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give the greatest efficiency for study. The 

 laboratories, which face the north, are pro- 

 vided with sea water and fresh water. The 

 station is designed to afPord: (1) facilities for 

 demonstration to classes studying marine 

 life; (2) opportunity for the students of the 

 university who have major subjects in zoology 

 and botany to carry on advanced work in ma- 

 rine biology, and (3) a limited number of re- 

 search laboratories, some of which are avail- 

 able, without cost, to investigators who are 

 prepared to carry on research work in some of 

 the phases of marine biology. Applications 

 for use of the research laboratories should be 

 made to the director of the station, Albert B. 

 TJlrey, University of Southern California, Los 

 Angeles, Cal. 



The 1910 biennial convocation , of Alpha 

 Chi Sigma, the professional chemical fratern- 

 ity, is to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, on 

 June 23, 24 and 25. This order was organized 

 at the University of Wisconsin in 1902, and 

 now has chapters in nearly all the more 

 important universities and technical schools 

 of the middle west. Its membership is made 

 up of professional chemists, teachers of chem- 

 istry, and the most proficient of the advanced 

 students who intend to make some branch of 

 chemistry their life work. 



The new U. S. Forest Products Laboratory 

 established at the University of Wisconsin by 

 the national Forest Service of the Department 

 of Agriculture was dedicated on June 4 with 

 exercises, in which Chief Forester Henry S. 

 Graves, President C. E. Van Hise, of the 

 University of Wisconsin; Governor J. O. 

 Davidson, of Wisconsin, and ex-Governor W. 

 D. Hoard took part. Mr. Graves, in his ad- 

 dress, outlined the work to be undertaken by 

 the laboratory, including reduction of the 

 present waste of three fourths of every tree 

 felled; utilization of all forest products to the 

 best advantage; extension of aid directly to 

 all wood-using industries, including paper 

 manufacturers, lumber companies, furniture 

 and other wood-working organizations ; and 

 conservation of the forests in the broadest 

 sense. President Van Hise emphasized the 

 mutual advantage of the location of the labo- 



ratory at the University of Wisconsin, in a 

 state the greater part of which is better 

 adapted to forests than to other growths. The 

 experts of the laboratory staff, some twenty in 

 number, will deliver lecture courses to the 

 students of the university, who will also be 

 given opportunity for advanced research work 

 in the problems undertaken by the government 

 in the making of cheaper print paper from 

 other woods than spruce and hemlock, distilla- 

 tion of wood alcohol and turpentine from 

 stumps, sawdust and other material now 

 wasted, the protection of timbers against in- 

 sect and fungus enemies, and the testing of 

 the strength of timbers for different uses. 

 The building, a three-story brick structure 

 trimmed with white sandstone, is fire proof, 

 and cost the University of Wisconsin $75,000. 

 The government has equipped it at a cost of 

 some $75,000, a part of the apparatus having 

 been brought from the discontinued govern- 

 ment laboratories at Purdue, Tale and Wash- 

 ington, D. C, when the Forest Service de- 

 cided to concentrate its work at Wisconsin. 

 The staff of forestry experts in the new labo- 

 ratory includes: McGarvey Klein, Purdue, 

 director; H. S. Bristol and H. S. Weiss, both 

 of Yale University, assistant directors; H. D. 

 Tiemann, Stevens Institute of Technology, in 

 charge of technology; Ralph Thelen, Univer- 

 sity of California, mechanical engineer; W. 

 H. Kempfer, University of Michigan, in 

 charge of maintenance; Edwin Sutermeister, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 

 charge of wood pulp laboratory; E. Bateman, 

 Yale, in charge of chemistry; L. F. Hawley, 

 Cornell, in charge of wood distillation ; Fred- 

 erick Dunlap, Cornell, in charge of kiln dry- 

 ing operations; F. W. Bond, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, in charge of wood 

 preservation; C. T. Barnum, Cornell, and C. 

 P. Winslow, Yale, engineers in wood preserva- 

 tion; J. A. Newlin, Purdue, in charge of tim- 

 ber tests; H. E. Surface, Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, engineer in wood chemistry; H. E. 

 McKenzie, University of Maine, engineer in 

 timber tests; C. J. Humphrey, University of 

 Nebraska, and Cornell, pathologist, and A. W. 

 Schorger, Ohio State University, chemist. 



