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gether with a number of shorter scientific com- 

 munications. 



This invitation has been sent to those whose 

 names are given in the accompanying list : 



America (United States) : L. M. Dennis, M. 

 Gomberg, F. G. Keyes, G. N. Lewis, "W. A. 

 Noyes, Th. W. Eichards, J. Stieglitz, E. W. Wash- 

 burn, W. E. "Whitney. 



Czecho-Slovakia : J. V. Dubsky, A. Simek. 



Denmark: E. Biilmann, N. Bjerrum, J. N. 

 Bronsted, J. Petersen, S. P. L. Sorensen, Chr. 

 Winther. 



Germany: M. Bodenstein, G. Bredig, F. 

 Foster, 0. Hahn, A. Hantseh, P. Pfeiffer, E. 

 Pschorr, E. Schenek, Sehlenek, A. Stock, A. Wohl, 

 H. Wieland. 



France: M. de Broglie, Mme. P. Curie, Darzens, 

 A. Debierne, V. Grignard, Victor Henri, P. 

 Langevin, Ch. Marie, C. Matignon, Ch. Moureau, 

 J. Perrin, G. Urbain. 



Great Britain : A. J. AUmand, E. C. Baly, F. G. 

 Donnan, A. Findlay, H. Hartley, W. C. McC. 

 Lewis, F. A. Lindemann, J. W. McBain, W. H. 

 Perkin, N. Sidgwiek, F. Soddy, J. "Walker. 



Italy: A. Angeli, G. Bruni, L. Cambi, A. Mio- 

 lati, M. Padoa, N. Parravano, G. Plancher, G. 

 Poma. 



Holland: H. J. Backer, J. J. Blanksma, J. 

 Boeseken, Ernst Cohen, A. F. Holleman, F. M. 

 Jaeger, H. E. Kruyt, W. Eeiuders, P. van Eom- 

 burgh, P. A. H. Schreinemakers. 



Norway: H. Goldschmidt. 



Austria: E. Abel, J. Biliter, F. Emich, A. 

 Kailan, E. Kremauu, A. Klemenc, W. Pauli, F. 

 Pregl, A. Skrabal, E. Wegseheider. 



Russia: M. Centnerschwer, W. Ipatiew, N. 

 Kurnakow, Lasarew, Schiloff, L. Tsoitschibabin, 

 L. Tsugajew, P. Walden, N. Zelinsky. 



Switzerland: E. Baur, P. Dutoit, Ph. A. Guye, 

 P. Fichter, J. Pieard, W. D. Treadwell. 



Sweden: S. Arrhenius, S. Oden, The. Svedberg. 



Professor W. A. Noyes is acting as chaii-man 

 of the committee to select American members 

 of the conference, the other members being 

 Professor Stieglitz, Professor Lewis and Dr. 

 "Whitney. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the annual meeting of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences to be held at "Washington from 

 April 23 to 26, Dr. Hendrik Anton Lorentz, of 

 the Rijks Universiteit, Leiden, will deliver the 

 evening address on April 24, at the invitation 



of the Academy and of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington. 



The general meeting of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society vnll be held in Philadelphia 

 on April 20, 21 and 22. At the reception on 

 Friday evening. Dr. "V^ernon Kellogg, of the 

 National Research Council, will speak on "The 

 Power and Impotence of Man." 



Professor Albert Einstein, of the Univer- 

 sity of Berlin, delivered the first of a series of 

 four lectures in Paris on the "Theory of Rela- 

 tivity," under the auspices of the College de 

 France. 



Professor A. C. Sevstaed, professor of bot- 

 any at the University of Cambridge, was elected 

 president of the Greological Society of London 

 at the annual general meeting. 



Dr. E. B. Poulton, Hope professor of zo- 

 ology at the Univei-sity of Oxford, was elected 

 president of the British Association of Econo- 

 mic Entomologists at the annual meeting, held 

 on Febniai-y 24. 



Dr. B. H. Ransom, chief of the zoological 

 division of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been 

 elected a foreign coiTespondiog memljer of the 

 Royal Academy of Agriculture of Turin, Italy. 



Professor Herbert M. Botlston, of the 

 Department of Metallurgy and Mining at 

 the Case School of Applied Science, has been 

 appointed on the Board of the Engineering 

 Foundation for a term of three years as repre- 

 sentative of the American Institute of Mining 

 and Metallurgical Engineers. 



S. M. Kintee has been appointed manager 

 of the research department of the "Westinghonse 

 Eleotric and Manufacturing Company, succeed- 

 ing C. E. Skinner, who has been appointed as- 

 sistant director of engineering in the same 

 company. 



Colonel James Milliken has been elected 

 president of the Pittsbm'gh Testing Laboratory 

 succeeding George H. Clapp, who remains with 

 the organization as a member of the board of 

 directors. 



Dr. Bertrand E. Roberts has been appoint- 

 ed epidemiologist of the State Department of 



