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SCIENCE 



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liam Rolfe, of St. Louis, and Messrs. Channing, 

 Alford and Wallace, representing the Com- 

 mittee on Work-Periods. The report was 

 finally adopted by an overwhelming vote. 



The Drury report was described as a general 

 survey of all indastries operating continuously 

 twenty-four hours a day. The leading con- 

 tinuous industries investigated are divided into 

 four groups as follows : 



Group I: Iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, 

 glass, Portland cement, lime, brick and pottery. 



Group II: Heavy chemicals, fertilizers, explo- 

 sives, dyes, industrial alcohol, wood distillation, 

 refined corn products, soap, glue, drugs, etc., 

 electro-chemical industries, sugar, table salt, 

 petroleum, cottonseed oil and other oils. 



Group III: Paper, tlour, rubber, breakfast 

 foods, automobiles, textiles and mines. 



Group IV: Power, gas, water supply, ice, ship- 

 ping, railroads, street railways, telegraph and 

 telephone, mails and express, policemen, firemen 

 and watchmen. 



SCIENCE SECTION OF THE ASSOCIATION 



OF COLLEGES AND PREPARATORY 



SCHOOLS OF THE MIDDLE STATES 



AND MARYLAND 



At the annual meeting of the Association of 

 Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Mid- 

 dle . States and Maryland held at Swarthmore 

 College on Novem'ber 26, 1921, Science Section 

 was organized. Dr. Bertha M. Clark, William 

 Penn High School, Philadelphia, presided at 

 the organization meeting. A constitution pre- 

 pared by a committee consisting of Dr. H. J. 

 Creighton, Swarthmore; Dr. James Barnes, 

 Bryn Mawr; Dr. Ida A. Keller, Philadelphia 

 Pligh School for Girls; Dr. W. B. Meldrum, 

 Haverford; and Dr. R. H. True, University of 

 Pennsylvania, was presented and adopted by 

 unanimous vote. 



According to its constitution the Science 

 Section has been organized to bring about 

 active cooperation between the colleges and pre- 

 paratory schools in improving the teaching of 

 science. The following officers were elected to 

 serve one year: 



President: Dr. Thomas D. Cope, Randal Mor- 

 gan Laboratorj' of Physics, University of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Vice-president: Mr. Charles E. Dull, South Side 

 High School, Newark, N. J. 



Secretary: Miss Margaretta Atkinson, Philadel- 

 phia High School for Girls. 



Treasurer: Dr. Walter Steckbeck, Macfarlane 

 Hall of Botany, University of Pennsylvania. 



The following councillors were elected to 

 serve two years : 



Dr. Gellert Alleman, Swarthmore College. 



Dr. Bertha M. Clark, William Penn High 

 School, Philadelphia. 



Dr. Eaymond Brownlee, Stuyvesant High 

 School, New York City. 



The council has decided to hold the next 

 meeting of the section at the time of the next 

 annual meeting of the Association of Colleges 

 and Preparatory Schools. This meeting will 

 be held at the Tower Hill School, Wilmington, 

 Delaware, during the Thanksgiving recess in 

 1922. An attractive program is beiijg prepared 

 and plans are being made to increase materially 

 the membership of the section. Due announce- 

 ment of the program will 'be made public. 



HERSCHEL CENTENARY PILGRIMAGEi 



The centenary of the death of Sir William 

 Herschel, the first president of the Royal As- 

 tronomical Society, was commemorated on 

 August 25 at Slough, where he lived and car- 

 ried out so much memorable work. The Royal 

 Astronomical Societj', with Sir P. Dyson, the 

 astronomer royal, made a pilgrimage to the 

 chief jjlaces associated with Herschel's history, 

 and were welcomed by the chairman (Mr. E. T. 

 Bowyer) and other members of the District 

 Council of Slough, and representatives of tlie 

 Herschel family, in whose occupation the 

 astronomer's house — Observatory House — still 

 remains. 



The first place to be visited was Old Upton 

 Church, a competitor with Stoke Poges for the 

 honor of having inspired Gray's Elegy. Her- 

 schel's body lies beneath 'the flags of the ancient 

 chancel, on which there rested a star-shaped 

 wreath of flowers. The church register records 

 the date of his marriage with "Mary Pitt, 

 widow, of this parish," May 8, 1788, and the 

 baptism of his only son, John Frederick Wil- 



1 The London Times. 



