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SCIENCE 



[N. S. YOL. XLI. No. 1064 



The papers to be presented before the con- 

 gress will cover the general field of engineering 

 and will be published in ten volumes. 



The papers in general are intended to treat 

 the various topics in a broad and comprehen- 

 sive manner and with special reference to the 

 important lines of progress during the past de- 

 cade, the present most approved practises and 

 the lines of present and future development. 



The general fee for membership in the con- 

 gress is $5, which will entitle the member to 

 receive the index volume and any single vol- 

 ume of the transactions he may select, together 

 with the right of participation in all the gen- 

 eral activities and privileges of the congress. 

 The committee of management must know at 

 the earliest practicable date the number of 

 members in the congress. Effective plans in 

 regard to the publication of the transactions, 

 as well as all arrangements looking toward the 

 proper ordering of local affairs during the 

 week of the congress, require this information. 



It is expected that there will be arranged a 

 number of excursions to points of engineering 

 and general interest within practicable reach 

 of San Francisco, and every effort will be made 

 to enable visiting engineers to inspect person- 

 ally such engineering works as are especially 

 typical of engineering on the Pacific Coast. 

 Further information of general interest and 

 importance regarding the congress will be 

 given publicity through the technical press, 

 and to all subscribers notice will be sent con- 

 taining more complete information as to 

 papers, sessions of the congress, excursions, 

 travel routes and itineraries, hotel rates and 

 accommodations, and other matters of impor- 

 tance. 



Mr. W. F. Durand is chairman and Mr. W. 

 A. Cattell is secretary of the committee of 

 management, the address of which is Foxcroft 

 Building, San Francisco. 



EDITH JANE CLATPOLE 

 The following minute in memory of Dr. 

 Edith J. Claypole, who died in March, as a 

 result of infection incurred in the preparation 

 of typhoid vaccine for the armies of Europe, 

 has been adopted by the Science Club of 



Wellesley College. It has also been embodied 

 in the minutes of the Academic Council: 



The Science Club of Wellesley College records its 

 sense of loss in the death of Edith Jane Claypole, 

 a charter member of the club, its first secretary, 

 and active both in its foundation and in its early 

 conduct. Descended from a father who was him- 

 self a distinguished man of science, and receiving 

 her early education at home, she was by inherit- 

 ance and training exceptionally fitted for the line 

 of work to which she chose to devote her life. She 

 early exhibited unusual capacity for research; in 

 the field of cell-studies and pathology her many 

 papers are evidence of her power of achievement. 

 As a teacher she opened the eyes of her students 

 to the beauty and significance of living things, re- 

 vealed to them the method of science, and inspired 

 them with the high nobility of its aims. Mem- 

 bers of other departments recognized the open- 

 mindedness and appreciation that marked her atti- 

 tude toward all branches of scientific activity. As 

 a physician she early became interested in preven- 

 tive medicine, and to its advance she devoted her- 

 self without reserve. Through her researches in 

 pathology, particularly in certain obscure eases of 

 infection and in typhoid immunization, she won 

 distinction, and in the application of these re- 

 searches to the needs of humanity, she has now 

 crowned her service with the gift of her life. Her 

 charm of manner and winsomeness of spirit, with 

 a strong and wholesome nature, quick and tender 

 in its response to the needs of others, and her un- 

 failing steadfastness in friendship, endeared her 

 to large circles. We, the members of the Science 

 Club, express our sadness in the loss of a comrade, 

 and our appreciation of her service to science and 

 to humanity. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Civic Forum Medal of Honor awarded 

 annually for " distinguished public service " 

 has been presented to Mr. Thomas A. Edison. 



Dr. Abeaham Jacobi was the guest of honor 

 at a dinner in the Hotel Astor given by the 

 physicians and officers of the Bronx Hospital 

 on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday. 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, held on May 

 12, at its house, 28 Newbury Street, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected : 



President, Henry P. Walcott; Vice-presidents, 

 Elihu Thomson, William M. Davis, A. Lawrence 



