410 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LI. No. 1321 



progress of science and the advanee in puWic wel- 

 fare which may tie expected from the most rational 

 development of these scientific agencies. The di- 

 .vision bespeaks the cooperation in this study of all 

 those who are interested in this aspect of the ad- 

 vancement of science. 



SUMMER MEETING OF THE AMERICAN INSTI- 

 TUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS 



The STimmer meeting of the institute will 

 be held in Canada. The date has been fixed 

 tentatively as J\me 21-26. Plans as worked 

 out at present include a meeting' of two days, 

 Monday and Tuesday, at Montreal, for the bus- 

 iness sessions, reading of papers and jwssibly 

 one or two excursions to chemical industries 

 in Montreal. 



The program of papers to be presented is 

 being prepared and the secretary desires in- 

 formation as to papers being prepared for 

 presentation at this meeting. Members are 

 urged to present to the society as many papers 

 as possible in order to make the meeting profit- 

 able and the Transactions valuable. Papers 

 on any phase of chemical engineering work 

 would be welcome. A special endeavor is be- 

 ing made to secure papers on electrolytic in- 

 dustries and papers on this subject are espe- 

 cially desired. 



Wednesday will be spent at Ottawa visiting 

 the copper and nickel refinery of the British- 

 American Nickel Corporation, also inspection 

 of the government buildings and the labora- 

 tories of the Bureau of Mines. 



Thursday and Friday will be si)ent at Shaw- 

 inigan Palls seeing the power development 

 and the electrolytic industries located in this 

 vicinity. 



Saturday will be spent at LaTuque where 

 we have secured permission from the Brown 

 Company for a visit to the very large sulphate 

 pulp mill where the explosion process described 

 by Hugh K. Moore at our Savannah meeting 

 is in oi>eration. Prom this point a trip is be- 

 ing planned to the very large artificial lake 

 which has been made at La Loutre. This in- 

 cludes a 50 mile boat trip, stopping at a fishing 

 camp on the lake where there will be oppor- 

 tunity for motor boating and fishing. After 

 a stop of a day or two in this very picturesque 



and wild part of Canada, the return trip will 

 be made to Quebec. 



J. C. Olsen, 

 Secretary 



THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY 



The one hundred and third regular meet- 

 ing of the American Physical Society will be 

 held in Washington, at the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, on Friday and Saturday, April 23 and 

 24. The first session will begin at 10 o'clock 

 on Friday morning. The program contains 

 the titles of forty-six papers. 



The other meetings for the calendar year 

 will be as follows: The Thanksgiving meet- 

 ing, on November 27, will be held at Case 

 School of Applied Science in Cleveland, in- 

 stead of in Chicago. The annual meeting, 

 beginning on December 28, will be held in 

 Chicago, this being the occasion of the si)ecial 

 Quadrennial Meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science and 

 the Affiliated Societies. The October meeting 

 will be omitted for the year 1920. 



The Pacific Coast Section will hold a meet- 

 ing at the University of Washington, in 

 Seattle, at the time of the meeting of the 

 Pacific Division, A. A. A. S., June 17-19, 

 1920. Correspondence relating to this meet- 

 ing should be addressed to the Secretary of 

 the Pacific Coast Section, Professor E. P. 

 Lewis, University of California, Berkeley, 

 California. 



Dayton C. Miller, 

 Secretary 



Case School of Applied Science 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The National Academy of Sciences will hold 

 its annual meeting at the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, Washington, D. C, April 26, 27 and 28. 

 The William Ellery Hale Lecture will be given 

 on April 26 by Dr. Harlow Shapley, of the 

 Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, and Dr. 

 Heber D. Curtis, of the Lick Observatory, on 

 " The Scale of the UniveTse." 



The American Philosophical Society is hold- 

 ing its general meeting in Philadelphia on 

 April 22, 23 and 24. On the evening of the 



