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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLII. No. 1076 



4.30 P.M. — Automobile trip over boulevards. 

 S P.M. — President's address, President Charles H. 

 Herty. Business meeting. 



Thursday, September 2 

 Excursion on Puget Sound. 



8 P.M. — 'Subscription banquet (place to be ar- 

 ranged) price, $3. 



Following are the addresses of the divisional 

 secretaries : 



Divisions : 



Agricultural and Food Chemistry: Gr. Y. Mason, 

 H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Biological Chemistry: I. K. Phelps, Bureau of 

 Chemistry, Washington, D. C. 



Fertilizer Chemistry: B. F. Carpenter, Virginia- 

 Carolina Chemical Company, Richmond, Va. 



Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers: 

 S. H. Salisbury, Jr., Lehigh University, South 

 Bethlehem, Pa. 



Organic Chemistry: C. G. Deriek, 619 Indiana 

 Ave, Urbana, III. 



Pharmaceutical Chemistry: F. B. Eldred, Chair- 

 man, Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Physical and Inorganic Chemistry: E. C. Wells, 

 U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 

 Section : 



Water Sewage and Sanitation: Harry P. Cor- 

 son, State Water Survey, Urbana, Illinois. 



Abstracts of papers should be prepared and 

 brought to the meeting, or, even better, sent to 

 the secretary in advance thereof. Members 

 sometimes fail to realize how important this is 

 to the success of the society and to the proper 

 advertisement of the meeting itself. Unless 

 abstracts of the papers are brought to the meet- 

 ing and early placed in the hands of the secre- 

 tary, there is no opportunity for proper public- 

 ity in the local press, which is of very great 

 advantage to the society. Members will greatly 

 aid the secretary's office by remembering this 

 fact. Articles not exceeding 100 words in 

 length will be printed in Science. 



The final program will be sent to all mem- 

 bers of the Puget Sound Section, to members 

 of the council, and to all members who make 

 special request therefor by postal card to this 

 office. The expense of printing and mailing 

 this program is so great that it will be sent only 

 to those who especially desire it on account of 



their intention of attending the meeting. 

 Other members will find it printed in the soci- 

 ety's journals. Charles L. Parsons, 



Secretary 

 Box 505, Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Baumgartner prize of the Vienna Acad- 

 emy of Sciences has been awarded to Dr. Hein- 

 rich Rubens, professor of experimental physios 

 in the University of Berlin. Other prizes have 

 been awarded to Dr. Gustav Herglotz, professor 

 of mathematics at Leipzig, and to Dr. Wilhelm 

 Trendelenburg, professor of physiology at 

 Innsbruck. 



Professor Willett G. Miller, provincial 

 geologist of Ontario, has been awarded the gold 

 medal of the Institute of Mining and Metal- 

 lurgy of Great Britain. 



Professor E. A. Millikan, of the Depart- 

 ment of Physics, has been elected president of 

 the University of Chicago Chapter of Phi Beta 

 Kappa. 



Mr. H. W. Monckton, Dr. A. B. Rendle, 

 Professor A. C. Seward and Dr. A. E. Shipley 

 have been appointed vice-presidents of the 

 Linnean Society for the ensuing year. 



At the last meeting of the general committee 

 of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Sir 

 Thomas Barlow was nominated for election as 

 an additional member of the executive com- 

 mittee, and Sir Rickman J. Godlee was elected 

 a member of the general committee. 



Dr. Wilhelm Trabert has, on account of his 

 health, retired from the chair of physics in the 

 University of Vienna and from the director- 

 ship of the Bureau of Meteorology and Greody- 

 namics. 



Dr. Karl Eedlich, professor of geology in 

 the German Technical School at Prague, has 

 been elected to be rector for the forthcoming 

 year. 



The trustees of the Beit fellowships for 

 scientific research, which were founded and en- 

 dowed two years ago by Mr. Otto Beit in order 

 to promote the advancement of science by 

 means of research, have, as we learn from the 



