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SCIENCE. 



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Mr. Milton P. Higgins, president of the or- 

 ganization committee, will introduce Dr. 

 Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, who will pre- 

 side, and the following speakers will address 

 the meeting : 



Mr. Prank A. Vanderlip, vice-president of 

 the National City Bank, ' Competition of the 

 United States in the Markets of the World.' 



Mr. Frederick P. Fish, president of the 

 American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 

 * Industrial Education as a Means of Develop- 

 ing the Industries of the United States.' 



Miss Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago, 

 ' The Importance of Industrial Education 

 fFom the Social Standpoint.' 



Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of 

 Columbia University, ' The Place of Indus- 

 trial Education in the American System of 

 Education.' 



Mr. Frank P. Sargent, U. S. Commissioner- 

 General of Immigration, formerly chief of 

 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, * The 

 Importance of Industrial Education to the 

 Workingman.' 



An address will also be made by Mr. Alfred 

 Mosely, of London, and a letter from Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt upon the subject of the meet- 

 ing will be read. 



A meeting for the purpose of effecting a 

 permanent organization will be held in room 

 19, Cooper Union, at 4 p.m., on the same day. 

 All interested in the purposes of the organiza- 

 tion are invited to attend this meeting as well 

 as the evening meeting. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Advantage will be taken of the twentieth 

 anniversary of the isolation of fluorine to 

 present a gold medal to M. Moissan. 



In acknowledgment of his work in metal- 

 lurgical research. Professor Henry M. Howe, 

 of Columbia University, has received from the 

 Eussian emperor the order of the Knighthood 

 of St. Stanislas. The honor was conferred by 

 Baron Rosen, who gave the patent of knight- 

 hood, together with the star and cross of the 

 order. 



President Roosevelt has reappointed Dr. 

 Robert M. O'Reilly to serve a second term of 

 four years as Surgeon-General of the United 

 States Army. 



A farewell banquet was given recently in 

 honor of Sir David Gill, the astronomer royal 

 at the Cape, who left for England on October 3. 



The University of Durham has conferred 

 the degree of D.Sc. on Sir William White, 

 lately director of naval construction and as- 

 sistant controller of the royal navy; on Pro- 

 fessor G. A. L. Lebour, professor of geology 

 and vice-principal of Armstrong College, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne ; on Mr. Charles A. Harrison, 

 engineer to the Northeastern Railway Com- 

 pany, and on Mr. G. B. Hunter, shipbuilder. 



Captain Amundsen, who has recently re- 

 turned from navigating the northwest passage, 

 is at present in this country. He has been 

 entertained recently by the Geographical So- 

 ciety of Chicago. 



Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the 

 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

 Teaching, will give the address at the decen- 

 nial founder's day exercises of the Thomas S. 

 Clarkson Memorial School of Technology, 

 Potsdam, N. Y. 



A NEW wing of the Acland Home, Oxford, 

 containing operating, sterilizing and anesthetic 

 rooms, with open-air balconies, was opened by 

 Professor Osier on October 13. 



Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles, of the Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, has been 

 withdrawn from the commission which has 

 been appointed to make a new commercial 

 treaty with Germany, 



M. Henri de Rothschild has given 20,000 

 f r. to Professor Poirier for the study of cancer. 



Professor W. Somerville (M.A. Cant.), 

 Sibthorpian professor of agriculture at Ox- 

 ford University, has been elected to a fellow- 

 ship at St. John's College. 



The Gedge prize, Cambridge University, has 

 been awarded to Mr. P. P. Laidlaw, for an 

 essay entitled ' Some Observations on Blood 

 Pigments.' 



Dr. M. I. Pupin, professor of electro- 

 mechanics at Columbia University, was a can- 



