June 2, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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with a short account of forestry at home and 

 abroad. It is beautifully illustrated with 

 half-tone reproductions of photographs. It 

 will be very helpful to forestry students. 



Charles E. Bessey. 

 The University of Nebraska. 



THE HARVEY SOCIETY OF NEW YORK CITY. 



A NEW society called the Harvey Society, 

 consisting of laboratory workers in New York 

 City, has recently been established under the 

 patronage of the New York Academy of Medi- 

 cine. Its purpose is the diffusion of scientific 

 knowledge in selected chapters of anatomy, 

 physiology, bacteriology, pathology, pharma- 

 cology and physiological and pathological 

 chemistry, by means of public lecures by men 

 who are workers in the subjects presented. 



Each lecture is intended to represent the 

 state of modern knowledge concerning the 

 topic treated and at the same time will be 

 adapted for presentation before an audience 

 consisting of that portion of the general med- 

 ical profession who are interested in the scien- 

 tific side of medicine. 



It is hoped that through these lectures the 

 common interests of research workers and the 

 medical profession may be profitably culti- 

 vated. The fulfilment of the purposes of the 

 society has been entrusted to the hands of the 

 following committee : 



Graham Lusk, president, 

 Simon Flexner, vice-president, 

 George B. Wallace, secretary, 

 Frederic S. Lee, treasurer, 

 Christian A. Herter, 

 S. J. Meltzer, 

 E. K. Dunham. 



The members of the society consist of two 

 classes, active and associate members. Active 

 members are laboratory workers in the medical 

 sciences residing in New York. Associate 

 members are such persons as may be in sym- 

 pathy with the objects of the society and re- 

 side in New York. 



The first course of lectures will be given on 

 Saturday evenings during the winter of the 

 years 1905-1906 at the Academy of Medicine. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The Royal Society elected, on May 11, the 

 following new fellows : John George Adami, 

 professor of pathology, Montreal; William 

 Arthur Bone, lecturer on chemistry, Man- 

 chester ; J ohn Edward Campbell, mathematical 

 lecturer, Oxford; William Henry Dines, 

 meteorologist, London; Captain Arthur 

 Mostyn Field, R.N., hydrographer of the 

 Navy, London ; Martin Onslow Forster, as- 

 sistant professor of chemistry, Royal College 

 of Science, London; Edwin S. Goodrich, 

 demonstrator of anatomy, Oxford; Frederick 

 Gowland Hopkins, reader in chemical physiol- 

 ogy, Cambridge; George William Lamplugh, 

 district geologist on the Geological Survey, 

 Ireland; Ernest William MacBride, professor 

 of zoology, Montreal; Francis Wall Oliver, 

 professor of botany. University College, Lon- 

 don ; Lieutenant-Colonel David Prain, I.M.S., 

 superintendent of Royal Botanic Gardens, Cal- 

 cutta; George F. C. Searle, senior demonstra- 

 tor in Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge ; Hon, 

 Robert John Strutt, fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge; Edmund Taylor Whittaker, 

 mathematical lecturer of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge. 



Dr. Franz Boas has resigned from the 

 curatorship of the anthropological department 

 of the American Museum of Natural History. 

 He will continue his connection with the mu- 

 seum, conducting the researches and publica- 

 tions of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 

 and of the East Asiatic Committee. 



Dr. Allan McLaughlin has been appointed 

 head surgeon of the Marine Hospital at 

 Naples, in the service of the United States. 



Professor James H. Tufts, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, was elected president of the 

 Western Philosophical Association at the 

 meeting held at the University of Nebraska on 

 April 21 and 22. 



Sir Willaim de W. Abney, K.C.B., Mr. 

 Shelford Bidwell, Lord Alverstone, Dr. Lud- 

 wig Mond, Lord Rosse, Sir Thomas H. Sand- 

 erson, Sir James Crichton-Browne (treasurer), 

 and Sir William Crook es (hon. secretary), 

 have been nominated as vice-presidents of the 

 Royal Institution, London. 



