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SCIENCE 



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$175 to B. B. Frost, director of Terkes Observa- 

 tory, for the purchase of a Hess-Ives tint photom- 

 eter for U3e in the Terkes Observatory, to supple- 

 ment the Hartmann micrometer in the measure- 

 ment of various illuminanits, of the transmission of 

 filters for various wave-lengths, of the absorption 

 of photometric gratings, and of other phenomena 

 and subjects. 



$500 to Dr. Antonio Abetti, director of the Ar- 

 cetri Observatory, Florence, Italy, to apply on the 

 cost of a combined spectrograph and spectro- 

 heli-ograph for use in combination with a 60-foot 

 tower telescope now under construction. It is 

 planned that this instrument shall be used by the 

 son of the director, Dr. Giorgio Abetti, well known 

 to many American astronomers, recently trans- 

 ferred from the Observatory in Eome to the Ar- 

 eetri Observatory. 



$200 to Major William Bowie, chief of the Di- 

 vision of Geodesy, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, in temporary support of the International 

 Latitude Observatory at XJkiah, Oalifornia, to as- 

 sist in meeting an emergency due to the failure of 

 the Observatory's regular source of funds. 



ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS MA- 

 KERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF 

 AMERICA 



The second annual meeting of the Associa- 

 tion of Scientific Apparatus Makers of the 

 United States as reported in the Journal of 

 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, was 

 held at Washington, D. C, Thursday and Fri- 

 day, April 22 and 23, 1920, and was attended 

 by fihirty of the leading manufacturers of sci- 

 entific instruments, analytical balances, chem- 

 ical glasswaTe, optical instruments and pyrom- 

 eters. 



The purpose of this associaition is to im- 

 prove the construction and design of the sci- 

 entific apparatus of this country and to stand- 

 ardize the same so as to get uniform quality 

 and sizes; also, the most important object is to 

 build up in the United States a precision in- 

 strument industry that will be of aid to the 

 national government in time of emergency. 

 Prior to 1914, practically all instruments of 

 precision were imported and when our govern- 

 ment declared war in 191Y, it was found that 

 there were not enough instrument makers and 

 manufacturers to provide adequate supplies of 

 precision instruments for the laboratory con- 



trol of essential factories and to build fire con- 

 trol instruments for the Army and Navy. The 

 association is now working to perpetuate this 

 industry and to make the nation independent 

 of any foreign country. In carrying out their 

 program they are working in conjunction with 

 the National Eesearch Council, the American 

 Chemical Society, Bureau of Standards and 

 the various scientific bureaus of the ISTational 

 government. 



One of the most important addresses of the 

 occaision was given by Dr. S. W. Stratton, di- 

 rector of the Bureau of Standards, in which 

 he set forth the various activities of the Bu- 

 reau and 'Stated how it would be possible to co- 

 operate with this association. On Friday 

 afternoon, at the invitation of Dr. Stratrton, 

 the association was shown through the various 

 departments of the Bureau of Standards. 



Committees were appointed on standard- 

 ization in the various departments to work 

 in conjunction with the above-mentioned 

 agencies and also, if possible to correlate 

 their work with the committee of the So- 

 ciety of Chemical Industry of Great Brit- 

 ain, which is working along similar lines. 

 There was also a committee appointed on pub- 

 lication which will report later. The officers 

 for the coming year are as follows: President, 

 M. E. Leeds, of the Leeds & Forthrup Com- 

 pany; Vice-president, H. N. Ott, of the Spencer 

 Lens Company; Secretary-treasurer, J. M. ' 

 Roberts, of the Central Scientific Company. 



THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICIltE OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 



At the last meeting of the board of trustees 

 steps were taken to further equip and advance 

 the work of the university's graduate school 

 of medicine. A budget of $158,079.37 was 

 approved to meet such expenses as are not 

 provided in the regular income of the school. 

 Provost Smith appointed John C. Bell chair- 

 matL of the joint committee on the gradiiate 

 school of medicine. 



A committee from the graduate school, con- 

 sisting of Dean George H. Meeker, Dr. George 

 E. de Schweinitz, Dr. Alfred Stengel and Dr. 

 P. S. Stout, attended the meeting and ex- 



