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England and other parts of the United States.JOHN M. CLARKE, State Museum, Albany, N. Y.

Portfolio of paleontological plAtes, in press.Plates of "Wild flowers of New York," inpress. Geological map of Ogdensburg, N. Y.,and vicinity, in press.

H. W. SHIMER, Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy. Evolution of some brachiopods.

RICHARD M. FIELD, Harvard University. Ordo-vician rocks and faunas of central Pennsylvania.

W. B. SCOTT, Princeton University. Proofs ofplates for forthcoming report on paleontology ofPatagonia.

W. J. V. OSTERHOUT, Harvard University. Pig-ments produced by the oxidation of a colorlessplant chromogen.

CHARLES W. JOHNSON, Boston Society of NaturalHistory. Distribution and variation of Helixhortensis.

JOSEPH A. CUSHMAN, Boston Society of NaturalHistory. Some fossil and recent foraminifera.

ALFRED G. MAYER, Marine Laboratory, CarnegieInstitution. Yacht and laboratory of the Car-negie Institution at Tortugas, Florida.

HUBERT LYMAN CLARK, Museum of ComparativeZoology, Harvard University. Echinoderms fromTorres straits, Australia, with colored drawingsand lithographs.

G. H. PARKER, Harvard University. The suctionefficiency of a California sea-anemone.

W. T. BOVIE, Harvard University. Visible effectsof Schumann rays on protoplasm. Effects ofradium rays on permeability of protoplasm.

C. T. BRUES, Bussey Institution, Harvard Univer-sity. Specimens and charts illustrating insectsas carriers of infantile paralysis.

W. E. CASTLE, Bussey Institution, Harvard Uni-versity. Examples of Mendelian inheritance,reversion and variety formation in rats andguinea-pigs.

FRANCIS G. BENEDICT, Nutrition Laboratory, Car-negie Institution. Respiration apparatus foranimals.

T. B. OSBORNE, Connecticut Agricultural Station,and L. B. MENDEL, Sheffield Scientific School,Yale University. Photographs representing thegrowth of chickens fed with definite mixtures offood stuffs under laboratory conditions whichhave heretofore not led to success.

I. CHANDLER WALKER, Medical Service, Peter BentBrigham Hospital. Proteid sensitization in re-lation to bronchial asthma.

H. S. WELLS, Medical Service, Peter Bent BrighamHospital. Electrocardiography, or the applica-tion of the string galvanometer to the study ofcardiac cases.

ALBERT A. GHOREYEB, Cancer Commission, Har-vard University. Metal casts of heart and kid-ney blood vessels.

S. B. WOLBACH, Harvard Medical School. Studiesin Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

HARVEY CUSHING AND W. M. BOOTHBY, Peter BentBrigham Hospital. Apparatus of routine meth-ods for clinical metabolism determinations.

E. W. GOODPASTURE, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.An anatomical study of senescence, with especialreference to tumors.

E. E. TYZZER AND C. C. LITTLE, Harvard MedicalSchool. The inheritance of susceptibility totransplanted tumor.

W. DUANE, Harvard Medical School. The tech-nique of the preparation of radium for thera-peutic purposes.

G. C. WHIPPLE, School for Health Officers, of Har-vard University and Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. Charts showing organization andmembership of the school.

W. T. SEDGWICK, Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology. (1) Diagrams and tables illustratingthe investigations of Professor Weston and Mr.Turner upon "The digestion of sewage effluentsin an otherwise unpolluted stream." (2) Aninvestigation of the behavior of certain speciesof bacteria in various materials between zeroCentigrade and zero Fahrenheit. (3) A fieldinvestigation of the sanitary environment of asuburban population. (In room 10-411.)

S. C. PRESCOTT, Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology. Diseases of the banana in CentralAmerica and their control. (In room 10-411.)

ALFRED M. TOZZER, Peabody Museum, HarvardUniversity. Race-mixture in Hawaii.

CHARLES PEABODY, Peabody Museum, HarvardUniversity. Prehistoric specimens from cavesof France and Palestine.

E. A. HOOTON, Peabody Museum, Harvard Uni-versity. Casts and reconstruction of ancientman: skull of apes.

S. J. GUERNSEY, Peabody Museum, Harvard Uni-versity. Cave explorations in northeastern Ari-zona.

ORIC BATES, Peabody Museum, Harvard Univer-sity. Prehistoric Libyan remains.

THE NEW YORK MEETING OF THEAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCETHE American Association for the Advance-

rnent of Science will hold its sixty-ninth meet-ing in New York City, from December 26 toDecember 30, 1916. This will be the fifteenth

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of the convocation-week meetings and the firstof the greater convocation-week meetings tobe held hereafter once in four years, succes-sively in New York, Chicago and Washington.When the association last met in New York,pow ten years ago, there were about 5,000mnembers, the attendance was over 2,000, andthere were nearly 1,000 papers on the pro-grams. The membership of the association atpresent numbers about 11,000; the comingmeeting will surely be the largest and most im-portant gathering of scientific men hithertoheld in this country or elsewhere. It has beenplanned that at these greater convocation-weekmeetings all the affiliated societies will joinand this year there will be, including the sec-tions of the association, more than fifty sepa-rate national bodies meeting together. Recentevents have impressed on the general publicthe importance of science for modern civiliza-tion and national welfare and the responsibil-ity of leadership has been placed on this coun-try. It is consequently extremely desirablethat scientific men make all possible efforts tobe present at the meeting, which will be his-toric in the history of science and may serve inimportant ways to forward its advancement.The registration headquarters will be at

Earl Hall, Columbia University, and will beopen on December 26, after 9 A.M. Most ofthe meetings of the sections of the association,and of the national affiliated societies will beheld at Columbia University. There will,however, be meetings at the American Mu-seum of Natural History, at the City College,in the medical schools of the city and else-where, as may be arranged in the sections andby the societies. The council will meet at 9o'clock on the morning of December 26, in thetrustees' room, Columbia University, and willmeet at the same time and at the same placedaily during the meeting. The meeting of thegeneral committee will be held at the hotelheadquarters, the Hotel Belmont, at 9:30 onthe evening of December 29. The Committeeof One Hundred will meet at the Hotel Bel-mont at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Decem-ber 26. The several sections will hold theirsessions for the nomination of officers and the

transaction of other business on the call of thechairman, in most cases just before or justafter the address of the retiring vice-president.A complete program of the meeting, includ-

ing the programs of the affiliated societies, willbe ready on the morning of December 26 andwill be given to members on registration. Thereports on research work before the special so-cieties will doubtless be more numerous thanever have been presented at a gathering ofscientific men, and arrangements have beenrnade for many programs of general interestand for social events, only part of which canbe noted here.The opening general session will be held at

8 o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, December26, at the American Museum of Natural His-tory. Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, president ofthe University of Wisconsin, will preside, andDr. W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick Ob-pervatory, will give the address of the retiringpresident on " The Nebuloe." After the ad-dress there will be a reception by the presidentand the trustees of the museum.

Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy,will hold a general session, probably on Thurs-day. The address of Professor Armin 0.Leuschner, of the University of California,will be on the "Derivation of Orbits." TheAmerican Mathematical Society, the Mathe-matical Association of America and the Amer-ican Astronomical Society will meet in affilia-tion with the section.

Section B, Physics, will listen to the addressof Professor Percival E. Lewis, of the Univer-sity of California, on " Recent Progress onSpectroscopy," probably on Thursday evening.Papers in physics will be on the program ofthe American Physical Society, but there willbe a general-interest session held jointly withSection C and the American Chemical So-ciety. The Optical Society of America willmeet in affiliation with the section.

Section C, Chemistry, will have as its vice-presidential address, " Asymmetric Synthesesand their Bearing upon the Doctrine of Vital-ism," by Professor William McPherson, of theOhio State University. Sections B and C, inconjunction with the American Chemical So-

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ciety and the American Physical Society, willhold a joint session on " The Structure ofMatter " on the morning and afternoon ofWednesday. These sessions will be held atthe City College, which will provide luncheonand opportunity to inspect the buildings. OnThursday evening, at the American Museumof Natural History, Professor A. A. Noyes, ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology,will give one of the lectures complimentary tothe citizens of the city on " The Production ofNitrogen." This lecture will be followed bya reception and a chemical exhibit. TheAmerican Electrochemical Society, as well asthe American Chemical Society, will meet inaffiliation with the section, and plans a sym-posium on " The Conduction of Electricitythrough Gases."

Section D, Engineering, will hold a sessionin the Engineering Societies Building, on theinvitation of the United Engineering Society,t-he American Society of Civil Engineers, theAmerican Institute of Mining Engineers, theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineersand the American Institute of ElectricalEngineers. At this meeting Dr. Bion J. Ar-nold will give the address of the retiring chair-man and there will be addresses by representa-tives of the engineering societies, followed bya reception to engineers and those working insciences related to engineering. Section Dwill hold a joint session in the assembly hallof the Automobile Club of America, with theNational Highways Association, the Automo-bile Club of America and the National Auto-mobile Chamber of Commerce. There willalso be joint sessions with the Society for thePromotion of Engineering Education and asession on sanitary engineering.

Section E, Geology and Geography, willmeet on Tuesday and Wednesday, at Colum-bia University, when a special program bystate geologists on the geology of their respec-tive states will be presented. Owing to thedeath of Professor Charles S. Prosser, therewill be no vice-presidential address. The As-sociation of American Geographers will holdits meetings following those of the geologists.The address of the president, Professor Mark

Jefferson, of the Michigan State Normal Col-lege, will be on " The Geographic Provinces ofthe United States." The American AlpineClub will meet at the New York Public Li-brary on December 30.

Section F, Zoology, will hold its meetingswith the American Society of Zoologists andthe American Society of Naturalists. It isexpected that Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, ofStanford University, will return from Europein time to give the address of the retiringchairman. A dinner in honor of Professor E.B. Wilson, a past-president of the association,will be given at the Hotel Manhattan onThursday evening, by his former students andcolleagues. The Vertebrate Paleontologistswill meet at the American Museum of NaturalHistory on Thursday and Friday. The Ento-mological Society of America will meet onTuesday and Wednesday, the address of theretiring president, Professor T. D. A. Cock-erell, on " Fossil Insects," being given on theevening of the latter day. The American As-sociation of Economic Entomologists will meeton Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Therewill be an address by the president, Dr. C.Gordon Hewitt, of the Dominion ExperimentalFarm at Ottawa. The entomologists willmeet at Columbia University, with probablyrone session at the American Museum,

Section G, Botany, will hold a general-in-terest session on the afternoon of Wednesday,at which the address of Professor William A,Setchell, of the University of California, on" The Geographic Distribution of ModernAlgae," will be giveln. This will be followed bya symposium on the relations of chemistry tobotany, opened by W. J. V. Osterhout and J.Arthur Harris. This is a joint session withthe American Botanical Society, the AmericanPhytopathological Society and the EcologicalSociety of America. Each of these societieswill hold important programs. On Thursdaythere will be a joint session for the reading ofinvitation papers, at which the speakers willbe William A. Murrill, Erwin F. Smith andW. A. Orton. In the evening a dinner forbotanists will be given at the Hotel MeAlpin,at which the address of Professor John M.

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Coulter, the retiring president of the Botan-ical Society of America, on " Botany as a Na-tional Asset " will be given.The American Society of Naturalists will

meet on Friday. In the afternoon there willbe a symposium on "Biology and NationalExistence," with papers by Stewart Paton, W.J. Spillman, Vernon L. Kellogg, Jacques Loeband Edwin G. Conklin. After the dinner atthe Hotel Manhattan in the evening ProfessorRaymond Pearl, of the Maine Experiment Sfa-tion, will give the presidential address. TheNew York Zoological Society will entertain atthe New York Aquarium the members of theSociety of Naturalists and related societies onthe evening of December 27. The AmericanEugenics Association will meet on Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday, the address of thepresident, Dr. David Fairchild, of the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture, being on" The Importance of Photographs in Present-ing Eugenic Discoveries." The Eugenics Re-search Association will hold a meeting underthe presidency of Dr. Adolf Meyer, of theJohns Hopkins University.

Section H, Anithropology and Psychology,will refer special papers to the American An-thropological Association and the AmericanPsychological Association. The address of theretiring chairman, Professor Lillien J. Miartin,of Stanford University, will be on " Personal-ity as revealed by the Content of Images."The American Anthropological Association,under the presidency of Dr. F. W. Hodge, ofthe Bureau of American Ethnology, will meetat the American Museum of Natural History,on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.In affiliation with it will meet the AmericanFolk Lore Society, the address of whose presi-dent, Dr. Robert H. Lowie, of the AmericanMuseum of Natural History, will be on " OralTradition and History." The American Psy-chological Association celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of its foundation on theafternoon of Friday. There will be historicalpapers by G. Stanley Hall, J. McKeen Cattell,Joseph Jastrow and John Dewey. The addressof the president, Professor Raymond Dodge,of Wesleyan University, on " The Laws of

Relative Fatigue," will be given on Wednes-day evening at Columbia University, followedby a smoker. The annual dinner will be at theHotel Marseilles. The association will hold ajoint session with the section of education onFriday. The American Philosophical Associa-tion will meet at the Union Theological Semi-nary, adjacent to Columbia University, on De-cember 26, 27 and 28. The address of thepresident will be given by Professor A. 0.Lovejoy, Johns Hopkins University.

Section I, Economic Science, will listen toan address on " Scientific Efficiency and In-dustrial Museums, our Safeguards in Peaceand War," by Dr. George F. Kunz, of NewYork. The programs of the section will bedevoted to the metric system, to the nationalthrift movement, and to the effect of peace onour economical conditions. These sessions willbe held at Columbia University. There willbe a meeting concerning insurance on Fridayafternoon in the Metropolitan Auditorium,Madison Square.

Section K, Physiology and ExperimentalMedicine, will meet at the American Museumof Natural History on Friday afternoon. Pro-fessor Frederic P. Gay, of the University ofCalifornia, will make an address on " Special-ists and Research in Medical Science" andthere will be a symposium on " Cancer and itsControl," taken part in by Gary N. Calkins,Leo Loeb, J. C. Bloodgood, James Ewing andE. C. Lakeman. This will be a joint meetingwith the American Society of Bacteriologists.The Federation of American Societies for Ex-perimental Biology, consisting of the AmericanPhysiological Society, the American Societyof Biological Chemists, the American Societyfor Pharmacology and Experimental Thera-peutics, and the American Society for Experi-mental Pathology will meet at the CornellMedical College on Thursday, Friday andSaturday. There will be dinners on Thursdayand Friday evening. The American Associa-tion of Anatomists will hold its meetings onWednesday, Thursday and Friday, in the anat-omical laboratories of three medical schoolsof the city, under the presidency of ProfessorHenry H. Donaldson, of the Wistar Institute.

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Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the laboratoriesof the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-search, will give one of the public lecturesbefore the association.

Section L, Education, will have, as thevice-presidential address, " Some Obstacles toEducational Progress," by Professor EllwoodG. Cubberley, of Stanford University. Thesection will meet on Wednesday, Thursday andFriday for discussion on educational tests andmeasurements, research problems and adminis-trative problems. The American NatureStudy Society and the School Garden Asso-ciation of America are among the societiesmeeting with the association. The Society ofSigma Xi will hold its annual convention atColumbia University on the afternoon of Wed-nesday, with its dinner in the evening, atwhich there will be an address by the presi-dent, Dr. Charles S. Howe, president of theCase School of Applied Science. The Amer-ican Association of University Professors willmeet at Columbia University on Friday andSaturday, with a dinner at the Hotel Astor onFriday evening.

Section M, Agriculture, will meet on Tues-day and Wednesday. The address of the re-tiring vice-president, Dean Eugene Davenport,of the University of Illinois, will be on " TheOutlook for Agricultural Science." This ad-dress, which will be delivered on the afternoonof December 27, will be followed by a sympo-sium on the same subject, which will be takenpart in by H. J. Wheeler, J. C. Lipman, G. F.Warren and B. Youngblood.

There will be a scientific exhibit and con-versazione in University Hall, Columbia Uni-versity, on the afternoons of Wednesday,Thursday and Friday, from twelve to six andprobably on Wednesday evening from eight toten. The demonstrations and exhibits beforethe separate societies will be made as usual,but in addition there will be gathered in oneplace exhibits showing the more importantrecent advances in the sciences in so far as

they are of general interest. Scientific menwill be present from four to six in the after-noon to explain and demonstrate the exhibits.It is hoped that the conversazione will not only

be a convenient way for scientific men to in-spect the work being done in different sciences,but will also enable them to meet their col-leagues working in other departments.Tea will be served by the Columbia Univer-

sity Ladies Committee in the PhilosophicalBuilding from four to six on the afternoons ofTuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.The Faculty Club of Columbia University willbe open to men as a social center at these andat other times. The courtesies of the Chemists'Club (52 East 41st Street) are extended tomembers (men) for the days of the meeting.The Alumni Clubs of different universities andcolleges and the Fraternity Houses, of whichthere are large numbers in New York City,will doubtless be glad to welcome their alumni.Luncheons may be obtained in the ColumbiaUniversity Commons, the lunch room ofHorace Mann School and the lunch room ofBarnard College and in restaurants adjacentto the university.The hotel headquarters will be the Hotel

Belmont, which allows a discount to memberson all rooms. It is situated opposite the GrandCentral Station on 42d Street. This is alsoan express station of the subway by whichColumbia University (Broadway and 116thSt.) can be reached in about twelve minutes.The cars are marked Broadway or DyckmanStreet; Lenox Avenue and Bronx Park carsare to be avoided. Other hotels have beenselected as headquarters for some of the soci-eties and sections. Thus the naturalists haveselected the Manhattan; the zoologists theAstor; the botanists the McAlpin; the entomol-ogists the Endicott; the anatomists the Marti-nique and the psychologists the Marseilles.Reservation of rooms should be made well inadvance, as New York hotels are often com-pletely full at this season of the year. Thedormitories of Columbia University (for a

limited number of men) and the dormitories ofBarnard College and of Teachers College (forwomen) will be open for members at a cost of$1 a night. There are numerous boarding andlodging houses in the neighborhood of Colum-bia University which at the time of the meet-

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ing will not be occupied by students and canbe engaged by members.The announcements here made are only

those that have been reported well in advanceand represent a small part of the programs.More than one thousand papers and addresseswill be presented at the meeting, which willrepresent fully the advances of the natural,exact and applied sciences during the pastyear. There will, indeed, be so many simulta-neous programs of interest that the difficultywill be to choose among them. A meeting ofthis size, however, will be held only once infour years, and the conflict is after all not soserious as if the meetings were held in differ-ent cities. A joint meeting of scientific menworking in all fields gives opportunity for themto meet personally and to consult through com-mittees and boards on means of promoting theadvance of science by joint action. A meet-ing of such magnitude also serves to impressoni the general public the strength which sci-ence has attained in this country, and the needof supporting scientific research for the wel-fare of the nation.

SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS

THE John Fritz medal was awarded in Jan-uary, 1916, to Dr. Elihu Thomson, for"Achievements in Electrical Inventions, inElectrical Engineering, in Industrial Develop-ment and in Scientific Research." We learnfrom the Electrical World that the medal willbe presented to Dr. Thomson at a meeting tobe held in Boston on Friday evening, Decem-ber 8. The presentation will take place in theCentral Lecture Hall of the new buildings ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The program of the evening will include ad-dresses by John J. Carty, chairman of thepresentation committee of the board of award;E. W. Rice, Jr., president of the General Elec-tric Company, and Dr. Richard C. Maclaurin,president of the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. The presentation will be madeby Dr. Charles Warren Hunt, and the cere-monies will coinelude with the response of Dr.Thomson. The John Fritz medal is awarded

from time to time for notable scientific or in-dustrial achievement, and was provided for ina fund subscribed in memory of the great engi-neering pioneer, John Fritz. The award ofthe medal is made by a permanent board com-posed of four members from each of fourAmerican national engineering societies,namely, the American Society of Civil Engi-neers, the American Society of MechanicalEngineers, the American Institute of MiningEngineers and the American Institute of Elec-trical Engineers. The members of the 1916board are: Representing the civil engineers-Charles Warren Hunt, John A. Ockerson,George F. Swain, Charles D. Marx; represent-ing the mechanical engineers-John R. Free-man, Ambrose Swasey, John A. Brashear,Frederick R. Hutton; representing the miningengineers-Albert Sauveur, E. Gybbon Spils-bury, Charles F. Rand, Christopher R. Corn-ing; representing the electrical engineers-Ralph D. M¢ershon, C. 0. Mailloux, Paul M.Lincoln, John J. Carty.THE trustees of Cornell University have ac-

cepted the resignation of George SylvanusMoler, professor of physics, to take effect inJune, 1917. Professor Moler will retire fromteaching, having reached the age limit. Theboard placed upon its minutes the followingresolution:

Resolved, that the trustees in accepting the res-lignation of Professor Moler desire to express theirhigh appreciation of his faithful and devoted serv-ice to the university in the department of physicsfor over forty years. As a teacher he is held in,affectionate and grateful remembrance by many,generations of university students. For twelveyears he shared with Professor Anthony the en-tire work of the department and during that periodin collaboration with him designed, constructed,and installed the first dynamo in America, the firstare-lighting system (that on the campus of Cornell'University), and the first apparatus for the elec-,trolytic produetion on a considerable scale ofpxygen and hydrogen. He has also devised count-less original and ingenious pieces of apparatus ofincalculable value to the department of physics.And the photographic laboratory in RockefellerHall, with its original and unique equipment, islargely of his planning.

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