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research in the relations of science to agricul- 

 ture and the mechanic arts. 



E. W. Allen. 

 Office of Experiment Stations, 

 U. S. Depabtment of Agriculture. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Professor Ernest Rutherford, of McGill 

 University, has been appointed Silliman lec- 

 turer at Yale University for 1905. The previous 

 Silliman lecturers have been Professor J. J. 

 Thomson, of Cambridge University, and Pro- 

 fessor Charles "S. Sherrington, of Liverpool 

 University. 



The newly elected officers of the American 

 Physiological Society are: President, Professor 

 Wm. H. Howell, of Johns Hopkins University; 

 Secretary, Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, of 

 Yale University; Treasurer, Professor Walter 

 B. Cannon, of Harvard University. Addi- 

 tional members of the council are Professor 

 R. H. Chittenden and Dr. S. J. Meltzer. 



At the seventh biennial convention of the 

 Society of the Sigma Xi, held in Philadelphia, 

 December 29, 1904, the following officers were 

 elected : President, Professor Edward L. 

 Nichols, Cornell University; Vice-President, 

 Professor T. H. Macbride, Iowa State Uni- 

 versity ; Recording Secretary, Professor Will- 

 iam Trelease, Missouri Botanical Garden; 

 Corresponding Secretary, Professor H. B. 

 Ward, University of Nebraska ; Treasurer, 

 Professor L. M. Underwood, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



The Royal Danish Geographical Society 

 has conferred its gold medal on Captain 

 Robert F. Scott, RN., the leader of the re- 

 cently returned Antarctic Expedition. 



The council of the Geological Society of 

 London has this year made the following 

 awards of its medals and funds : The Wol- 

 laston medal to Mr. J. J. H. Teall, director of 

 the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom ; 

 the Murchison medal to Mr. E. J. Dunn, 

 director of the Geological Survey of "Victoria; 

 the Lycll medal to Dr. Hans Reusch, director 

 of the Geological Survey of Norway; the 

 Bigsby medal to Dr. J. W. Gregory, lately 

 professor at Melbourne and now professor of 



geology in Glasgow University; the Wol- 

 laston fund to Mr. H. H. Arnold Bemrose for 

 his researches in the geology of Derbyshire; 

 the Murchison fund to Mr. H. L. Bowman for 

 his mineralogical work, while the Lyell fund 

 is divided between Mr. E. A. N. Arber, in rec- 

 ognition of his work in paleobotany, and Mr. 

 Walcot Gibson for his geological work in the 

 Midland Counties of England. 



President Eliot, of Harvard University, has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the 

 Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of 

 the Institute of France. 



Sir Norman Lockyer has been elected a 

 corresponding member of the St. Petersburg 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. George A. Dorsey, of the Field Colum- 

 bian Museum, and Dr. Alex Hrdlicka, of the 

 U. S. National Museum, have been elected 

 corresponding members of the Society of An- 

 thropology of Paris. 



Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, who recently 

 retired from the regius professorship of medi- 

 cine at Oxford, celebrated his seventy-sixth 

 birthday on December 21. 



Mr. John F. Crowell, director of the 

 Buffalo Botanical Garden, will visit Panama 

 during February and March as an agent of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, which will 

 undertake botanical explorations in coopera- 

 tion with the engineers of the Panama Canal 

 Commission. 



Reuter's Agency is informed that 3Ir. J. J. 

 Harrison has left London for Khartum on his 

 second expedition to the Congo. He intends 

 to travel along the west side bordering on the 

 Nile and Ituri district. He hopes to be able 

 to secure an okapi in the forest region. Mr. 

 Harrison has obtained leave in Brussels to 

 bring home some pygmies. 



Associate Professor Frederick Starr, of 

 the Department of Sociology and Anthropol- 

 ogy, of the University of Chicago, returned 

 on December 28 from three months in Mexico. 

 It was his fifteenth journey to that country. 



Professor Ri sskli, H. Chittenden, director 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 

 versity, has just announced the make-up of 



