June 10, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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and the Manufacturing Chemists' Association 

 of the United States. The foreign guests have 

 also been invited to the smoker and entertain- 

 ment of the American Chemical Society, which 

 vpill be held on the evening of Wednesday, Sep- 

 tember 7. 



Scientific sessions of the American .Chemical 

 Society, in which many matters concerning 

 chemical research and applied chemistry will 

 be discussed, are to be held at Columbia Uni- 

 versity. To these meetings the British and 

 Canadian guests have been bidden. They will 

 also be present at the banquet of the American 

 Chemical Society on the evening of September 

 9 at the Waldorf-Astoria. 



The fortnight beginning September 12 will 

 be dedicated to American chemistry in all its 

 phases, for it marks the holding of the Na- 

 tional Exposition of Chemical Industries, 

 which is to be held in the Coast Artillery Ar- 

 mory in the Bronx. There will be brought 

 together under one roof a demonstration of 

 what has been accomplished in this country 

 since the European War in adapting the re- 

 sources of the United States to national needs. 



ORGANIZATION OF MEMBERS OF THE AMERI- 

 CAN ASSOCIATION AT THE PENNSYL- 

 VANIA STATE COLLEGE 



At the Pennsylvania State College, State 

 College, Pa., the members of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 numbering about forty, met for dinner at the 

 University Club on May 20. Professor A. J. 

 Wood, of the school of engineering, presided. 

 The speaker of the evening, Dr. Ira N. Hollis, 

 president of the Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute, outlined the types of research suitable for 

 educational institutions as differentiated from 

 the purely applied types of investigations more 

 appropriately undertaken by commercial firms. 

 Dr. Hollis regretted that so much of the sci- 

 entific effort of this age has had to go into 

 methods of destruction of all that civilization 

 has built up, and spoke in the highest terms of 

 the utility of such researches as that of Pro- 

 fessor Michelson in perfecting methods of ac- 

 curate astronomical measurements which aid 

 humanity in a comprehension of the immensity 

 of the universe. 



A discussion of the status and the prospects 

 for scientific research at the institution was 

 led by the deans of the various schools and 

 the president of the college. A committee will 

 plan for further meetings next year. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Columbia University at its commencement 

 exercises conferred the degree of doctor of 

 science on Mme. Curie, Dr. John C. Merriam, 

 president of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, and Dr. Samuel W. Lambert, dean 

 emeritus of the school of medicine. The de- 

 gree of doctor of laws was conferred on Dr. 

 James Rowland Angell, president elect of 

 Tale University. The candidates were pre- 

 sented by Dr. James F. Kemp, professor of 



The Case School of Applied Science has 

 conferred the doctorate of science on Albert 

 Sauveur, professor of metallurgy and metal- 

 lography in Harvard University. 



Professor John M. Coulter, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, and Dr. Samuel Garman, 

 of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zo- 

 ology, have been elected foreign members of 

 the Linnean Society of London. 



The Franklin Institute has conferred its 

 Franklin medal and certificate of honorary 

 membership on Professor Charles Fabry, of 

 the University of Paris, for his studies in the 

 field of light radiation. 



Professor Albert Einstein sailed for Liver- 

 pool on the Celtic on May 30. He will deliver 

 the Adamson lecture of the University of Man- 

 chester. He will afterwards lecture at King's 

 College, London, and other institutions. 



Mme. Curie was given on May 26 the de- 

 gree of doctor of laws by the University of 

 Pittsburgh, being presented by Dr. W. J. Hol- 

 land. During the day she visited the labora- 

 tories where was refined the gram of radium 

 presented to her by President Harding on be- 

 half of American women. On the following 

 day she went to Canonsburg, Pa., to inspect the 

 plant where the ore from which radium is ob- 

 tained passes through the initial processes of 



