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Noyes, Raymond Pearl, Michael I. Pupin, S. "W. 

 Stratton, V. C. Vaughan, and others to be ap- 

 pointed. 



MEMBERS 



Dr. L. H. Baekeland, Yonkers, N. Y. 



Dr. Marston T. Bogert, professor of organic 

 chemistry, Columbia University. 



Dr. John A. Brashear, Allegheny, Pa. 



Dr. John J. Cartt, chief engineer, American Tele- 

 phone & Telegraph Co. 



Dr. Russell H. Chittenden, director, Sheffield 

 Scientific School, Yale University. 



Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, professor of zoology, 

 Princeton University. 



Dr. John M. Coulter, professor of botany, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



Major General William Crozier, chief of ord- 

 nance, U. S. A. 



Mr. Gano Dunn, president, The J. G. White Engi- 

 neering Corporation. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director, Rockefeller Institute 

 for Medical Research. 



Brigadier General William Crawford Gorgas, 

 surgeon general, U. S. A. 



Dr. W. P. M. Goss, dean of engineering, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. 



Dr. George E. Hale, director, Mt. Wilson Solar 

 Observatory. 



Mr. Clemens Herschel, president, American So- 

 ciety of Civil Engineers. 



Dr. William H. Holmes, curator, United States 

 National Museum. 



Dr. W. W. Keen, president, American Philosoph- 

 ical Society. 



Mr. Van H. Manning, director, Bureau of Mines. 



Professor Charles P. Marvin, chief, United 

 States Weather Bureau. 



Professor A. A. Michelson, director, Ryerson 

 Physical Laboratory, University of Chicago. 



Dr. Robert A. Millikan, professor of physics, 



University of Chicago. 

 Dr. Arthur A. Notes, director, research labora- 

 tory of physical chemistry, Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology. 

 Dr. Raymond Pearl, director, Maine Agricultural 



Experiment Station. 

 Professor E. C. Pickering, director, Harvard 



College Observatory. 

 Dr. Michael I. Pupin, professor of electro-me- 

 chanics, Columbia University. 

 Mr. Charles P. Rand, president, United Engi- 

 neering Society. 

 Dr. Theodore W. Richards, director, Walcott 



Gibbs Memorial Laboratory, Harvard Univer- 

 sity. 



Mr. C. E. Skinner, director, research laboratory, 

 Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. 



Lieutenant Colonel George 0. Squier, chief of 

 aviation, U. S. A. 



Dr. S. W. Stratton, director, Bureau of Stand- 

 ards. 



Mr. Ambrose Swaset, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Chief Constructor David W. Taylor, U. S. Navy. 



Dr. Elihu Thomson, Swampscott, Mass. 



Dr. C R. Van Hise, president, American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science. 



Dr. Victor C Vaughan, director, medical re- 

 search laboratory, University of Michigan. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary, Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Dr. William H. Welch, president, National 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. W. R. Whitney, director, research laboratory, 

 General Electric Co. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 On the occasion of the celebration of the 

 150th anniversary of Kutgers College the 

 degree of doctor of science was conferred on 

 Dr. J. L. R. Morgan, of the class of '92, pro- 

 fessor of physical chemistry in Columbia Uni- 

 versity; on Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt, of New 

 York City, and on Chuzaburo Shiba, pro- 

 fessor of mechanical engineering in the Im- 

 perial University of Tokyo. 



The Italian Society of Sciences has 

 awarded its gold medal for 1915 to Professor 

 P. Calapso, of the University of Messina, for 

 his researches in geometry. 



Edward Ray Weedlein has been appointed 

 associate director of the Mellon Institute of 

 Industrial Research of the University of Pitts- 

 burgh. Mr. "Weidlein has held an industrial 

 fellowship since 1910, and during the past 

 four years has been in active charge of the 

 hydrometallurgical investigations of the in- 

 stitute. 



Mr. Victor A. Beede, assistant state 

 forester of New Hampshire, has been elected 

 executive secretary of the New York State 

 Forestry Association, with headquarters at the 

 Chamber of Commerce Building, Syracuse, 

 N/. Y. 



