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the leading anatomists of the United States 

 to participate in a conference in the interests 

 of anatomy in America. Two sessions of this 

 conference were to be held in the library of 

 the Wistar Institute, on April 11 and 12, be- 

 ginning each day at 10:30 a.m. The object 

 of this conference is to discuss the possibility, 

 advisability and means of organizing central 

 institutes for the promotion of research in the 

 different subdivisions of anatomy such as 

 physical anthropology, comparative anatomy, 

 topographical anatomy, embryology, histology 

 and neurology, and to establish relationship 

 with similar institutes abroad. The confer- 

 ence was proposed by Dr. M. J. Greenman, 

 director of the Wistar Institute, and the fol- 

 lowing anatomists are expected to be present: 

 Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, professor of anatomy, 

 Chicago University; Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, 

 professor of zoology. University of Pennsyl- 

 vania; Dr. Henry H. Donaldson, professor of 

 neurology. University of Chicago; Mr. Simon 

 H. Gage, professor of embryology, Cornell 

 University; Dr. G. Carl Huber, professor of 

 embryology. University of Michigan ; Dr. Geo. 

 S. Huntington, professor of anatomy, Colum- 

 bia University; Dr. Franldin P. Mall, pro- 

 fessor of anatomy, Johns Hopkins University; 

 Dr. J. P. McMurrich, professor of anatomy. 

 University of Michigan; Dr. Chas. S. Minot, 

 professor of embryology. Harvard University; 

 Dr. George A. Piersol, professor of anatomy, 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The National Academy of Sciences will 

 hold its annual stated session at Washington, 

 beginning Tuesday, April 18. 



The American Philosophical Society is this 

 week holding its general meeting at Phila- 

 delphia. 



Dr. R. S. Woodward, pi-esident of the Car- 

 negie Institution, was given a dinner by his 

 colleagues at Columbia University, at Del- 

 monico's, on April 4. Speeches were made by 

 President Butler, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Dr. 

 John S. Billings, Professor E. B. Wilson and 

 President Woodward. 



Dr. H. a. Lorextz, professor of physics 

 in the University of Leyden, and Professor V. 



F. Bjerknes, professor of mathematical phys- 

 ics in the University of Stockholm, will give 

 courses of lectures at Columbia University 

 next year. 



Professor Henry S. Carhart, who holds 

 the chair of physics at the University of Mich- 

 igan, and Professor W. B. Scott, who holds 

 the chair of geology at Princeton, have been 

 invited to join the official party to attend the 

 South African meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science this 

 summer. 



Professor R. W. Wood, of the department 

 of physics of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 and Dr. H. S. Jennings, of the zoological de- 

 partment of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 have been elected honorary fellows of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society of Great Britain. 



Professor Hugo de Vries, professor of bot- 

 any at Amsterdam, has been made a foreign 

 member of the Belgian Academy of Sciences. 



Professor E. von Drygalski has been elect- 

 ed a foreign member of the Geographical So- 

 ciety of Vienna. 



The Fothergillian prize of the Medical So- 

 ciety of London for 1905 has been awarded, 

 by the council of the society, to Sir Frederick 

 Treves in recognition of the value of his work 

 in connection with abdominal surgery. 



Professor William H. Pickering, of the 

 Harvard College Observatory, will observe the 

 total eclipse of the sun on August 30, in 

 Algeria. 



Professor Albert M. Reese, of Syracuse 

 University, will go to Florida at the end of 

 May under the auspices of the Smithsonian 

 Institution to collect eggs of the alligator 

 with which to work out its embryology; sub- 

 sequently he will spend some time at the 

 biological laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion on the Dry Tortugas. 



Dr. Marcus S. Farr, curator in the Depart- 

 ment of Paleontology, Princeton University, 

 will again this year conduct an expedition to 

 Wyoming and Montana. 



At the meeting of the Physicochemical Chib 

 of Boston and Cambridge, at Harvard Union, 

 on March 27, Professor A. A. Noyes spoke on 

 the conductivity of certain acids, bases and 



