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adequate thoroughness. The test of such 

 methods by time, in the American engineer- 

 ing schools, is not yet complete. Indeed the 

 last steps are quite young in our practise; 

 but they stand high by a priori tests, and 

 the few years ' trial thus far made indicates 

 an ideal result from the interassociation in 

 the same laboratory of the undergraduate 

 laboratory instruction by problems and the 

 postgraduate laboratory research. 



DuGALD C. Jackson 

 Massachusetts Institute 

 OF Technology 



THE JOSEPH A. HOLMES SAFETY 

 ASSOCIATION 



Mention has already been made in the 

 columns of Science of the movement to start 

 a memorial to the late Dr. Joseph A. Holmes 

 and an account of the preliminary meeting of 

 representatives of different national associa- 

 tions was given in the same article.^ 



The first meeting of the permanent associa- 

 tion was held in the IT. S. Bureau of Mines, 

 Washington, on March 4 last. The following 

 organizations were represented: 

 American Institute of Mining Engineers, Hennen 



Jennings. 

 American Mining Congress, Dr. David T. Day. 

 American Federation of Labor, A. E. Holder. 

 Mining and Metallurgical Society, Dr. George Otis 



Smith. 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Gen- 

 eral W. H. Bixby. 

 American Institute of Electrical Engineers, John 



H. Finney. 

 American Electro-Chemical Society, Dr. P. G. Cot- 



trel. 

 American Association for the Advancement of 



Science, Dr. L. 0. Howard. 

 American Chemical Society, S. S. Voorhees. 

 Geological Society of America, Dr. Joseph Hyde 



Pratt. 

 National Academy of Sciences, Dr. David White. 

 American Red Cross Society, Dr. Eobert IT. Patter- 

 son. 

 Western Federation of Miners, Joseph D. Cannon. 

 Mine Inspectors Institute, J. W. Paul. 



iSee Science, Vol. XLIIL, No. 1101, February 

 4, 1916, pp. 164-165. 



Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- 

 tion, Professor O. P. Hood (vice Professor 



Wadsworth). 



Letters of regret were received from the 

 following : 



United Mine Workers of America, William Green. 

 National Safety Council, H. M. Wilson. 

 . American Forestry Association, P. Eisdale. 

 American Society of Testing Materials, A. W. 



Gibbs. 



The permanent organization was effected 

 under the name of the Joseph A. Holmes 

 Safety Association and the following officers 

 were elected: 



President, the Chief of the U. S. Bureau of 

 Mines (Mr. Manning). 



First Vice-president, the Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution (Dr. Walcott). 



Second Vice-president, the President of the 

 American Federation of Labor (Mr. Gompers). 



The members of the executive committee to 

 serve with the other officers were elected as 

 follows : 

 Mr. Hennen Jennings, representing the American 



Institute of Mining Engineers. 

 Dr. John A. Brashear, of Pittsburgh. 



The present functions of the association 

 were formulated as follows: 



1. That annually the association shall make one 

 or more awards with honorariums to be known as 

 "The Holmes Award" for the encouragement of 

 those originating, developing and installing the 

 most efficient safety devices, appliances or meth- 

 ods, in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical and 

 mineral industries during the previous year, these 

 awards to be the result of reports and investiga- 

 tions made by the secretary and the representa- 

 tives of the association. 



2. From time to time the association shall also 

 make suitable awards for personal heroism or dis- 

 tinguished service or the saving of life in any 

 branch of the mining, quarrying, metallurgical and' 

 mineral industries. 



3. Once a year a meeting of the association shall 

 be held in the city of Washington at which all 

 awards will be publicly announced. 



CONVOCATION WEEK MEETING AND 



THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL 



SOCIETY 



The council of the American Chemical 

 Society has by a vote of 61 to 31 declined to 



