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drug on the market before the war, have be- 

 come valuable. !N^ew electrochemical indus- 

 tries, like that of metallic magnesium, have 

 been started and the whole electrochemical 

 development is of the utmost importance to 

 the American nation. The New York Section 

 of the American Electrochemical Society has 

 therefore arranged a symposium on " Electro- 

 chemical War Supplies" which it will hold 

 jointly with the 'New York sections of the 

 American Chemical Society and the Society 

 of Chemical Industry at the Chemist's Club, 52 

 East 41st St., New York, Friday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 11. The program will include the fol- 

 lowing papers: 



Lawrence Addioks: "Electrochemical War Sup- 

 plies. ' ' 



W. S. Landis : ' ' Air Saltpeter. ' ' 



E. D. Ardery (U. S. Army): " Hydrogen for 

 Military Purposes." 



Albert H. Hooker: "New War Products." 



William M. Grosvenor : ' ' Magnesium. ' ' 



G. Ornstein : ' ' Liquid Chlorine. ' ' 



Geo. W. Sargent: "Electric Steel." 



On December 13, there was installed at the 

 University of Pittsburgh, the Beta chapter of 

 the Sigma Gamma Epsilon, the charter mem- 

 bers of the new chapter consisting of Dean 

 H. B. Meller, dean of the school of mines. 

 Professor H. C. Eay, professor of metallurgy, 

 and sixteen undergraduates. The Sigma 

 Gamma Epsilon fraternity was founded at the 

 University of Kansas during the past year, 

 and its membership is confined to teachers of 

 geology, mining, or metallurgy, and students 

 who are specializing in those subjects. 



The executive committee of the Associa- 

 tion of American Universities held a meeting 

 at the University of Pennsylvania on January 

 24. There were present the following repre- 

 sentatives of five universities : Dr. Thomas Mc- 

 Bride, president of the State University of 

 Iowa, the president of the association; Presi- 

 dent Frank J. Goodnow, of Johns Hopkins 

 University, vice-president of the association; 

 President William A. Bryan, of Indiana Uni- 

 versity; President A. Ross Hill, of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri. The University of Penn- 

 sylvania was represented by Provost Edgar F. 



Smith and Dean Herman Y. Ames, the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, being secretary of the 

 association. The chief business before the 

 co m mittee was to arrange the next annual 

 meeting of the association, which it was voted 

 should be held next fall at Clark University, 

 Worcester, Mass. The following topics were 

 selected for discussion at that time : " How 

 Can Universities be Organized so as to Stimu- 

 late work for the Advancement of Science"; 

 " Military Training in Universities and Col- 

 leges " ; " The Correlation of Work for Higher 

 Degrees in the Graduate School and in Pro- 

 fessional Schools." 



For ten weeks during the summer of 1916 a 

 party of students and professors from the de- 

 partment of forestry of the New York State 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell University 

 will be in camp on the forest tract belonging 

 to Mr. T. C. Luther at the south end of Sara- 

 toga Lake. Last year the Cornell forestry de- 

 partment was in camp on a forest tract in the 

 Northern Adirondacks, on which an estimate 

 of the standing timber was made and a gen- 

 eral plan for management was drawn up. A 

 similar study will be made on Mr. Luther's 

 tract, except that in 1916, owing to the prox- 

 imity of this tract to numerous wood-using 

 miUs, greater attention can be paid to the 

 problems of forest utilization. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 A " Plan for the Development of the Uni- 

 versity of California Medical School " has 

 been formally adopted by the regents of the 

 University of California, as a policy to be 

 worked toward. The University of California 

 has now increased to a total of $162,221 per 

 annum its expenditures on medical instruction, 

 over and above the hospital receipts, and 

 within the next few months it will complete 

 the erection, at a cost of $616,000, of a new 

 216-bed teaching hospital. The regents have 

 now outlined as the immediate futiu-e needs 

 of the medical school, a new laboratory build- 

 for anatomy and pathology, to cost $150,000; 

 an " out-patient " building in conjunction 

 with the new teaching hospital, to cost $100,- 



