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scope; photometric work both visual and photo- 

 graphic; a photographic record of the succes- 

 sive stages of the eclipse with a "movie" 

 machine provided with a " Eurj'scope " doublet 

 lens of 25 inches focal length. The scientific 

 staff at the station on May 20, were Messrs. 

 Frost, Barnard. Parkhurst, Barrett and Miss 

 Calvert. B.v June 3, others participating in 

 the work will include Miss Lowater, of Welles- 

 ley College, Miss Wickham, Mrs. Parkhurst 

 and Mr. Blakslee, of Yerkes Observatory. Dr. 

 George S. Isham, of Chicago, and Professor 

 C. C. Crvunp, of Ohio Wesleyan University 

 and L. A. H. Warren, of Winnipeg. Weather 

 conditions are now promising fairly at the 

 station. The station from the Ifount Wilson 

 Solar Observatory is being established about a 

 thousand feet from Camp Charles A. Young, 

 which is situated under the buttes at the out- 

 skirts of the town of Green Eiver on the main 

 line of the Union Pacific Railroad. 



Frederick Remses Huttox, honorary secre- 

 tary of the United Engineering Society and 

 long dean of the faculty of engineering at Co- 

 lumbia University, has died in his sixty-fifth 

 year. 



Alonzo Collin, Sc.D., died in his eighty- 

 second year on April 16. Dr. Collin was a 

 graduate of Wesleyan University in 1858, and 

 served Cornell College from 1860 until 1906, 

 when he was made professor emeritus, retiring 

 upon the Carnegie Foundation. His first chair 

 was that of the natural sciences and later 

 physics. 



The seventh lecture of the series on science 

 in relation to the war was delivered at a joint 

 meeting of the Washington Academy of Sci- 

 ences and the Chemical Society on May 15, by 

 Dr. Arthur A. Noyes, professor of theoretical 

 chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, and chairman of the Nitrate Com- 

 mittee. The subject of the lecture was " The 

 nitrogen problem in relation to the war." 



A SPECi.\L meeting of the Engineering Foun- 

 dation was held on May 28 in the auditorium 

 of the Engineering Societies Building in New 

 York. Dr. George E. Hale addressed the 

 meeting on the " National Research Council." 



The foundation is composed of representatives 

 of the national societies of Civil, Mining, Me- 

 chanical and Electrical Engineers. 



Professor Comfort A. Adams, president of 

 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers, and professor of electrical engineering 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 was the main speaker at the annual meeting 

 and dinner of the Schenectady Section of the 

 institute on May 24. 



The address of Mr. William IL Babeock as 

 retiring president of the Anthropological So- 

 ciety of Washington was delivered on April 23 

 and entitled " Some ethnological and national 

 factors in the present war." 



Professor Robert M. Ogden, of Cornell 

 University, delivered the commencement ad- 

 dress at the University of Tennessee on May 

 29. 



Professor William T. Sedgwick, of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, deliv- 

 ered the commencement address at the Boston 

 School of Physical Education on May 23. 



The annual spring meeting of the Eastern 

 Association of Physics Teachers was held in 

 the Salisbury laboratories of the Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute on May 25. Among the 

 speakers at the meeting were Dr. Samuel J. 

 Plimpton, instructor in physics, Worcester 

 Polytechnic Institute; Clarence D. Kingsley, 

 of the State Board of Education, and Dr. Gor- 

 don Webster, professor of physics at Clark 

 University and a member of the Naval Con- 

 sulting Board. 



The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the 

 American Climatological and Clinical Asso- 

 ciation will be held in Boston on June 5 and 

 6, under the presidency of Captain J. Elliott, 

 C.A.M.C, Toronto, Ont. The session of the 

 association will be held at the Boston Medical 

 Library, the Fenway. 



The annual joint conference of the United 

 States Public Health Service with state and 

 territorial health ofiieers, will be held in Wash- 

 ington, June 3 and 4. The Journal of the 

 American Medical Association states that the 

 sanitation of e.xtracantonment areas will be 

 one of the chief subjects on the program. Re- 

 ports will be made as to the success of the 



