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temperature of the water in the different 

 aquaria. The plans for the gallery have been 

 prepared by Messrs. Belcher and Joass, and 

 the circulation, electric plant, and the heating, 

 lighting and ventilating systems have been de- 

 signed by Sir Alexander Gibto. The scheme 

 ■will cost about £50,000, and should provide 

 London with the best-equipped and most care- 

 fully arranged aquarium in Europe. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the forty-first annual meeting of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry, held in Glasgow 

 in July, Professor E. F. Kuttan, of McGill 

 University, presided, and made an address on 

 "Some aspects of industrial and scientific re- 

 search." Professor H. E. Armstrong, of 

 London, gave the first of the Messel Memorial 

 lectures. 



Me. Calvin W. Rice, secretary of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 

 sailed from New York on August 23, to rep- 

 resent the engineex-s of the United States at 

 the Engineering Congress to be held in connec- 

 tion with the International Exposition at Rio 

 de Janeiro. A dinner in his honor was given at 

 the Engineers Club on the evening of 

 August 21. 



Dr. Henry S. Drinker, formerly president 

 of Lehigh University, has been appointed the 

 successor of the late Joseph T. Rothrock as a 

 commissioner of forestry in Pennsylvania. 



Mr. C. a. Sussmilch, principal of the New- 

 castle Technical College (N. S. W.), and for- 

 merly lecturer in charge of the department of 

 geology and mining, Sydney Technical Col- 

 lege, has been elected president of the Royal 

 Society of New South Wales. 



The Royal Dutch Institute of Engineers has 

 appointed as honorary members Sir Charles 

 Parsons, inventor of the Parsons steam tur- 

 bine, Mr. J. H. Tud^bery, secretary of the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, London, and 

 Mr. Charles le Maistre, secretary of the Inter- 

 national Electro-Technicail Commission in 

 London. 



The seventieth ^birthday of Dr. S. Goldflam, 

 the Polish neurologist and alienist, has been 



celeibrated, a special volume of "Neurologie 

 polonaise" being dedicated to him. 



Dr. Reid Hunt, of the Harvard Medical 

 School, Boston, has been elected on the edi- 

 torial board of Physiological Reviews for 1922. 



At the recent meeting of the International 

 Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, as has 

 already been noted, Sir William J. Pope was 

 elected president of the union, and it was de- 

 cided that the next meeting should be held in 

 Cambridge, England, on June 17, 1923. Dr. 

 Wilder D. Bancroft, professor of physical 

 chemistry at Cornell University, was elected 

 vice-president for America, succeeding Dr. 

 Charles L. Pa,rsons, secretary of the American 

 Chemical Society, whose three-year term of 

 office has just closed. 



On May 24, a Hawaiian Section of the 

 American Chemical Society was organized 

 with the following officer's: C. C. James, chair- 

 man; S. S. Peck, vice chairman; R. Q. Smith, 

 secretary; Guy R. Stewart, treasurer; Frank 

 T. Dillingham, councilor. 



At the convention of the Western Psycho- 

 logical Association held at Stanford Univer- 

 sity on August 4 and 5, the following officers 

 were elected: President, Edward C. Tolman, of 

 the University of California; vice-president, 

 J. Edgar Coover, of Stanford University; sec- 

 retary, Edmund S, Conklin, of the University 

 of Oregon. 



Dr. Elwood Mead, professor of rural insti- 

 tutions. University of California, has been 

 made an honorary member of the American 

 Society of Agricultural Engineers. Dr. Mead 

 recently returned from the Hawaiian Islands, 

 where he went on the invitation of the 

 Hawaiian Home Commission to investigate 

 conditions on the islands. 



Dr. W. W. Coblentz, physicist of the Na- 

 tional Bureau of Standards, spent part of the 

 month of June at the Lowell Observatory ex- 

 tending his radiometric investigations of last 

 year at Flagstaff, on the stars and the planets. 

 The observing conditions were favorable and 

 progress was made both in the accumulation of 

 new observational data and in tests of new 

 apparatus. The observations were carried out 

 with the 40-ineh reflector. 



