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these to Dr. Marion Newbigin, Royal Scottish 

 Geographical Society, Synod Hall, Castle Ter- 

 race, Edinburgh. They would be carefully 

 preserved, and returned after being copied. 

 Correspondence is also invited from American 

 men of science and others who came into con- 

 tact with Professor Geikie in the course of his 

 visits to the states. 



Dr. C. T. Clough, for forty years a member 

 of the British Geological Survey, died on Au- 

 gust 27, having been run over by a train while 

 examining rock explosives in Scotland. 



Professor H. Mohn, the meteorologist, of 

 Christiania, died on September 12, at eighty 

 years of age. 



Erio "Warr Simmons, a recent graduate of 

 University College, London, a geologist of 

 promise, has been killed in the war. 



Dr. Ferdinand Eischer, professor of chemi- 

 ical technology in the University of Gottingen, 

 has died at the age of seventy-four years. 



Henri Fischer, the French student of mala- 

 cology, has died at the age of fifty years. 



The death is announced at the age of sixty- 

 one years of Dr. Francesco Bassani, professor 

 of geology in the University of Naples. 



The Hospital for Deformities and Joint 

 Diseases, New York, has received from Mr. 

 Herbert Kauffman, of Pittsburgh, through 

 Dr. H. D. Frauenthal, a gift of one million 

 dollars, to be used for the erection of a new 

 building and as an endowment fund. 



Before the Tax Budget Committee of the 

 New York City Board of Estimate it was re- 

 ported that the attendance at the Metropoli- 

 tan Museum of Art for the year ending June 

 30, 1916, was 635,206, as against 778,024 for 

 the previous year. The paid admissions for 

 1916 were 31,617, as against 40,311. The com- 

 mittee voted $200,000, the same amount as 

 last year, although the request was for $250,- 

 000. On the other hand, the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History showed an increase 

 in attendance, and Cleveland H. Dodge, ap- 

 pearing for the trustees, said this was due to 

 school teachers taking their classes to the 



museum. The attendance for the year ended 

 June 30 was 870,000, as against 664,215 for 

 1915. Last year the museum received $212,- 

 999, and this year requested $222,000, but only 

 $212,700 was recommended. 



The following resolution was unanimously 

 passed at the Dyestuff Conference held during 

 the meeting of the American Chemical Society 

 on Tuesday afternoon in Rumford Hall, the 

 hall being crowded to its utmost capacity. 



"Whereas, the revenue bill (title, V. Dyestuffs) 

 which recently passed the Senate after hearings of 

 representatives of producers and consumers, ac- 

 corded to all classes of dyestuffs without excep- 

 tion an ad valorem duty of 30 per cent, and a 

 specific duty of five cents per pound, and 



Whereas, in the final conference between the 

 House Ways and Means Committee, and the Fi- 

 nance Committee of the Senate, and without 

 further hearings, "Natural and Synthetic Ali- 

 zarin and Dyes Obtained from Alizarin, Anthra- 

 cene and Carbazol, Natural and Synthetic Indigo 

 and All Indigoides whether or not obtained from 

 Indigo, and Medicinals and Flavors" were made 

 exceptions and to carry no specific duty and to 

 have only the 30 per cent, ad valorem duty. The 

 Dyestuff Conference of the American Chemical 

 Society, in a meeting held in New York, Sep- 

 tember 27, without a single dissenting vote, con- 

 demns the exception of these dyestuffs from this 

 specific duty, as this exception undermines the 

 very foundation upon which it was hoped that the 

 American dyestuff industry might be built. It 

 makes it impossible for the American manufac- 

 turer to meet the requirements of this Bill "if, 

 at the expiration of five years from the date of 

 the passage of the Act, the President finds that 

 there is not being manufactured or produced 

 within the United States as much as 60 per cent. 

 in value of the domestic consumption of these 

 articles, he shall by proclamation so declare, 

 whereupon the special duty imposed by the Sec- 

 tion on such articles shall no longer be assessed, 

 levied, or collected." 



And Whereas the value of these excepted 

 classes of dyes amounts to approximately 30 per 

 cent, of the dyes consumed in the TJ. S. A., with- 

 out considering the dyes patented by foreign 

 manufacturers, 



Therefore be it resolved, that we condemn the 

 removal of these dyestuffs from the special tariff 

 accorded to them by the Senate as detrimental to 

 the establishment and development of the Ameri- 



