November 11, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



459 



Henry P. Talbot of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Dr. William H. Nichols of New 

 York City, members of the board of trustees of 

 Dartmouth College, and a number of promi- 

 nent chemists of New England. Addresses 

 were made by Dr. Nichols, who spoke of the 

 late Sanford H. Steele, a former associate in 

 the General Chemical Company, and an alum- 

 nus of Dartmouth, whose bequest of $250,000 

 made the new building possible, and by Dean 

 Talbot, who reviewed the outstanding achieve- 

 ments of the last fifty years in the study of 

 chemistry. 



The Steele chemistry building, which has 

 just been completed at a cost of half a million 

 dollars, embodies the best features of over a 

 score of laboratories inspected by the architects 

 and members of the Dartmouth chemistry de- 

 partment. Much of the apparatus of its equip- 

 ment has been specially constructed according 

 to designs of Dartmouth chemists. 



Nine laboratory rooms are contained in the 

 building, varying from the large laboratory 

 for beginners which will accommodate 144 men 

 working at one time to the laboratory for ad- 

 vanced organic chemistry which will accommo- 

 date about fifteen men. Laboratories for quali- 

 tative analysis, quantitative analysis, physio- 

 logical chemistry, physical chemistry, organic 

 chemistry and advanced courses in each of 

 these studies are included. The new building 

 also contains ofiices and laboratory suites for 

 instructors and professors as well as a large 

 library, lecture room, and conductivity rooms. 

 Specially designed and constructed systems for 

 ventilation, and distribution of gas, electricity, 

 compressed air and distilled water have been 

 installed. The building is Georgian in type, to 

 harmonize with other Dartmouth buildings. It 

 was designed by Larson & Wells of Hanover, 

 and erected by the Cummings Construction of 

 Ware, Mass. 



Members of the Ouroborus Club, a society of 

 chemists, holding its fall meeting at Hanover, 

 were guests at the dedication exercises and in- 

 cluded Professors Talbot, Norris, Moore, Wil- 

 liams, Smith and Lewis of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology ; Kohler and Lamb, of 

 Harvard; Jennings and Zinn, of Worcester; 



Hopkins, Doughty and Scatchard, of Amherst ; 

 Chamberlain and Morse of Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College; Mears of Williams; Johnson 

 of Yale; Hoover of Wesleyan; and Bartlett, 

 Bolser and Richardson of Dartmouth. i 



LECTURES ON PUBLIC HYGIENE AT THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 



A second series of ten lectures on "Public 

 Hygiene " to be given under the auspices of 

 the school of Hygiene and Public Health at 

 the University of Pennsylvania is announced 

 as follows : October 15. " The factors that 

 determine disease and death." Professor D. 

 H. Bergey, School of Hygiene and Public 

 Health, University of Pennsylvania. 



October 22. " The organization of com- 

 munity anti-tuberculosis work." G. T. Drol- 

 et. Statistician, N. Y. Tuberculosis Commis- 

 sion. 



October 29. " The sanitary control of food 

 and drink in Philadelphia." Professor Sen- 

 eca Egbert, School of Hygiene and Public 

 Health, University of Pennsylvania. 



November 5. " The anti-venereal cam- 

 paign." T. C. Funek, Pennsylvania Depart- 

 ment of Health. 



November 12. " Social service as a factor 

 in public health activities." Dr. H. E. M. 

 Landis, director of the Clinical and Socio- 

 logical Department, Henry Phipps Institute. 



November 19. " Infective diseases not 

 caused by bacteria, their nature, spread and 

 suppression." Professor A. J. Smith, pro- 

 fessor of pathology, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



November 26. " The administration of 

 public health laboratories." Dr. John Laird, 

 director of the laboratory of Pennsylvania 

 State Department of Health. 



December 3. " Medical examination and 

 classification of workmen as complementing 

 the sanitary supervision of workplace." Dr. 

 Frank Craig, Henry Phipps Institiite. 



December 10. " The limitations of Eu- 

 genics." By Professor C. E. McClung, pro- 

 fessor of zoology and director of the labora- 

 tory of zoology, University of Pennsylvania. 



December 19. " On the training of public 



