JONE 21, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



607 



C. Hoover, food admimstrator ; Charles M. 

 Schwab, director-general of the Emergency 

 Fleet Corporation; John D. Ryan, director- 

 general of the Aircraft Production Board; 

 Vance McCormiek, chairman of the War Trade 

 Board; W. L. Saunders, chairman of the Naval 

 Consulting Board; Mark L. Eequa, head of the 

 Oil Division of the Fuel Administration; Sid- 

 ney J. Jennings, president of the American 

 Institute of Mining Engineers; Benedict 

 Cpowell, Assistant Secretary of War, and Pope 

 Yeatman, of the War Industries Board. 

 Francis Peabody, chief, explosives section. Bu- 

 reau of Mines, will be the toastmaster. 



Members of the American Institute of Min- 

 ing Engineers are active in a wide field of war 

 work including the Engineer Officers' Reserve 

 Corps, Ordnance and Signal Corps Branches 

 of the Army and Navy, Aircraft Production, 

 Food and Fuel Administrations, War Indus- 

 tries Board, War Trade Board, and the De- 

 partment of the Interior. Several members 

 of the institute have also joined the Royal 

 Engineers of the British Army. The arrange- 

 ments for the conference are in charge of Van 

 H. Manning, director of the Bureau of Mines. 

 In the afternoon the board of directors of the 

 institute will hold a meeting at the Bureau of 

 Mines. 



At a meeting on June 20 a Washington sec- 

 tion of the American Institute of Mining 

 Engineers was formed. Although remote from 

 the country's mining centers, Washington now 

 contains more mining engineers than any other 

 city. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Alex.vndek L.vmbert, of the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, was elected president of the American 

 Medical Association at the Chicago meeting on 

 June 13. Admiral W. C. Braisted, Surgeon- 

 General of the Navy had a nearly equal num- 

 ber of votes. Dr. Lambert is medical director 

 of the American Red Cross work in France, 

 and president of the New York State Medical 

 Association. 



At the recent commencement of New York 

 University, the degree of LL.D. was conferred 



on Surgeon-General William C. Gorgas, and 

 the degree of doctor of public health on Dr. 

 Charles Edward Amory Winslow, professor of 

 public health at Yale University. 



At its conmiencement exercises held on June 

 12, St. Lawrence University conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of laws on Dr. Frederic S. Lee, 

 professor of physiology in Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 



Sir Napier Shaw, president of the Interna- 

 tional Meteorological Committee, has been ap- 

 pointed scientific adviser to the British gov- 

 ernment for the period of the war. Sir Napier 

 has been director of the British meteorolog- 

 ical office since 1905. 



Oliver Heaviside, the distinguished English 

 mathematical physicist, has been elected an 

 honorary fellow of the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers. The only other honor- 

 ary fellows are: Marconi, Ferranti, Blondel 

 and C. E. L. Brown. 



Professor L. V. King, of the Macdonald 

 Physical Laboratories, McGill University, was 

 elected president of Section IIL, Chemical 

 and Physical Sciences, at the thirty-seventh 

 meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, re- 

 cently held in Ottawa, Canada. Professor 

 King has been carrying on a series of practical 

 researches for anti-submarine warfare and 

 other work on behalf of the British Admiralty. 



The Franklin Institute has awarded the 

 Howard N. Potts medal to Dr. Alexander 

 Gray, of Ithaca, N. Y., for his paper, entitled 

 " Modern dynamo electric machinery," which 

 is "an exhaustive discussion of the design of 

 dynamo electric machinery." The institute 

 has awarded its Edward Longstreth medal of 

 merit to Professor H. Jermain Creighton, of 

 Swarthmore College, for his paper, entitled 

 " The deteriorating action of salt and brine 

 on reinforced concrete," which presents " the 

 results of an original and scientific investiga- 

 tion in a matter of great practical importance. 

 An Edward Longstreth medal of merit has also 

 been awarded to Dr. J. B. Wliitehead, of Bal- 

 timore, for his paper, entitled " The electric 

 strength of air and methods of measuring high 

 voltage," which gives " a clear exposition of 



