November 6, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



667 



senting the highest appreciation in his own 

 land of the scientific achievements of du Bois 

 Reymond, is honored more by devoting it to 

 the service of the country than by preserv- 

 ing it. 



We learn from Nature that the opening 

 meeting of the new session of the Institution 

 of Electrical Engineers, London, will be held 

 on Thursday, October 29, when the president. 

 Sir John Snell, will deliver his inaugural ad- 

 dress. At this meeting a marble bust of 

 Michael Faraday will be presented to the in- 

 stitution by Mr. Llewellyn Preece, on behalf 

 of the family of the late Sir William Preece, 

 past president. 



Dr. George Livingston Peabodt, formerly 

 a prominent New York physician, died sud- 

 denly at his home in Newport on October 30. 

 Dr. Peabody, who was in his sixty-fifth year, 

 graduated from Columbia College in the class 

 «f 1870, and from its College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons in 1873. He was lecturer in 

 medicine in the college from 1884 until 1887, 

 and then became professor of materia medica 

 and therapeutics, which post he held until 

 1903. 



Dr. Frederick Konig, professor of surgery 

 at the university of Marburg, was killed re- 

 cently while attending to the wounded on one 

 «f the battlefields at the eastern seat of war. 

 Others who have lost their lives in the war are 

 Dr. Ernst Preuss, decent for machine-testing 

 in the Technological School at Darmstadt, and 

 Dr. Wilhelm Deimler, decent for mathematics 

 in the School of Technology at Munich. 



The directors of the American Chemical 

 Society have voted that it is not advisable to 

 hold any general meeting of the society previ- 

 ous to the New Orleans meeting, April 1-3, 

 1915. They have also voted, in accord with 

 previous invitations presented to the council, 

 that the annual meeting of 1915 be held in 

 Seattle, Washington, with adjournment to San 

 Francisco, the exact date to be settled by the 

 president and secretary after conference with 

 members of the section immediately concerned. 



The office of the American Mathematical 

 Society was destroyed by fire on October 10, 

 with loss of records, files and a considerable 



part of the stock of back numbers of the 

 Bulletin and Transactions. The society has 

 now no copies of the first ten volumes of the 

 Bulletin except the single set in its library. 

 Gifts of any of these early volumes would be 

 greatly appreciated, and also of any copies of 

 the Annual Eegister. The society's address 

 is 501 West 116th Street, New York, N. Y. 

 The New York Section of the American 

 Electrochemical Society will hold a joint meet- 

 ing with the American Gas Institute and the 

 Institute of Illuminating Engineers at the 

 Chemists Club, New York, on Tuesday, 

 November 10. An informal dinner, to which 

 guests are cordially welcome, will be held at 

 the Chemists Club at 7 on the night of the 

 meeting. The program is as follows: 



"The Improved Incandescent Mantle," Milton 

 C. Whitaker, Columbia University. 



"Chemistry in the Development and Operation 

 of the Flaming Arcs, ' ' William C. Moore, Na- 

 tional Carbon Co. 



"The New Tungsten Lamps," Ealph E. Myers, 

 Westinghouse Lamp Co. 



"The Quartz Mercury Lamp," E. D. Mailey, 

 Cooper Hewitt Electric Co. 



"The New Moore Tubes," B. MacFarlan 

 Moore, Edison Lamp Works. 



After ten years of successful experience, 

 the Mathematical Club of Syracuse Univer- 

 sity has been reorganized into a mathematical 

 fraternity, Pi Mu Epsilon, whose aims are the 

 advancement of mathematics and scholarship. 

 The fraternity was incorporated under the 

 laws of the state of New York under date of 

 May 25, 1914. The charter members consist 

 of members of the mathematical faculty, grad- 

 uate students in mathematics and undergradu- 

 ate major and minor mathematical students. 

 Among the powers granted under the articles 

 of incorporation is that of granting charters 

 to other chapters to be organized elsewhere. 



The Eoyal Canadian Institute in Toronto, 

 Canada, plans to inaugurate work on the lines 

 of the Mellon Institute of the University of 

 Pittsburgh. Dr. Raymond F. Bacon, director 

 of Mellon Institute, has been invited to speak 

 before the Canadian Institute this month. 

 The University of Toronto has been selected 

 for this meeting because the late Dr. Robert 



