarian in 

 the place made vacant by the removal of Mr. 

 Herbert Putnam to the National Library, 

 Washington. Mr. Whitney is a brother of the 

 late Josiah D. Whitney, professor of geology at 



Harvard University, and of the late William 

 Dwight Whitney, of Yale University. 



A CABLEGRAM from London announces the 

 death of Sir James Paget, the distinguished 

 surgeon. He was born at Great Yarmouth, 

 January 11, 1814, being the son of a merchant 

 of that city. In 1836 he became a member of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons, and seven years 

 later, after he had made a reputation by some 

 novel and brilliant operations, he was made an 

 Honorary Fellow of the Institution. Among 

 his works are the ' Pathological Catalogue of 

 the Museum of the College of Surgeons,' ' Re- 

 port of the Results of the Use of the Microscope,' 

 published in 1842, and ' Lectures on Surgical 

 Pathology,' published in 1853, 1863 and 1868. 

 He was also an extensive contributor to the 

 ' Transactions ' of the Royal Society, of which 

 he was a Fellow. In 1875 he was elected 

 President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and 

 from 1884 to 1895 he was Vice-Chancellor of 

 the University of London. He was created a 

 Baronet in August, 1871. 



The following have been elected officers of 

 the Society for Plant Morphology and Physi- 

 ology for the coming year : President, Dr. D. P. 

 Penhallow, McGill University, Montreal ; First 

 Vice-President, Dr. Roland Thaxter, Harvard ; 

 Second Vice-President, Dr. Erwin F. Smith, 

 Washington, D. C; Secretary, Dr. W. F. 

 Ganong, Northampton, Mass. 



The ofiicers of the American Psychological 

 Association for the ensuing year are : President, 

 Professor Joseph Jastrow of the University of 

 Wisconsin ; Secretary, Dr. Livingston Farrand of 

 Columbia University ; Council, Professors Ladd, 

 Bryan, Gardiner, Cattell, Delabarre and Kirsch- 

 mann. 



The members of the American Society of 

 Naturalists voted to invite the members of the 

 American Society, at present in session at Chi- 

 cago, to constitute the Western branch of the 

 American Society of Naturalists. 



The Society of Gymnasium directors, which 

 met in New Haven last week, will hereafter be 

 affiliated with the societies meeting with the 

 Naturalists. The question of uniting with the 

 Anthropological Section of the American Asso- 

 ciation was referred to a committee. 



