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in the pack ice for ten months, covering a dis- 

 tance of 1,200 miles. Her rudder was snapped 

 off, but after drifting free of the ice field the 

 crew constructed a temporary steering gear. 

 Unless the damage to the Aurora was too 

 serious, it is thought possible she may be in 

 condition to return to the relief of the Mcin- 

 tosh party. If a relief ship is fitted out at 

 once it may reach Cape Crozier and escape be- 

 fore winter at the South Pole, coming in June 

 and July, closes the ice barrier again. It is 

 most probable, however, that no relief ship will 

 reach the cape until next December unless the 

 Aurora is in shape to return. 



The meetings of the Biochemical Division 

 will be held in connection with the spring 

 meeting of the American Chemical Society at 

 TJrbana on Wednesday morning, April 19, and 

 Thursday morning and afternoon, April 20. 

 The sessions on Thursday will be devoted to 

 the presentation and discussion of papers con- 

 cerning biochemical phases of home economics. 

 This notice is given to correct the erroneous 

 dates published in the earlier announcement. 



The third annual joint meeting of the 

 American Geographical Society and the As- 

 sociation of American Geographers will be 

 held in New York on April 14 and 15. The 

 papers will be delivered at the Hispanic Mu- 

 seum, Broadway and 156th Street, New York 

 City, in the same quadrangle with the Ameri- 

 can Geographical Society building. The fol- 

 lowing program has been arranged, to which 

 all interested are invited: 

 Friday Morning Session (from 10:30 to 12:30) 



Leon Bominian, "The Geographic Foundation 

 of Turkey's World Eelations." 



Mary VerhoefiE, "The Kentucky Eiver in Eola- 

 tion to the Kentucky Mountains." Illustrated. 



Friday Afternoon Session (from 2:00 to 5:00) 



Henry B. Bigelow, " Oceanographic Explora- 

 tions of the East Coast of the United States." 

 Illustrated. 



H. C. Taylor, "Economic Factors Influencing 

 the Geographical Distribution of Crops and Live- 

 stock in the United States. ' ' Illustrated. 



A. Hamilton Eice, "Explorations in the North- 

 west Amazon Valley." Illustrated. 

 Saturday Morning Session (from 10:30 to 1:00) 



Albert P. Brigham, ' ' Physiographic Provinces 

 of New York." 



Harrison W. Smith, ' ' Personal Experiences in 

 the Society Islands and Borneo." Illustrated. 



Ernest P. Goodrich, "Some Geographic Prob- 

 lems Incident to the Growth of a Great City — New 

 York. ' ' Illustrated. 



At the meeting of the New York Section of 

 the American Chemical Society, on April 7, 

 the subject of " University and Industry " will 

 be discussed from the point of view of the in- 

 dustries by William H. Nichols. Discussion 

 ■will follow by Marston T. Bogert, Columbia 

 University ; Eleon H. Hooker, Hooker Electro- 

 chemical Company; Phoebus A. Levene, The 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 and Benjamin L. Murray, Merck & Company. 



The meeting of the Astronomical Society 

 of the Pacific was held on March 25, at the 

 Students Observatory, Berkeley, when the fol- 

 lowing program was presented: "Comet A 

 1916 " (Neujmin), by Miss Jessica M. Young. 

 " The Eiefler Clock," by Professor R. T. Craw- 

 ford. " On the Universality of the Law of 

 Gravitation," by Professor A. O. Leusehner. 



The Washington Academy of Sciences an- 

 nounces a series of illustrated lectures on nu- 

 trition, open to the public, to be given on Fri- 

 day afternoons during April, 1916, at 4:45 

 o'clock, in the auditorium of the New National 

 Museum. The lectures and the subjects of 

 their addresses are as follows: 



April 7. Dr. Eugene F. DuBois, medical di- 

 rector Russell Sage Institute of Pathology, New- 

 York: "The Basal Food Eequirement of Man." 



April 14. Dr. Graham Lusk, professor of physi- 

 ology, Cornell University Medical College: "Nu- 

 trition and Food Economics." 



April 21. Dr. E. B. Forbes, chief, department 

 of nutrition, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion: "Investigations on the Mineral Metabolism 

 of Animals." 



April 28. Dr. Carl Voegtlin, U. S. Public 

 Health Service, Washington: "The Eelation of 

 the Vitamines to Nutrition in Health and Disease. ' ' 



A COURSE of six lectures on military admin- 

 istration, medicine and surgery is being given 

 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 

 Columbia University, on Tuesdays, at 5 p.m., 

 begiiming March 28. The lectures, which are 



