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be held in Stockholm in 1916, King 

 Gustav V., of Sweden, has founded a 

 prize, consisting of a gold medal bear- 

 ing a portrait of Weierstrass and a cash 

 sum of 3,000 crowns, for the best con- 

 tribution to the theory of analytic func- 

 tions. 



The American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and its affili- 

 ated societies will meet at Atlanta, 

 Georgia, beginning on December 29, 



Dr. E. B. Wilson, professor of zoology, 

 Columbia University, is the president 

 for the meeting, and the address of 

 the vice-president will be given by Dr. 

 Edward C. Pickering, of the Harvard 

 College Observatory. Other scientific 

 societies will meet in different places; 

 the zoologists in Philadelphia; the geol- 

 ogists in Princeton; the anthropolo- 

 gists in New York and the psychologists 

 in New Haven. 



