OCTOBEE 15, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



523 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The National Academy of Sciences will hold 

 its autumn meeting at the American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York City, on 

 November 15, 16 and lY. 



Section II of the Pan-American Scientific 

 Congress will discuss problems of international 

 interest in astronomy and geodesy and in 

 meteorology and seismology. The chairman of 

 this section is Dr. Eobert S. Woodward, presi- 

 dent of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton. It is divided into two sub-sections: 

 astronomy and geodesy, of which Dr. Wood- 

 ward is the chairman; and meteorology and 

 seismology, of which Professor Charles Fred- 

 erick Marvin, chief of the United States 

 Weather Bureau, is chairman. Among the 

 topics to be discussed are : (1) The desirability 

 and feasibility of extending a gravimetric 

 survey to cover the American continents. (2) 

 Present condition, needs and prospects of 

 meteorological and seismological work in each 

 of the participating countries of the Scientific 

 Congress. The report from each country- 

 should contain a list of all meteorological and 

 seismological stations and other local informa- 

 tion pertinent to this report in that country. 



Ten additional directors, to represent the 

 important institutions interested in aeronaut- 

 ics, have been added to the executive board of 

 the American Society of Aeronautic Engi- 

 neers. The appointments are as follows : U. S. 

 Army: Captain A. S. Cowan, commanding 

 S. C. A. S., and Captain V. E. Clark, chief 

 aeronautical engineer, U. S. Army. U. S. 

 Navy: Lieutenant Commander Henry 0. Mus- 

 tin and C. Holden Richardson, naval con- 

 structor. Smithsonian Institution : Dr. Albert 

 F. Zahm. Weather Bureau: Professor Wm. 

 R. Blair, in charge of aerological investigation. 

 Bureau of Standards: Dr. D. E. Buckingham. 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Lieu- 

 tenant Jerome C. Hunsaker, TJ. S. N. Uni- 

 versity of Michigan: Dr. Herbert C. Sadler. 

 Aero Club of America: Alan E. Hawley. 



There has been appointed a British govern- 

 mental committee to consider and advise on 

 questions of industrial fatigue, hours of labor, 



and other matters affecting the personal health 

 and physical efficiency of workers in muni- 

 tion factories and workshops. The committee 

 is constituted as follows: Sir Greorge Nevtrman 

 (chairman) ; Sir Thomas Barlow, G. Bell- 

 house, Professor A. E. Boycott, J. E. Clynes, 

 E. L. Collis, W. M. Fletcher, Leonard E. Hill, 

 Samuel Osborn, Miss R. E. Squire and Mrs. 

 H. J. Tennant. 



Dr. John D. Blake, Baltimore, has been 

 appointed commissioner of health to succeed 

 Dr. Nathan E. Gorter. Dr. Gorter has been 

 appointed a member of the Maryland State 

 Board of Health. 



Dr. Milton J. Eosenau has resigned as a 

 member of the Public Health Council of Bos- 

 ton and has been succeeded by John T. Wheel- 

 right. 



Before the Geographic Society of Chicago 

 on October 8, a lecture was given by Dr. Henry 

 C. Cowles, of the University of Chicago, on 

 " Eomanee and Eeality from the Mississippi 

 Bottom Lands." 



At the stated meeting of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine, on October Y, Dr. 

 George W. Crile, of the Western Eeserve Uni- 

 versity, delivered the Wesley M. Carpenter 

 lecture on " Kinetic Drive — Its Phenomena 

 and Its Control." 



A TABLET was unveiled, on September 18, in 

 Cheltenham College Chapel, and a life-size 

 portrait by Mr. Hugh Eiviere in the College 

 Library, to the memory of Dr. E. A. Wilson, 

 who perished with Captain Scott in the Ant- 

 arctic. The late Dr. Wilson was educated at 

 Cheltenham College. 



Susanna Phelps Gage, known for her work 

 on comparative anatomy, has died at the age 

 of fifty-eight years. Mrs. Gage received the 

 degree of doctor of philosophy from Cornell 

 University in 1880. She was the wife of Pro- 

 fessor S. H. Gage. 



William Henry Hoar Hudson, late fellow 

 of St. John's College, Cambridge, and pro- 

 fessor of mathematics at King's College, Lon- 

 don, died on September 21, aged seventy-six 

 years. 



