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[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1320 



N. T., Lewis E. Saunders, vice-president of 

 the ISTorton Company in Worcester, and 

 Arthur T. Hinckley, chemist for the National 

 Carbon Company at Niagara Falls, N. T. 

 Managers elected were Dr. Colin G. Fink, 

 research director of the Chile Exploration 

 Company of New York ; Acheson Smith, vice- 

 president and general manager of the Acheson 

 Graphite Company of Niagara Ealls, and H. 

 B. Coho of the United Lead Company of 

 New York; treasurer, Pedro G. Salmon, of 

 Philadelphia, and secretary. Dr. Joseph W. 

 Richards, professor of metallurgy at the 

 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. 



FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WISCONSIN 

 ACADEMY 



The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary 

 of the founding of the Wisconsin Academy of 

 Sciences, Arts and Letters will be the occasion 

 of an important gathering at the University of 

 Wisconsin on April 23. Professor T. C. Cham- 

 berlin, professor emeritus of geology at the 

 University of Chicago, will give an address on 

 " The founding of the Wisconsin Academy of 

 Sciences, Arts and Letters," at an all-univer- 

 sity convocation in the morning. Professor 

 Chamberlin is one of the two or three liv- 

 ing metabers who helped to establish the acad- 

 emy in 1870 for the purpose of preserving the 

 scientific studies of the state. He was then 

 professor of science at Whitewater Normal 

 School. He was president of the University of 

 Wisconsin from 1887-92, when he became pro- 

 fessor of geology at the University of Chicago. 

 The regular business meeting of the academy 

 will be held in the morning, April 23, an all- 

 university convocation will be held in the 

 afternoon, and a banquet in the evening. 



President E. A. Birge, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, will preside at the afternoon meet- 

 ing. Professor John M. Coulter, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, will speak on " The relation 

 of the local academy to the national organiza- 

 tion," and Professor C. E. Allen, of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, will speak on " The pro- 

 posed plan of afBliation of the local academies 

 with national organizations." 



The Wisconsin Academy was the first impor- 

 tant means in the state of gathering scientific 



m^aterial and has preserved it in annual 

 volumes, published at state expense. An an- 

 niversary volume of the proceedings, contain- 

 ing the papers of the members, will be pub- 

 lished as the twenty-first volume of the Trans- 

 actions of the academy. 



A bronze medal commemorating the 50th 

 anniversary of the founding of the academy is 

 to be struck for the anniversary meeting. The 

 medal will bear on its face the jxirtraits of Dr. 

 Increase A. Lapham, pioneer areheologist and 

 antiquarian, Philo R. Hoy, naturalist and anti- 

 quarian whose collection of birds is in the Ra- 

 cine Public Library, George W. Peckham, au- 

 thority on certain groups of spiders whose 

 collection of the Attidse species is in the Mil- 

 waukee Public Museum, Professor R. D. 

 Irving, geologist and at one time head of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey in the northwestern 

 states, and Professor William F. Allen, au- 

 thority on Roman history and antiquities. 

 All were prominent in the early history of the 

 academy. Under the portraits will appear 

 the words, "Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 

 Arts and Letters, 1870-1920, Natural Species 

 Ratioque." The obverse will bear the figure 

 of Minerva, holding the lamp of learning, 

 and the words "Naturae Species Ratioque." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. John Alfred Brashear, of Pittsburgh, 

 distinguished as a maker of astronomical and 

 physical instruments and an astronomer, died 

 on April 9, in his eightieth year. 



At the recent commemoration day exercises 

 at the Johns Hopkins University, a portrait 

 of Dr. J. Whitridge Williams, dean of the 

 medical school, was presented to the univer- 

 sity by Professor William H. Welch, and a 

 portrait of Dr. Florence R. Sabin, professor 

 of histology, by Professor William H. Howell. 



The National Institute of Social Sciences, 

 at its annual meeting on April 22, will confer 

 a gold medal on Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. 



Dr. John W. Churchman, professor of 

 surgery at Yale University, who had pre- 

 viously been made ofiicier de I'instruction 



