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the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C, 

 and is now in the sales division of the Edison 

 Electric Appliance Co., Chicago, 111. 



Samuel J. Plimpton has returned from a 

 year's leave of absence in Europe and has 

 taken up his work as professor of physics at 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 



Mr. W. p. Woodring and a party from the 

 U. S. Geological Survey have left for Haiti 

 to conduct a reconnaissance geologic examina- 

 tion of the Eepublic of Haiti at the request 

 of that government. 



Dr. and Mrs. Casey A. Wood, of Chicago, 

 have gone to British Guiana for the winter. 

 Dr. Wood plans to conduct some researches on 

 the comparative anatomy of the eye with 

 special reference to birds. 



Clifford S. Leonard, who received the de- 

 gree of Ph.D. from the University of Wis- 

 consin in June, has accepted one of the travel- 

 ing fellowships of the American Scandinavian 

 Foundation, and has sailed for Sweden. He 

 will study chemistry and pharmacology at the 

 Karolin Institute in Stockholm. 

 ; At the 149th meeting of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences on October 23, Dr. E. B. 

 Eosa, chief physicist of the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, gave an address on " A reorganized civil 

 service." Those expected to take part in the 

 discussion were Colonel W. B. Greeley, chief 

 forester. Department of Agriculture and 

 president of the Federal Club; Mr. Paul F. 

 Myers, deputy commissioner of internal rev- 

 enue; Dr. George Otis Smith, director of the 

 Geological Survey; Dr. F. G. Cottrell, director 

 of the Bureau of Mines; Dr. P. P. Claxton, 

 commissioner of education; Mr. O. C. Merrill, 

 executive secretary. Federal Power Commis- 

 sion; Mr. Martin A. Morrison, president, Civil 

 Service Commission; Mr. Lewis Meriam, as- 

 sistant director. Institute for Government Ke- 

 seareh. 



< The meeting of the New York Section of 

 the American Chemical Society on October 22 

 was in the nature of a welcome to Dr. W. A. 

 .Noyes, professor of chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. The following addresses were 

 made : " The foundation for chemical develop- 



ment," by Professor W. A. Noyes, and " The 

 K"ational Eeseareh Council and chemical de- 

 velopment," by Harrison E. Howe. 



Dr. Colin G. Fink, of ISTew York, recently 

 addressed the Eochester Section of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society on " Modern develop- 

 ments in metallurgical research." 



The inaug-ural lecture of Professor Maxi- 

 milian Toch, recently appointed adjunct pro- 

 fessor of industrial chemistry at Cooper Union, 

 was given on October on the subject " The 

 chemistry of artistic painting." 



Professor Jules Bordet, director of the 

 Pasteur Institute of Brussels, delivered the 

 second Harvey Society lecture at the N'ew 

 York Academy of Medicine on October 30. 

 His subject was " Coagulation of the blood." 



On the evening of November 12 a service in 

 memory of the late Dr. Eric Doolittle, pro- 

 fessor of astronomy, will be held in the audi- 

 torium of Houston Hall, University of Penn- 

 sylvania. Addresses will be made by Professor 

 Frank Schlesinger, of the Yale Observatory, 

 and president of the American Astronomical 

 Society, the Eev. Eobert Norwood and Provost 

 Edgar F. Smith. 



Alfred E. Fletcher, known for his work in 

 industrial chemistry and especially in the 

 English alkali industry, has died at the age of 

 ninety-four years. 



A site for the new building in Washington 

 which is to serve as a home for the National 

 Academy of Sciences and the National Ee- 

 seareh Council has recently been obtained. 

 It comprises the entire block bounded by B 

 and C Streets and Twenty-first and Twenty- 

 second Streets. Northwest, and faces the 

 Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park. The 

 academy and council have been enabled to 

 secure this site, costing about $200,000, 

 through the generosity of the following 

 friends and supporters: Thomas D. Jones, 

 Harold F. McCormick, Julius Eosenwald, and 

 Charles H. Swift, Chicago; Charles F. Brush, 

 George W. Crile, John L. Severance and 

 Ambrose Swasey, Cleveland; Edward Dean 

 Adams, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, and the Com- 



