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elusion of so many prominent members of the so- 

 ciety was a high price to pay for a meeting here. 



"Any foreigners would be subjected to disagree- 

 able formalities and conditions on coming here just 

 now. 



' ' It would be impossible to attract to the conven- 

 tion the slightest public interest in Montreal, out- 

 side a few dozen chemists. No one would come to 

 the conversazione or the garden parties we had ar- 

 ranged, and while there would surely be the feeling 

 of good fellowship among ourselves, it would be 

 overshadowed by the tragic war we are in at pres- 

 ent." 



It is sad to look over the wreck of our hopes of a 

 big and successful meeting. 



Everything was organized and under way even to 

 rehearsing for the smoker. The toastmaster and 

 speakers for the banquet, the chemical and other 

 scientific ' ' stunts ' ' for the conversazione were ar- 

 ranged, the hall for the exhibits prepared, which, 

 by the way, would have been of exceptional inter- 

 est. We feel very sad about it all to-day I assure 

 you. 



The principal, vice-principal and Sir Wm. Osier, 

 who had promised to speak at the banquet, are in 

 Europe, as well as many of our staff. Their return 

 is uncertain. Everything was against the meeting 

 and only our desire to give you the hand of good 

 fellowship and the advanced state of the prepara- 

 tions made us hesitate at all about calling every- 

 thing off. 



I hope you appreciate our situation and that we 

 have your sympathy. 



I came up this morning feeling sure the meeting 

 would go, but have been convinced it could not be 

 made more than an. apology for a convention, which 

 it would be a waste of time to attend. 



When things settle down again we will once more 

 extend you an invitation, and hope you will do us 

 the honor of accepting it. 



On receipt of this letter. President Richards 

 of course determined at once to call off the 

 meeting. The almost unanimous opinion of 

 the officers of the society is that it will be im- 

 possible to arrange for a successful meeting 

 early in the fall and that business conditions 

 throughout the country render it improbable 

 that it would be advisable to have a meeting 

 later in the year. The present outlook is that 

 the next meeting of the American Chemical 

 Society will be in New Orleans, April 1 to 3, 

 1915. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Mr. Eoosevelt has arranged to give to mem- 

 bers of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory in the fall the first presentation of the 

 zoological results of his recent expedition to 

 South America. The zoological collections 

 which, through the generosity of Mr. Eoose- 

 velt, the museum has received from the Eoose- 

 velt expedition to South America, amount to 

 twenty-five hundred birds and four hundred 

 and fifty mammals. 



The Bissett-Hawkins memorial medal of the 

 Eoyal College of Physicians of London has 

 been awarded to Sir Eonald Eoss, for his work 

 on malaria. 



At a meeting of the Eoyal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, held on July Y, Dr. W. S. Bruce was 

 piesented with the Neill Prize, in recognition 

 of the scientific results of his Arctic and Ant- 

 arctic explorations. 



Dr. Alexander von Brill, professor of 

 mathematics at Tiibingen, has been given a 

 doctorate of engineering by the Technological 

 School at Munich, on the occasion of the 

 fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate. 



Dr. Paul Kroeber, of Leipzig, has received 

 a prize of 5,000 Marks from the Berlin Acad- 

 emy of Sciences for his work on the theory of 

 functions. 



Dr. Mairet, professor of mental and nervous 

 diseases at Montpellier, has been elected a na- 

 tional associate of the Paris Academy of Medi- 

 cine. He has been national correspondent in 

 the section of pathologic medicine since 1894. 



The second annual meeting of the Indian 

 Science Congress is to be held, under the aus- 

 pices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in Mad- 

 ras, on January 14^16 next, under the presi- 

 dency of Surgeon-General Bannerman. 



Dr. Beverly T. Galloway, lately assistant 

 secretary of the Department of Agriculture, 

 took up his duties as director of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, on August first. 



Dr. Lewis A. Sexton, resident physician at 

 Willard Parker Hospital, New Tork, has ac- 

 cepted the position of superintendent of the 



