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The committee has decided to give a lunch- 

 eon in honor of Madame Curie at the Hotel 

 Waldorf Astoria on Tuesday, May 17, and 

 invitations have been sent to all the members 

 of these societies living in and around New 

 York. The headquarters of the committee 

 are at The Chemists' Club, 52 East 41st 

 Street, New York. 



President Harding has through Mr. Arthur 

 Brisbane subscribed fifty dollars to the 

 Madame Curie Eadium Fund. He writes: " I 

 am so anxious about the success of the pro- 

 gram to present to this distinguished woman 

 a gram of radium that I would like to have 

 a small part toward making the necessary 

 provision." 



LECTURES BY PROFESSOR EINSTEIN 



Although Professor Einstein came to the 

 United States primarily in the interests of 

 the Zionist movement, he is giving scientific 

 lectures at various universities. On April 15, 

 he lectured in German on the theory of rela- 

 tivity at Columbia University, under the 

 auspices of the departments of mathematics, 

 physics, astronomy and philosophy, being in- 

 troduced by Professor Pupin. Professor Ein- 

 stein was awarded the Barnard medal by 

 Columbia University last year on the recom- 

 mendation of the National Academy of 

 Sciences. 



On April 18, 19, 20 and 21, Professor Ein- 

 stein gave four lectures before the College 

 of the City of New York on the following 

 subjects : " The ' special ' relativity theory ; " 

 " Generalized relativity and gi-avitation ; " 

 " The physical significance of entropy and 

 quanta ; " " Light-ether and radiation." 



Prinoeton University has arranged five 

 lectures on the theory of relativity on the 

 afternoons from May 9 to 13, the subject of 

 these lectures, which will be delivered in Ger- 

 man, are first and second " Generalities on the 

 theory of relativity," (without going deeply 

 into the mathematical symbolism) ; third 

 " Special theory of relativity," fourth " Gen- 

 eral theory of relativity and gravitation," 

 fifth " Cosmologieal speculations." Scientific 

 men are invited to the lectures. Admission 



will be by ticket, application for which should 

 be forwarded to Professor H. D. Thompson, 

 Princeton, N. J. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Philosophical Society is 

 meeting in Philadelphia on Thursday, Friday 

 and Saturday of the present week. The even- 

 ing address is by Professor James H. Breasted, 

 of the University of Chicago. The National 

 Academy of Sciences meets at Washington on 

 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next 

 week. The Prince of Monaco will make an 

 address in the U. S. National Museum on 

 Monday evening. 



Dr. F. B. Jewett, chief engineer of the 

 Western Electric Company and formerly pro- 

 fessor of physics and engineering at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been elected a vice-president and director of 

 the company. He will continue his present 

 work in charge of the technical forces of the 

 telephone manufacturing industry. 



Dr. Warner Jackson Morse has been ap- 

 pointed director of the Maine Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. Since 1906 he has been 

 connected with the Experiment .Station, serv- 

 ing as plant pathologist since 1909. Dr. 

 Morse succeeds Charles D. Woods, the cir- 

 cumstances of whose relations to the trustees 

 have been stated in Science. 



The governor of Massachusetts has recom- 

 mended to the executive council Dr. Eichard 

 P. Strong, who holds the chair of tropical 

 medicine at the Harvard Medical School, as a 

 member of the Public Health Council, Boston. 



Dr. William E. Mdsgrave has resigned as 

 director of the University of California Med- 

 ical School to accept the secretaryship of the 

 state medical society and will edit the Cali- 

 fornia State Journal of Medicine. Dr. Mus- 

 grave will continue his directorship of the 

 Children's Hospital. 



Dr. J. T. Willard, dean of general science 

 and vice-president of the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College, has been elected president of 

 the Kansas Eesearch Council. Dr. W. A. 



