April 30, 1920] 



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could best be met by the compilation and publica- 

 tion in English of tables of constants which have 

 been critically reviewed as to their accuracy and 

 has decided that this could best be done by the 

 appointment of a committee to act as trustees in 

 charge of such compilation and as far as is neces- 

 sary to have charge of the determination of such 

 constants as have not already been published or 

 determined, and 



Whereas, the trustees so appointed were se- 

 lected as representing the American Chemical So- 

 ciety, the American Physical Society and the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Chemical Engineers, the repre- 

 sentatives being, respectively, Julius Steiglitz, Ed- 

 win P. Hyde and Hugh K. Moore, therefore be it 



Eesolved, that the American Chemical Society in 

 convention assembled heartily endorses this project 

 and promises to the trustees its support in every 

 way within its power. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Philosophical Society on 

 April 24 elected members as follows: Wilder 

 D. Bancroft, Washington; Gary N. Calkins, 

 New York; Edward Capps, Princeton; Heber 

 D. Curtis, Mt. Hamilton, Calif.; Leonard E. 

 Dickson, Chicago; William Duane, Boston; 

 Moses Gomberg, Ann. Arbor; Frank J. G«od- 

 now, Baltimore; John F. Jameson, Washing- 

 ton ; Douglas W. Johnson, New York ; Vernon 

 L. Kellogg, Stanford IJniversi-ty, Calif. ; George 

 F. Moore, Cambridge; Paul Shorey, Chicago; 

 William C. Sproul, Chester, Pa., and Pope 

 Ycatman, Philadelphia. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia has conferred the Hayden Memorial 

 Medal for 1920 on Professor Thomas Chrowder 

 Chamberlin, professor emeritus of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, in recognition of his distin- 

 guished services to geologic science. This 

 medal is presented every three years for distin- 

 guished accomplishments in geology or paleon- 

 tology. It represents a memorial established 

 by an endowment fund by Mrs. Emma W. Hay- 

 den in honor of her husband. Dr. Ferdinand V. 

 Hayden, who was for many years director of 

 the Geological and Geographical Survey of the 

 Territories. The medal was first presented to 

 James Hall, formerly state geologist of New 

 York, in 1890, and has since been presented to 



various distinguished geologists both in Amer- 

 ica and in Europe. In the opinion of the 

 Committee on the Award, Professor Chamber- 

 lin's numerous and remarkable contributions 

 to geologic science place him in a rank high 

 among the others who have received the Hay- 

 den Memorial Medal. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, of the University of 

 Michigan, has been elected a member of the 

 Institute of Medicine of Chicago. 



Professor A. Fowler, F.R.S., has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Paris 

 Academy in the section of astronomy. 



On the occasion of the dedication of its new 

 Agricultural Engineering Hall at University 

 Farm on April 14, the University of Nebraska 

 conferred the honorary degree of doctor of 

 agriculture upon Eoscoe W. Thatcher, dean 

 of the department of agriculture and director 

 of the agricultural experiment stations of the 

 University of Minnesota, and the honorary 

 degree of doctor of engineering upon Charles 

 Pus Richards, dean of the college of engineer- 

 ing and director of the engineering experi- 

 ment station of the University of Illinois. 

 Dean Richards delivered the dedicatory 

 address. 



The intimate international relationships 

 with English and Continental laboratories held 

 by the members of the nutrition laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in 

 Bos'ton, Mass., which were interrupted by the 

 war, are again to be resumed. Professor 

 Walter R. Miles, of the department of physio- 

 logical psychology of the Nutrition Laboratory, 

 has recently left for an extended tour in Euro- 

 pean countries and for attendance at the Inter- 

 national Congress of Physiology to be held in 

 Paris in July. 



Dr. J. Walker Fewkes, chief of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, will return to the Uni- 

 versity of Texas in June to continue the work 

 of archeological research begun last year. 

 During Dr. Fewkes' former visit to Texas in- 

 vestigations were made of the Red Burnt 

 Mounds extending from east of Austin west- 

 ward beyond the New Mexico boundary. 



