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to go to Middletown and inspect the plant of 

 the American Rolling Mills, the home of Ingot 

 Iron. After visiting this plant the party goes to 

 Dayton, where members of the Cincinnati Sec- 

 tion, residents of Dayton, have arranged an 

 inspection trip through the plant of the Na- 

 tional Cash Register Co. Negotiations are 

 now in progress to have Mr. Wright give an 

 exhibition of his latest aeroplane, including 

 the stabilizer. 



The following provisional program will give 

 an idea of the plans for the Cincinnati 

 Meeting : 



Monday, April 6, evening, council meeting. 

 Tuesday, April 7, morning, general meeting; after- 

 noon, excursions; evening, smoker at zoo. 

 Wednesday, April 8, morning, division meetings ; 

 afternoon, excursions; evening, concert by the 

 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at Emery Hall. 

 Thursday, April 9, morning, division meetings; 

 afternoon, division meetings; evening, subscrip- 

 tion dinner. 

 Friday, April 10, excursion to American Rolling 

 Mills, Middletown, O., and the National Cash 

 Eegifiter Company, Dayton, O. 

 Following are the addresses of the Divi- 

 sional and Sectional Secretaries : 

 Divisions : 

 Agricultural and Food Chemistry: G. F. Mason, 



H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 Biological Chemistry: I. K. Phelps, Bureau of 



Chemifitry, "Washington, D. C. 

 Fertilizer Chemistry: B. F. Carpenter, Virginia 



Carolina Chemical Co., Richmond, Va, 

 Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers: S. H. 

 Salisbury, Jr., Lehigh University, South Beth- 

 lehem, Pa. 

 Organic Chemistry: C. G. Derick, Morris Ave., 



Lincoln Place, Urbana, 111. 

 Pharmaceutical Chemistry: A. P. Sy, University of 



Buffalo, 24 High St., Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Physical and Inorganic Chemistry: R. C. Wells, 

 U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. 0. 



Sections : 



India Rubber Chemistry: Dorris Whipple, the 



Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Co., Bayonne, 



N. J. 

 Water, Sewage and Sanitation: Harry P. Corson, 



State Water Survey, Urbana, Illinois. 



All Divisions of the Society will meet. The 

 Water, Sewage and Sanitation Section has 



announced that it is planning a special confer- 

 ence on Standard Methods of Water Analysis. 

 The Rubber Section hopes to have a large 

 meeting, as Cincinnati is conveniently located 

 to some of our largest rubber manufacturing 

 centers. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The following fifteen candidates have been 

 selected by the council of the Royal Society to 

 be recommended for election into the society: 

 Dr. Edgar Johnston Allen, Mr. Richard Asshe- 

 ton, Mr. Geoffrey Thomas Bennett, Pro- 

 fessor Rowland Harry Biffen, Dr. Arthur 

 Edwin Boycott, Mr. Clive Cuthbertson, Dr. 

 Henry Hallett Dale, Mr. Arthur Stanley Ed- 

 dington. Professor Edmund Johnston Gar- 

 wood, Mr. Thomas Henry Havelock, Dr. 

 Thomas Martin Lowry, Professor Diarmid 

 Noel Paton, Mr. Siegfried Ruhemann, Dr. 

 Samuel Walter Johnson Smith and Dr. 

 Thomas Edward Stanton. 



The seventieth birthday of Professor A. 

 Engler, the distinguished Berlin botanist, will 

 be celebrated on March 27, when a marble bust 

 will be presented to him. 



Professor R. W. Wood, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, gave in London, on February 

 2Y, the first Guthrie lecture of the Physical 

 Society, his subject being " Radiation of Gas 

 Molecules Excited by Light." 



Dr. George E. De Schweinitz, professor of 

 ophthalmology in the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, was given by the university the degree 

 of doctor of laws, at its recent university-day 

 celebration. 



Dr. E. W. Hobson, Sadlerian professor of 

 pure mathematics at the University of Cam- 

 bridge, has been nominated to represent the 

 university on the occasion of the celebration 

 on June 29-30 and July 1 of the three hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the foundation of the 

 University of Groningen. 



Dr. a. Smith Woodward has been elected 

 president of the Geological Society of London. 



Officers of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 have been elected as foUows : President, Major 

 E. H. Hills ; Vice-presidents, Dr. F. W. Dyson, 



