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apparent especially in chemical laboratories, 

 drug stores, manufacturing and other estab- 

 lishments where liquids and various solutions 

 are in constant use. In transferring corrosive 

 poisons or valuable liquids it obviates liability 

 to accident or waste. It should also have a 

 wide application in the filling and emptying 

 of all sizes of storage-battery jars. It is at 

 present being used for siphoning beer from 

 kegs and wine from barrels. When a solution 

 is to be kept " on tap " for instant use a stop- 

 cock may be provided. These siphons in addi- 

 tion to glass are being made of brass, copper, 

 zinc, lead, iron, hard rubber, etc. 



When the self-starting attachment is sealed 

 to a straight tube ending in a capillary, a very 

 efficient intermittent Hero's Fountain is ob- 

 tained, as shown in Fig. 2. 



Application for patent rights has been made 

 in the name of the inventor, Gustavus A. 

 Storm, but all rights, title and interest in the 

 same has been assigned to the Standard Scien- 

 tific Company of New York. 



P. B. Perkins 



Brown Univeesitt 



THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL 

 SOCIETY 



At the annual general meeting of the society 

 held in Philadelphia from April 13 to 15, the ad- 

 dress of welcome was made by the President, Dr. 

 W. W. Keen, who, with Yiee-presidents W. B. Scott, 

 George E. Hale and Albert A. Michelson, pre- 

 sided. This meeting is a notable event among 

 scholars and over forty papers were presented in 

 the sciences and in the humanities. The national 

 crisis also received some attention, Dr. M. T. 

 Bogert, of Columbia University, outlining the work 

 chemists may do to aid the National Eesearch 

 Council in the solution of certain war problems. 

 Proper insignia to identify "members of the in- 

 dustrial army ' ' so they may not be called slackers 

 was urged. Attention was called to England's 

 sad mistake in permitting general enlistment for 

 "the front" when in many cases men with special 

 ability could have been of so much more value 

 using their brains in the laboratory. A well- 

 trained industrial army is just as important as 

 the army of fighters. The program with a number 

 of abstracts follows. 



APRIL 12 



WiUiam W. Keen, M.D., LL.D., President, in the 

 chair 



The trial of animals — a little Tcnown chapter of 

 medieval jurisprudence: Hampton L. Carson, 

 LL.D., Philadelphia. 



Medieval sermon-hooTcs and stories and their study 

 since 1S8S: Thomas Frederick Crane, Ph.D., 

 Litt.D., professor emeritus of the Romance lan- 

 guages and literature, Cornell University. 



Some recent acquisitions to the Yale collection: 

 Albekt T. Clay, LL.D., professor of Assyriol- 

 ogy and Babylonian literature. Tale University. 



Vision as a physical process: Herbert E. Ives, 

 Philadelphia. (Introduced by Dr. A. W. Good- 

 speed.) 



The diagnostic method of training intelligence : an 

 education for the fortunate few: Lightneb 

 "Wither, Ph.D., director of the Laboratory of 

 Psychology, University of Pennsylvania. 



Eistorical notes on "the armament of Igor": J. 

 Dyneley Prince, Ph.D., professor of Slavonic 

 languages, Columbia University. 



A new translation of tlie JBehrew Bible: Cyrus 

 Abler, Ph.D., president of Dropsie College for 

 Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Philadelphia. 



