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of paper pulp and by-products, oils and motor 

 fuels, glassware and porcelain, steel alloy 

 metals, new developments in chemical indus- 

 tries, etc. 



On Wednesday and Thursday mornings a 

 general symposium on colloids will be held, 

 theoretical considerations being discussed on 

 the first day and the industrial applications of 

 colloid chemistry on the second day. 



The American Electrochemical Society has 

 planned a series of interesting meetings. The 

 electrochemical group will open its meeting 

 later in the week, on Thursday, September 28, 

 with a technical session devoted to a review of 

 American progress in the electrochemical in- 

 dustry. A complimentary smoker will be held 

 on Thursday evening, and on Friday evening 

 there will be a joint banquet at the "Waldorf- 

 Astoria of the members of the American 

 Chemical Society, the American Electro- 

 chemical Society, and the Technical Associa- 

 tion of the Pulp and Paper Industry. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The funeral of Sir William Ramsay took 

 place at Hazlemere, High Wycombe, on Wed- 

 nesday, July 26, in the presence of representa- 

 tives of the Royal Society, the Chemical Soci- 

 ety, University College, London, and many 

 other societies and institutions. 



General William C. Goegas, U. S. A., head 

 of the yellow fever commission of the Inter- 

 national Health Board of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation, arrived at Bogota, Colombia, 

 from Panama, on August 9. General Gorgas 

 will consult with the Colombian government on 

 sanitary conditions of ports in that country. 



Part of the Canadian Arctic expedition, 

 which is led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, has re- 

 turned to Nome, Alaska, after spending three 

 years in investigations on the north coast of 

 Canada. Dr. Anderson, of the southern party, 

 reports that Stefannson may not return until 

 some time in 1918. He planned to start from 

 winter quarters in May last to continue his 

 explorations of the new land west of Prince 

 Patrick Island. 



The Astley Cooper prize for the present 

 year, for a treatise on " The Physiology and 



Pathology of the Pituitary Body," has been 

 awarded to Dr. W. Blair Bell, of Liverpool. 



Mr. James Mooney, of the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Ethnology has been in North Carolina to 

 continue his researches among the Cherokee 

 Indians. 



Dr. Leo J. Fraohtenberg, who has been in 

 the field for the Bureau of American Ethnol- 

 ogy for the past year, has changed his head- 

 quarters to Portland, Oregon. 



Mr. C. B. Williams has been appointed by 

 the Board of Agriculture, Trinidad, to study 

 the parasites of the sugar-cane froghopper in 

 that island. 



M. C. Whitaker, professor of chemical engi' 

 neering, Columbia University, has been 

 granted leave of absence for the first term of 

 the academic year, 1916-17. 



Professor W. S. Miller, of the department 

 of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin, 

 has been giving a series of illustrated lectures 

 before the Robert Koch Society for the Study 

 of Tuberculosis, at Chicago, on " The Lym- 

 phatics and Lymphoid Tissue of the Lung and 

 their Relation to Disease Processes," and an 

 illustrated lecture before the Cincinnati Re- 

 search Society on " The Anatomy of the 

 Lungs with special reference to the Lym- 

 phatics." 



The Eugenics Education Society of Chicago 

 holds its meetings once a month. Special 

 speakers at these meetings during the current 

 year have been Professor James A. Field, 

 Professor John M. Coulter, Professor Frank 

 R. Lillie, Professor Frederick Starr, Dr. 

 Albert J. Ochsner, Alexander Johnson and 

 Professor Judson Herrick. 



We learn from Nature that on Wednesday, 

 July 26, the memorial to Sir William White, 

 promoted by the Institution of Naval Archi- 

 tects, was formally handed over to the council 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The 

 presentation was made by Admiral Sir 

 Reginald Custance and Earl Brassey, who 

 stated that £3,000 had been collected. The 

 money is to be allotted to the foundation of a 

 research scholarship fund, the provision of a 

 memorial medallion to be placed in the hall of 



