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Plans have been made for a joint session of 

 the American Electrochemical Society with 

 the Mining Institute upon the subject of 

 " Electric steel and electric furnaces " on Wed- 

 nesday of the week. This will be followed by 

 another joint session on " Pyromeitry," prob- 

 ably on Friday, when the following phases of 

 the subject will be considered and discussed: 

 Methods of Pyrometry, Industrial Pyrometry, 

 Pyrometry and its Relation to Science. The 

 Electrochemical Society is arranging a meet- 

 ing on " Catalysis." About a hundred papers 

 have been prepared for the meeting of the 

 Mining Institute. Addresses of general inter- 

 est include one by Dr. H. E. Howe, on " The 

 organization and plans of the National Re- 

 search Council with special reference to the 

 Industries." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Theodore W. Richards, professor of 

 chemistry at Harvard University, has been 

 elected president of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences. 



Major General Wm. L. Sibert, director of 

 the Chemical "Warfare Service, IJ. S. A., has 

 been made a commander of the French Legion 

 of Honor. 



Professor Alexander Smith, head of the 

 department of chemistry at Columbia Univer- 

 sity, was granted on July 10, the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor of laws by the University of 

 Edinburgh. The following was the introduc- 

 tion : " Alexander Smith, B.Sc, Ph.D., director 

 of the chemistry department of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York. — A most distinguished 

 graduate of our own university. Professor 

 Smith has risen to the rank of a super-chem- 

 ist in the United States, head of a department 

 embracing many specialized professorships, 

 and director of one of the most important lab- 

 oratories in the new world. We congratulate 

 Columbia University on the possession of a 

 teacher and investigator of such rare ability, 

 and we congratulate ourselves on the oppor- 

 tunity of laureating an alumnus whose suc- 

 cess reflects no little lustre on the institution 

 where he received his early training." 



Clarence Ousley, assistant secretary of 

 agriculture, has resigned, leaving the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture on July 31. He gave as 

 his reasons that he had finished the work for 

 which he went to the department during the 

 war and that he could not afford longer to hold 

 public office. In transmitting the resignation 

 to the president. Secretary Houston expressed 

 deep regret that Mr. Ousley felt obliged to 

 leave the department and stated that he was 

 constrained to recommend the acceptance of 

 the resignation only in deference to Mr. 

 Ousley's wishes. The retiring assistant sec- 

 retary remains in Washington. 



Dr. Samuel T. Orton, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, has been appointed 

 head of the new psychopathic hospital at Iowa 

 City, which is being erected at a cost of 

 $150,000. 



Dr. M. Ozorio de Almeida has been placed 

 in charge of the recently organized section of 

 physiology of the Institute Oswaldo Cruz in 

 Eio de Janeiro. 



]VIe. F. J. Chittenden, the head of the 

 Wisley scientific station and laboratory, has 

 been appointed director of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society's Gardens at Wisley. 



It is stated in Nature that Dr. Shaiffer, of 

 the University of Toronto, has been appointed 

 expert in animal husbandry to the government 

 of Mysore. He will work under Dr. Coleman, 

 the director of agriculture. 



The Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel 

 Institute for the present year has been awarded 

 to Professor F. Giolitti, of Turin. 



Lord Lee, of Fareham, has been appointed 

 to the presidency of the British Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries, in succession to 

 Lord Ernie. 



GoNViLLE and Caius College, Cambridge, has 

 elected to a fellowship Lieutenant-'Colonel C. 

 S. Myers, who has been university lecturer in 

 experimental psychology since 1907, and is 

 director of the university laboratory of experi- 

 mental psychology. 



Dr. S. W. Patterson has been appointed 

 director of the Eliza Hall Institute of Re- 



