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SCIENCE 



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Scott, professor of zoology at Princeton Uni- 

 versity, will preside, succeedingr Dr. W. W. 

 Keen, who after ten years of distinguished 

 service would not permit himself to be re- 

 elected. 



The general lecture will be given in the hall 

 of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on 

 the evening of April 19, by Lieutenant Col- 

 onel R. A. MillLkan, of the Department of 

 Science and Research of the Council of Na- 

 tional Defence, whose subject will be " Science 

 in relation to the war." 



The annual dinner will be held at the Uni- 

 versity Club, on the evening of April 20. 



On the afternoon of April 20, there will be 

 a symposium on " Food-problems in relation 

 to the war " the program of which is as fol- 

 lows: 



Introductory Remarks, by Herbert C. Hoover, 

 B.A., U. S. Food Administrator, and by Alonzo E. 

 Taylor, MJD., professor of physiological chemistry, 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



"Physiological effects of prolonged reduced diet 

 on twenty-five men," by Francis G. Benedict, 

 Ph.D., ScD., director of the Nutrition Laboratory 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



"Food conservation from the standpoint of the 

 chemistry of nutrition, ' ' by Henry C. Shermaji, 

 Ph.D., professor of food chemistry, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City. 



"Some economic aspects of the American food 

 supply," by J. EusseU Smith, Ph.D., professor of 

 industry, Wharton School of Finance and Com- 

 merce, University of Pennsylvania. 



"Food control and food conservation in the 

 United States Army," by John R. Murlin, major. 

 Sanitary Corps, N. A. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At a meeting held on March 19, the Acad- 

 emy of itfatural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 elected as correspondents, John H. Comstock, 

 Herbert S. Jennings, Frank R. Lillie, Alfred 

 G. Mayer, John C. Merriam, George H. Parker 

 and Charles R. Yan Hise. 



At a meeting of the Rumford Committee 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences held on March 13 last the following 

 grants for research were voted: To Professor 

 F. K. Richtmyer, of Cornell University, in aid 

 of his researches on the optical properties of 



thin films (additional to a former appropria- 

 tion), $500. To Professor Arthur L. Foley, 

 of the University of Indiana, for his research 

 on the photography of the electric spark at 

 different periods of its history, $150. To Pro- 

 fessor Orin Tugman, of the University of 

 Utah, for his research on the conductivity of 

 thin metal films when exposed to ultra-violet 

 light, $100. 



The following fifteen candidates have been 

 selected by the coimcil of the Royal Society 

 to be recommended for election into the so- 

 ciety : Charles Bolton, Henry C. H. Carpenter, 

 Thomas A. Chapman, Gerald P. L. Conyng- 

 ham. C. Clifford Dobcll, Ernest Gold, Henry 

 B. Guppy, Albert G. Hadcock, Archibald V. 

 Hill, James C. Irvine, Thomas Lewis, Srini- 

 vasa Ramanujan, Arthur W. Rogers, Samuel 

 Smiles and Frank E. Smith. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 two national correspondents for the sections 

 of anatomy and zoology. M. Vayssiere, pro- 

 fessor of the faculty of sciences at Marseilles, 

 has been elected to take the place of the late 

 M. Renaut, and M. Cuenot, professor at the 

 University of Nancy, has been elected to take 

 the place of the late M. Maupas. 



The introduction of compulsory rationing 

 in Great Britain and the discontinuance of 

 the volimtary propaganda department has led 

 the food controller to reorganize the food 

 economy division of the ministry hitherto 

 conducted by Sir Arthur Tapp. It will now 

 consist of four branches: public services food 

 consumption, national kitchens, public cater- 

 ing, and an educational branch under the 

 direction of Professor E. H. Starling, F.R.S. 

 The coordination and control of the depart- 

 ments will be exercised by a Food Survey 

 Board, of which the directors of the several 

 departments will be members, with Lieutenant 

 Colonel A. G. Weigall, M.P., as chairman. 



Professor W. "W. Watts, professor of geol- 

 ogy at the Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology, has been elected a member of the 

 Athenasum Club, London, for " eminence in 

 science." 



