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ing and paper and pulp manufacture in 

 Sweden under the American-Scandinavian 

 Foundation. Ten college and university men 

 from America will be sent to the Scandi- 

 navian states under the American-Scandi- 

 navian Foundation for study and research. 

 Two of these fellowships are in forestry and 

 the others in mining, electrical engineering, 

 etc. The fellowships carry $1,000 and are of 

 one year's duration. 



Professor Egbert Andrews Millikan, of 

 the department of physics of the University 

 of Chicago, and recently vice-chairman of the 

 National Eesearch Council in Washington, 

 will lecture before the summer session of the 

 university on July 25 on " The New Oppor- 

 tunity in Science." 



We learn from Nature that an additional 

 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 was planned for July 11, to receive American 

 astronomers who are on their way to Brussels 

 to take part in the conference of the Interna- 

 tional Research Council, which will be opened 

 there on July 18. The party is expected to 

 include Professors Campbell, Eiehelberger, 

 Mitchell, Schlesinger, Stebbins, Adams and 

 Boss. 



The Jahreshericht der DeutscJien Mathe- 

 matikir-Y ereinigiing , as we learn from the 

 American Mathematical Monthly, reports the 

 deaths of the following mathematicians: Pro- 

 fessor A. Benteli, of the University of Bern, on 

 November 10, 1917, in his seventieth year. 

 Professor E. Ott, of the University of Bern, 

 on November 17, 1917, in his seventieth year. 

 Dr. Robert Jentzch, of the University of Ber- 

 lin, on March 21, 1918, fallen in battle. Pro- 

 fessor M. B. Weinstein, of Berlin, in his sixty- 

 fifth year. Professor G. Veronese, of the Uni- 

 versity of Padua, on July 17, 1917, in his sixty- 

 third year. Frangois Daniels, of Nymwegen, 

 Holland, professor of mathematics at the Uni- 

 versity of Fribourg, Switzerland, died on No- 

 vember 16, 1918, at the age of fifty-eight years. 



In accordance with the trust founded by 

 Mrs. Eliza Streatfeild for the promotion of 

 research in medicine and surgery, a committee 

 of the Royal College of Physicians of London 



and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Eng- 

 land is proceeding to appoint a Streatfeild re- 

 search scholar. The emolument will probably 

 be £250 per annum, and the tenure of the 

 scholarship three years at the discretion of 

 the committee. Applications, which' should 

 state the nature of the proposed research, the 

 place where it will be carried out, and the 

 status of the applicant, should be addressed 

 to the Registrar, Royal College of Physicians, 

 Pall Mall East, S.W.I, and marked " Streat- 

 feild Scholarship." 



An inter-Allied Conference of Associations 

 of Pure and Applied Chemistry was held in 

 Paris on April 14 and 15. The conference has 

 laid the foundation for an inter- Allied Chem- 

 ical Association, to replace the International 

 Association of pre-war times. Details of their 

 decisions have not been made public. The pro- 

 gram, however, is said to meet with the unani- 

 mous approval of all the delegates. Among 

 the 350 guests present at the banquet were 

 Lord Moulton; Sir William Pope, president of 

 the British Federal Council; Professor Henry 

 Louis, who was head of the British delegates, 

 Mr. Henry Wigglesworth, the chief American 

 delegate; Professor Chavanne, president of the 

 Chemical Society of Belgium; Professor 

 Paterno, vice-president of the Italian Senate; 

 Professor Moureu, M. Paul Kessner, and M. 

 Poulenc, presidents of the three principal 

 French associations of applied and pure chem- 

 istry, and many other well-known men in the 

 chemical and industrial world. 



Besides supplying an important war need, 

 according to the London Times, Sheffield has 

 laid the foundation of a future industry by 

 the progress made at the university in the 

 manufacture of glass for laboratory purposes. 

 In the summer of 1914 there was no manu- 

 facturer of laboratory glass in Britain. The 

 whole process, the knowledge of which had 

 been built up in Germany during the last half 

 century, had to be discovered and workers 

 specially trained. Laboratory glass was ur- 

 gently needed in the manufacture of certain 

 munitions and important and urgently re- 

 quired equipment would have been held up if 

 it had not been supplied. 



