338 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



home for the Academy and the National Research Council. Plans 

 for the building were made public on April 26, at the annual meeting 

 of the Academy, by Dr. James R. Angell, Chairman of the Council. 



The National Academy of Sciences, at its meeting at the National 

 Museum on April 26-28, elected the following new members: J. R. 

 Angell, psychologist, Chairman National Research Council; H. P. 

 Armsby, agricultural chemist, State College, Pennsylvania; W. D. 

 Bancroft, chemist, Cornell University; M. F. Blichfeldt, mathe- 

 matician, Leland Stanford, Jr., University; A. J. Carlson, physiolo- 

 gist, University of Chicago; William Duane, physicist, Harvard 

 University; L. R. Jones, plant pathologist. University of Wisconsin; 

 E. P. KoHLER, chemist, Harvard University; C. K. Leith, geologist. 

 University of Wisconsin; C. E. McClung, zoologist. National Research 

 Council; E. V. McCollum, biological chemist, Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity; G. W. Pierce, physicist. Harvard University; H. J. Ryan, elec- 

 trical engineer, Leland Stanford, Jr., University; JoEL Stebbins, 

 astronomer. University of Illinois; Bailey Willis, geologist, Leland 

 Stanford, Jr., University. 



The following foreign associates were elected: F. D. Adams, geolo- 

 gist, McGill University; Camille Jordan, mathematician. College de 

 France; Francois Lacroix, mineralogist, Mus^e d'Histoire Naturelle, 

 Paris; H. Kammerlingh Onnes, physicist. University of Leyden; Sir 

 David Prain, botanist. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, vSurrey; Santiago 

 Ramon y Cajal, histologist, University of Madrid. 



The thirteenth Annual Conference of Weights and Measures Offi- 

 cials was held at the Bureau of Standards on May 24-27. 



The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the American Pharmaceutical 

 Association was held in Washington on May 5-10. The National 

 Association of Boards of Pharmacy and the American Conference of 

 Pharmaceutical Faculties, organizations affiliated with the Association, 

 also met. 



The United States Pharmacopoeial Convention met on May 1 1 for 

 the tenth decennial revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia under 

 the presidency of Dr. Reid Hunt. The first convention met in 

 Washington in 1820. The ninth met in 19 10, and its work was em- 

 bodied in the Pharmacopoeia which became the official standard on 

 September i, 1916. 



The second annual convention of the Association of Scientific Ap- 

 paratus Makers of the United States of America w^as held in Wash- 

 ington on April 22 and 23, under the chairmanship of C. S. Stoelting. 

 Calibration of apparatus, standardization of designs for glassware, 

 guaranteed chemical reagents, and pyrometer materials were among 

 the subjects discussed. The Association elected the following officers: 

 President, M. E. LEEDs; Vice-President, H. N. Ott; Secretary-Treasurer,. 

 J. M. Roberts. 



