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Be it further resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the 
President of the United States, the head of each of the executive depart- 
ments, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and that they be published in the Journal of the Washington 
Academy of Sciences. 
Dr. R. B. Sosman, of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of 
Washington, has been appointed by the National Research Council as 
American member on the permanent committee for the standardization of 
physico-chemical symbols of the International Union of Pure and Applied 
Chemistry. The other members of the committee are: Prof. Ernst CoHeEn, 
University of Utrecht, chairman; Prof. ALEXANDER Finpuay, ‘University of 
Aberdeen, and Prof. CHARLES Marie, Sorbonne. 
Dr. Artuur L. Day, Director of the Geophysical Laboratory and Chairman 
of the Carnegie Institution’s Advisory Committee in Seismology, gave the 
opening lecture of the Franklin Institute series for 1923-24 on October li, 
1923. The subject of the lecture was Harthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 
Dr. Henry S. Graves, dean of the Yale School of Forestry, formerly chief 
of the United States Forestry Service, has been elected provost of Yale 
University. 
Arrangements have been made with the Radio Corporation of America 
for a number of short talks on the Smithsonian Institution and its branches 
to be broadcasted from Station WRC. The first of these talks, on The Smith- 
sonian Institution, its history and functions, was given by Austin H. Cuark 
on October 19. The second, on The Bureau of American Ethnology; what tt is 
and what it does, was given by Dr. J. W. Fewkes on October 22. Other sub- 
jects are The Natural History Museum, The Arts and Industries Museum, 
The Zoological Park, The Astrophysical Observator y, and Smithsonian Explora- 
tions. It is estimated by officials of the Radio Corporation that these talks 
reach an audience of nearly 2,000,000 people, and cover an area 1800 miles 
in all directions from Washington. 
