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mittee decided to take up first the consideration 
of the proper form, system of graduation, limits 
of accuracy, manner of labelling, and methods 
of using glass volumetric apparatus. The com- 
mittee has made a careful study of the work 
that has already been done in other countries 
on the subject, an account of which is given on 
pp. 527-550 of the Journal of the Society. 
Your committee accordingly submits the fol- 
lowing recommendations for your consideration: 
1. That the American Chemical Society, in a 
manner consistent with its constitution and by- 
laws, ask the U. S. Office of Weights and 
Measures to adopt regulations for the verifica- 
tion of volumetric apparatus which shall be 
similar in purpose and scope to the regulations 
of the Kaiserliche Normal-Aichungs-Commis- 
sion, after due consideration of the criticisms 
to which the latter have been subjected. 
2. That the U. S. Office of Weights and 
Measures be asked to give special consideration 
to the question of a standard temperature or 
temperatures to be adopted for the graduation 
of volumetric apparatus, and to obtain as far as 
practicable an expression of opinion from 
American chemists on this point. 
8. That the U. 8. Office of Weights and 
Measures be asked to submit its regulations to 
the American Chemical Society, or a duly ap- 
pointed committee thereof, for suggestions be- 
fore final adoption by that office. 
4, That the international kilogram be adopted 
as the standard of mass. 
5. That the liter as defined by the Interna- 
tional Committee on Weights and Measures, be 
adopted ; viz., the volume of the mass of a kilo- 
gram of pure water at the temperature of maxi- 
mum density and under a pressure of 760 mm. 
of mercury. - 
6. That all density determinations be referred 
to water at its maximum density and under a 
pressure of 760 mm. of mercury. 
7. That all temperatures be expressed in 
terms of the hydrogen thermometer of the In- 
ternational Bureau of Weights and Measures. 
8. That if any question arise as to the inter- 
pretation of the above definitions the decision 
and standards of the U.S. Office of Standard 
Weights and Measures shall be accepted by the 
Society as final. 
SCIENCE. 
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science is holding, at Columbus, Ohio, 
its 48th annual meeting as we goto press. We 
are able to publish, this week, the address given 
on Monday by the retiring President of the 
Association, Professor F. W. Putnam, and the 
address, before the Section of Physics, of the 
Vice-President, Dr. Elihu Thomson. 
PROFESSOR ROBERT WILHELM EBERHARDT 
BUNSEN, the great chemist, born at Gottingen, 
on March 18, 1811, died at Heidelberg, on 
August 16th. 
THE death is announced of Sir Edward Frank- 
land, K.C.B., F.R.S., the eminent chemist. 
Born in 1825, he was educated in the Royal 
School of Mines, London, and in German uni- 
versities under Bunsen and Liebig. He was 
successively professor of chemistry at Owens 
College, Manchester ; at the Royal Institution, 
London, and at the Royal School of Mines, 
London. He was the author of works on chem- 
istry and water analysis, and is perhaps best 
known for his inquiries into the polution of 
rivers and his reports on the water supply of 
London. He had been President of the Chem- 
ical Society and was Honorary Secretary of the 
Royal Society. His son is Dr. Percy Faraday 
Frankland, F.R.S., professor of chemistry at 
Mason College, Birmingham, and a leading 
authority on bacteriology. 
On August 2d Queen Victoria conferred the 
honor of knighthood upon Sir William Henry 
Preece and Sir Michael Foster, Knight Com- 
manders of the Order of the Bath. 
THE Neill Prize for 1895-98 has been awarded 
to Professor J. Cossar Ewart, M.D., F.R.S., by 
the Royal Society, Edinburgh, for his experi- 
ments and investigations bearing on the theory 
of heredity. 
THE Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 
has awarded the Hanbury Gold Medal to Profes- 
sor Albert Ladenburg, for his work on alkaloids 
and their derivatives. 
Tue Alvarenga Prize of the College of Physi- 
cians of Philadelphia has been awarded to Dr. 
Robert L. Randolph, of Baltimore, for his essay 
entitled ‘The Regeneration of the Crystalline 
Lens: an Experimental Study.’ 
