November 10, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



671 



Jacques Loeb, Eockefeller Institute. Diffusion 

 and Secretion. (12 minutes.) 



Lafayette B. Mendel and S. E. Jordan, Yale 

 University. Some Interrelations between Diet, 

 Growth and the Chemical Composition of the 

 Body. (12 minutes.) 



Henry L. Abbot, Cambridge, Mass. Hydrology 

 of the Isthmus of Panama. 



John M. Clarke, State Museum, Albany. The 

 Strand and the Undertow. 



W. M. Davis, Harvard University. Sublaeus- 

 trine Glacial Erosion in Montana. 



Scientific Exhibit in the General Library, from 

 3.30 to 5.00. 



Erom 8.15 to 9.15: 



President W. H. Welch, Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity. The Formation of the National Eesearch 

 Council at the Request of the President of the 

 United States. (15 minutes.) 



Dr. S. W. Stratton, Director of the National 

 Bureau of Standards, Washington. Target Prac- 

 tice in the Navy and Some of the Research Prob- 

 lems Involved; Illustrated with Moving Pictures. 

 (45 minutes.) 



Reception and Scientific Exhibit in the General 

 Library, from 9.15 to 10.30. 



Tuesday, November 14 



Erom 10.00 to 12.30: 



Edwin H. Hall, Harvard University. Electric 

 Conduction in Metals. (20 minutes, lantern.) 



Edward B. Rosa, National Bureau of Standards. 

 The Silver Voltameter as an International Stand- 

 ard. (15 minutes.) 



R. W. Wood, Johns Hopkins University. One-di- 

 mensional Gases and the Reflection of Molecules. 

 Series in Resonance Spectra. (10 minutes, lan- 

 tern.) 



Elihu Thomson, Swampscott, Mass. Inferences 

 Concerning Auroras. (20 minutes.) 



A. A. Michelson, University of Chicago. Report 

 of Progress in Experiments for Measuring the 

 Rigidity of the Earth. (10 minutes.) The Laws 

 of Elastieo-viscous Elow. (10 minutes.) 



C. G. Abbot, Smithsonian Institution. On the 

 Preservation of Knowledge. (5 minutes.) 



Eranz Boas, Columbia University. Further Evi- 

 dence Regarding the Instability of Human Types. 

 (20 minutes.) 



Ross G. Harrison, Yale University. Transplan- 

 tation of Limbs. (20 minutes, lantern.) 



Chas. B. Davenport, Station for Experimental 

 Evolution, Carnegie Institution. Heredity of 

 Stature. (20 minutes, lantern.) 



From 2.30 to 5.00: 



Professor George E. Hale, Chairman of the Na- 

 tional Research Council. The Work of the Na- 

 tional Research Council; Recent Observations of 

 Organized Science in England and France. (45 

 minutes.) 



Lieutenant Colonel George O. Squier, Chief of 

 Aviation, U. S. Army. Scientific Research for 

 National Defense, as Illustrated by the Problems 

 of Aviation. (45 minutes.) 



Professor Arthur A. Noyes, Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology. The Nitrogen Problem in 

 War and in Agriculture. (30 minutes.) 



Discussion of the Work of the National Re- 

 search Council. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 A meeting to plan a memorial to the late 

 Sir "William Eamsay was held at University 

 College, London, on October 31. After the 

 meeting, the director of the University Col- 

 lege Chemical Laboratories, Professor J. Nor- 

 man Collie, F.R.S., delivered a memorial lec- 

 ture on " The Scientific "Work of Sir "William 



We are informed by a correspondent who 

 has just returned from Germany that the pub- 

 lished statement that Dr. A. von "Wassermann, 

 of the University of Berlin, has succeeded 

 Ehrlich as head of the Institute for Experi- 

 mental Therapeutics at Frankfort-on-Main is 

 incorrect and that Professor Kolle of Berne, 

 holds this position temporarily. 



Professor "William "W. Payne, director of 

 the Elgin Observatory, formerly professor of 

 mathematics and astronomy and director of 

 the Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 

 and the founder of Popular Astronomy, was 

 granted the degree of doctor of science by 

 Carleton College on October 13, on the occa- 

 sion of the celebration of the fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of the founding of the college. 



Professor W. A. Notes, director of the 

 chemical laboratory of the University of Uli- 

 nois, will lecture on " The Electron Theory " 

 as part of the program of the Franklin Insti- 

 tute, Philadelphia, for the year 1916-17. 



On October 26, Professor C. J. Keyser de- 

 livered an address before the assembly of Le- 



