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SCIENCE 



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at New York City," Julian E. Woodwell, '96, 

 consulting engineer, New York. 



' ' The Development of a System of Underground 

 Pneumatic Tubes for the Transportation of United 

 States Mail," B. C. Bateheller, '86, chief engi- 

 neer, American Pneumatic Service Co., New York 

 City. 



"The Continuous Cooling of Circulating Water 

 used for Condensing Steam," Edward P. Miller, 

 professor of steam engineering, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, Boston. 



"Power Plant Betterment," H. H. Hunt, '89, 

 Stone & Webster Management Association, Boston. 



"The Development of Economical Ore Dressing 

 Systems," Prank E. Shepard, '87, president, 

 Denver Engineering Works, Denver, Colo. 



' ' Eecent Developments in Bridge Construction, ' ' 

 Prank -P. McKibben, professor of civil engineer- 

 ing, Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa. 



' ' The Manufacture and Use of Asbestos Wood, ' ' 

 Charles L. Norton, '93, professor of heat measure- 

 ments, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Boston. 



' ' The Technics of Iron and Steel, ' ' Theodore 

 W. Eobinson, '84, vice-president, Illinois Steel Co., 

 Chicago, 111. 



SECTION E — PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION 



Chairman, Professor W. T. Sedgwick 



' ' Profitable and Fruitless Lines of Endeavor in 

 Public Health Work," Edwin O. Jordan, '88, pro- 

 fessor of bacteriology, University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111. 



' ' The Technical School Man in Public Health 

 Work, ' ' Harry W. Clark, '88, chief chemist. State 

 Board of Health, Boston. 



"Present Status of Water Purification in the 

 United States and the Part that the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology has Played," George C. 

 Whipple, '89, consulting engineer. New York City. 



' ' The Pollution of Streams by Manufacturing 

 Wastes," William .S. Johnson, '89, sanitary and 

 hydraulic engineer, Boston. 



' ' Sewage Disposal with Respect to Offensive 

 Odors," George W. Puller, '90, consulting hy- 

 draulic engineer and sanitary expert. New York. 



' ' The Food Inspection Chemist and his Work, ' ' 

 Herman C. Lythgoe, '96, analyst. State Board of 

 Health, Boston. 



' ' The Life Saving Corps of the Technical 

 School," Severance Burrage, '92, professor of 

 sanitary science, Purdue University, Lafayette, 

 Ind. 



"Factory Sanitation and Efficiency," C.-E. A. 



Winslow, '98, associate professor of biology. Col- 

 lege of City of New, York, New Y ork City. 



"A Eeview of the Work of the Sanitary Re- 

 search Laboratory and Sewage Experiment Sta- 

 tion of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy," Earle B. Phelps, '99, consulting sanitary- 

 expert. New York City. 



' ' Bacteria and Decomposition, ' ' Simeon C. 

 Keith, Jr., '93, assistant professor of biology^ 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. 



SECTION F — ARCHITECTURE 



Chairman, Professor F. W. Chandler 



"Landscape Architecture, a Definition and a 

 Brief Resume of its Past and Present," Stephen 

 Child, '88, landscape architect and consulting en- 

 gineer, Boston and Santa Barbara. 



' ' Some Phases of Modern Architectural Prac- 

 tise, " Walter H. Kilham, '89, architect, Boston. 



' ' The Engineer and Architect Unite, ' ' Luzerne 

 S. Cowles, '97, assistant designing engineer, Bos- 

 ton Elevated Railway Co., Boston. 



"Mill Construction with Steel Frame and Tile 

 Walls," John O. DeWolf, '90, mill engineer,. 

 Boston. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir J. J. Thomson, Cavendish professor of 

 experimental physics in the University of 

 Cambridge, and Dr. D. Hilbert, professor of 

 mathematics at Gottingen, have been elected 

 corresponding members of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences. 



The University of Edinburgh will confer its 

 doctorate of laws on Mr. Frank W. Dyson, the 

 astronomer royal, and on Dr. Ernest Ruther- 

 ford, professor of physics in the University of 

 Manchester. 



The University of Aberdeen has conferred 

 its LL.D. on Dr. A. E. Cushny, professor of 

 materia medica in the University of London, 

 on Dr. Arthur Keith, Hunterian professor of 

 anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons, 

 and Major P. A. Macmahon, deputy warden of 

 the standards. 



Dean Liberty H. Bailey, of the State 

 School of Agriculture at Cornell University, 

 has written to Governor Dix, of New York, 

 expressing regret that he can not accept the 

 appointment of state commissioner of agri- 

 culture. 



