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SCIENCE 



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The Bureau of Commercial Economics at 

 Washington is again cooperating with the ex- 

 position by arranging an elaborate program of 

 motion pictures covering subjects dealing with 

 the industries depending on chemistry. A few 

 of the films that appear on the tentative pro- 

 gram are: The match industry, the rubber in- 

 dustry, manufacture of explosives, varnish 

 manufacture, silver mining, mining and manu- 

 facturing of iron, making of blotting paper, 

 accident and fire prevention, manufacture and 

 use of fertilizers and manufacture of steel. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The dispensary building of the Orthopedic, 

 Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, 

 Philadelphia, has been formally dedicated to 

 the memory of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, one of 

 the founders of the institution and for many 

 years head of the hospital staff. At the en- 

 trance of the dispensary is a stone tablet on 

 which is inscribed in bronze letters, " S. Weir 

 Mitchell Memorial, Philadelphia Orthopedic 

 Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Dis- 

 eases, 1915." A bronze tablet in the main 

 waiting room states that the building is dedi- 

 cated to the memory of Dr. Mitchell by his 

 friends and patients. The address was deliv- 

 ered by the dean of American surgeons, Dr. 

 William W. Keen, who was a close friend and 

 associate of Dr. Mitchell for a period of more 

 than fifty years. 



Attention is called in Nature to the fact 

 that on June 24, the Rt. Hon. Henry John 

 Moreton, Earl of Ducie, F.E.S., entered on 

 his ninetieth year, having been born in 1827. 

 He is the senior fellow of the Royal Society in 

 point of election to that body, this dating from 

 1855. When Lord Moreton, he obtained from 

 the Jurassic limestone of Burford the fossil 

 species of star-fish named by Professor Edward 

 Forbes Solaster moretoni, in honor of the 

 finder. In connection it may be mentioned 

 that Sir Robert Palgrave, F.R.S., entered on 

 his ninetieth year in the early part of May, 

 while Sir William Crookes attained the age of 

 eighty-four on June 17. 



William Morton Wheeler, professor of eco- 

 nomic entomology and dean of the faculty of 



the Bussey Institution, of Harvard University, 

 and Otto K. 0. Folin, Hamilton Kuhn pro- 

 fessor of biological chemistry in the Harvard 

 Medical School, were given the doctorate of 

 science at the University of Chicago convoca- 

 tion celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. 



At the quarter-centennial convocation of 

 the University of Chicago, the honorary doc- 

 torate in science was conferred on John M. 

 Clarke, state geologist of New York. 



Dr. William H. Holmes, chief of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, and Dr. Ales 

 Hrdlicka, of the U. S. National Museum, have 

 been made corresponding associates of the 

 Academia Nacional de Historia of Colombia. 



At a meeting of the Texas chapter of the 

 Society of the Sigma Xi, on June 5, Dr. Fred- 

 eric W. Simonds, professor of geology in the 

 University of Texas, was elected president for 

 the year. Dr. Simonds was one of the first 

 five graduate students elected to membership 

 in the Cornell chapter. 



The Yale Chapter of Sigma Xi has elected 

 Professor R. S. Lull, president, and Professor 

 W. R. Longley, vice-president, for the coming 

 academic year. 



Dr. Axel Gavelin has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Swedish Geological Survey. 



Signor Leonardo Bianchi is a member of 

 the new Italian ministry as a representative 

 of the party he leads — that of the Constitu- 

 tional Democrats. He is professor of psy- 

 chiatry in the University of Naples and di- 

 rector of the university clinic for nervous and 

 mental diseases, and it is understood that he 

 will devote himself to hygienic and social 

 problems arising out of the war. 



Professor Alfred Stenzel has been placed 

 in charge of a clinic at the hospital of the 

 University of Pennsylvania for the exclusive 

 study of industrial and occupational diseases. 



Mr. Francis Harper has joined the staff of 

 the Biological Survey of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. 



Dr. Willard J. Fisher, whose withdrawal 

 from the department of physics at New Hamp- 

 shire College was recently noted in Science, 

 has been appointed honorary fellow in phys- 



