1895.] Scientific News. 211 
The Smithsonian Table at the Naples Station has been awarded to 
Professor T. H. Morgan for the dates Nov. 9, 1894 to May 8, 1895, 
incl., and to Prof. Herbert Osborn for the time May 9, 1895 to Octo- 
ber. 8, 1895. 
The table will be vacant from October 9, 1895 to June 8, 1896. 
Applications for it may be filed at any time with Professor Langley, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
The next meeting of the Committee to consider applications will be 
on April 9, 1895.—W. C. STILES, Sec. Comm. 
The weekly journal Scrence will be published after January Ist, 
under the direction of an editorial committee in which each of the 
sciences‘is represented by a man of science who is at the head of his 
department. The committee is constituted as follows: Mathematics, 
Prof. S. Newcomb (Johns Hopkins University ‘and Washington) ; 
Mechanies, Prof. R. S. Woodward (Columbia College) ; Physics, Prof. 
T. C. Mendenhall (Worcester); Astronomy, Prof. E. C. Pickering 
(Harvard University); Chemistry, Prof. Ira Remsen (Johns Hopkins 
University); Geology, Prof. J. LeConte (University of California) ; 
Physiography, Prof. W. M. Davis (Harvard University); Paleontology, 
Prof. O. C. Marsh (Yale University); Zodlogy, Prof. W. K. Brooks 
(Johns Hopkins University), Dr. C. Hart Merriam (Washington) ; 
Botany, Prof. N. L. Britton (Columbia College); Physiology, Prof. H. 
P. Bowditch (Harvard University); Hygiene, Dr. J. S. Billings 
(Washington); Anthropology, Prof. D. G. Brinton (University of 
Pennsylvania), Major J. W. Powell (Washington); Psychology, Prof. 
Cattell (Columbia College). 
