150 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



representing 124 organizations with an aggregate membership of over 

 106,000, attended the conference. 



Representatives of Engineering Council appeared before the House 

 Committee on Mihtary Affairs on Januar}^ 28, and urged, in connection 

 with plans for the Signal Corps, that technical and scientific graduates 

 be commissioned in that Corps, and that physicists and electrical en- 

 gineers be employed to carr>' forward research on its problems. 



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A grant of $5,000,000 has been made by the Carnegie Corporation 

 of New York to the National Academy of Sciences. A part of the fund 

 will be used to erect a building in Washington for the Academy and the 

 National Research Council. The remainder will be made a permanent 

 endowment for the maintenance of the Research Council and other 

 work of the Academy. 



A popular exhibit of the wireless telephone was opened at the offices 

 of the National Research Council, 1201 Sixteenth Street, on February 

 6. The exhibit was installed by the American Telephone and Telegraph 

 Company and the Western Electric Company, with the cooperation of 

 the Signal Corps and the Air Service of the United States Army. The 

 exhibit included special apparatus designed to reproduce the more funda- 

 mental electrical discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 

 which have made possible the development of the wireless telephone, 

 and moving line drawings illustrating the action of the wireless tele- 

 phone. 



A serum made in the Bureau of Animal Industry in connection with 

 experiments on Bacillus hohiUnus, which is suspected of causing "forage 

 poisoning' ' of horses, was used recently to save the life of one member of 

 a family in New York who had been poisoned by spoiled olives. The 

 serum was received too late to save the other members of the family. 

 Two strains of B. hohilinns have been recognized, and both produce 

 poisons which have similar effects, but immunization against one does 

 not afford immunization against the other. 



Mr. Albert Hugh Bryan, chief chemist of the firm of Arbuckle 

 Brothers in New York City, and a non-resident member of the Academy, 

 died on January 20, 1920, of influenza, in his forty-sixth year. Mr. 

 Bryan was bom at Indianapolis, Indiana, July 27, 1874. After serving 

 two years as assistant chemist of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, and about eight years as chemist of the American Beet Sugar 

 Compan}^ he became assistant chemist in the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, in 1907, and chief of the Bureau's 

 sugar laboratory in 1909. In 19 13 he resigned to accept a position with 

 Arbuckle Brothers. He made many contributions to the chemistry 

 of the sugars, particularly methods of analysis of commercial sugar 

 products. He was a member of the Chemical Society, and had been a 

 member of the Academy since 191 2. 



