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there, representing the United States govern- 

 ment and survey. Dr. R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., 

 of Philadelphia, was also an official represen- 

 tative of the United States government, whilst 

 Professor N. H. Winchell, ex-president of the 

 American Institute of Mining and Metalur- 

 gical Engineers, was also an official delegate. 

 Professors S. B. Matthews and W. H. Em- 

 mons, Dr. Quirke, Professor G. F. Cleland, 

 E. 0. Ulrich and many others took part in the 

 meetings. 



Dr. Frank Darwin Adams, of McGill Uni- 

 vereity, president of the 'twelfth congress held 

 in 1913 in Canada; Dr. Charles Causell, of 

 Ottawa, deputy minister of mines; Dr. Reg- 

 inald W. Brock, of Vancouver; Professors 

 Coleman, T. L. Walker and W. A. Parker, of 

 the University of Toronto; Professor E. M. 

 Baker, of Queen's University, and the writer 

 represented the Royal Society of Canada. 



Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Czeeho-SIova- 

 kia, Roumania, Denmark, Mexico, Argentina, 

 Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, West Africa, 

 Egypt and India were represented. 



The tectonics of Africa formed one of the 

 principal topics and what was formerly styled 

 the dark continent is now supplying some of 

 the brightest pages in our knowledge of the 

 crust of the earth. 



The consolidation or drafting of a constitu- 

 tion for the International Geological Congress 

 occupied the attention of a number of Euro- 

 pean and American geologists, and, finally, at 

 the last general meeting the statutes as dis- 

 cussed in council and approved by it were 

 adopted with one dissenting vote. 



H. M. A. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 De. Alexander Smith, formerly professor 

 of chemistry at the University of Chicago and 

 Columbia University, has died at Edinburgh 

 at the age of fifty-six years. 



President Livingston Fareand, of Cornell 

 University, has accepted an invitation to de- 

 liver an address at a joint meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science and the Society of the Sigma Xi to be 

 held at the Boston convocation week meeting. 



Dr. Hiram Bingham, professor of Latin- 

 American history at Yale University, has been 

 nominated by the Republican state convention 

 of Connecticut for the office of lieutenant 

 governor. 



A CABLE message to the American Society of 

 Mechanical Engineers announces the election 

 by the engineers of Holland to honorary mem- 

 bership in the Koninkljik Instituut van Inge- 

 nieurs of Mr. Calvin W. Rice, secretary of the 

 society. Mr. Rice is now in Rio de Janeiro as 

 the representative of American engineering 

 societies at the International Engineering Con- 

 gress. 



Mr. Jesse Merrick Smith, of New York, 

 has been elected by the American Society of 

 Mechanical Engineers delegate to the seventy- 

 fifth anniversary of the Dutch Engineering 

 Institute, with Mr. Hosea Webster, of New 

 York, as alternate. 



On the occasion of the annual dinner of the 

 Royal Society of Medicine, presided over by 

 Sir John Bland-Sutton, the Jenner Memorial 

 Medal was presented to Dr. John C. McVail. 



Professor Rafaele Issel has been appoint- 

 ed director of the 'biological work of the Italian 

 government on the Adriatic. This work will 

 now be concentrated at Rovigno. 



Dr. Ernest B. Forbes has heen appointed 

 director of the Institute of Animal Nutrition at 

 Pennsylvania State College to succeed the late 

 Dr. Henry Prentiss Arms'by. Dr. Forbes is 

 specialist in nutrition in the Institution of 

 American Meat Packers of Chicago, and was 

 for thirteen years chief of the department of 

 nutrition of the Ohio State Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. 



Lillian Segal Kopeloff has been appoint- 

 ed in charge of the newly established research 

 department of biological chemistry at the 

 Psychiatric Institute of the New York State 

 Hospitals, Ward's Island, New York City. 



Me. H. K. Cummings has resigned an 

 instruetorship in mathematics at Brown Uni- 

 versity to accept a position in the Bureau of 

 Standards at Washington. 



Professor L. Winfield Webb, professor of 

 psychology, has been named by President 



