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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  congratulatory 
  messages 
  received 
  from 
  scientific 
  academies, 
  

   societies, 
  universities 
  and 
  individuals. 
  

  

  2. 
  Geografiska 
  Annaler. 
  — 
  A 
  new 
  periodical, 
  with 
  this 
  title, 
  

   has 
  been 
  established 
  at 
  Stockholm 
  by 
  the 
  Swedish 
  Society 
  for 
  

   Anthropology 
  and 
  Geography. 
  The 
  editorial 
  staff 
  consists 
  of 
  

   Prof. 
  Gunnar 
  Andersson, 
  Axel 
  Wallen 
  and 
  Hans 
  W. 
  Ahlmann. 
  

   As 
  now 
  planned, 
  it 
  is 
  to 
  appear 
  in 
  at 
  least 
  four 
  numbers 
  each 
  

   year, 
  aggregating 
  from 
  400 
  to 
  500 
  pages. 
  It 
  will 
  contain 
  origi- 
  

   nal 
  articles, 
  brief 
  reviews 
  and 
  notices 
  of 
  books 
  in 
  geography, 
  

   geophysics 
  and 
  pure 
  ethnography. 
  Two 
  numbers 
  have 
  thus 
  far 
  

   been 
  received; 
  prominent 
  articles 
  in 
  these 
  are 
  the 
  following: 
  

   " 
  Geomorphological 
  Studies 
  in 
  Norway" 
  (parts 
  I 
  and 
  II) 
  by 
  

   Hans 
  W. 
  Ahlmann 
  and 
  "On 
  the 
  physiographical 
  evolution 
  of 
  

   Spitzbergen" 
  by 
  Gerard 
  de 
  Geer. 
  

  

  3. 
  The 
  American 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  Advancement 
  of 
  

   Science. 
  — 
  The 
  seventy-second 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Associa- 
  

   tion 
  will 
  be 
  held 
  in 
  St. 
  Louis 
  during 
  the 
  week 
  from 
  December 
  29 
  

   to 
  January 
  3.. 
  Dr. 
  Simon 
  Flexner, 
  of 
  the 
  Rockefeller 
  Institute 
  

   for 
  Medical 
  Research, 
  will 
  preside. 
  The 
  address 
  of 
  the 
  retiring 
  

   president 
  will 
  be 
  given 
  by 
  Dr. 
  John 
  Merle 
  Coulter, 
  of 
  the 
  Uni- 
  

   versity 
  of 
  Chicago, 
  at 
  the 
  opening 
  general 
  session 
  of 
  the 
  Asso- 
  

   ciation; 
  this 
  will 
  be 
  followed 
  by 
  an 
  informal 
  reception 
  to 
  

   members 
  of 
  the 
  Association 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  affiliated 
  societies. 
  

   When 
  the 
  Association 
  last 
  met 
  in 
  St. 
  Louis, 
  fifteen 
  years 
  ago, 
  the 
  

   membership 
  of 
  the 
  Association 
  was 
  only 
  4,000; 
  the 
  membership 
  

   of 
  the 
  Association 
  now 
  numbers 
  nearly 
  15,000. 
  

  

  4. 
  The 
  French 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences. 
  — 
  At 
  a 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  

   Academy 
  held 
  on 
  November 
  24, 
  Dr. 
  Charles 
  D. 
  Walcott, 
  Secre^ 
  

   tary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  in 
  Washington, 
  was 
  unani- 
  

   mously 
  elected 
  an 
  associate 
  member. 
  

  

  5. 
  The 
  Story 
  of 
  Milk; 
  by 
  Johan 
  D. 
  Frederiksen. 
  Pp. 
  xx, 
  

   188. 
  New 
  York, 
  1919 
  (The 
  Macmillan 
  Company. 
  Price 
  

   $1.50). 
  — 
  A 
  concise 
  illustrated 
  handbook 
  of 
  reference 
  both 
  for 
  

   the 
  student 
  of 
  home 
  economics 
  and 
  for 
  the 
  general 
  public 
  is 
  

   "The 
  Story 
  of 
  Milk." 
  For 
  those 
  more 
  deeply 
  interested 
  in 
  any 
  

   phase 
  of 
  the 
  use 
  and 
  handling 
  of 
  this 
  product 
  there 
  is 
  an 
  

   appended 
  bibliography. 
  The 
  author 
  writes 
  with 
  the 
  practical 
  

   knowledge 
  of 
  one 
  who 
  has 
  had 
  forty 
  years 
  of 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  manu- 
  

   facture 
  and 
  distribution 
  of 
  dairy 
  and 
  milk 
  food 
  products. 
  

  

  A. 
  F. 
  M. 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  

  

  Louis 
  Valentine 
  Pirsson, 
  professor 
  of 
  Physical 
  Geology 
  in 
  

   the 
  Sheffield 
  Scientific 
  School 
  of 
  Yale 
  University, 
  and 
  since 
  1899 
  

   an 
  associate 
  editor 
  of 
  this 
  Journal, 
  died 
  on 
  December 
  8 
  at 
  the 
  

   age 
  of 
  sixty 
  years. 
  A 
  biographical 
  notice 
  will 
  be 
  given 
  in 
  a 
  

   later 
  number. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  John 
  Aitken, 
  the 
  English 
  meteorologist, 
  died 
  on 
  Novem- 
  

   ber 
  14 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  eighty 
  years. 
  

  

  