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proprietor, The Lighting Journal; Dr. C. E. K. 

 Mees, director, research laboratory, E. K. Co. ; 

 Professor H. D. Minchin, professor optics, TJ. of 

 B.; Dr. P. G. Nutting, optical engineer, E. K. Co.; 

 Dr. C. P. Prentice, professor of optometry, Co- 

 lumbia; Mr. I. 6. Priest, associate physicist, op- 

 tics division, Bureau of Standards; Mr. W. B. 

 Bayton, optical design and testing, B. & L. Co.; 

 Professor F. K. Bichtmyer, professor of physics, 

 Cornell University; Dr. P. E. Boss, astronomer 

 and optical designer, E. K. Co.; Mr. P. B. Saeg- 

 muller, superintendent, precision optics, B. & L. 

 Co.; Professor J. P. C. Southall, professor in 

 charge of optometry courses, Columbia University; 

 Mr. E. D. Tillyer, research laboratory, Am. Optical 

 Co.; Professor E. J. Wall, professor of photog- 

 raphy, Syracuse University; Dr. P. E. Wright, op- 

 tical research, geophysical laboratory (30). 



The constitution provides that only those 

 who have contributed materially to the ad- 

 vancement of optics shall be eligible to regular 

 membership in the society and hence to vote or 

 hold office. Any one interested in optics is 

 eligible to associate membership. The affairs 

 of the society are in the hands of the executive 

 council. It is planned to hold one or more 

 annual meetings and publish a journal com- 

 mencing with the year 1917. Blank applica- 

 tion for membership may be obtained from the 

 secretary, 1447 St. Paul St., Rochester, N. T. 

 Material intended for publication in the jour- 

 nal should be addressed to the president until 

 the editorial staff has been selected by the 

 council. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Haven Emerson, health commissioner 

 of New York, has invited a number of distin- 

 guished pathologists to meet some pathologists 

 and medical authorities of New York City for 

 discussion of problems connected with the pre- 

 vailing epidemic of infantile paralysis. For 

 the conference, which will begin on August 5, 

 the Board of Estimate has appropriated $2,000. 

 Those from a distance who are expected to be 

 present are: Dr. William H. Welch, professor 

 of pathology. The Johns Hopkins University; 

 Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the medical 

 school of the University of Michigan; Dr. 

 Milton J. Rosenau, professor of preventive 



medicine and hygiene, Harvard University; 

 Dr. J. W. Jobling, professor of pathology, 

 Yanderbilt University; Dr. Paul A. Lewis, 

 Henry Phipps Institute, and professor of 

 pathology, University of Pennsylvania ; Dr. 0. 

 C. Bass, professor of pathology, Tulane Uni- 

 versity; Professor Theobald Smith, Rocke- 

 feller Institute; Professor John F. Anderson, 

 New Brunswick, N. J., former head of the 

 hygienic laboratories of the U. S. Public 

 Health Service; Dr. Richard M. Pearce, pro- 

 fessor of experimental medicine, University of 

 Pennsylvania; Dr. Francis W. Peabody, Peter 

 Brent Brigham Hospital, Boston; Dr. Ludwig 

 Hektoen, professor of pathology, University of 

 Chicago, and director of the Memorial Insti- 

 tute for Infectious Diseases; and Dr. John G-. 

 Adami, professor of pathology, McGill Med- 

 ical College. 



At the meeting of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh held on July 3 the following Brit- 

 ish Honorary Fellows were elected : Sir Francis 

 Darwin, Cambridge; Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, 

 Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor J. N. 

 Langley, professor of physiology, Cambridge; 

 Professor C. Lapworth, emeritus professor of 

 geology, University of Birmingham ; Professor 

 A. Macalister, professor of anatomy, Cam- 

 bridge; Professor A. Schuster, emeritus pro- 

 fessor of physics, University of Manchester. 



The Hon. Bertrand Russell, F.R.S., one 

 of the most distinguished English students of 

 philosophy, was, according to a cablegram 

 from London, recently fined for issuing pamph- 

 lets to conscientious objectors to military serv- 

 ice, and deprived of his lectureship at Trinity 

 College, Cambridge; now it is said he has 

 been refused a passport to visit America to 

 keep his engagement to lecture at Harvard 

 University. 



Dr. Franklin C. McLean, assistant resident 

 physician in the hospital of the Rockefeller 

 Institute, New York, has accepted an ap- 

 pointment by the trustees of the Union Med- 

 ical College, Pekin, to the professorship of 

 internal medicine. The appointment carries 

 with it the headship of the Union Medical 

 School. This is one of the institutions of the 

 China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foun- 



