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Notes and Ne\vs 



Changes of Address. 



Mrs. Annie Trumbull Slosson has removed to 36 Gramercy Park, New 

 York City. 



The address of Mr. Edward A. Klages has been changed to 95 Belvi- 

 dere Street, Crafton Station, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



A Biography of Miss A. M. Fielde. 



Helen Norton Stevens is the author of a Memorial Biography of Adele M . 

 Fielde. Published by The Fielde Memorial Committee, New York, 

 Philadelphia, Chicago, Seattle. Press of Pigott Printing Concern, Seattle, 

 1918. 8vo, pp. 377, illustrated. Miss Fielde, it will be recalled, pub- 

 lished a number of papers on the habits and faculties of ants, as men- 

 tioned in an obituary notice in the NEWS for April, 1916, pages 191-2. 



Sentiment For and Against the Metric System. 



Apropos of our editorial in the NEWS for June, 1919, page 175, the 

 World Trade Club of San Francisco states that, up to October, 1919: 

 "Out of 58,226 petitions relating to exclusive use of metric weights and 

 measures in U. S. America, now in the keeping of the Bureau of Standards. 

 Department of Commerce, 57,800 petitions or 99.27% favor this progress, 

 and only 426, or less than i%, oppose it. 



"New petitions are coming every day. The classification to date 

 shows the following distribution of petitions: Manufacturing concerns, 

 engineering concerns, engineers, architects, contractors were 9968 in 

 favor and only 154 against meter-liter-gram. Chambers of commerce, 

 trade organizations, exporters, importers were 9974 in favor and only 51 

 against meter-liter-gram. Educational institutions, beneficent organi- 

 zations, individuals in professions were 22,443 in favor and only 74 against 

 meter-liter-gram. Similarly, in all other vocations, although petitioners 

 were free to declare for or against meter-liter-gram, less than i' < objected; 

 and over 99% favored metric standards exclusively." 



Increase Asked to Fight Mosquitoes (Dip. Culicidae). 



Under this heading the Philadelphia Public Ledger of December S. 

 1919, says: "The Atlantic County [New Jersey] Mosquito Commission 

 will ask the Board of Freeholders for an appropriation of $30,000 for tin- 

 work mapped out for next year. The sum appropriated last year was 



