SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS 



A meeting to organize an International Research Council is being 

 held at Brussels beginning July i8, 1919. Delegates will be present 

 from the National Research Council of this coimtry, and from similar 

 organizations in the various countries which have been associated with 

 the United States during the recent war. The question of the admission 

 of neutral countries will be brought before the meeting. Countries 

 which have not organized a research council will be represented by 

 delegates from their national academies. 



The delegates from the United States of America are: W. W. Camp- 

 bell, Chairman, Chairman of American Delegation, International As- 

 tronomical Union; H. M. HowE, Scientific Attache at Paris, also repre- 

 senting Engineering; C. E. Mendenhall, Scientific Attache at Lon- 

 don, also representing Physics; H. S. Washington, Scientific Attach^ 

 at Rome, also representing Geology; Wm. Bowie, Chairman of American 

 Delegation, International Geophysical Union; E. W. Washburn, 

 Chairman of American Delegation, International Chemical Union; 

 W. S. Thayer, representing Medicine; John C. Penny, representing 

 Patents; D. W. Johnson, representing Geography; H. F. Moore, 

 representing Biology and Fisheries. 



A meeting to organize an International Chemical Union was held 

 in London on July 15. The American delegates to this meeting were: 

 E. W. Washburn, Chairman; Edward Bartow, F. G. Cottrell, 

 Chas. L. Parsons, Julius Stieglitz, H. S. Washington; Alternates: 

 A. B. Lamb and Jas. F. Norris. 



An International Astronomical Union and an International Geo- 

 physical Union will be organized during the meeting at Brussels. It 

 is planned to have these organizations take over the various interna- 

 tional astronomical and geodetic committees which were in existence 

 before the outbreak of the European war. Meetings of the Amer- 

 ican sections of these two unions were held at the National Re- 

 search Council in Washington on June 23-25, at which the follow- 

 ing delegates were selected: Astronomical Union, W. W. Campbell, 

 Chairman; W. S. Adams, S. I. Bailey, Benjamin Boss, W. S. Eichel- 

 berger, Philip Fox, W. J. Humphreys, S. A. Mitchell, F. R. Moul- 

 TON, H. N. Russell, Frank Schlesinger, C. E. St. John, F. H. 

 Seares, Joel Stebbins; Geophysical Union, Wm. Bowie, Chairman; L. 

 A. Bauer, H. C. Graves, A. O. Leuschner, G. W. Littlehales, C. F. 

 Marvin, H. F. Reid, Edward Simpson, J. T. Watkins; Alternates: 

 W. J. Humphreys, J. F. Hayford, W. J. Peters. 



The provisional officers of the American sections of these two unions 

 are as follows: Astronomical Union, W. W. Campbell, Chairman; 

 Joel Stebbins, Secretary; Geophysical Union, William Bowie, Chair- 

 man; H. O. Wood, Secretary. 



Conferences on the question of forming international organizations in 



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