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from each of the committees as a basis for in- 

 struction to the American delegates. 



Befobe the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington on January 14, an address was given 

 by the retii'ing president, R. L. Faris, on 

 "Some problems of the sea." 



De. Edgae r. Smith, president of the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society, addressed the Rochester 

 section of the society, December 19, on "A 

 Glance at Early Organic Chemistry." 



Ralph H. McKee, professor of Chemical 

 Engineering at Columbia University, spoke be- 

 fore the Franklin Institute, January 12, on 

 "Gasoline from Oil Shale." 



Mk. Joseph Baeceoft, F. R. S., fellow of 

 King's College, Cambridge, will deliver the sixth 

 Harvey Society lecture at the New York Aca- 

 demy of Medicine on February 11, at 8:30. 

 His subject will be "The raison d'etre of the 

 red corpuscle." 



De. Campbell P. Howaed, professor of 

 medicine at the University of Iowa, gave a 

 .Mayo Foundation Lecture on December 30, 

 his subject being "Personal Reminiscences of 

 Sir William Osier." 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation reports that Professor GafEky, who for 

 many years was the director of the Berlin In- 

 stitute for Infectious Diseases, has been 

 honored with a monument erected over his 

 grave in Hanover, his native city, by his pupils 

 and friends. 



As has already been reported in Science, 

 plans are under way in France for the celebra- 

 tion of Pasteur's centenary in 1923. The cele- 

 bration will chiefly consist in an international 

 exhibition of hygiene and bacteriology which 

 will be held from May 1 to October 31, 1923, at 

 Strasbourg where Pasteur began his epoch- 

 making researches. A monument to Pastern- 

 will be unveiled at the same time. The celebra- 

 tions are in charge of the University and City 

 of Strasbourg, the Pasteur Institute of Paris 

 and the Pasteur famUy. 



De. William Feeae, since 1887 agricultural 



chemist at the Pennsylvania Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, died suddenly of heart 

 trouble at his home in State College, Pa., at 

 the age of sixty-two years. 



De. Joseph MacDonald, Je., founder and 

 managing editor of the American Journal of 

 Surgery, died suddenly of apoplexy on Janu- 

 ary 7, at his home in East Orange, N. J., at 

 the age of fifty-two years. 



Many libraries doubtless contain duplicates 

 of astronomical periodicals and books that are 

 needed in other institutions. For the purpose 

 of facilitating their purchase, exchange or gift, 

 the National Research Council contemplates 

 the compilation of a list of all duplicates that 

 can be spared. This list will be mimeographed 

 and widely distributed. Those who have dupli- 

 cates to dispose of are asked to send a list of 

 them to the National Research Council, Divi- 

 sion of Physical Sciences, 1701 Massachusetts 

 Avenue, Washington, D. C. It is desirable, 

 but not essential, that it be indicated which of 

 these will be sold, which exchanged, and which 

 donated. A copy of the complete list wUl be 

 sent on request. 



These has recently been issued "A list of 

 seismologic stations of the world" as Vol. 2, 

 No. 15, of the Bulletin of the National Re- 

 search Council (U. S. A.). It was compiled 

 under the auspices of the Section of Seismo- 

 logy of the American Geophysical Union with 

 the cooperation and assistance of the Research 

 Information Service of the National Research 

 Council. This list is incomplete, owing to con- 

 ditions prevailing generally after the world 

 war. It is desired to correct and complete the 

 information in the files of the Research In- 

 formation Service in preparation for a revised 

 edition of the publication. To that end, a 

 fui'ther, revised questionnaire is being distribu- 

 ted with the printed list. Extra copies of the 

 questionnaire are available and will be freely 

 sent to all who have additional information to 

 contribute. It is requested that every one who 

 notes errors or omissions in the "List" as 

 issued bring these to the attention of the Sec- 

 tion of Seismology of the American Geophysi- 



