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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1445 



Association, wei-e among the members of the 

 deputation. 



The program for the Eighth National Ex- 

 position of Chemical Industries, to be held in 

 Grand Central Palace, New York, N. Y., Sep- 

 tember 11 to 16, 1922, numbers among its 

 speakers not only many eminent chemists but 

 several well-known public men. There are 

 already about 400 exhibitors. Every branch of 

 the chemical and chemical equipment indus- 

 tries, as well as numerous allied houses, will be 

 represented at the exposition. The chemical 

 products displayed will include all types man- 

 ufactured in the United States: Coal, medi- 

 cinals, and dyestuffs, technical chemicals for the 

 rubber, leather, paper, textile, paint, and other 

 consuming trades, — "everything in chemicals 

 from the crudest of crude materials to the most 

 delicate aromatic ready for the perfumer's 

 use." A number of new devices in apparatus 

 and machinery developed since the .termination 

 of war-time activity and completed since the 

 1921 Exposition will be displayed for the first 

 time, as well as improvements on machinery 

 long standard for industrial operations. Many 

 of the machines will be seen in actual opera- 

 tion. Some new features which will be on dis- 

 play ai'e : New special high-capacity evapora- 

 tor; Lead pumps for handling phosphoric 

 acid under pressure; new adaptation of the 

 all hard-rubber pump for use in muriatic acid 

 loading; recent development on a balanced 

 automatic control valve and in direct reading 

 resistance thermometer; new ideas in pyro- 

 meters; developments of the past year in butyl 

 alcohol and furfural and their derivatives for 

 solvent purposes; the use of liquid chlorine in 

 the paper industry in place of bleaching pow- 

 der; new dust controlling and humidifying 

 equipment; new ideas for loading machinery 

 on trucks; all types of containei-s, steel fiber, 

 wood and glass. 



The Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 

 states that because it represents an entirely 

 new industry to Malaya, the formal opening of 

 the pottery works at Gopeng, was made the 

 occasion of somewhat elaborate ceremonies. 

 The plant, which is situated about 16 miles 

 from Ipoh, is equipped to handle all the 

 processes from refining the crude clay to the 

 decoration of the completed piece. According 



to a report by the United States consul at 

 Penang, casting and jolleying are the processes 

 used, permitting a comparatively large output 

 with labor that is not yet thoroughly trained. 

 Teapots, jugs, ewers and basins are already 

 being turned out, notwithstanfling that a few 

 weeks ago the Malay girls employed in the 

 casting room had never seen a pottery. As the 

 available labor becomes more skilled the pro- 

 duction of porcelain ware in bulk is contem- 

 plated. All the materials required for pottery 

 making are found within three miles of the 

 works. Besides supplying its o^vn clay re- 

 quirements, the company ships china clay to 

 cotton mills in Bombay and paper mills in 

 Calcutta. The barrels for packing the product 

 are made at the works. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



The will of Arthur B. Emmons, of Newport, 

 R. I., leaves $50,000 to the Museum of Fine 

 Arts of Boston and $25,000 to the Children's 

 Hospital of the same city, and the Newport 

 Hospital. Berea College, Kentucky, Hampton 

 Institute, Virginia, and Tuskegee Institute, 

 Alabama, receive $10,000 each. 



De. Andrew M. Soulb has resigned the 

 presidency of the Georgia State College of 

 Agriculture, to accept the presidency of the 

 Undversity of Wyoming, to take the place of 

 Dr. Aven Nelson, who returns to his former 

 position as head of the department of botany. 



Dr. J. L. Beeson, for twenty-five years pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the Georgia State Col- 

 lege for Women, Milledgeville, Ga., has been 

 elected acting president of the college. 



William F. G. Swann, Sc.D., professor of 

 physios in the University of Minnesota, has 

 been appointed professor of physics at t;he 

 University of Chicago. Pi\)fessor Swann wa^ 

 connected with 'the Royal College of Science, 

 London, and the University of Sheffield before 

 coming to the United States in 1913. For six 

 yeara he was chief of /the physical di\dsion. De- 

 partment of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Car- 

 negie Institution at Washington. 



Dr. Henry H. Goddaed, for the past four 

 years director of the State Bureau of Juvenile 



