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SCIENCE 



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Lj"oii, chief metallurgist of the Bureau of 

 Mines, are : specific heats at diffei-«nt tempera- 

 tures, refractories, expanding of refractories, 

 and spalling of refractories. 



At the annual meeting of :the State Federa- 

 tion of Pennsylvania Women on October 12, 

 at which more than 600 women were present, 

 the following resolution, with possibly fifteen 

 or .twenty dissenting votes, was adopted* 



Whereas, It has been conclusively demonstrated 

 that the health and happiness of hundreds of 

 thousands of animals, and of many millions of 

 human beings, have been promoted and their lives 

 prolonged by the application of knowledge ob- 

 tained through scientific experiments on animals; 

 and 



Whereas, These researches are conferring a 

 wonderful iboon upon the starving nations by con- 

 stantly adding greatly to the food supply of the 

 world; therefore be it 



Sesolved, That the State Federation of Penn- 

 sylvania Women, assembled in annual general con- 

 vention in the city of Eeading, Pennsylvania, on 

 the twelfth day of October, 1922, hereby put on 

 record their gratitude to medical science for past 

 discoveries so profoundly beneficial to human 

 beings and to animals, and we believe that such 

 beneficent researches should be continued and en- 

 couraged. 



The State Department has issued invitations 

 to one hundred amd fifty countries to take part 

 in an international congress on dairying to be 

 held in this country in October, 1923. The 

 program, in additiion to topics of intei"est to 

 the industry at large, will include recent ad- 

 vances in the sciences related to dairying and 

 particularly the significance of milk and milk 

 products in nutrition. The chairman of the 

 program committee is L. A. Rogers, Dairy 

 Division, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, and the chairme-n of the four sub-com- 

 mittees are : C. H. Etekles, University of Minne- 

 sota, St. Paul, Minnesota; 0. F. Hunziker, 

 Blue Valley Creamery Company, Chicago, 

 Illinois; Fred Basmussen, secretary of agricul- 

 ture. Harrisburg, Pa.; H. C. Shei-man, Colum- 

 bia University, New York. 



At the meeting of the League of Nations 

 committee which was held at Geneva, it was 

 decided that arrangements should be made to 

 hold an international congress of the universi- 

 ties of all countries. The subcommittee 



charged with the arrangement of this congress 

 was instructed to prepare a report on the fol- 

 lowing topics : The exchange of professors and 

 of students; the equivalent values of univer- 

 sity courses and degrees; the institution of 

 international scholarships, of international 

 vacation courses, and of a central office for 

 information on universitv matters. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NOTES 



Foster Hall, the chemical laboratory of th.e 

 University of Buffalo, designed especially to 

 meet the needs of the electro-chemical, hydro- 

 eleotrie, dye and steel industries on the Niagara 

 frontier, was dedicated on October 27 in con- 

 nection with the installation of Dr. Samuel P. 

 Capen, of Washington, as ehaneellor of the 

 university. Dr. Edgar F. Smith, president of 

 the American Chemical Society, and Dr. Edwin 

 E. Slosson, of Science Service, were speakers 

 at the ceremony. The laboratory, erected at a 

 cost of a million dollars, is the' gift of 0. E. 

 Foster, of Buffalo. 



Dr. John Stewart, dean of the faculty of 

 medicine of Dalhousie University, Halifax, laid 

 the corners/tone of the new medical science 

 building for Dalhousie University on Septem- 

 ber 29. 



At the meeting of the Yale Corporation held 

 on October 14, Professor Richard Swann Lull 

 was appointed director of the Peabody Museum 

 of Natural History for a term of five years. 

 Professor William Ebenezer Ford was elected 

 curator of mineralogy in the museum, to suc- 

 ceed Professor Edward Salisbury Dana, who 

 retires from the curatorship after a service of 

 nearly fifty yeai-s. The corporation passed a 

 vote in appreciation of Profess^ Dana's 

 services. 



Dr. G. R. Lyman, plant pathologist in 

 charge of the Plant Disease Survey of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been ap- 

 pointed dean of the College of Agriculture of 

 West Virginia Univei-sity, where he will have 

 supervision of the three divisions of agricul- 

 tural work of that institution, which include 

 the resident instruction in the College of Agri- 

 culture, the work of the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, and of the Extension Service. 



