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SCIENCE. 



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the session: Messrs. Agassiz, Allen, Becker, 

 Billings, Boas, Boss, Brewer, Brooks, Brush, 

 Cattell, Chittenden, Councilman, Dall, Davis, 

 Dutton, Emmons, Gill, Hague, Langley, Mer- 

 riam, Mitchell, Morse, jSTewcomb, Nichols, 

 Osborn, Peirce, Putnam, Remsen, Walcott, 

 Webster, Welch, Wells, White, Wood and 

 Woodward. 



The following papers were presented: 



Edward L. Nichols: 'The Mechanical Equiva- 

 lent of Light.' 



Dr. H. C. Wood and Dr. Daniel M. Hoyt: 

 ' The Effects of Alcohol upon the Circulation.' 



Alexander Agassiz : * The Expedition of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, in 

 charge of Alexander Agassiz, in the Eastern Pa- 

 cific, Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, com- 

 manding.' 



William M. Davls : ' Resequent Valleys.' 



William M. Davis : ' The Geographical Cycle 

 in an Arid Climate.' 



W. W. Campbell: ' A Catalogue of Spectro- 

 scopic Binary Stars.' 



C. D. Perrine ( introduced by W. W. Campbell) : 

 ' Discovery of the Sixth and Seventh Satellites of 

 Jupiter and their Preliminary Orbits.' 



W. K. Brooks : ' The Axis of Symmetry of the 

 Ovarian Egg of the Oysters.' 



John C. Branner, of Stanford University; 

 William H. Holmes, of the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Ethnology; William H. Howell, of Johns 

 Hopkins University; Arthur A. Noyes, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 

 Michael I. Pupin, of Columbia University, 

 were elected members of the academy. 



M. Henri Becquerel, of Paris, and Professor 

 Paul von Groth, of Munich, were elected for- 

 eign associates. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Professor E. B. Frost has been appointed 

 director of the Yerkes Observatory by the 

 trustees of the University of Chicago, in suc- 

 cession to Professor G. E. Hale, who gives his 

 whole time to the establishment of the new 

 Solar Observatory of the Carnegie Institution 

 at Mt. Wilson, Cal. 



Dr. William Osler has been elected an 

 honorary fellow of the Eoyal College of 

 Physicians of Ireland. 



The Baltimore correspondent of the X. Y. 

 Evening Post states that at the request of Miss 

 Mary E. Garrett, the benefactress of the med- 

 ical department of Johns Hopkins University, 

 Dr. W. H. Welch, Dr. W. S. Halstead and 

 Dr. H. A. Kelly will meet Dr. William Osier 

 in London in June, to sit for a group portrait 

 to be painted by John S. Sargent. 



The Vienna Laryngological Society ap- 

 pointed Seiior Manuel Garcia, on the occasion 

 of his one hundredth birthday, to be an hon- 

 orary member of the society. Professor 

 Chiari, the president, handed the diploma of 

 honorary membership to Senor Garcia. 



Professor John F. Jameson, head of the 

 department of history at the University of 

 Chicago, has been offered the post of director 

 of the Bureau of Historical Research in the 

 Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C. This 

 position is vacant through the return of Pro- 

 fessor J. Lawrence Laughlin to the University 

 of Michigan. 



Professor Bashford Dean, of Columbia 

 LTniversity, plans to spend several months 

 in Japan, where he will continue his studies 

 on the development of the ancient sharks, 

 Cestracion and Chlamydoselachus. He will 

 be the guest of the Imperial University of 

 Tokyo. 



Professor H. S. Gr.wes, director of the 

 Yale School of Forestry, who has been in 

 India, is expected to return next month. 



Dr. Albert F. Woods, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, has been delegated to attend 

 the Second International Botanical Congress, 

 to be held at Vienna in June, and the Inter- 

 national Congress of Agriculture at Rome. 



Dr. D. H. Campbell, of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, will spend next year in an extensive trip 

 through Europe, Africa and Asia. He expects 

 to attend the International Botanical Congress 

 at Vienna and the meeting of the British As- 

 sociation at Cape Town, and hopes to be able 

 to make botanical investigations in the newly 

 opened regions about the Victoria and Zam- 

 besi falls. He will then visit Bombay and 

 Ceylon and will spend some time at the Bot- 

 anical Gardens at Buitenzorg, Java, returning 



