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mittees will be assigned to the study of the fol- 

 lowing problems : (1) Undergraduate and 

 elective courses in highway engineering; (2) 

 Undergraduate and elective courses in highway 

 transport; (3) Graduate work in highway en- 

 gineering and highway transport; (4) Short 

 courses in highway engineering and highway 

 transport; (5) Introductory general course in 

 highway engineering and highway transport; 

 (6) Vocational training for non-professional 

 highway personnel, and, (7) Highway traiflc 

 regulation and safety. 



Information witn regard to the conference 

 may be obtained from the Highway Education 

 Board, Willard Building, Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the meeting of the British Association, 

 which begins at Hull on September 6, for the 

 first time, special lectures are being arranged 

 for children in the secondary schools. These 

 will be given by Professor H. H. Turner, on 

 "The telescope and what it tells us"; Professor 

 J. Arthur Thomson, on "Creatures of the 

 sea"; and Mr. F. Debenham, on "The Ant- 

 arctic." 



The ninetieth annual meeting of the British 

 Medical Association was held in Glasgow, Scot- 

 land, from July 25 to 28, under the presidency 

 of Dr. David Drummond, of Neweastle-on- 

 Tyne. Sir William Maeewen, Glasgow, was 

 elected president for the year 1922-1923. Mr. 

 Charles P. Childe, Southsea, is president-elect 

 for the annual meeting to be held in Ports- 

 mouth in 1923. 



Sir William Pope has been elected presi- 

 dent of the International Union of Pure and 

 Applied Chemistry for the ensuing three years. 

 The next meeting of the union will be held at 

 Cambridge in June, 1923. 



The physicists, Professor H. K. Onnes, of 

 Leyden, Professor P. Zeeman, of Amsterdam, 

 and Dr. N. Bohr, of Copenhagen, have been 

 elected corresponding members of the Berlin 

 Academy of Sciences. 



H. Le Chatelier, professor of chemistry at 

 the Sorbonne, Paris, has been presented with 

 a gold medal on the completion of his fifty 

 years of teaching and of service to France. 



Colonel Arthur S. Dwight, president of 

 the American Institute of Mining and Metal- 

 lurgical Engineers, and Charles F. Rand, chair- 

 man of the Engineering Foundation, have been 

 made Chevaliers of the Legion of Honor. 



The honorary degrees conferred by the 

 University of Edinburgh on July 21 included 

 the doctorate of laws on M. Roger, dean of the 

 faculty of medicine in the University of Paris; 

 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, professor of 

 physiology in the University of Oxford; Mr. 

 John Bretland Farmer, professor of botany at 

 the Imperial College of Science and Technol- 

 ogy, London, and William Somerville, pro- 

 fessor of rural economy at Oxford. 



Dr. Virgil Snyder, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Cornell University, received, at the 

 seven hundredth anniversary celebration of the 

 University of Padua, the honorary degree of 

 doctor of the University of Padua. 



The Rio de Janeiro Academy of Medicine 

 has conferred the Sampaio prize this year on 

 the pharmacist, P. Seabra, for his work on an 

 electric process for producing nitric acid. 



Dr. Gerald L. Wendt resigned on July 1 as 

 associate professor of chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago to join the staff of the 

 Standard Oil Company of Indiana in the 

 direction of resear(ih. 



The Cross of the Legion of Honor has been 

 awarded to Dr. A. E. Kennelly, professor of 

 electrical engineering at Harvard University 

 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 for distinguished services as exchange pro- 

 fessor in engineering to the French Republic. 

 Dr. Kennelly will be succeeded as American 

 exchange professor by Dean John Frazer of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, now in France. 

 The French representative to the American 

 institutions, Professor J. Cavalier, director of 

 the University of Toulouse, has returned to 

 France and will be succeeded by Dr. M. E. 

 de Margerie, director of the Geological Service 

 of France. 



Dr. Frederick Robert Zeit, for more than 

 twenty years professor of pathology at North- 

 western University Medical School, at his re- 

 quest has been relieved of active duty in the 

 medical school. He plans to spend next year 



