Januabt 14, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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, Since most of these companies are members 

 of the Manufacturing Chemists' Association 

 of the United States, a committee composed of 

 these members was appointed by the associa- 

 tion to pass on the proposals of the informal 

 committee and to recommend the adoption of 

 the specifications resulting from the informal 

 committee's work as standard for the mem- 

 bers of the Manufacturing Chemists' Associa- 

 tion. 



I Arrangements have been made for full co- 

 operation with the committee on guaranteed 

 reagents and standard apparatus of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society, and also with the com- 

 mittee on standards of the Association of 

 Scientific Apparatus Makers. These specifica- 

 tions will be considered carefully by commit- 

 tees of these three societies, and it is expected 

 that they will then be published as tentative 

 for a period of 6 months in order to give time 

 for general criticism. At the end of that time 

 the specifications will be adopted as final. In 

 carrying on this work an effort will be made to 

 obtain specifications which will insure the 

 cheapest mode of manufacture of a given in- 

 strument consistent with the duties that it 

 must perform. The committee desires to co- 

 operate fully with all industries, and any com- 

 munications should be forwarded to the chair- 

 man, Dr. E. C. Lathrop, E. I. du Pont de 

 Neumours & Co., "Wilmington, Delaware. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Heney Ajstdeews Bumstead, professor of 

 physics at Tale University and director of 

 the Sloane Physical Laboratory, on leave of 

 absence this year to act as chairman of the 

 ITational Eesearch Council, died suddenly on 

 the night of December 31, while returning 

 from attendance on the scientific meetings at 

 Chicago. 



At the Chicago meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 vice-presidents of the association and chair- 

 men of the sections were elected as follows: 

 Mathematics, Oswald Veblen, Princeton Uni- 

 versity; Physics, G. "W. Stewart, State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa; Chemistry, W. D. Harkins, 



University of Chicago; Astronomy, S. A. 

 ilitchell, Leander McCormick Observatory, 

 University of Virginia; Geology and Geog- 

 raphy, Willet G. Miller, University of 

 Toronto; Zoological Sciences, Charles A. 

 Kofoid, University of California; Botanical 

 Sciences, Mel T. Cook, Rutgers College; 

 Anthropology, Albert Ernest Jenks, Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota ;Ps2/c7toZo£r2/, E. A. Bott, 

 University of Toronto; Agriculture, J. G. 

 Lipman, Rutgers College; Education, Guy M. 

 Whipple, University of Michigan. 



Professor Bradley M. Davis, professor of 

 botany at the University of Michigan, was 

 elected president, and Professor H. E. Cramj)- 

 ton, of Columbia University vice-president, 

 at the Chicago meeting of ;'the American 

 Society of ISTatui-alists. 



The American Society of Zoologists has 

 elected as president Professor Charles A. 

 Kofoid, of the University of California, and 

 as vice-president Professor Aaron L. Tread- 

 well, of Vassar College. 



Fifty-four members attended the annual 

 meeting of the American Society of Biological 

 Chemists, Inc., held in Chicago from Decem- 

 ber 28 to 30. Officers elected for the year 1921 

 were: President, Donald D. Yan Slyke; Vice- 

 president, Philip A. Shaffer; Secretary, Victor 

 C. Myers; Treasurer, Harold C. Bradley; Ad- 

 ditional Memhers of the Council, Stanley E. 

 Benedict, Otto Polin and Walter Jones. 



Dr. E. E. Slosson, associate editor of The 

 Independent and formerly professor of chemis- 

 try in the University of Wyoming, has been 

 elected editor of the Science Service, the 

 temporary headquarters of which are at 1701 

 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. 



J. D. Mackenzie has succeeded Charles Cam- 

 sell, now deputy minister of mines, in charge 

 of the British Columbia office of Geological 

 Survey at Vancouver. 



■ Professor Sanarelli, director of the Insti- 

 tute of Hygiene of the University of Rome, 

 and editor of Annali d'Igiene, and Dr. Nicola 

 Badaloni, a well-known writer on social medi- 

 cine, have recently been made Roman senators. 



