November 16, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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The secretary is authorized to arrange for 

 the payment of transportation charges on new 

 apparatus for research, useful charts and 

 demonstration devices which the members may 

 be willing to display. The consignments 

 should be shipped to Dr. J. B. Miner, division 

 of applied psychology, Carnegie Institute of 

 Technology. A convenient room for exliibit- 

 ing apparatus will be provided. Members, 

 however, should supervise the setting up of 

 their apparatus and the re-packing of it, so as 

 to relieve the local committee from responsi- 

 bility for possible injury. There will be also 

 an opportunity to exhibit mental and educa- 

 tional tests, with charts or tables of results 

 and directions for giving each test. These 

 will be placed with the apparatus exhibit. 

 H. S. Langfeld, 



Secretary. 



Hakvabd TJniveksitt 



the section of education of the amer- 

 ican association for the advance- 

 ment of science 



Section L of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science will hold its 

 annual meeting at Pittsburgh, on December 

 29 and 31, and January 1. 



The general subject of the program is the 

 scientific study of educational problems. Any 

 paper dealing with a topic of this character 

 will be acceptable. This year the section will 

 be particularly glad to receive papers dealing 

 with 



1. Studies of the Reliability of Educational or 

 Mental Tests. 



2. Correlations between Educational Abilities. 



3. New Tests for the Measurement of Educa- 

 tional Products. 



4. Studies of the Eelative Efficiency of Different 

 Methods of Teaching. 



5. Scientific Determinations of Desirable Con- 

 tent for Courses in Study. 



6. Studies of the Diagnosis and Remedy of Edu- 

 cational Defects. 



Membership in the Section is open to all 

 interested in education, and the sectional com- 

 mittee will be glad to consider an3' papers 

 submitted. Tou are hereby invited to take 

 part in the meetings of the Section, or, if you 



are imable to contribute a paper yourself, to 

 aid in the work of the section by bringing this 

 invitation to the attention of any person 

 known to you to be attempting the scientific 

 evaluation of the effects of any educational 

 experiments in which they may be engaged. 



All titles should be sent to the secj-etary by 

 November 24, before if possible. 



S. A. Courtis, 

 Secretary Section L 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A MEMORIAL meeting for Professor Wm. Bul- 

 lock Clark was held at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity on the Sunday afternoon of November 

 4, President Prank J. Goodnow presiding. The 

 speakers were Dr. Charles D. Walcott, the sec- 

 retary of the Smithsonian Institution; Mr. E. 

 Brent Keyser, the president of the board of 

 trustees of the university; Professors Harry 

 Fielding Eeid and J. S. Ames, of the faculty, 

 and Judge J. T. C. Williams, of the Baltimore 

 Juvenile Court. 



Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, now of the food administration 

 at Washington, is a member of the American 

 Commission to the Allied War Conference to 

 be held in Paris on November 15. 



Professor A. O. Leuschner, director of the 

 astronomical department of the University of 

 California, at Berkeley, has been delegated by 

 the director of instruction in the navigation 

 schools of the United States Shipping Board, 

 to administer the details of instruction on the 

 Pacific coast and in particular to provide 

 qualified instructors. 



Dr. F. B. Bjngsbury, assistant professor of 

 physiological chemistry in the University of 

 Minnesota, has been granted leave of absence 

 for the duration of the war. He has been 

 commissioned first lieutenant in the sanitary 

 corps of the Army and will be directly under 

 Major John R. Murlin, of the Food Division. 

 His work at first will be in the army medical 

 school, in preparation for the nutritional sur- 

 vey of the army camps and cantonments here 

 and at the front. 



Dr. Alexander Hamilton Eice, the explorer, 

 has been commissioned senior lieutenant in the 



