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Tuesday, April 10 

 6.30 P.M. Dinner to the council at the University 



Club (tendered by the Kansas City Section). 

 8.15 P.M. Council meeting. Assembly room, Hotel 

 Muehlebach. 



Wednesday, April 11 

 10 A.M. General meeting of the society in the 

 Hotel Muehlebach. 

 Addresses of Welcome. 



Hon. George H. Edwards, mayor of Kansas 



City; 

 Dr. Frank Strong, chancellor of the University 

 of Kansas. 

 Eesponse : 



Julius Stieglitz, president American Chemical 

 Society. 

 General Papers: 



"The Economic Resources of the Kansas City 

 Zone. ' ' Arthur J. Boynton. 

 2 P.M. Public Session. Hotel Muehlebach. 



"Petroleum and Natural Gas." Dr. H. P. 

 Cady, chairman. 

 8 P.M. Smoker. Hotel Muehlebach. 



All sessions and division meetings of the society 

 will be held, as far as possible, in the Hotel 

 Muehlebach, on the mezzanine floor. 



Tuesday night, April 10. Council dinner and 

 meeting. 



Wednesday morning, April 11. Opening session. 

 Wednesday afternoon, April 11. Public session. 

 "Petroleum and Natural Gas." 



Wednesday night, April 11. Smoker. 

 Thursday morning, April 12. Division meetings. 

 Thursday afternoon, April 12. Division meetings. 

 Thursday night, April 12. Banquet. 

 Friday morning, April 13. Division meetings. 

 Friday afternoon, April 13. Excursions. 

 Friday night, April 13. Open. 

 Saturday morning, April 14. Excursions. 



The following are tlie addresses of the divi- 

 sional secretaries : 



Agricultural and Food Chemistry: Glen F. Mason, 

 H. J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Biological Chemistry: I. K. Phelps, Bureau of 

 Chemistry, Washington, D. C. 



Fertilizer Chemistry: F. B. Carpenter, Virginia- 

 Carolina Chemical Co., Richmond, Va. 



Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers: S. 

 H. Salisbury, Jr., Northampton, Pa. 



Organic Chemistry: H. L. Fisher, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City. 



Pharmaceutical Chemistry: George D. Beal, Chem- 

 istry Building, University of Illinois, Urbana, 

 111. 



Physical and Inorganic Chemistry: Earl V. Mil- 

 lard, Institute of Technology, Boston, Mass. 



Water, Sewage and Sanitation: H. P. Corson, U. S. 

 Public Health Service, Grove City, Pa. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The following fifteen candidates have been 

 selected by the council of the Eoyal Society 

 to be recommended for eleotion into the soci- 

 ety: Dr. J. H. Ashworth, Mr. L. Bairstow, 

 Professor G. A. J. Cole, Mr. C. F. Cross, Dr. 

 H. D. Dakin, Professor A. S. Eve, Professor 

 H. Jackson, Professor J. S. Macdonald, Pro- 

 fessor J. W. Nicholson, Dr. E. H. Pickard, 

 Mr. C. T. Eegan, Dr. E. Eobertson, Dr. E. J. 

 Eussell, Mr. S. G. Shattock and Professor 

 F. E. Weiss. 



The membership of the Botanical Commit- 

 tee of the !N"ational Eesearch Council has just 

 been completed, as follows : From the National 

 Academy, J. M. Coulter (chairman), D. H. 

 Campbell, E. A. Harper; from the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 (Committee of One Hundred), George T. 

 Moore, B. E. Livingston, L. E. Jones; from 

 the Botanical Society of America, Erwin F. 

 Smith, Edward M. East and H. H. Bartlett. 



At the request of the National Eesearch 

 Council there has been appointed at the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York a research com- 

 mittee, consisting of Professor Charles Basker- 

 ville, chairman; Professors T. A. Storey, F. G. 

 Eeynolds, Geo. G. Scott, J. G. Coffin, F. E. 

 Breithut and A. N. Goldsmith. 



The Adams prize at Cambridge has been 

 awarded to Mr. J. H. Jeans, M.A., sometime 

 fellow of Trinity, for an essay on " Some 

 Problems of Cosmogony and Stellar Dy- 

 namics." No election has been made to the 

 Isaac Newton Studentship. 



Mr. John W. Titcomb, fish and game com- 

 missioner of Vermont, has been appointed 

 by the conservation commission fish culturist 

 for the state of New York, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Dr. Tarleton H. Bean. 



Professor A. A. Benedict has been ap- 

 pointed associate professor in physics in the 

 University of South Carolina, filling the va- 



