SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



In accordance with the suggestions of the health authorities, several 

 meetings of the scientific societies, regularly scheduled to be held in 

 October, were postponed, on account of the rapid spread of influenza 

 in the city. Among the meetings for which programs had been ar- 

 ranged were those of the Philosophical Society on October 12 and of 

 the Chemical Society on October 10. 



]Members of the British Educational Mission visited Washington 

 on October 14-18, 1918. The visiting members were: Sir Arthur 

 Everett Shipley, of Christ's College, University of Cambridge; Sir 

 Henry ]\Iiers, of the University of Manchester; Rev. Edtv. Mewburn 

 Walker; Sir Henry Jones, of the University of Glasgow; Dr. John 

 JoLY, of Trinity College, DubHn; Miss Caroline Spurgeon, of the 

 University of London; and Miss Rose Sidgwick, of the University of 

 Birmingham. 



During the past summer a number of professors of physics have 

 been cooperating with the Bureau of Standards in writing a text book 

 on radio communication. This book is to be used at the various train- 

 ing schools estabhshed by the Signal Corps for training radio elec- 

 tricians. Among those who were engaged in this work, and who have 

 recentlv retm-ned to their respective colleges to resume teaching, are: 

 Prof. F. W. Grover, of Colby College; Prof. H. M. Royal, of Clarkson 

 College of Technology; Prof. G. M. Smith, of Purdue; and Prof. L. B. 

 Wheeler, of Yale. 



Prof. E. C. Bingham, of Lafayette College, has returned to take up 

 his work as Professor of Chemistry there. During the past summer 

 he has been in Washington engaged in an investigation of the lubri- 

 cating oils used in aviation engines. 



Prof. A. D. Cole has returned to Ohio State University after spend- 

 ing the summer at the Bureau of Standards, where he has been engaged 

 in research on vacuum tubes. 



Prof. G. F. Wittig, formerly of the University of Pennsylvania? 

 and Mr. G. C. Southworth, of the Bureau of Standards, have resigned 

 to take up the teaching of intensive courses in radio now being given 

 by the Signal Corps at Yale University. 



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