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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1312 



OHlda Frick was elected a trustee. 



Those present at the annual meeting were: 

 Thomas DeWitt Cuyler, Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 "Walter Douglas, Madison Grant, William 

 Averell Harriman; Archer M. Huntington, 

 Adrian Iselin, Arthur Curtis James, J. P. 

 Morgan, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Percy P. 

 Pyne, Theodore Roosevelt, John B. Trevor 

 and Francis D. Gallatin. 



NEW YORK MEETING OF THE AMERICAN IN- 

 STITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL 

 ENGINEERS 



The American Institute of Mining and Met- 

 allurgical Engineers under the presidency of 

 Mr. Hoover, met in 'New York City this week. 

 Three sessions of the annual meeting were de- 

 voted to the subject of coal. In the first of 

 these facts were brought out on some of the 

 questions around which controversies raged 

 during the recent strike, including: Why is 

 production intermittent? How and when do 

 the irregularities occur? How many days a 

 year do the men actually work? What are the 

 actual wages received by men during each sea- 

 son and in what way can the wage basis be 

 changed? How and where can coal be stored 

 at the mine, at industrial plants or elsewhere? 



The fundamentals of the problem were pre- 

 sented in a series of papers by authorities. 

 Van H. Manning, director of the U. S. Bureau 

 of Mines, outlined conditions in a paper on 

 " The problems of the coal industry." George 

 Otis Smith, director, H. S. Geological Survey, 

 presented a statistical analysis of the rate of 

 output over a period of years, showing the 

 relative effect of shortage of transportation and 

 of labor and lack of market and other factors 

 in the production of coal. H. H. Stock, of the 

 University of Illinois, discussed the storage of 

 bituminous coal at the point of production, at 

 centers of distribution and by the consumer. 

 S. L. Yerkes discussed transportation as a fac- 

 tor in irregularity of coal-mine operation. 



The business side was presented by Eugene 

 McAuliffe, president of the Union Colliery 

 Company, in a paper on stabilizing the market. 

 Edwin Ludlow, of the Lehigh Coal and Navi- 

 gation Co., discussed conservation as applied 



to mining methods, by-products and constmip- 

 tion. 



Unpaid taxes on mines amounting to $200,- 

 000,000 were involved in a discussion at an 

 open forum held on the subject of mine taxa- 

 tion. The views both of the government and 

 the mine owners were presented, the discussion 

 being led by Ralph Arnold, valuation expert of 

 the Petroleum Division of the Internal Rev- 

 enue Department ; J. R. Finlay, who evaluated 

 the mines of the state of Michigan; J. Parke 

 Channing, of New York, and R. C. Allen, vice- 

 president of the Lake Superior Ore Associa- 

 tion. 



In the evening of February 17 more than one 

 thousand delegates and their friends attended 

 a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria at which 

 Lawrence Addicks was toastmaster. President 

 Herbert Hoover, retiring President Horace V. 

 Winchell and Professor James F. Kemp, of 

 Columbia University, were the speakers. 



Besides Mr. Hoover as president, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected : Frederick Laist, Ana- 

 conda, Mont., and Seeley W. Mudd, Los 

 Augeles, vice-presidents. W. R. Walker, New 

 York; A. S. Dwight, New York; R. M. Oatlin, 

 Franklin Furnace, N. J.; G. H. Clevenger, 

 Washington, D. C, and W. A. Carlyle, Ottawa, 

 Canada, directors. 



RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF SIR 

 WILLIAM OSLER 



On motion of the executive committee of 

 the Federation of American Societies for Ex- 

 perimental Biology in Cincinnati December 

 30, 1919, the following minute was drafted: 



In the death of Dr. Osier, the medical profession 

 has suffered an immeasurable loss. Belonging to 

 no cult, or age, or clime, but descended in direct 

 line from Hippocrates, he was master of the art of 

 medicine in its purest form. As a teacher, he was 

 again master, painting with broad strokes pictures 

 of disease never to be forgotten by the student. 

 An investigator and an inspirer of investigation, 

 a worthy counsellor of brother physicians, a delver 

 in the history of medicine, and an ornament to its 

 letters; and withal so human and of such rare per- 

 sonal charm as to be beloved of all who eame in 

 contact with him. Such was the man we mourn. 



We grieve not only at loss of leader and friend, 



