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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXI. No. 543. 



The geometry of Euclid does not require 

 the straight line to be continuous. 



At the annual election, which occurred 

 at 12 :30 'clock, the following persons 

 were chosen members : 



RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED ST.^TES. 



Joseph S. Ames, Ph.D., Baltimore. Professor of 

 phj'sics in Johns Hopkins University; honorary 

 member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain; 

 member of the French Physical Society; author of 

 ' Theory of Physics,' ' Manual of Experimental 

 Physics,' ' Elements of Physics,' ' The Free Ex- 

 pansion of Gases,' ' Prismatic Diffractive Spectra,' 

 'Induction of Electric Currents'; assistant editor 

 of Astrophysical Journal and associate editor of 

 American Journal of Science. 



Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Ph.D., LL.D., 

 Chicago. Head professor of geology in Univer- 

 sity of Chicago; president of University of Wis- 

 consin, 1887-92; in charge of glacial division 

 of U. S. Geological Survey since 1882; geologist 

 of Peary Relief Expedition, 1894; member of 

 National Academy of Sciences; editor of Journal 

 of Geology ; author of ' Geology of Wisconsin,' 

 ' Text-book of Geology,' etc., and of nuiuerous 

 papers relating to geology. 



William Gilson Farlow, Cambridge. Professor 

 of cryptogamic botany in Harvard University; 

 author of ' Marine Algae of New England,' ' The 

 Black Knot,' ' The Gpnnosporangia of the United 

 States,' ' The Potato Rot,' ' Index of Fungi,' ' Dis- 

 eases of the Orange and Olive Trees,' etc., etc. ; 

 late president of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science; member of the National 

 Academy of Science and of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences. 



Charles H. Frazier, M.D., Philadelphia. Dean 

 of the medical department of the University of 

 Pennsylvania and assistant professor of surgery; 

 editor of the University Medical Journal and au- 

 thor of numerous monographs on surgical subjects. 



David Starr Jordan, Stanford University, Cal. 

 President of Leland Stanford University; author 

 of ' Manual of Vertebrate Animals of Northern 

 United States,' ' Fishes of North and Middle 

 America,' 'Footnotes to Evolution,' 'Animal 

 Forms,' ' Food and Game Fishes of North Amer- 

 ica,' ' A Guide to the Study of Fishes,' and numer- 

 ous papers on ichthyology in proceedings of var- 

 ious societies and government bureaus ; president 

 of the California Academy of Sciences, 1896-98. 



George Lyman Kittridge, LL.D., Cambridge. 

 Professor of English in Harvard University; 



member of the American Philological Association 

 and of the American Antiquarian Society and fel- 

 low of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences; has made valuable contributions to the 

 study of Chaucer; author in collaboration with 

 Professor Greenough of ' Words and Their Ways 

 in English Speech,' and of numerous contributions 

 to technical periodicals. 



Robert G. Le Conte, M,D., Philadelphia. Sur- 

 geon to the Pennsylvania Hospital; adjunct pro- 

 fessor of surgery and trustee of the University of 

 Pennsylvania; late surgeon-general of the Na- 

 tional Guard of Pennsylvania ; author of a num- 

 ber of valuable contributions to surgical litera- 

 ture. 



Eliakim Hastings Moore, Chicago. Head pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at University of Chicago; 

 president of the American Mathematical Society; 

 associate fellow of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences; member of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences; editor of the Transactions of the 

 American Mathematical Society; author of val- 

 uable contributions to mathematical science. 



George T. Moore, Ph.D., Washington. Patholo- 

 gist and algologist in charge of Laboratory of 

 jilant phj'siology, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture; author of papers 

 on ' Soil Inoculation for Legumes,' ' A Method of 

 Destroying or Preventing the Growth of Algae 

 and Certain Pathogenic Bacteria in Water Sup- 

 plies,' ' New or Little-known Unicellular Algae,' 

 etc. 



Richard A. F. Penrose, Jr., Ph.D., Philadelphia. 

 Geologist and mining engineer; geologist in charge 

 of survey of eastern Texas for Texas Geological 

 Survey. Professor of economic geology. Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, 1892; special geologist, U. S. 

 Geological Sui-vey, 1894, to examine gold districts 

 of Cripple Creek, Col.; fellow of Geological So- 

 ciety of America ; member of Institute of ISIining 

 Engineers; National Geographical Society, etc.; 

 author of numerous papers on economic geology. 



Francis P. Venable, Ph.D., LL.D., Chapel Hill, 

 N. C. President of the University of North 

 Carolina; co-author of 'Inorganic Chemistry ac- 

 cording to Periodic Law'; author of 'Develop- 

 ment of Periodic Law ' and of a ' Short History of 

 Chemistry ' and of numerous papers on inorganic 

 chemistry; member of American Chemical So- 

 ciety, German Chemical Society; fellow of London 

 Chemical Society. 



J. Edward Whitfield, Philadelphia. Chemist, 

 analytical and engineering; from IS80 to 1889 

 was connected with the U. S. Geological Surs'ey 

 as mincralogical chemist; author of analyses of 



