April 26, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



415 



Edwix Scott Linton, a member of the class 

 of 1918, Johns Hopkins Medical School, and 

 enlisted with the Johns Hopkins Hospital 

 Unit, Base Hospital No. 18, A. E. F., died in 

 France, of scarlet fever, on November 14, 1917. 

 He was the son of Professor Edwin Linton, 

 of Washington and Jefferson College. 



Dr. S. M. Sandwith, of the London School 

 of Tropical Medicine, died on February 16, at 

 tlie age of sixty-four years. 



Professor P. Blaserna, vice-president of the 

 Senate, and professor of experimental physics 

 in the University of Rome, died on February 

 26, at eighty-two years of age. 



The agricultural appropriation bill, carry- 

 ing a total of $28,000,000, has been passed by 

 the Senate. 



The Bureau of Standards has purchased 

 eight acres of land west of Connecticut 

 Avenue, Washington, D. C, and has let con- 

 tracts for a new engineering laboratory, 175 

 by 350 feet, and four stories in height. The 

 new building and its equipment will cost in 

 the neighborhood of $1,000,000 and will in- 

 crease the capacity of the bureau by 50 per 

 cent. The Pittsburgh laboratory of the bu- 

 reau, including the work on glass and ceram- 

 ics, will be transferred to Washington. It is 

 expected that the new building will be ready 

 for occupancy during the coming summer. 



The American Electrochemical Society has 

 arranged in connection with its spring meet- 

 ing in the week of April 28 for a tour through 

 Tennessee and Alabama stopping at the im- 

 portant electrochemical centers and water 

 power developments located in these two states. 

 Among the towns to be visited are Johnson 

 City, Kingsport, Knoxville, SheflSeld, Muscle 

 Shoals, Chattanooga, Anniston and Birming- 

 ham. A special train will be provided, and 

 about one hundred members and guests have 

 already signified their intention to participate. 

 All those interested can obtain further details 

 from Mr. Charles F. Roth, chairman of the 

 committee, 50 East 41st St., New York City, 

 N.Y. 



The annual meeting of the New England 



Federation of Natural History Societies will 

 be held on Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 

 27, at the Rogers Building, Boston, next house 

 to the Society of Natural History. The usual 

 exhibition will be open to members and 

 visitors both dnys, and all the societies and in- 

 dividual members are invited to exhibit. 

 Packages may be sent by express or left at the 

 building in care of the janitor. Friday even- 

 ing from 7 to 10 there will be an informal 

 meeting for showing exhibits and for short 

 reports and addresses. Members who can not 

 attend on Saturday are specially invited to 

 this meeting. Saturday, at 10 a.m. the annual 

 meeting will be held for reports from the va- 

 rious societies and for the election of officers 

 and other business. A short account of the 

 last year's work of each society is desired at 

 this meeting. A meeting of the council will 

 be held immediately after the general session 

 to examine the accounts, to decide on the ad- 

 mission of new members and to arrange for 

 future meetings. Saturday afternoon the 

 Boston Mycological Club will have its col- 

 lections open to visitors from 1 to 5 at its 

 room in the Horticultural Society's Building, 

 300 Massachusetts Avenue, corner of Hunt- 

 ington Avenue. The Brookline Bird Club will 

 lead an observation walk in the Brookline 

 Parkway, starting from the corner of Brook- 

 line Avenue and Audubon Road at 3 p.m. 



The corporation of Yale University has 

 voted to give annually the income from ten 

 thousand dollars to the American Journal of 

 Science to assist in the publication of this 

 journal, which this year celebrates its one 

 hundredth anniversary, and to which Professor 

 Edward S. Dana has given so generously of 

 his time and energy for many years. 



The Bollettino di Bibliografia e Storia delle 

 Scienze Matematiche, edited by Professor Gino 

 Loria, of Genoa, which has been of such value 

 to mathematicians interested in the bibliog- 

 raphy and history of their subject, is about 

 to begin a new series. It will appear in im- 

 proved form from the press of the well-known 

 scientific publisher, D. Capozzi, of Palermo. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 



