Decembee 14, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



opportunity to see that his name is not further 

 used in this way. 



We learn from the Electrical World that at 

 the opening of the regular monthly meeting 

 of the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers, held November 23, Secretary Kalph W. 

 Pope announced that on the evening before 

 upon the invitation of the trustees of the 

 United Engineering Society, the boards of di- 

 rectors of the three founder societies inspected 

 the new building. The office floors are prac- 

 tically complete and ready for occupancy; the 

 auditorium and grand entrance hall on the 

 first floor are yet in the hands of the con- 

 tractors. All were impressed with the stately 

 character of the building, and all felt satis- 

 faction with the way the architects have car- 

 ried out the great work. There was an in- 

 formal dinner at half -past six, and although 

 the meeting was of an informal character, 

 resolutions were passed authorizing the trus- 

 tees of the United Engineering Society to pro- 

 ceed with arrangements for the formal dedica- 

 tion of the building in April next. The socie- 

 ties will, however, occupy their suites in the 

 building in the course of a month or two. At 

 this informal gathering Chairman Thomas 

 Commerford Martin, of the Building Fund 

 Committee, announced that Mr. George West- 

 inghouse, for himself and as representing the 

 various Westinghouse Companies, had con- 

 tributed to the land, building and endowment 

 fund the sum of $50,000, to be equally divided 

 between the three founder societies toward the 

 payment for the land. This was followed by 

 the announcement that the AUis-Chalmers 

 Company had contributed the sum of $3,500, 

 to be similarly divided between the three socie- 

 ties. This brings the amount pledged toward 

 the payment of the A. I. E. E. proportion of 

 the land to $155,000, out of $180,000, which is 

 the sum total. Chairman Martin assured the 

 gentlemen present that he felt that when the 

 building was formally dedicated, so far as the 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers 

 was concerned, it would assume its respon- 

 sibility, one-third of the land, free from debt. 

 Mr. Pope said that from his knowledge of the 

 situation he feels quite assured that this will 

 be the case, and that the American Institute 



of Electrical Engineers, which twenty years ago 

 was following the trail of the other engineer- 

 ing societies, will assume its responsibilities 

 free from debt and with an income that will 

 assure the handling its part of the building 

 for all time to come, with the generous sup- 

 port of the members of the institute. The 

 building is admirably calculated to accommo- 

 date meetings of various societies, from an 

 audience of 1,000 down to 150, and the accom- 

 modations are such that all will feel well 

 satisfied personally with the situation, when 

 they come to meet in the building and inspect 

 the offices and the general quarters, the library 

 and all the accessories. 



We learn from the London Times that the 

 departmental committee which was recently 

 appointed to " inquire and report what dis- 

 eases and injuries, other than injuries by ac- 

 cident, are due to industrial occupations, are 

 distinguishable as such, and can properly be 

 added to the diseases enumerated in the third 

 schedule of the workmen's compensation bill, 

 1906," has now begun its inquiry. The com- 

 mittee proposes to investigate the following 

 diseases and injuries which have been sug- 

 gested for its consideration, viz., gradual 

 poisoning from the vapor of carbon disulphide, 

 dinitrobenzol, dinitrotoluol and anilin; grad- 

 ual poisoning from carbonic oxide gas, sul- 

 phuretted hydrogen gas, and chlorine gas; 

 alkaloidal poisoning from African boxwood in 

 shuttlemaking ; illness set up by nitrous 

 fumes, hydrochloric acid fumes, ammonium 

 chloride fumes and sulphur fumes; com- 

 pressed air illness (caisson disease) ; chrome 

 ulceration of the skin; various trade eczemas; 

 fibrosis of the lungs from inhalation of 

 silicious or metallic particles (potter's asthma 

 and grinder's phthisis) ; pneumonia from in- 

 halation of basic slag dust ; miner's nystagmus 

 and miner's 'beat knee' and 'beat hand'; 

 neurosis due to vibration; cardiac dilatation 

 in slate quarries; and glanders. Correspond- 

 ence relating to the inquiry should be ad- 

 dressed to Frank Elliott, Esq., secretary to 

 the committee at the Home Office, Whitehall, 

 S. W. Anthrax, ankylostomiasis and poison- 

 ing by lead, mercury, phosphorus and arsenic 



