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dent of Stevens Institute of Technology; past 

 president, American Gas Institute. 



" The Generation and Distribution of Electricity 

 with Special Reference to Lighting " ( two lec- 

 tures), John B. Whitehead, Ph.D., professor of 

 applied electricity, The Johns Hopkins University. 

 " The Manufacture and Distribution of Gas, 

 with Special Reference to Lighting" (two lec- 

 tures), (1) Mr. E. G. Gowdery, vice-president of 

 the People's Gas, Light and Coke Co., Chicago. 

 (2) Mr. Walter R. Addicks, vice-president of Con- 

 solidated Gas Co., New York. 



"Photometric Units and Standards" (one lec- 

 ture), Edward B. Rosa, Ph.D., physicist, National 

 Bureau of Standards. 



"The Measurement of Light" (two lectures), 

 Clayton H. Sharp, Ph.D., test officer. Electrical 

 Testing Laboratory, New York City; past presi- 

 dent, Illuminating Engineering Society. 



" The Architectural Aspects of Illuminating 

 Engineering" (two lectures), Walter Cook, A.M., 

 vice-president, American Institute of Architects; 

 past president. Society of Beaux Arts Architects. 

 " The Decorative Aspects of Illuminating Engi- 

 neering " (one lecture), Mr. Louis C. Tiffany, 

 president of the Tiffany Studios, New York. 



" The Physiological Aspects of Illuminating 

 Engineering" (two lectures), P. W. Cobb, B.S., 

 M.D.. physiologist of the Physical Laboratory of 

 the National Electric Lamp Association. 



■■ The Psychological Aspects of Illuminating 

 Engineering " ( one lecture ) , Dr. R. M. Yerkes, 

 assistant professor of comparative psychology. 

 Harvard University. 



" The Principles and Design of Interior Illu- 

 mination " (six lectures), (1) L. B. Marks, B.S., 

 M.M.E., consulting engineer. New York City; past 

 president. Illuminating Engineering Society, (2) 

 Mr. Norman Macbeth, illuminating engineer. The 

 Welsbach Co. (3) Professor W. E. Barrows, as- 

 sistant professor of illuminating engineering. 

 Armour Institute. 



" The Principles and Design of Exterior Illu- 

 mination " (three lectures), (1) Louis Bell, Ph.D,, 

 consulting engineer, Boston, Mass. ; past president, 

 Illuminating Engineering Society. (2) E. N. 

 Wrightington, A.B., Boston Consolidated Gas Co. 

 "Shades, Reflectors and Diffusing Media" (one 

 lecture), Van Rensselaer Lansingh, B.S., general 

 manager of Holophane Co. 



"Lighting Fixtures" (one lecture), Mr. Ed- 

 ward F. Caldwell, senior member of firm and 

 designer, Edward F. Caldwell & Co., New York. 



" The Commercial Aspects of Electric Ligliting " 

 (one lecture), .John W. Lieb, Jr., M.E., third vice- 



president of New York Edison Co.; past president, 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 



" The Commercial Aspects of Gas Lighting " 

 (one lecture), Walton Clarke, M.E., president of 

 The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; third vice- 

 president, United Gas Improvement Co., Phila- 

 delphia. 



The laboratory demonstrations will be under 

 the direction of: Charles O. Bond, manager 

 of Photometric Laboratory, United Gas Im- 

 provement Company; Philadelphia; Herbert 

 E. Ives, Ph.D., physicist, Physical Laboratory, 

 National Electric Lamp Association, and 

 Preston S. Miliar, Electrical Testing Labora- 

 tories, New York, and general secretary, Il- 

 luminating Engineering Society. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Academy of Sciences at Turin has 

 elected as foreign members Professor Maxi- 

 millian Noetcher, of Erlangen ; Professor 

 AdoK von Baeyer, of Munich; Professor Fr. 

 Ed. Suess, of Vienna, and Professor J. J. 

 Thomson, of Cambridge. 



Dr. Hans Chiabi, professor of pathological 

 anatomy at Strasburg, is the lecturer this 

 year on the Herter foundation of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, He lectures on October 

 5 and 7. 



Professor Arthur A. Noyes, director of the 

 Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry 

 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 has been appointed non-resident university 

 lecturer on chemical research in Clark Uni- 

 versity. Professor Arthirr Michael will de- 

 liver before the university chemical students 

 at Clark an informal lecture on some experi- 

 ences in his organic researches. 



The Warren triennial prize for 1910 of the 

 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, has 

 been awarded to Dr. George H. Whipple, as- 

 sistant professor of pathology in Johns Hop- 

 kins University and resident pathologist in 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital, for an essay on 

 " The Pathogenesis of Icterus." 



Dr. M. p. Eavexel, professor of bacteriol- 

 ogy at the University of Wisconsin, is in 

 Europe, where he will represent the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin at the centennial celebra- 



