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others have taken a prominent part in the 

 initial work. The South African Association 

 for the Advancement of Science is cordially 

 cooperating in the local organization, and will 

 join with the British Association in attending 

 the meeting. 



The aim of the council has been to secure 

 the attendance of a representative body of 

 British men of science, including specialists 

 in various lines of investigation; and that, 

 along with the generous support of the people 

 and authorities in South Africa, should go far 

 to insure the success of the meeting and to 

 stimulate local scientific interest and research. 



JOiyT ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMMER FIELD 

 COURSES IN GEOLOGY. 



A PAJiPHLET has lately been issued contain- 

 ing a brief account of the field courses in geol- 

 ogy ofPered for the summer of 1905 by several 

 universities in various parts of the United 

 States. The number of courses offered and 

 the professors, from whom information about 

 them may be obtained, are as follows : 



Intercollegiate Appalachian Course, Professor 

 W. B. Clark. 



University of Chicago, five courses. Professor 

 R. D. Salisbury. 



Columbia University, one course, Professor A. 

 W. Grabau. 



Harvard University, three courses. Professor 

 J. B. Woodworth. 



Johns Hopkins University, one course. Professor 

 W. B. Clark. 



University of Kansas, one course. Professor E. 

 Haworth. 



University of Minnesota, two coinses. Professor 

 C. W. Hall. 



University of North Carolina, one course. Pro- 

 fessor C. Cobb. 



Ohio State University, one course. Professor 

 C. S. Prosser. 



Stanford University, two courses. Professor J. 

 C. Branner. 



University of Wisconsin, one course. Professor 

 W. H. Hobbs. 



In order to encourage the taking of summer 

 field courses, the following colleges and uni- 

 versities have agreed to give credit, under cer- 

 tain conditions, to any of their students, who 

 thus spent part of the vacation in scientific 

 study: 



Amherst College, University of Missouri, Beloit 

 College, University of North Carolina, University 

 of Chicago, Northwestern University, Colgate 

 University, Oberlin College, Columbia University, 

 Ohio Wesleyan University, Hamilton College, 

 University of Rochester, Harvard University, 

 Syracuse University, Johns Hopkins University, 

 University of Toronto, University of Kansas, 

 Vanderbilt University, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Wesleyan University, McGill Uni- 

 versity, Western Reserve University, University 

 of Michigan, Williams College, University of Wis- 

 consin, University of Minnesota, Yale University. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor Simon Newcomb celebrated his 

 seventieth birthday on March 12. Professor 

 NewcOmb is at present engaged in an impor- 

 tant investigation, under the auspices of the 

 Carnegie Institution, for determining the ele- 

 ments of the moon's motion and for testing 

 the law of gravity. 



Professor Henri Moissan, of Paris, and 

 Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, of Leipzig, have 

 been elected corresponding members of the 

 Berlin Academy of Sciences. 



The following candidates have been selected 

 by the council of the Royal Society to be 

 recommended for election into the society: 

 John George Adami, William Arthur Bone, 

 John Edward Campbell, William Henry 

 Dines, Arthur Mostyn Field, R.K, Martin 

 Onslow Forster, Edwin S. Goodrich, Frederick 

 Gowland Hopkins, George William Lamplugh, 

 Ernest William MacBride, Francis Wall Ol- 

 iver, David Prain, George F. C. Searle, Robert 

 John Strutt and Edmund Taylor Whittaker. 



Cambridge University will confer its doc- 

 torate of science on Dr. E. B. Taylor, F.R.S., 

 professor of anthropology at Oxford. 



On the occasion of the opening of the new 

 public health laboratory of the Victoria Uni- 

 versity, Manchester, honorary degrees were 

 conferred upon Professor Calmette, Lille Uni- 

 versity; Professor Perroncito, Turin Univer- 

 sity; Professor Salomonsen, Copenhagen Uni- 

 versity, and Captain R. F. Scott, R.N. 



Professor K. Mobius has retired from the 

 directorship of the Berlin Museum of Natural 

 History. The position has been offered to 



