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THe New York Section of the American 
Chemical Society has appointed a committee 
on occupational diseases in chemical trades as 
follows: Charles Baskerville, professor of 
chemistry, College City New York, Chairman; 
E. C. Uhlig, chief chemist, Brooklyn Union 
Gas Co., Brooklyn, Secretary; George P. 
Adamson, Baker and Adamson Chemical Co., 
Easton, Pa.; W. H. Bassett, American Brass 
Co., Waterbury, Conn.; Wm. F. Doerflinger, 
consulting chemist, 52 Beaver St., New York 
City; H. M. Kaufman, Mutual Chemical 
Company of America, 55 John St., N. Y.; 
A. C. Langmuir, chairman of the New York 
Section, American Chemical Society, 9 Van 
‘Brunt St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Geo. A. Proch- 
‘azka, general manager Central Dye Stuff and 
Chemical Company; Geo. D. Rosengarten, 
Powers, Weightman and Rosengarten, Phila- 
delphia, Pa.; A. H. Sabin, consulting chem- 
ist for the National Lead Company, 129 York 
St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles L. Parsons, 
mineral chemist, Bureau of Mines, Washing- 
ton, D. C. This committee will work in co- 
operation with the committee of the Associa- 
tion for Labor Legislation. 
Dean Evcene Davenport, of the College of 
Agriculture of the University of Illinois, was 
the speaker at the recent commencement ex- 
ercises of the University of Nebraska College 
‘of Agriculture. 
R. G. Duxes, professor of applied mechan- 
ics at Purdue University and second of the 
exchange lecturers with the University of 
Illinois, lectured April 26 on “The Recent 
Discoveries in Physical Science and their 
Bearing on the Progress of Engineering.” 
Mr. O. P. Hood, who is mechanical expert for 
the United States Bureau of Mines at Pitts- 
burgh, also addressed the meeting. 
Dean C. H. Jounston, of the University of 
Kansas, gave three lectures before the School 
of Education of the University of Illinois on 
April 29 and 30 on present problems in high 
school organization. 
THE annual commencement address of the 
Missouri School of Mines will be given by 
SCIENCE 
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Mr. James R. Finlay, of New York’ City. 
Exercises will be held on the morning. of May 
351. The graduating class numbers forty. 
Tue University of Pennsylvania Chapter 
of the Society of the Sigma Xi initiated 
twenty-nine new members on April 23. 
Among them were Professor Samuel Christian 
Schmucker, of the West Chester State Normal 
School, and Mr. Witmer Stone, a curator in 
the Academy of Natural Science in Philadel- 
phia. Professor George Hervey Hallett, of 
the University of Pennsylvania, addressed the 
Chapter on the subject of ‘“ Hyperspace.” 
Professor George F. Sever, president of Co- 
lumbia chapter, was present as a delegate 
from that chapter. 
Tue Museum of the University of Penn- 
sylvania has arranged to send an expedition 
to the Amazon under the direction of Mr. 
Algot Lange. The expedition will be fur- 
nished with a steamer which will be large and 
seaworthy enough to carry the party from 
New York to the mouth of the Amazon and 
up the Amazon for several thousand miles to 
the tributaries where the Indian tribes will be 
studied and collections made for the next 
three years. 
Mr. Grorcr Borup, a graduate student in 
geology at Yale University, and Mr. S. W. 
Case, a graduate student in mining, were 
drowned in Long Island Sound on April 28, 
by the overturning of a power canoe. Mr. 
Borup accompanied Commander Peary in his 
Arctic expedition, and had planned to under- 
take this summer with Mr. D. B. McMillan, 
an expedition to Crocker Land, as described 
in a recent issue of SCIENCE. 
Tue heirs of the late Frau Adelheid Bleich- 
roder have given the German Association of 
Physicians and Scientific Men $25,000 for the 
support of research work in medicine and the 
sciences contributory to medicine. 
THE provisional arrangements for the forth- 
coming celebration of the 250th anniversary 
of the Royal Society, as given in Nature, are 
as follows: Monday, July 15—An evening 
reception of delegates at the rooms of the 
Royal Society. Tuesday, July 16—In the 
