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the evidence of the deflections of the plumb line. The pendulum 

 has verified it, and this year the northern edge has been located 

 between Kalianpur and Goona. This fact lends strong probabil- 

 ity to the assumption that the deflection of the plumb line at 

 Kalianpur is southerly. 



" It is interesting also to note that the positive areas at Sipri 

 and Agra and the sudden change between Khurja and Gesupur 

 are indicated by the plumb line deflections in these localities. 

 This seems to show that the variations of density which produce 

 these abnormalities are situated near the surface." 



5. The American Philosophical Society. — The general meet- 

 ing of the American Philosophical Society, held in Philadelphia 

 on April 23 to 25, w r as one of the most successful in its history 

 The list of papers presented included nearly fifty titles, and in 

 addition an evening lecture was given by Dr. A. L. Day of the 

 Geophysical Laboratory upon " Some Observations of the Volcano 

 Kilauea in Action." The following is a list of new members 

 elected : Charles G. Abbot, Washington ; James W. Bright, Bal- 

 timore; Bradley M. Davis, Philadelphia ; Thomas McCrae, Phila- 

 delphia ; William D. Matthew, New York ; Alfred G. Mayer, 

 Washington ; Samuel J. Meltzer, New York ; John C. Merriam, 

 Berkeley, Cal. ; Robert A. Millikan, Chicago ; William A. Noyes, 

 Urbana, 111. ; Stewart Paton, Princeton ; Richard M. Pearce, Jr., 

 Philadelphia ; Palmer C. Ricketts, Troy ; Harold A. Wilson, 

 Houston ; Fred. E. Wright, Washington. 



The following foreign members were also elected : 

 Shibasaburo Kitasato, Tokyo ; Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Ley- 

 den ; Yito Volterra, Rome. 



6. The San Francisco Meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. — The American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science has decided to hold a general meet- 

 ing in San Francisco and vicinity on the occasion of the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition, in 1915, and has appointed a 

 Pacific Coast Committee of thirty-two members to make the nec- 

 essary arrangements. This Committee has recommended, and 

 the American Association has approved, that the sessions of the 

 meeting shall begin on Monday, August 2d, and terminate on 

 Saturday, August 7th. The general sessions and the general 

 evening lectures will be held in San Francisco. Sessions for the 

 presentation of addresses and papers will be held chiefly at the 

 University of California, Berkeley, but on one day at Stanford 

 University. 



The Pacific Coast Committee hopes that the 1915 meeting of 

 the American Association, at a point so far removed from the 

 usual meeting places of the general and special scientific societies 

 of America and from the homes of their members, may be remark- 

 able for the number of members of these societies in attendance 

 and for the wide interest and high standard of the addresses and 

 papers presented. Address correspondence to Albert L. Barrows, 

 Associate Secretary, University of California Library, Berkeley, 

 California. 



Am. Jour. Sci.— Fourth Series, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 223.— July, 1914. 



