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those whieli have already placed the world under 

 such a debt of gratitude to the profession. 



We desire that you should make this announce- 

 ment at such time and place as you shall deem 

 best, and to take such steps as may be necessary 

 to carry the matter into effect beginning with the 

 year 1923. We assume that a committee, of 

 which you will be chairman, will be appointed 

 by you to consider and suggest the rules govern- 

 ing the selection each year of the chemist who 

 is deemed most worthy. 



We also assume that this committee would pro- 

 vide for the appointment of a jury to decide an- 

 nually who should be the recipient. We would be 

 glad if the committee would arrange the selec- 

 tion of this jury so that this company would 

 have the appointment of two members, it being 

 understood that neither of those members should 

 be connected with the company. 



We do not desire to limit the gift to ahy par- 

 ticular field of chemistry, recognizing as we do 

 the importance of them all. 



As the American CSiemical Society is by far 

 the largest organization of chemists, and repre- 

 sents every field of the science in its membership, 

 we have thought it better to work through that 

 society, although not limiting the gift to its 

 members. Our sole desire is to encourage chem- 

 ists everywhere in our country to do even more 

 than they have been doing for the general good. 



We have not gone into details, as we value 

 greatly the opinions of those who would nat- 

 urally be asked to serve on the committee, and 

 do not desire to trammel them in their delibera- 

 tions. 



MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL 

 ASSOCIATION AND THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE 



Members of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion wlio are not now members of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 have been invited to become members without 

 the payment of the usual five-dollar entrance 

 fee. This special invitation has been voted by 

 the executive committee of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science be- 

 cause of the fact that it is practically impos- 

 sible for the permanent secretary's offlee to 

 send an individual invitation offering this 

 privilege to each new member of the American 

 Medical Association each year, as is done in the 

 case of the other scientiflo societies affiliated 



with the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



Members of the American Medical Associa- 

 tion who are interested in this invitation are 

 requested to write to the permanent secretary's 

 offlee, Smithsonian Institution Building, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. They will thus secure a special 

 invitation and a booklet of information regard- 

 ing the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. 



Burton E. Livingston 

 Permanent Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The Association of German Scientific Men 

 and Physicians holds its hundredth meeting at 

 Leipzig from September 18 to 24. One of the 

 public addresses is hy Professor Albert Ein- 

 stein. 



The Swiss Scientific Society held its one 

 hundred and third annual meeting at Berne 

 from August 24 to 27. According to the pro- 

 gram as quoted in Nature, the general ad- 

 dresses included the following: "The trend of 

 modern physics," Dr. C. E. Buye (Geneva) ; 

 "The nature of the so-called general neuroses," 

 Professor Sahli (Berne); "The Aar Massif — 

 an example of Alpine granitic instrusion," Dr. 

 E. Hugi (Berne) ; "The natural form of sub- 

 stances as a physical problem," Dr. V. Kohl- 

 schiitter (Berne) ; "Experimental genetics in 

 regard to the law of variation" (illustrated by 

 lantern slides). Dr. A. Pictet (Geneva); and 

 "Investigations into the physiology of Alpine 

 plants," Dr. G. Senn (Bale). 



At the Pittsburgh meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society Dr. C. L. Parsons was unani- 

 mously reelected secretary of the society. The 

 editors of the society's journals were unani- 

 mousely reelected, namely: Chemical Ab- 

 stracts: E. J. Crane. Journal of the American 

 Chemical Society: A. B. Lamb. Industrial and 

 Engineering Chemistry : H. E. Howe. Dr. W. 

 A. Noyes was elected editor of Scientific Mono- 

 graphs. The advisory committee named H. E. 

 Howe as successor .to Dr. Johnson, who re- 

 signed as editor of Technologic Monographs. 



SiE Charles Scott Sherrington, president 

 of the Eoyal Society and of the British Asso- 



