December 24, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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of the meteorological and climatological 

 papers of the program of the Association of 

 American Geographers will be presented on 

 the 30th. 



The fifth annual meeting of the Optical 

 Society of America will be held in Chicago, 

 at the University of Chicago on Monday, 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, December 27, 28 

 and 29, 1920. The progi-am contains 32 titles, 

 including the presentation and discussion of 

 the reports of the committees on nomenclature 

 and standards, of which P. G. Nutting is the 

 general chairman. The reports are: (1) 

 Colorimetry: L. T. Troland. (2) Lenses and 

 Optical Instruments: J. P. C. Southall. (3) 

 Optical Glasses : George W. Morey. (4) Pho- 

 tographic Materials : W. F. Meggers. (5) 

 Photometry and lUmnination : E. C. Critten- 

 den. (6) Polarimetry: F. E. Wright. (7) 

 Projection: L. A. Jones. (8) Pyrometry: 

 W. E. Forsythe. (9) Eeflectometry : A. H. 

 Taylor. (10) Eefractometry : C. A. Skinner. 

 (11) Spectacle Lenses: E. D. Tillyer. (12) 

 Spectrophotometry: A. H. Pfund. (13) Spec- 

 troradiometry : W. W. Coblentz. (14) Visual 

 Sensitonieti-y : Prentice Eeeves. (15) Wave 

 Lengths: W. F. 



The Federation of American Societies for 

 Experimental Biology meets at the University 

 of Chicago on December 28, 29 and 30. The 

 members of the Executive Committee for 

 1920 are as follows: Warren P. Lombard, 

 president, American Physiological Society; 

 Chas. W. Greene, secretary, American Physio- 

 logical Society ; Stanley E. Benedict, president, 

 American Biochemical Society; Victor C. 

 Myers, secretary, American Biochemical So- 

 oiety; A. S. Loevenhart, president, American 

 Pharmacological Society; E. D. Brown, secre- 

 tary, American. Pharmacological Society; Wm. 

 H. Park, president, American Pathological 

 Society ; Howard T. Karsner, secretary, Ameri- 

 can Pathological Society; Wm. H. Park, chair- 

 man, 315 W. 76th Street, New York, N. T.; 

 Howard T. Karsner, secretary, Lakeside Hos- 

 pital, Cleveland, Ohio. 



The American Anthropological Association 

 will hold its annual meeting at the University 



of Pennsylvania on December 27 and 28. This 

 meeting was originally scheduled for Chicago 

 in conjunction with the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science but decided to 

 change to Philadelphia. 



The National Geographic Society announces 

 the foundation, of a series of Memoirs for the 

 publication of the results of its expeditions. 

 The new series wiU include both narratives, 

 giving accounts of the activities of the expe- 

 ditions, of interest to the general reader, and 

 technical papers intended for specialists in the 

 fields of science covered by the expeditions. 

 The first number of the new Memoirs will be 

 devoted to a general account of the Katmai 

 Expeditions which resulted in the discovery 

 ,of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and 

 the creation of the Katmai National Monu- 

 ment which embraces more than a million 

 acres. This will be followed promptly by tech- 

 nical papers embodying the botanical, entomo- 

 logical, geological, and chemical results ob- 

 tained by the Katmai expeditions. In order 

 to complete the papers as rapidly as practicable 

 the society has requested Dr. Eobert F. Griggs 

 to devote his full time to the completion of the 

 work. He has, accordingly, resigned his posi- 

 tion at the Ohio State University and will 

 take up his residence at Washington on Feb- 

 ruary 1. 



The Experiment Station Record reports 

 that the various technical and cooperative or- 

 ganizations concerned with Danish agriculture 

 have recently organized a Central Agricultural 

 Council, known as the Landbrugsraadet, to 

 promote their general interests. In addition 

 to duties of a purely economic nature, this 

 new institution also intends to disseminate in- 

 formation about foreign agriculture, especially 

 that of a statistical nature, partly by furnish- 

 ing prominent farmers directly with this data 

 and partly through instructive articles in Dan- 

 ish Eigricultural periodicals. 



It is announced in Nature that the govern- 

 ment of the Czecho-Slovak Eepublic has es- 

 tablished, under the Ministry of Education, a 

 Weather Bureau in Prague, to do for that 

 country the work formerly done at the mete- 



