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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1440 



noon, with K. T. Haslam, Massacliusetts Institute 

 of Technology, as chairman. 



The Section of Chemical Education is desirous 

 of being an open forum for settling national 

 questions in chemical education including high 

 school, college, university and industry problems. 

 Bring your problem for diseussaon. A fifty-word 

 abstract of all papers is required before the 

 paper is presented at the meeting. 



The Cellulose Section plans a number of dis- 

 cussions on special topics, such as: (a) Coopera- 

 tive research problems in cellulose chemistry. 

 (B) The nature of oxycellulose and its bearing 

 on the artificial silk, viscose and paper industries. 



(c) Dr. Tingle's proposed "Bromine number." 



(d) Absorption of salts by cellulose. 



THE SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION OF THE 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



The third annual meeting of the South- 

 western Division, American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, will be held in Santa 

 Fe, New Mexico, on September 6 to 9 inclusive. 

 It will immediately follow the annual Santa Fe 

 Fiesta. 



Three afternoons will be devoted to field 

 meetings; one to a large fossil bed containing 

 remains of extinct animals; another to the 

 ruins at Pecos; and the other to the cliff dwell- 

 ings at the Rito de los Frijoles, under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. E. L. Hewett. 



The Santa Fe museums offer a special arohe- 

 ological and Indian program on the evening of 

 the sixth. The address of the president, Dr. 

 D. T. MacDougal, will be followed by a recep- 

 tion. On the evening of the seventh, the 

 friends and associates of Mr. Springer will 

 present to the State of New Mexico a bust of 

 him, in appreciation of his work in the ad- 

 vancement of science and education. 



The scientific papers will be read before five 

 sections : 



Physical science: Chairman, Dr. A. E. Douglass, 

 University of Arizona and director of the Stewart 

 Observatory. 



Social science : Chairman, K. M. Chapman, 

 artist of the Aeheological Museums, Santa Ee. 



Biology: Chairman, Dr. E. C. Prentiss, El Paso. 



Agriculture: Chairman, Dr. H. L. Kent, presi- 

 dent of the New Mexico College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, Mesilla Park. 



Education and, psychology : Chairman, Dr. B. P. 

 Haught, professor of psychology. University of 

 New Mexico. 



We wish to extend a cordial invitation to 

 attend this meeting to all members of the asso- 

 ciation who are spending the summer in the 

 west. 



Elliott C. Peentiss, 

 Chairman of the Executive Committee 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor Mangin, director of the Paris 

 Museum of Natural History, presided over the 

 meeting of the French Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science held at Montpellier from 

 July 24 to 29. 



Sir Joseph J. Thomson, master of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, was presented on July 26 

 with the Franklin Medal by the Franklin Insti- 

 tute of Philadelphia for his "signal and em- 

 inent service in science." The presentation 

 was made by the Earl of Balfour. 



The Charles P. Daly Medal for 1922 was 

 presented to Sir Francis Younghusband, presi- 

 dent of the Royal Geographical Society, at the 

 Americal-ilnibassy in Great Britain on July 19 

 by George Harvey, the American ambassador, 

 on behalf of the American Geographical Soci- 

 ety. The medal was inscribed "For explora- 

 tions in northern India and Thibet, and for 

 geographical publications on the Asiatic and 

 African borders of the empire." 



At its commencement in June, Randolph- 

 Macon College conferred the honorary degree 

 of doctor of laws upon Rear Admiral David 

 Watson Taylor, chief constructor. United 

 States Navy, in recognition of his international 

 reputation as a naval architect and his distin- 

 guished services to his country. The occasion 

 was the near approach of his retirement from 

 active service. Admiral Taylor is a native of 

 Louisa County, Virginia, and was a student of 

 Randolph-Macon College before entering upon 

 his special training for the navy. 



The degree of doctor of science has been 

 conferred by the University of Manchester on 

 Mr. G. H. Hardy, Savilian professor of geom- 

 etry and fellow of New College, Oxford, and 



