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and two assistants are in residence through- 

 out the year and are prepared to furnish ma- 

 terial and supplies to investigators. Natural- 

 ists who wish to carry on research in the 

 winter and spring at Woods Hole should ap- 

 ply for accommodations to the director of the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, Professor C. 



0. Whitman, or to the assistant director, Pro- 

 fessor Frank E. Lillie, University of Chicago, 

 111. The regular season for investigators 

 opens in June when the summer laboratories 

 will be ready for occupancy. 



The Carnegie Institution has subscribed for 

 twenty rooms for the season of 1905. Appli- 

 cants for the use of these rooms should ad- 

 dress the president of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, Washington, D. C, stating the general 

 character of the work they propose to do, and 

 the period for which the room is desired. Ap- 

 plications should be made as early as possible, 

 as the rooms are generally all in use during 

 July and August. Thirty-five other private 

 rooms are reserved for investigators. Appli- 

 cations for these rooms should state the time 

 of desired occupancy and any special needs, 

 and should be sent to the director before May 



1. All private rooms are supplied with re- 

 agents, glassware, etc., and carry with them 

 the usual privileges in regard to supplies and 

 aquaria and assistance in collecting material. 



The regular session for students will begin 

 on Wednesday, June 28, and will continue for 

 six weeks. Courses in invertebrate zoology, 

 in the life histories of marine animals, in 

 physiology and in botany are offered. The 

 annual announcement for 1905 will be ready 

 on or before March 1, and may be procured 

 from Professor Frank R. Lillie, the University 

 of Chicago, 111. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor Eaphael Pumpelly was elected 

 president of the Geological Society of Amer- 

 ica at the recent Philadelphia meeting. 



The officers of the American Anthropolog- 

 ical Association for the ensuing year are: 

 President, Professor Frederic W. Putnam, 

 of Harvard University; Secretary, Mr. George 

 Grant MacCurdy, of Yale University; Treas- 



urer, Mr. B. T. B. Hyde, of New York; 

 Editor, Mr. F. W. Hodge, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



The annual meeting of the National Geo- 

 graphic Society was held at Washington on 

 January 13. Eight members of the board of 

 managers were elected to serve for three years 

 as follows : Alexander Graham Bell, Alfred H. 

 Brooks, Henry Gannett, General A. W. Greely, 

 Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Angelo Heilprin, O. H. 

 Tittmann and General John M. Wilson. The 

 report of the secretary, Hon. O. P. Austin, 

 showed that the present membership of the 

 society is 3,400, of whom 1,125 are residents 

 of Washington and 2,275 distributed through- 

 out the United States, Alaska, Philippines, 

 Europe, Asia and Africa. The net gain in 

 membership for 1904 was 789. During 1904 

 tlie society held twelve scientific meetings, 

 sixteen special meetings, and four field meet- 

 ings. 



Professor E. Warburg, director of the phys- 

 ical laboratory of the University of Berlin, has 

 been appointed president of the Reichsanstalt. 



Dr. Livingston Farraxd, professor of an- 

 thropology at Columbia University, has been 

 placed in charge of the work of the National 

 Association for the Study and Prevention of 

 Tuberculosis. 



Dr. Milton J. Grebnman, assistant director 

 of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biol- 

 ogy of the University of Pennsylvania, has 

 been elected director to succeed Dr. Horace 

 Jayne. 



The Russian Geographical Society has con- 

 ferred its Count Liithe medal on Sir John 

 Murray. 



Professor William H. Burr and Mr. Will- 

 iam Barclay Parsons, members of the Isth- 

 mian Canal Commission, have sailed for 

 Panama on the steamer Orizaha. 



Dr. Charles M. Child, of the department 

 of zoology of the University of Chicago, is 

 spending the winter quarter in research at 

 Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, Pacific Grove, Cal., and at the San 

 Diego Laboratory of the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



