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SCIENCE 



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St., where every facility is offered for the 

 meetings of the divisions in the center of Mil- 

 waukee's business section. 



Mr. 0. H. Hall is chairman of the local com- 

 mittee and Mr. P. J. Weber, secretary. The 

 finance committee is under the chairmanship 

 of Mr. G. N. Prentiss. Reception, registration 

 and information committees are under the 

 chairmanship of Mr. E. V. Manuel. The com- 

 mittee on arrangement has Mr. H. W. Rohde 

 as its chairman, Mr. F. E. Layman is chairman 

 of the entertainment committee, and Mr. C. R. 

 McKee is chairman of the committee on enter- 

 tainment of ladies. 



The entertainment committee is planning an 

 interesting program, which will be an un- 

 doubted success, and special attention is being 

 paid to preparations for the entertainment of 

 ladies at such times as they can not participate 

 in the regular program. Many manufacturing 

 plants will be visited, and although no definite 

 arrangements can be announced in the present 

 circular, it may be stated that Milwaukee con- 

 tains important works covering the tarming 

 industry, manufacture of iron and steel, by- 

 product coke and gas, manufacture of glue, 

 manufacture of automobiles and automobile 

 parts, automobile tires, packing industry, 

 manufacture of refrigerating machinery, gaso- 

 line engines, kerosene engines, and shops of 

 railroad companies, most of which will be open 

 to the members. 



All the divisions will meet. It is probable 

 that the Biological Division will be duly 

 organized at this meeting. Members are espe- 

 cially asked to note the excursion to Madison, 

 Wisconsin, on Friday, March 28. The So- 

 ciety has a special invitation from President 

 Van Hise, of the University of Wisconsin, and 

 it is hoped that all those who attend the meet- 

 ing will also go to Madison. The city is but 

 seventy miles from Milwaukee and is of special 

 interest, being the seat of the state eapitol, 

 the University of Wisconsin, the United States 

 Forest Products Laboratory, and the location 

 of a large beet-sugar refining plant, which, if 

 present information is correct, will be in opera- 

 tion at the time of the convention. 



All papers for the meeting must be in the 



secretary's hands on or before March 7 or in 

 the hands of secretaries of divisions by March 

 5, in order to be on the program. By vote of 

 the council no papers can be presented at the 

 meeting that are uot printed on the final pro- 

 gram. 



The following are the addresses of the divi- 

 sional and sectional secretaries: 



Industrial Division — M. C. Whitaker (pro tern.), 

 Columbia University, New York City. 



Physical and Inorganic — R. C. Wells, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, Washington, D. C. 



Fertilizer — J. E. Breckenridge, Carteret, N. J. 



Agricultural and Food — G. F. Mason, care of 

 Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Organic — Wm. J. Hale, University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Pharmaceutical — Frank R. Eldred, 3325 Ken- 

 iTood Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 



Rubber — Dorris Whipple, care of Tlie Safety 

 Insulated Wire and Cable Company, Bayonne, N. J. 



Biological — I. K. Phelps, Bureau of Mines, 40th 

 and Butler Sts., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Chemical Education — J. F. Norris, Simmons Col- 

 lege, Boston, Mass. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEIVS 



Sir David Gill has been elected the first 

 honorary member of the Astronomical and 

 Astrophysical Society of America. 



Sir William Tilden, F.R.S., the British 

 chemist, has been elected a corresponding- 

 member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 

 St. Petersburg. 



The gold medal of the Royal Astronomical 

 Society has been awarded to M. Henri Alex- 

 andre Deslandres for his investigations of solar 

 phenomena and other spectroscopic work. 



The Langley medals of the Smithsonian 

 Institution are to be conferred on M. Gustav 

 Eiffel, the French engineer, and Mr. Glenn H. 

 Curtiss, known for his development of the 

 hydro-aeroplane. 



Mr. F. W. Hodge, of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the 

 Societe des Americanistes de Paris. 



Professor Poulton, F. R. S., Professor 

 Bourne, F.R.S., and Mr. E. S. Goodrich, 



