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January 27— February 8, with titles of papers, lectures, etc., so far as they were 

 known; (3) Society meetings, February 10— April 15, with no details. It must 

 be admitted that, in the absence of abstracts of the papers to be read, the Bulletin 

 hardly justifies its existence. A mere diary can be found in Nature, and in the 

 various technical journals. Something far more useful is provided by the Biblio- 

 graphic Service of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 This Institute apparently controls eight of the leading periodicals dealing with 

 these subjects in the United States. Each paper accepted for publication in them 

 is accompanied by the author's abstract (not exceeding 250 words) and a list 

 of subject headings under which the various sections of the work are treated. 

 Upon receipt at the Wistar Institute, the abstract is printed immediately on one 

 side of a standard library card. On the reverse side of the card is given the 

 complete bibliographic reference to the paper as it will appear eventually, the 

 various subject headings following the main title. Copies of this abstract biblio- 

 graphic card are distributed at once to the anatomists, zoologists, university and 

 college libraries, research institutes, public libraries, academies and scientific 

 societies of the world. The service is available to private subscribers for $3 

 per annum. If the Conjoint Board were to initiate something on similar lines, 

 suitably classified as to subject-matter and at an equally reasonable cost, it would 

 be doing something much more worthy of its opportunities and influence in the 

 scientific world. 



An attempt is being made by past and present students of the Imperial College 

 of Science and Technology to induce the Governors of the college to take steps 

 to raise its status to that of a Technological University able to grant its own 

 degrees in science and technology. There does not seem to be any valid reason 

 why the College should not co-operate with the departments of applied science 

 in the other schools of the University of London in creating a faculty of tech- 

 nology in the University. Such a scheme would retain the valuable diplomas 

 already awarded by the Imperial College and at the same time enhance the 

 value of the degree in technology. 



A Research Board has heen appointed by the Department of Scientific and 

 Industrial Research and the Medical Research Committee, jointly, to consider 

 and investigate the relations of hours of labour and of other conditions of em- 

 ployment, including methods of work, to the production of fatigue, having regard 

 both to industry, efficiency, and to the preservation of health among the workers. 

 Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S. (Professor of Physiology at Oxford), has been 

 appointed Chairman of the Board. 



A Federal Council for pure and applied chemistry has been established to 

 "advance, safeguard, and voice the interests of chemical science, to secure the 

 co-ordination of future effort, and to consolidate the position chemists have won 

 during the war." It consists of representatives appointed by the following con- 

 stituent bodies : Chemical Society, Society of Chemical Industry, Association 

 of British Chemical Manufacturers, Institute of Chemistry, Society of Public 

 Analysts, Faraday Society, Biochemical Society, Institute of Brewing, Society of 

 Dyers and Colourists, Society of Glass Technology, and the Ceramic Society. 

 Sir William J. Pope has been elected first Chairman of the Council, and Prof. 

 H. E. Armstrong Honorary Secretary. Among the immediate proposals of the 

 Council is the provision of an adequate building for the use of the several 

 associated societies and the formation of a complete chemical library. 



It now appears to be definitely decided that an Institute of Physics will be 

 formed as the result of the combined action of the Physical, Optical, and Faraday 





