Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-01

The Sixty-fourth meeting OF the AMER
lean Association for the Advancement or
Science and the eleventh OF the 'conNo-
cation week meetings will be held In
Cleveland. Ohio. from December @.191.,
to January 4. 1913.
The International Union for Solar Re-
search will meet at Bonn, beginning
August 1. 1913.
Capt. ROAD Amundsen. who lectured
before the Scottish Geographical Society
November 81. was given the Livingstone
gold medal of the society.
The tenth international congress or
agriculture will be held at Client next
year. The American committee. so Tar
formed. consists Of the following: Dr-
l.. O. Howard. member of the information
al commission on agriculture and chiei'
bureau entomology; DIR. A. {. True,
director Office OF experiment stations;
John Hamilton. specialist I'm farmers in
stitutes. office OF experiment stations:
DIR. c. r Langworthy, chief nutrition IN
vestigations. and DIR. j. l. schultz, assist
ant agricuiturist office of experiment sta
tons.
DIR J. Paul oioode. associate professor
,e geography In the University OF Chi
cago, has about completed series OF
wall maps for colleges and univerSities-
an attempt to produce I'm America maps
OF as high quality as those OF Germany.
A banquet will he rendered to DIR. Theo-
dore ~. Gill, associate of the Smithsonian
Institution. professor emeritus OF George
Washington University. and founder or
the Cosmos Club. at the Cosmos Ciuo
December IL. as a token of esteem In
affectionate oemmemoration of the COM
pletion of the seventy-fifth year OF his age
and fifty-sixth year of the publication or
his contributions to knowledge.
d. w Berky. magnetic observer OF the
department of terrestrial magnetism, Car
negie Institution OF Washington. left
Biskra, Algeria, October "a. for trans
Saharan trip to Timoukfu MI Berky
Is accompanied by III. h. Sawyer mag
netic observer OF the department, as an
Interpreter and caravan party. The expe-
dition will require from four to hre
months time. and II is expected much
valuable magnetic data will be secured.
Andrew Cornegie has offered TO the
University OF Paris the last $4,000 neces-
sary for equpp4ng the new institute OF
Chemistry i'm course Of erection in the
Rue Pierre Curie.
The trustees of the Carnegie Founda-
ton for the Advancement of Teaching
announce that forty-eght pensions and
retirement allowances have been granted
during the year. making a total OF 3'S
now in force at an annual expenditure
of S59OOOo. DR.. w. r. Slocum. president
of the Colorado College. was elected To
the vice Craftsmanship OF the board, IN
place of DR.. David Starr Jordan. resigned.
E,ndowments of the foundation now
amount to $1,000 CO., MIR. Carnegie hav-
ing added S2O0o.0(0 since the meeting or
the trustees a year ago.
The annual public address of the Ento-
biological Society of America will be CIV
en- at the ,,eveland meeting of the society
Wednesday evening, January 1. at \
O'Clock, by DIR. Philip p. Calvert
of the University of Pennsylvania. His
subject will be IAN Entomologist In
Costa Rica-" DIR. Calvert spent year
in this entomologically rich country.
primarily for the study OF the seasonal
distribution. life. history and habits or
odonata, but including references to 9TH
er groups OF insects. characteristics or
various collecting grounds and topics or
general interest.
According to the accounting Of the ex-
ecutors of the estate OF George Crocker.
the Columbia University receives 81 3d.
635 for the Croker cancer research fund.