210 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLV. No. 1157 



statements of the opportunities for research in 

 various lines, written by men who have worked 

 there, may be found in Science, Vol. 43, 

 p. 917, 1916. (See also Popular Science 

 Monthly, January, 1915.) 



Any American investigator may be granted 

 the use of the Cinchona Station by the Cin- 

 chona Committee, which consists of N. I.. 

 Britton, John M. Coulter and Duncan S. 

 Johnson. Applications for this privilege and 

 for information regarding the conditions under 

 which it is granted should be sent to Duncan 

 S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, Md. 



THE COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE 



The Council of IvTational Defense and its 

 advisory commission, composed of civilians, 

 have decided to appoint seven committees to 

 further develop the program for the mobiliza- 

 tion of the resources of the country. They 

 have issued the following statement: 



The program of tte council and commission has 

 for its object the provision of an adequate mili- 

 tary and naval defense based on an adequate in- 

 dustrial and commercial coordination and prepa- 

 ration. To attain this end, a definite, immediate 

 and continuing program is being worked out. 



The commission has divided into committees. A 

 member of the commission is the chairman of each 

 of the committees. Committees have been formed 

 to take charge of the following subjects, and other 

 committees will be formed as they may be needed. 



A. Medicine, including general sanitation, Com- 

 missioner Franklin H. Martin, chairman. 



B. Labor, including conservation of health and 

 welfare of workers, Commissioner Samuel Gompers, 

 chairman. 



C. Transportation and communication, Commis- 

 sioner Daniel Willard, chairman. 



D. Science and research, including engineering 

 and education, Commissioner Hollis Godfrey, chair- 

 man. 



E. Eaw materials, minerals and metals. Com- 

 missioner Bernard Baruch, chairman. 



F. Munitions, manufacturing, including stand- 

 ardization and industrial relations. Commissioner 

 Howard Cofiin, chairman. 



G. Sufiplies, including food, clothing, etc.. Com- 

 missioner Julius Eosenwald, chairman. 



The chairman of each committee will call a series 

 of conferences with representatives of, trades, busi- 



nesses or professions. At such conferences the rep- 

 resentatives shall be asked to organize so as to deal 

 with the council through one man or through a 

 committee of not more than three men, to whom 

 the council shall submit problems which may af- 

 fect the national defense and welfare. 



One or more members of the council will meet 

 the conferees and set forth the desires of the gov- 

 ernment and its needs. To quote the words of the 

 enabling act, these needs are ' ' the creation of re- 

 lations which will render possible in time of need 

 the immediate concentration and utilization of the 

 resources of the nation. ' ' 



The chairmen were authorized to select com- 

 mitteemen from either government or civil life. 



THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL 

 ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The annual meeting of the ISTational Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held at the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in Washington on April 16, 

 17 and 18, 1917. 



By direction of the council and of the pro- 

 gram committee, members are invited to pre- 

 sent brief announcements, not exceeding ten 

 minutes in length, of new discoveries and of 

 the results of current research work, some- 

 what similar in scope and character to the 

 announcements regularly made in the Pro- 

 ceedings. Titles, accompanied by an abstract 

 of 100 or 200 words, should be sent to the 

 chairman of the program committee, Professor 

 B. B. Boltwood, Tale University, New Haven, 

 Conn., not later than March 30, in order to 

 be included in the program to be printed in 

 Science. Titles which reach the chairman 

 later than March 30 will be assigned a place 

 by the program committee so far as time per- 

 mits. About one third of the scientific pro- 

 gram has been reserved for these announce- 

 ments; the remainder will be arranged by the 

 program committee. The sessions will be held 

 as follows: 



Monday, April 16 



9.30 A.M. Business session, TJ. S. National Mu- 

 seum. 



10.30 A.M. Scientific session (open to the pub- 

 lic), XJ. S. National Museum. 



2.30 P.M. Scientific session (open to the pub- 

 lic), XJ. S. National Museum. 



4.00 P.M. First William Ellery Hale Lecture, 



