June 4, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



817 



convenient means of announcing and circu- 

 lating the chief results of research, I should 

 perhaps add a word to those who have not yet 

 contributed to their pages. Papers are ac- 

 cepted solely on their merits, from non-mem- 

 bers as well as from members of the Academy. 

 To facilitate the work of the editors, it is re- 

 quired that papers by non-members be trans- 

 mitted to the managing editor by a member, 

 but neither the manner of printing nor the se- 

 quence of the papers in the Proceedings is 

 affected by this fact. Further information 

 may be obtained from Professor A. A. Noyes, 

 chairman of the board of editors, Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, Boston. 



George Ellery Hale 



TEJE SEATTLE MEETING OF TEE AMEBI- 

 CAN C3EMICAL SOCIETY 



The vote recently received at the secretary's 

 office being overwhelmingly in favor of the 

 Great Northern Eailroad, which stops at 

 Glacier National Park, arrangements have been 

 made with this road for the party to leave 

 Chicago at 5 :05 p.m. Thursday, August 26. 

 One and one half days will be spent at Glacier 

 National Park, and Seattle will be reached at 

 6 P.M. August 30. August 31, September 1 

 and 2 will be spent at Seattle, and on the even- 

 ing of September 2 the party will take a special 

 train to Mt. Ranier National Park, where they 

 will remain on Friday, September 3, leaving 

 there that evening and arriving at Portland the 

 following morning; spending the day in Port- 

 land as the guests of the Oregon Section ; leav- 

 ing Portland Saturday night, passing through 

 the Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen region on Sun- 

 day and arriving in San Francisco Sunday 

 evening. At San Francisco the party wiU 

 break up, returning via any route they choose. 



The round-trip rates from Chicago are $80. 

 The sleeping car rates from Chicago to San 

 Francisco by the route of the special train are 

 a§ foUows: Lower berth, $22.50; upper berth, 

 $18.00; compartment, $63.00; drawing room, 

 $80.00. 



There wiU be an additional Pullman charge 

 to Mt. Ranier National Park, which will, how- 

 ever, be little if any more than hotel accommo- 

 dations should the party remain in Seattle. 



There may be also a small additional Pullman 

 charge for holding the train at Glacier and 

 Portland. There will be a charge of $12.50 for 

 114 miles of automobile trip and 20 miles of 

 launch trip in Glacier National Park, and 

 $5.00 for the side trip through Tacoma to Mt. 

 Eanier National Park. The hotel rates in 

 Glacier National Park are from $3.00 to $5.00 

 per day on the American plan. Those who 

 wish may spend the night at " Many Glacier 

 Camp " instead of at " Going-to-the-Sun 

 Camp " on the night of August 29, which will 

 give them plenty of time to take a side trip to 

 the wonderful Iceberg Lake on the morning 

 of the 29th. 



As the Great Northern passes the very gates 

 of Glacier National Park, a trip through the 

 park is a very simple matter. The tremendous 

 mountain land of Glacier National Park sits 

 high up in the Rocky Mountains of north- 

 western Montana and stretches to the Cana- 

 dian border. The park is of 1,525 square miles 

 extent, with a veritable army of magnificent 

 peaks rising from 8,000 to 10,000 feet, with 

 their bases thickly timbered and their lime- 

 stone crests painted in many colors — reds, 

 browns, blues and purples. On the tops of 

 these mountains are 20 glaciers every bit as 

 inspiring as those ice fields which Americans 

 have been crossing to Switzerland to see; of 

 these the great Blaekfeet Glacier has an area 

 of five miles. There are more than 250 glacier- 

 fed blue mountain lakes. So well have the 

 most important sections of the park been 

 linked by government auto stage roads that it 

 is now possible to see within a short time what 

 formerly required weeks to visit. 



So much has been written about the wonders 

 of Mt. Ranier National Park that there is 

 little need to add detail here. The following 

 quotation from the Travelers Magazine will 

 be sufficient: "Read as much about it as you 

 will, see it pictured a thousand times, and be- 

 lieve all the tales you hear of it, and on going 

 there you wiU find that it has been underrated. 

 It is hard to believe when you see it. Mt. 

 Ranier is the highest mountain in the United 

 States and has a glacial system greater than 

 that of the whole Swiss Alps. The National 



