Mat 6, 1904.] 



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1900, for the successive lustra between 1885 

 and 1900, and the observations made at 52 

 stations of the second order during 1900. 

 There are now 395 rainfall stations in Eou- 

 mania. An index of the publications of the 

 Eoumanian Meteorological Institute from 1885 

 to 1903, comprising 31 octavo pages, offers the 

 best of evidence as to the scientific activities 

 of this institution. 



E. DeO. Ward. 



ERWIN E. SWELL. 



Erwin E. Ewell, lately first assistant chem- 

 ist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 and more recently representative of the Ger- 

 man Kali Syndicate in the Southern States 

 with headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia, died in 

 New Orleans, La., on February 7, after a brief 

 but severe attack of grippe and rheumatism, 

 followed by typhoid fever. 



Mr. Ewell was born in Washington, Mich- 

 igan, in 1867. His education was secured 

 entirely through his own exertions since, 

 through the death of his father, he was at 

 an early age thrown entirely upon his own 

 resources. He was graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan in 1890 and in the same 

 year entered into the service of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture. 

 His efficiency led to his advancement to the 

 position of principal assistant chemist of the 

 department, and he contributed very largely to 

 the success of the bureau. He was greatly 

 interested in standards of measurements, was 

 chairman of the committee of the American 

 Chemical Society to secure better uniformity 

 and accuracy in the standards in use and he 

 was active in promoting the movement which 

 finally led to the establishment of the bureau 

 of standards. In 1903 he entered the service 

 of the German Kali SjTidicate and had begun 

 with his characteristic energy and enthusiasm 

 the presentation of the importance of potash 

 salts in the nutrition of farm crops. 



The many warm friends of Mr. Ewell will 

 find in his death a serious personal loss and 

 the scientific world will miss one of its most 

 efiective workers. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The summer meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society will be held at Providence, 

 E. I., June 21-23. 



The Alumni Association of the School of 

 Applied Science of Columbia University has 

 arranged to have painted a portrait of Dr. 

 Charles E. Chandler, head of the Department 

 of Chemistry. The portrait will be presented 

 at the sesquicentennial celebration in October, 

 when Dr. Chandler will have been for forty 

 years professor of chemistry at the university. 



The alumni of the engineering department 

 of the University of Michigan, now resident 

 in Chicago and vicinity, have presented to the 

 university a portrait in oil of the late Pro- 

 fessor Charles E. Greene, dean of the en- 

 gineering department from its organization 

 until his death. 



Professor W. Ostwald gave the Earaday 

 lecture of the Chemical Society at the Eoyal 

 Institution, London, on April 19. At the close 

 of the lecture he was presented with a medal 

 bearing the image of Faraday, which had been 

 specially struck for the occasion. 



Professor L. V. Kellogg, of the Depart- 

 ment of Entomology of Stanford University, 

 has been elected a member of Societe Ento- 

 mologique de France. 



M. GuiCHARD has been elected a member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences in the section 

 of geometry. 



The University of Glasgow has conferred 

 its Doctorate of Laws on Professor Mendele- 

 jev, the eminent chemist. 



Among the distinguished lecturers at the 

 summer session of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, which begins on June 27, are Pro- 

 fessor Svante A. Arrhenius, of the University 

 of Stockholm; Professor Hugo De Vries, of 

 the University of Amsterdam; Sir William 

 Eamsay, of University College, London, and 

 Professor James Ward, of the University of 

 Cambridge. 



Professor Eussell H. Chittenden, director 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School, Tale Uni- 

 versity, on April 29, tendered a banquet in 

 honor of Dr. C. S. Sherrington, professor of 

 physiology in the University of Liverpool, who 



