222 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



in connection with the award of this medal to Dr. Walcott that Wol- 

 laston, the eminent Enghsh chemist who estabhshed the medal, was an 

 intimate friend and scientific associate of James Smithson, of London, 

 through whose beneficence the Smithsonian Institution in Washington 

 was founded. 



The National Research Council has rented additional space and is 

 now occupying the building at 1015 Sixteenth Street in addition to the 

 offices at 1023 Sixteenth Street. The following four Divisions will be 

 housed in the new offices: (1) Agriculture, Botany, Forestry, Fisheries, 

 and Zoology; (2) Chemistry and Chemical Technology; (3) Geology and 

 Geography; (4) Medicine and Related Sciences. 



Dr. H. M. Ami, formerly of the Geological Survey of Canada and 

 now stationed in Washington at the British Embassy, has been elected 

 vice-president of the Societe Geologique de France. 



A "second general report" by the Permanent Commission of the 

 International Committee in charge of the "Tables Annuelles de Con- 

 stantes et Donnees Numeriques" has been received. The first volume 

 of these Annual Tables of Constants (covermg the year 1910) had ap- 

 peared, and the volumes for 1911 and 1912 were m .preparation at 

 the time of the first report of the commission, which was made to the 

 Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry in New York 

 in 1912. The publication of Volume IV, covering 1913, was inter- 

 rupted by the outbreak of war, and no publication has been possible 

 since that date, although the collection of material has continued under 

 the direction of Dr. Charles Marie, the general secretary, and the 

 followmg members of the commission: Carrara (Milan), Cohen 

 (Utrecht), Dutoit (Lausanne), Lewis (Liverpool), and STiEGLiTi- 

 (Chicago). French, British, and American grants to the Tables have 

 been continued and even increased during the war. The Philosophical 

 Society of Washington and the Chemical Society have been contribut- 

 ing annually to the project. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal : Mr. James Percy Ault, Department of 

 Terrestrial Magnetism of the C'arnegie Institution of Washington, 

 Washington, D. C; Mr. William H. Babcock, 802 F Street, Wash- 

 ington, D. C.; Mr. Charles Raymond Duvall, Department of Ter- 

 restrial Magnetism of the C'arnegie Institution of Washington, Wash- 

 ington, D. C.; Mr. John Clyde Hostetter, Geophysical Laboratory 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C; Prof. 

 Herbert Spencer Jennings, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 

 Maryland; Dr. Paul D. Merica, Bureau of Standards, Washington, 

 D. C.; Mr. William John Peters, Department of Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C; 

 Major General Hugh Lenox Scott, Headquarters 78th Division, Camp 

 Dix, New Jersey; Mr. Bradshaw Hall Swales, Division of Birds, 



