May 23, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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DUEAND, professor of mechanical engineering, 



Stanford University. 

 The Early Training of the Soientific Expert: De. 



E. W. Bailey, supervisor of science, University 



School, Oakland. 

 The Relation of the Engineer to Scientific Investi- 

 gation and to the General Puhlic: De. J. A. L. 



Waddell, consulting engineer, Kansas City, 



Missouri. 

 Must Learning Be Mediocre in a Democracy? De. 



E. C. MooEE, president, State Normal School, 



Los Angeles. 



Friday evening:, June 20, a public address 

 wiU be given in the Palm Eoom of the Hotel 

 Maryland by Dr. S. D. Townley, professor of 

 applied mathematics, Stanford University, the 

 subject being " Earthquakes on the Pacific 

 Coast of North America." 



MEETINGS OF AFFILIATED SOCIETIES 



Pollowing are annoimcements of the va- 

 rious societies which will meet under the 

 auspices of the Pacific Division: 



ASTBONOUICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACinC 



Beverly L. Hodghead, president, 1715 Euclid Ave., 



Berkeley. 

 E. T. Aitken, first vice-president. Lick Observatory, 



Mount Hamilton. 

 Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, second vice-president, 



1106a Valencia St., San Francisco. 

 D. S. Richardson, secretary-treasurer, University 



of California, Berkeley. 



The Astronomical Society of the Pacific 

 plans to hold two sessions for the discussion 

 of scientific papers. The first, from 10 a.m. 

 to 12 Ji., June 19, at Throop College; the sec- 

 ond from 9.30 a.m. to 12 M., Friday, June 

 20, also at Throop College. Papers of partic- 

 ular interest to physicists will be discussed 

 at the meeting on Friday morning, and mem- 

 bers of the American Physical Society are 

 especially invited to be present. The Amer- 

 ican Astronomical Society has been invited to 

 meet with the Astronomical Society' of the 

 Pacific. If the invitation be accepted, prob- 

 ably the only change in the above program 

 would be an extra session on Friday afternoon 

 for scientific discussions. It is expected that 

 a number of papers from the Pacific Coast 



observatories will be presented. Astronomers 

 from the Lowell Observatory, the Dominion 

 Astrophysical Observatory, Pomona College, 

 and Mount Wilson have signified their in- 

 tention of attending these meetings. 



AMEBICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY 



J. S. Ames, president, Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore. 



D. C. Miller, secretary. Case Scientific School, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



E. P. Lewis, local secretary, University of Cali- 

 fornia, Berkeley. 



The American Physical Society will hold a 

 meeting Thursday morning, June 19, at 

 Throop College. On Saturday the ofl5e«s and 

 laboratories of the Mount Wilson Observatory 

 in Pasadena will be open to visitors, and there 

 will be an excursion, open to all members of 

 the society, to the observatory on Mount 

 Wilson. 



CALIFORNIA SECTION, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



L. H. Duschak, president. University of California. 

 Robert E. Swain, acting president, 638 Channing 



Ave., Palo Alto. 

 Bryant S. Drake, secretary-treasurer, 5830 Colby 



St., Oakland. 

 J. Pearce Mitchell, John S. Blowski, William C. 



Bray, councilors. 



The meeting of the California Section of 

 the American Chemical Society will be held 

 Saturday evening, June 21, in conjimction 

 with the Southern California section of the 

 American Chemical Society. 



COOPER ORNITHOLOGICAL CLl'B 



Northern Division 



Barton W. Evermann, president, California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, San Francisco, Calif. 



Jules Labarthe, vice-president, 2715 Steiner St., 

 San Fancisco, Calif. 



Mrs. James T. Allen, secretary, 37 Mosswood Road, 

 Berkeley, Calif. 



Southern Division 



Loye Holmes Miller, president, State Normal 

 School Los Angeles, Calif . 



Howard Robertson, vice-president, Hosfield Build- 

 ing, Los Angeles, Calif. 



