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SCIENCE 



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with arts, agriculture, manufacture and com- 

 merce," "which the institute was organized to 

 promote. The institute has trained a number 

 of men who are now in the very front rank of 

 science. In addition to this its former stu- 

 dents are to be found in positions of power 

 and responsibility in every state of the union, 

 engaged in the work of developing mines, 

 opening up the country by means of railroads, 

 applying scientific methods to the problems of 

 transportation, power production and distri- 

 bution, advancing chemical industries, con- 

 serving the public health and contributing in 

 countless other ways to the increase of the 

 nation's wealth. This practical application of 

 science to the affairs of life will be surveyed 

 and described, as also the conditions and prob- 

 lems of groups of allied industries, in a large 

 number of papers by alumni and members of 

 the faculty of the institute. The papers will 

 cover such general subjects as architecture, 

 business administration, economics, public 

 health and factory sanitation, industrial or- 

 ganization and training, power production and 

 distribution, materials and manufacturing 

 processes, reclamation of arid lands. The sub- 

 ject of scientific management will be pre- 

 sented from many points of view, as it may 

 ■ affect railroads and various manufacturing- 

 industries. Among the speakers will be : 



David Van Alstyne, '86, AUis-Chalmers Co., 

 Milwaukee, Wis. 



Henry G. Bradlee, '91, Firm of Stone & Web- 

 ster, Boston. 



Harvey is. Chase, '83, Certified Public Account- 

 ant, Boston. 



Samuel M. Felton, '73, President, Chicago Great 

 Western Eailroad, Chicago. 



Louis A. Ferguson, '88, Second Vice-president, 

 Commonwealth Edison Co., Chicago. 



Walter C. Fish, '87, Manager, Lynn Works, 

 General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass. 



John E. Freeman, '76, Consulting Engineer, 

 Providence, E. I. 



Charles Hayden, '90, Hayden, Stone & Co., 

 Bankers, New York and Boston. 



Henry M. Howe, '71, Professor of Metallurgy, 

 Columbia University. 



Edwin O. Jordan, '88, Professor of Bacteriol- 

 ogy, University of Chicago. 



Walter H. Kilham, '89, Architect, Boston. 



James P. Mimroe, '82, Executive Director, Bos- 

 ton-1915, Boston, Mass. 



Frederick H. Newell, '85, Director, U. S. Ee- 

 clamation Service. 



Eobert H. Eichards, '68, Professor of Mining 

 Engineering and Metallurgy, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology. 



Albert Sauveur, '89, Professor of Metallurgy, 

 Harvard University. 



George C. Whipple, '89, Consulting Engineer, 

 New York City. 



Willis E. Whitney, '90, Director, Eesearch Labo- 

 ratory, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. 



Salmon W. Wilder, '91, President and Treas- 

 urer, Merrimac Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. 



C.-E. A. Winslow, Associate Professor of Biol- 

 ogy, College of City of New York. 



The expedition, recently sent out by the 

 American Museum of Natural History and 

 the New York Zoological Society, to Lower 

 California, under the leadership of Dr. 

 Charles H. Townsend, has been successful in 

 capturing six young California sea elephants 

 (Macrorhinus angustirosiris Gill), on Guada- 

 lupe Island. These specimens, the first ever 

 captured alive, were sent from San Diego, 

 California, on March Y, and arrived at the 

 New York Aquarium on March 13, in excel- 

 lent condition after their six-day trip. For 

 transportation they were crated separately and 

 shipped by express without food or water en 

 route. Although not more than nine months 

 old the average weight of these animals is 

 about 2.50 pounds, and the length four and 

 one half to five feet. The adult males reach a 

 length of more than twenty feet. The species, 

 which is distributed among the small islands 

 of the southern and Lower California coast, is 

 now verging toward extinction and very little 

 is known of its life history or habits. The 

 common name of the species is derived from 

 the fact that the male possesses a protrusible 

 snout or proboscis. In the young males now 

 at the aquarium this is only slightly developed. 



The path taken by Halley's comet in 1909- 

 10 is to be shown in a series of photographs 

 now being prepared by the committee on 

 comets of the Astronomical Society of Amer- 

 ica, of which Professor George C. Comstock, 



