Septembee 2, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



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Though the School of Public Health at Harvard 

 will have its headquarters in a well-equipped 

 building of its own -and have its own separate 

 faculty and administration, it will be developed 

 in close relation with other divisions of the uni- 

 versity, especially the Medical School. 



The administration buildings of the two schools 

 will, it is hoped, stand side by side on the same 

 grounds; certain heads of departments will be 

 members of both faculties; and a number of 

 laboratories and lecture rooms wiU be used in 

 common. 



The school will be able to cooperate with a large 

 number of laboratories, hospitals and public health 

 agencies in Boston and thus aiJord its students un- 

 usual opportunities for first-hand investigation 

 and practical field experience. 



In addition, the school, through cooperative re- 

 lations with a number of manufacturing and com- 

 mercial corporations, will be able to offer the 

 students practical experience in industrial hygiene. 



There already exists a School of Public 

 Health conducted jointly by Harvard Univer- 

 sity and the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. Professor M. J. Rosenau, of the 

 Harvard Medical School, is the director of 

 this school, and the other members of the ad- 

 ministrative board are Professor G. G. 

 Wliipple, of the Harvard Engineering School, 

 and Professor C. E. Turner, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The British chemists who have been meeting 

 at Montreal and Toronto will be welcomed at 

 IN"iagara Falls by Governor Miller on Monday, 

 September 5. The reception committee of 

 chemists consists of Mr. S. R. Church, chair- 

 man of the American Section of the Society of 

 Chemical Industry; Dr. Edgar F. Smith, presi- 

 dent of the American Chemical Society; Dr. 

 David Wesson, president of the American In- 

 stitute of Chemical Engineers; Dr. Acheson 

 Smith, president of the Electrochemical So- 

 ciety ; and Drs. Charles F. Chandler, Ira Rem- 

 sen, M. T. Bogert and "William H. Nichols, 

 past presidents of the Society of Chemical 

 Industry. As has already been noted in Sci- 

 ence, the opening meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society in New York City will be at 



Columbia University at ten o'clock on the 

 morning of September 7. 



At the recent second International Confer- 

 ence of Pure and Applied Chemistry held at 

 Brussels, Professor Charles Moureau, of Paris, 

 presided. The vice-president representing the 

 United States was Dr. F. G. Cottrell, recently 

 chief of the Bureau of Mines and chairman of 

 the Division of Chemistry of the National 

 Research Council. 



George Otis Smith, director of the United 

 States Geological Survey, has returned to 

 Washington from London, where he went to 

 serve as a member of the organization com- 

 mittee of the International Geological Con- 

 gress, the next meeting of which is being ar- 

 ranged for August, 1922, at Brussels. 



Mr. C. J. West has left the position of di- 

 rector of the Information Department of Ar- 

 thur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., to be- 

 come managing editor of the " Tables of 

 Physical and Chemical Constants," which is 

 being published by the National Research 

 Council, in cooperation with the American 

 Chemical Society. 



Mr. George A. Olson has resigned as chem- 

 ist of the Washington Agricultural Experiment 

 Station and state chemist of the State of 

 Washington, in order to accept the position as 

 director of agricultural research and agricul- 

 tural adviser for the Gypsum Industries As- 

 sociation, Chicago, 111., which position was for- 

 merly held by Dr. William Crocker, who re- 

 cently resigned to become the director of the 

 Thompson Institute for Plant Research at 

 Yonkers, N. Y. 



Frank C. Morrison, assistant director of the 

 agricultural experiment station of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, has been appointed a 

 member of the committee on Animal Nutri- 

 tion of the National Research Council. 



B. D. Porritt has been appointed director 

 of research by the Research Association of 

 British Rubber and Tyre Manufacturers. 



Following the recent transfer of the Port 

 Erin Biological Station to Liverpool Univer- 

 sity (department of oceanography), Mr. Her- 

 bert C. Chadwick, who has been curator under 



