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The central committee is composed of Admiral 

 Fisher, chairman, Sir Joseph John Thomson, 

 Cavendish professor of experimental physics 

 at Cambridge University; Sir Charles A. Par- 

 sons, and Mr. George T. Beilby, chairman of 

 the Eoyal Technical College at Glasgow. The 

 consulting panel includes the following and 

 will be added to from time to time as such ac- 

 tion becomes necessary: Herbert B. Baker, 

 professor of chemistry at the Imperial College 

 of Science and Technology, London; William 

 H. Bragg, Cavendish professor of physics. 

 University of Leeds; H. G. H. Carpenter, pro- 

 fessor of metallurgy in the Eoyal School of 

 Mines; Percy F. Frankland, professor of 

 chemistry and dean of the faculty of science. 

 University of Birmingham; Bertram Hopkin- 

 son, professor of mechanism and applied me- 

 chanics, Cambridge University; William 

 Jackson Pope, professor of chemistry, Cam- 

 bridge University; the Hon. Robert J. Strutt, 

 professor of physics. Imperial College of Sci- 

 ence; Sir William Crookes, the well-knovra. 

 chemist; Mr. William Duddell, electrical engi- 

 neer; Sir Oliver J. Lodge, principal of the 

 University of Birmingham; Sir Ernest Ruth- 

 erford, professor of physics. University of 

 Manchester, and Mr. George Gerald Stoney, a 

 consulting engineer. 



Secretary Daniels announced on July 19 

 that he had that day written to eight leading 

 scientific societies asking each of them to se- 

 lect two members to serve on the proposed 

 Naval Advisory Committee on inventions, of 

 which Mr. Thomas A. Edison has accepted the 

 chairmanship. The societies are: American 

 Chemical Society, President Charles H. 

 Herty; American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers, President Paul M. Lincoln; American 

 Institute of Mining Engineers (metals). Presi- 

 dent Benjamin B. Thayer; American Mathe- 

 matical Society, President E. W. Brown; 

 American Society of Civil Engineers, Presi- 

 dent Hunter MacDonald; American Society 

 of Mechanical Engineers, President James 

 Hartness; American Aeronautical Society, 

 Acting President Frederick W. Baker, and 

 the Inventors' Guild, President Dr. Edward 

 Weston. 



The New York Times states that " when the 

 attention of Secretary Daniels was called to 

 the fact that he had not invited the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 or the National Academy of Sciences to par- 

 ticipate in the naming of the board, Mr. Dan- 

 iels answered that it was not his purpose to 

 overlook any of the leading scientific bodies 

 and that it was altogether possible that addi- 

 tional invitations might be sent to several 

 other societies. The American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science was organized in 

 1848 and now has a membership of 8,100. The 

 National Academy of Sciences, incorporated 

 by Act of Congress on March 3, 1863, is com- 

 posed of 139 members and 49 foreign associ- 

 ates. The act of congress provides that the 

 academy ' shall, whenever called upon by any 

 department of the government, investigate, ex- 

 amine, experiment and report upon any sub- 

 ject of science or art, the actual expense to be 

 paid from appropriations which may be made 

 for the purpose.' " 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. William H. Welch, professor of pathol- 

 ogy in the Johns Hopkins University, sailed 

 for China on July 17, and Dr. Simon Flexner, 

 director of the laboratories of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research, will join him 

 there. They go on behalf of the China Med- 

 ical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation to 

 report on the medical schools and hospitals. 



A MARBLE chair is about to be placed in the 

 open-air Greek Theater of the University of 

 California in honor of Eugene Waldemar 

 Hilgard, professor of agriculture and dean 

 of the College of Agriculture from 1875 to 

 1906, and now professor emeritus. 



The next course of Lane medical lectures 

 before the School of Medicine of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, will be given by Dr. Frank Billings, 

 of Chicago. Dr. Billings will speak on " Focal 

 Infection." The five lectures will be delivered 

 the evenings of the week of September 20 to 

 September 25, 1915. Dr. Billings has also 

 agreed to give some clinical demonstrations. 



Prince Boris Galitzin", professor of physics 

 in the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Petro- 



