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Park has an area of somewhat more than 200,- 

 000 acres. How bald and uninspiring are sta- 

 tistics ! Let it be said, rather, that this is the 

 most beautiful place in the world." 



Interesting, illustrated literature may be ob- 

 tained describing Glacier National Park from 

 H. A. Noble, general passenger agent. Great 

 Northern Eailway, St. Paul, Minn., and of Mt. 

 Eanier National Park from the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & St. Paul Railway, Chicago, 111., and 

 Seattle, Washington. The following beauti- 

 fully illustrated publications m.ay be obtained 

 from the superintendent of documents, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, for the price noted: 

 Some Lakes of Glacier National Park, 10 



cents. 

 Glaciers of Glacier National Park, 15 cents. 

 Origin of the Scenery Features of the Glacier 



National Park, 15 cents. 

 Glacier National Park, with map (Bulletin 



600 F. S. Geological Survey), 30 cents. 

 Mt. Eanier and Its Glaciers, 15 cents. 



It is of the utmost importance for the suc- 

 cess of this trip that the secretary be informed 

 at the earliest possible moment of the intention 

 of those intending to be present, the accommo- 

 dations needed and the number of tickets re- 

 quired. In this connection it should be noted 

 that in purchasing tickets free side-trip tick- 

 ets to the San Diego Exposition from Los 

 Angeles; to Colorado Springs from Denver; 

 to Salt Lalte City from Ogden, may be had, 

 by any member of the party returning through 

 these cities if the request for this side trip is 

 made at the time ticket is purchased. 



Members of other scientific societies and 

 friends recommended by members of the soci- 

 ety will be gladly received on the special train. 



Chas. L. Parsons, 



Secretary 

 Washington, D. C, 

 Box 505 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 A BANQUET in honor of Dr. William T. 

 Councilman, professor of pathology in the 

 Harvard Medical School and formerly of the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School, was given in 

 Baltimore, on May 13, by his colleagues and 



former students. At the banquet a portrait of 

 Professor Councilman was presented to him. 



Professor E. Newstead, of the Liverpool 

 School of Tropical Medicine, is in France, 

 prosecuting entomological investigations from 

 the point of view of military sanitation. 



Professor Vernon L. Kellogg, of Stanford 

 University, sailed for Liverpool on May 29 to 

 join the commission for relief in Belgium. He 

 will spend the summer in volunteer work for 

 the commission. 



Dr. Frank G. Speck, of the department of 

 anthropology of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, is on a leave of absence for his sum- 

 mer's work in the field. He will spend a large 

 part of the summer among the Montagnais 

 and Mistassini Indians, who are tribes of 

 southern Labrador, for the purpose of com- 

 pleting his collection of tests in the native 

 languages of three tribes. 



Dr. John Ulric Nef, professor of chemis- 

 try and head of the department at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, delivered a lecture on May 

 21 before the Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary 

 chemical society of the university. His sub- 

 ject was " The Chemistry of Enzyme Action." 



Dr. Eichard M. Pearce, professor of re- 

 search medicine at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, addressed on May 21 the Academy of 

 Medicine of Cleveland, his subject being " The 

 Eelation of the Spleen to Blood Destruction 

 and Eegeneration and to Hemolytic Jaun- 

 dice." Following the lecture a smoker was 

 given at the University Club in honor of 

 Professor Pearce by the heads of the depart- 

 ments of medicine and of surgery and of the 

 various laboratories of the school of medicine 

 of Western Eeserve University. 



The Swarthmore lecture of the Society of 

 Friends, London, was given on May 18, by 

 Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, who spoke 

 on " The Quest for Truth." 



In memory of Dr. Edith J. Claypole, re- 

 search associate in the department of pathol- 

 ogy of the University of California, who died 

 on March 26, 1915, friends of the university 

 have offered an annual gift of $1,200 to main- 

 tain the position of research associate in 



