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SCIENCE 



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, It is a historical fact that after every great 

 war, the medical center of the world is changed 

 and the war just over will be no exception to the 

 rule. In line with these ideas and in order to give 

 New York City this opportunity to at least be- 

 come one of the leading teaching medical centers 

 of the world, our organization has been formed. 



In addition to Dr. Phillips and Dr. Emer- 

 son, the following compose the officers of the 

 association: Dr. George D. Stewart, president 

 of the New York Academy of Medicine, first 

 vice-president; Dr. Glentworth Butler, chief 

 medical consultant of the Long Island College 

 Hospital, second vice-president; Dr. Arthur F. 

 Chace, stomach specialist of the Post-Graduate 

 Hospital, treasurer. The trustees are Colonel 

 Charles H. Peck, Dr. William Francis Camp- 

 bell, Dr. John E. Hartwell, Dr. Frederick Til- 

 ney. Dr. Otto V. Huffman, Dr. Adrian Lam- 

 bert, Dr. Samuel A. Brown, Dr. James Alex- 

 ander Miller, and Dr. George W. Kosmak. 



I THE PHILADELPHIA MEETING OF THE 

 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



Owing to the great advances made by 

 American chemistry as a result of the Eu- 

 ropean war, the fifty-eighth meeting of the 

 American Chemical Society to be held in 

 Philadelphia from September 2 to 6 inclusive 

 will be undoubtedly the largest ever held by 

 that organization. 



The membership which has increased nearly 

 twofold since 1914 is now 13,600 and is being 

 augmented every month. The sessions which 

 are to be held at the Bellevue-Stratford will 

 touch upon problems of reconstruction grow- 

 ing out of developments which place the 

 American chemist so much on his own re- 

 sources both for materials and apparatus with 

 the closing of foreign markets. 



One of the features of the meeting will be 

 the first session of the newly organized dye 

 section. There will be a joint session of this 

 section with the Division of Industrial Chem- 

 ists and Industrial Engineers to consider a 

 proposal to revise the patent laws. It has 

 been suggested the charging of nominal an- 

 nual renewal fee would compel many patentees 

 to work their patents, rather than to permit 

 them to be idle for many years. 



Special arrangements have been made to 

 give to all delegates access to the chemical 

 plants of Philadelphia. There will also be an 

 excursion on the Delaware River which will 

 give them the opportunity of viewing the mu- 

 nition works erected in that region. The con- 

 version of such establishments to the ways of 

 peaceful industry will come up in various as- 

 pects before divisions of the society. 



The provisional program is as follows : Sep- 

 tember 3, council meeting and dinner to coun- 

 cil tendered by the Philadelphia Section; 

 September 3, general meeting, with addresses 

 by Newton B. Baker and other distinguished 

 speakers; followed by divisional meetings; 

 September 4, divisional meetings and presi- 

 dent's address, by Dr. William H. Nichols, at 

 the Museum of the University of Peimsyl- 

 vania. September 5, divisional meetings and 

 banquet in the evening at Bellevue-Stratford, 

 the program to conclude on the sixth with ex- 

 cursions and automobile trip to Valley Forge. 



The Philadelphia Section urges that mem- 

 bers write now for hotel accommodations. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Abraham Jacobi, the di^inguished 

 physician and author, professor emeritus of 

 diseases of children in Columbia University, 

 died on July 11, in his eighty-ninth year. 



Professor Albert A. Michelson, head of 

 the department of physics alt the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed to the rank of 

 commander, U.S.N.R.F. He served as lieu- 

 tenant commander in the Bureau of Ordnance 

 of the Navy Department at Washington dur- 

 ing the war. 



The Royal Geographical Society has con- 

 ferred its patron's medal on Professor William 

 Morris Davis for eminence in the development 

 of physical geography. 



Professor H. GroEON Wells, of the depart- 

 ment of pathology of the University of Chi- 

 cago, has been decorated with " the Star of 

 Roumania " by the King in recognition of his 

 work as head of the American Red Cross Mis- 

 sion to Roumania. 



