September 17j 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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THE NAVAL ADVISOEY BOAED OF INVEN- 

 TIONS 



The secretary of the navy has announced 

 • the membership of the ISTaval Advisory Board 

 of Inventions which consists of twenty-three 

 members, including Mr. Thomas A. Edison, 

 who was selected by Mr. Daniels to serve as 

 the presiding officer of the board. The other 

 twenty-two members of the board who were 

 chosen by ballot by eleven scientific societies 

 invited by the secretary of the navy are : 



American Chemical Society. — W. E. Whit- 

 ney, Schenectady, N. T. Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, '90. Director of Research 

 Laboratory of the General Electric Company. 

 L. H. Baekeland, Tonkers, N. T. University 

 of Ghent, '82. In private chemical practise. 



American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

 — Erank Julian Sprague, New York City. 

 Naval Academy, "78. Consulting engineer for 

 Sprague, Otis and General Electric Companies. 

 B. G. Lamme, Pittsburgh. Ohio State, '88. 

 Chief engineer of Westinghouse Electric and 

 Manufacturing Company. 



American Mathematical Society. — Robert 

 Simpson Woodward, Washington, D. C. 

 Michigan, '72. President of Carnegie Institu- 

 tion. Arthur Gordon Webster, Worcester, 

 Mass. Harvard, '85. Professor of physics, 

 Clark University. 



American Society of Civil Engineers. — 

 Andrew Murray Hunt, New York City. Naval 

 Academy, '79. Consulting engineer. Alfred 

 Craven, New York City. Naval Academy, '67. 

 Chief engineer of public service commission 

 and formerly division engineer in charge of 

 construction work on Croton aqueduct and 

 reservoirs. 



American Aeronautical Society. — Matthew 

 Bacon Sellers, Baltimore, Md. Lawrence 

 Scientific School. Director of Technical 

 Board of the Aeronautical Society of America. 

 Hudson Maxim, Brooklyn, N. Y. Ordnance 

 and explosive expert. 



The Inventor's Ouild. — ^Peter Cooper Hewitt, 

 New York City. Inventor. Thomas Robbins, 

 Stamford, Conn. Princeton. President of 

 Robbins Conveying Belt Company. 



American Society of Automobile Engineers. 



— Andrew L. Riker, Detroit. Vice-president 

 of Locomobile Company. Electrical and me- 

 chanical engineer. Howard E. Coffin, Detroit. 

 Michigan, '96. President of Hudson Motor 

 Car Company. 



American Institute of Mining Engineers. — 

 William Laurence Saunders, New York City. 

 Pennsylvania, '76. Chairman board of direct- 

 ors, Ingersoll-Rand Company. Benjamin 

 Bowditch Thayer, New York City. Harvard, 

 '85. President of Anaconda Copper Mining 

 Company. 



American Electro-Chemical Society. — Joseph 

 William Richards, South Bethlehem, Pa. 

 Lehigh, '86. Professor of electro-chemistry, 

 Lehigh University. Lawrence Addicks, 

 Chrome, N. J. Mass. Inst., '89. Consulting 

 engineer for Phelps, Dodge & Co. 



American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers. — William Leroy Emmet, Schenectady, 

 N. Y. Naval Academy, '81. Engineer with 

 the General Electric Company. Spencer Miller, 

 South Orange, N. J. Worcester Polytechnic, 

 '79. Inventor. 



American Society of Aeronautic Engineers. 

 —Henry Alexander Wise Wood, New York 

 City. Engineer and manufacturer of printing. 

 Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Chicago. Cornell, 

 '76. Eounder of Sperry Electric Company. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Kael Eugen Guthe, professor of physics in 

 the University of Michigan and dean of the 

 Graduate School, died on September 11, fol- 

 lowing a surgical operation. He was born in 

 Hanover, Germany, on March 5, 1866. 



John Howard Van Ameinge, dean of Co- 

 lumbia College and professor of mathematics 

 until his retirement five years ago after a serv- 

 ice of fifty years, died on September 10, at the 

 age of seventy-nine years. 



The Institution of Mining Engineers will 

 present the institution medal for 1914-15 at 

 its twenty-sixth annual general meeting, to be 

 held at Leeds in September, to Dr. John Scott 

 Haldane, E.R.S., of Oxford, in recognition of 

 his investigations on mine air. 



Professor Julius Elster and Professor 

 Hans Geitel, who have carried on conjointly 



