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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. Xo. 538. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 By order of the president of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 the spring meeting of the council was called 

 to meet at the Cosmos Club, Washington, on 

 April 20, at 4:30 p.m. 



The following appropriations have recently- 

 been made from the Rumford Fund of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences : To 

 Professor Charles B. Thwing, of Syracuse 

 University, $150 in aid of his research on the 

 thermo-electromotive force of metals and al- 

 loys ; to Dr. Harry W. Morse, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, $500 in aid of his research on fluor- 

 escence. 



Sir William Eamsay has been elected a 

 member of the Atheneum Club under the rule 

 for the annual election of nine persons ' of 

 distinguished eminence in science, literature, 

 the arts, or for public services.' 



The University of Edinburgh has conferred 

 its doctor of laws on William Watson Cheyne, 

 C.B., professor of surgery. King's College, 

 London; John Hughlings Jackson, M.D., 

 F.E.S., London; Augustus D. Waller, M.D., 

 F.E.S., director of the physiological labora- 

 tory. University of . London ; Colonel Sir 

 Frank E. Younghusband ; and George A. 

 Gibson, professor of mathematics, Glasgow 

 and West of Scotland Technical College. 



The German Society of Apothecaries will 

 commemorate the hundredth anniversary of 

 the discovery of morphine by Dr. Seetiirnerby, 

 erecting a tablet on the house in which he 

 lived at Hamelu, Hanover. 



Professor Hugo MiiNSTERBERG, of. Harvard 

 University, has declined the offer of a chair of 

 philosophy, tendered to him by the University 

 of Konigsberg. 



President Eliot, of Harvard University, 

 who has been in Europe since the latter part 

 of January, expects to arrive in Boston on 

 April 22. 



Professor Edwin J. Conklin, of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, has gone to the 

 Marine Biological Station of the Carnegie 

 Institution at the Dry Tortugas to carry on 

 research work. 



Professor E. B. Van Vleck, who holds the 

 chair of mathematics at Wesleyan University, 

 will spend next year abroad. 



Dr. C. J. Martix, director of the Lister 

 Institute, London, has been sent to India to 

 investigate the plague. It is understood that 

 with several bacteriologists he will carry on 

 work at Kasauli. The deaths from the plague 

 in India average more than 30,000 a week in 

 spite of all efforts which have been made to 

 check its ravages. 



Dr. Olh'er L. Fassig, associate in meteorol- 

 ogy at the Johns Hopkins University and 

 local director of the L'nited States Weather 

 Bureau, will shortly leave as the represent-a- 

 tive of the Weather Bureau and of the Na- 

 tional Geogi-aphic Society of Washington, to 

 search for the Ziegler exploration party, sent 

 out in 1903 to find the North Pole. 



Dr. W. C. F.\rabee, of the anthropological 

 department of Harvard University, will con- 

 duct an expedition to Iceland during the 

 present summer. Professor T. A. Jagger has 

 given up his proposed expedition to the island. 



Professor U. S. Grant, of Northwestern 

 University, and Professor E. S. Tarr, of Cor- 

 nell University, are among 'those who will 

 carry on work in Alaska during the present 

 summer under the auspices of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey. 



Dr. J. Paul Goode, of the University of 

 Chicago, spent the Easter vacation week in 

 a tour of the leading cities of Kentucky, 

 making addresses in the interest of forest con- 

 servation. 



Eeuter's Agency is informed that Major 

 Powell Cotton is making satisfactory progress 

 with his expedition from the Nile to the Zam- 

 besi, on which he started in December last. 

 The explorer, who is in excellent health, was 

 leaving the Lado enclave for his journey into 

 the Congo forest and towards the Zambesi at 

 the end of February. He has secured speci- 

 mens of most of the species of game to be 

 found in the district, and has preserved com- 

 plete skins of both elephant and the rare 

 northern white rhinoceros. Of the latter, one 

 specimen only has ever reached Europe. 



