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[N. S. Vol. XLIV. No. 1135 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The fifty-third meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society and the second National Ex- 

 position of Chemical Industries are being held 

 in New York City this week. The address of 

 the president, Dr. Charles H Herty, of the 

 University of North Carolina, was on " Ex- 

 panding Kelations of Chemistry in America." 

 This address we hope to have the privilege of 

 printing in Science, and the official abstracts 

 of papers presented before the divisions of the 

 society will, as usual, be printed here. 



In the presence of Secretary Daniels and 

 with appropriate ceremonies twenty members 

 of the Civilian Navy Consulting Board, 

 headed by Thomas A. Edison, took the oath of 

 allegiance to the United States on September 

 19, as officers of the federal government. 

 They were later entertained at a luncheon at 

 the Army and Navy Club by Secretary Dan- 

 iels. At the subsequent meeting the indus- 

 trial survey of the country and the naval re- 

 search laboratory were among the questions 

 discussed. Those present besides Mr. Edison 

 were Messrs. M. E. Hutchinson, W. E. Whit- 

 ney, L. H. Baekeland, Frank J. Sprague, E. S. 

 "Woodward, Arthur G. Webster, A. M. Hunt, 

 Spencer Miller, William Leroy Emmet, Mat- 

 thew B. Sellers, Hudson Maxim, P. C. Hewitt, 

 Thomas Eobins, Howard E. Coffin, Andrew L. 

 Eiker, Elmer A. Sperry, W. L. Saunders, Law- 

 rence Addicks and Bion J. Arnold. 



The American Fisheries Society will hold 

 its forty-sixth annual meeting in New Or- 

 leans, La., on October 16 to 19, inclusive. As 

 this is the first meeting of the society to be 

 held in any of the Gulf states, special consid- 

 eration will be given to the problems and con- 

 ditions of fisheries and fish culture in these 

 states. Professor Jacob Eeighard, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, is president of the so- 

 ciety. 



Dr. Charles W. Pilgrim, superintendent of 

 the Hudson Eiver State Hospital, Poughkeep- 

 sie, N. Y., has been appointed by Governor 

 Whitman to serve as president of the New 

 York State Lunacy Board. Dr. James V. 

 May, former head of the board, resigned some 



time ago to accept a similar position in the 

 state of Massachusetts. 



Dr. Alexander Johnson, for thirteen years 

 secretary of the National Conference of Char- 

 ities and Correction, has been selected as the 

 expert for the Colorado State Survey Com- 

 mission to investigate and make recommen- 

 dations concerning the care of mental defec- 

 tives and insane in the state, and the charities 

 and corrections departments of the state. 



Professor E. M. Lehnerts, of the depart- 

 ment of geography of the University of Minne- 

 sota, has succeeded D. Lange as president of 

 the Minnesota Forestry Association. 



Dr. William H. Welch, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, sailed from England on Sep- 

 tember 20. Dr. Welch left for England five 

 weeks ago to obtain data in connection with 

 the organization of the Institute of Hygiene, 

 which was made possible through a gift from 

 the Eockefeller Foundation. 



Dr. F. J. H. Merrill, from 1899 until 1904 

 state geologist of New York, has moved to Los 

 Angeles, where he will resume consultant 

 practise in geology and mining engineering. 



For the academic year 1916-17, an exchange 

 has been arranged between Professor Cassius 

 J. Keyser, of the department of mathematics 

 of Columbia University, and Professor Mellen 

 W. Haskell, of the department of mathematics 

 of the University of California. 



Dr. M. C. Tanquary, assistant professor of 

 entomology, Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, who was granted a leave of absence in 

 1913 to accompany the Crocker Land Expedi- 

 tion, has returned to the Kansas Agricultural 

 College and will continue his work in the 

 college and experiment station. 



Dr. Donald Eeddick, professor of plant 

 pathology, Cornell University, and chairman 

 of the editorial board of Phytopathology, has 

 been granted sabbatic leave and will spend the 

 ensuing academic year in special work in the 

 laboratory of plant physiology, Johns Hop- 

 kins University. Matters pertaining to 

 Phytopathology should be addressed to him at 

 Baltimore until June 1, 1917. 



