August 3, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



109 



Wednesday, September IS 

 Morning. — Conferences of Divisions. 

 Afternoon. — Divisional Meetings. 

 Evening. — President's address, Huntington Hall, 

 Rogers Building, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, Boylston Street. 



Thursday, September 13 



Morning and Afternoon. — Divisional Meetings. 



The usual meetings, including the annual elec- 

 tion of officers, will be held by aU the Divisions, 

 and by the Eubber Chemistry Section, with the fol- 

 lowing special program: 



Physical and Inorganic and Organic Divisions 

 may hold a joint conference on Wednesday morn- 

 ing, September 12. 



Division of Iiidustrial Chemists and Chemical 

 Engineers, Wednesday, September 12. Conference 

 on ' ' The industrial chemist in war time. ' ' 



Division of Organic Chemistry will hear and dis- 

 cuss the report of the committee on "The supply 

 of organic chemicals for research during the war," 

 by the chairman, C. S. Hudson. 



Division of Phairmaceutical Chemistry. — Con- 

 ference on "Pharmaceutical chemistry and the fu- 

 ture," opened by L. F. Kebler. The secretary of 

 the Division wishes to call the attention of the 

 members to the fact that papers on the composi- 

 tion of plant drugs or any of their constituents, 

 the composition of volatile oils, etc., are appropri- 

 ate to the program of this division. Papers on 

 pharmacological testing should also be presented 

 to this division. 



The Fertilizer Division will have papers of un- 

 usual interest dealing with the fertilizer situation 

 of to-day in relation to the chemical methods em- 

 ployed in the analysis of fertilizers, sampling of 

 fertilizers, etc. A conference where the papers 

 previously read will be freely discussed and general 

 conditions affecting the fertilizer business from a 

 chemical standpoint will close the meeting. 



Division of Biological Chemistry. The sessions 

 of the Biochemical Division include for Wednes- 

 day a special program concerning "Enzymes and 

 their action. ' ' 



Division of Water, Sewage and Sanitation will 

 hold a conference on ' ' Sanitation in warfare. ' ' 



All titles for papers should be in the secre- 

 tary's hands on or before August 27 ; or in the 

 hands of the secretaries of divisions on or be- 

 fore August 25, with the exception that titles 

 of papers should reach the secretary of the 

 Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical 

 Eng-ineers on or before August 21. In order 



that the meeting may receive due and correct 

 notice in the public press, every member pre- 

 senting a paper is requested to send an abstract 

 to Professor Allen Eogers, Pratt Institute, 

 Brooklyn, N. T., chairman of the society's 

 press and publicity committee. The amount of 

 publicity given to the meeting and to the indi- 

 vidual papers will entirely depend upon the 

 degree to which members cooperate in observ- 

 ing this request. A copy of the abstract shoiild 

 be retained by the member and handed to the 

 secretary of the special division before which 

 the paper is to be presented in Boston or, bet- 

 ter, sent in advance of the meeting to E. W. 

 ISTeff, 22 India Square, Boston, Mass. Short 

 abstracts will be printed in Science. 



The final program will be sent to all mem- 

 bers signifying their intention of attending the 

 meeting, to the secretaries of sections, to the 

 council, and to all members making special re- 

 quest therefor. 



Charles L. Parsons, 



Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Peofessoe Lionel S. Marks, head of the 

 combined departments of mechanical engineer- 

 ing of Harvard University and the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, has been ap- 

 pointed to take charge of investigations re- 

 lating to airplane engine design being con- 

 ducted by the national advisory committee for 

 aeronautics at the Bureau of Standards. 



Professor William D. Hued, director of the 

 extension service of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, has been called to Washing- 

 ton to act as assistant to the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture. 



A COMMITTEE On industrial fatigue has been 

 organized under the advisory commission of 

 the Council of National Defense with the fol- 

 lowing membership: Dr. Thomas Darlington, 

 New York, chairman; Professor Frederic S. 

 Lee, Columbia University, executive secre- 

 tary; Professor Robert E. Chaddock, Colum- 

 bia University; Professor Eaymond Dodge, 

 Wesleyan University; Dr. David L. Edsall, 

 Harvard Medical School; Mr. P. Sargant 

 Florence, Columbia University; Miss Jo- 

 sephine Goldmark, National Consumers 



