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[N. S. Vol. XLII. No. 1091 



of Chemical Industries: Eaymond F. Bacon, 

 Chas. H. Herty, Henry B. Faber, A. D. Little, 



E. F. Eoeber, George D. Eosengarten, T. B. 

 Wagner, L. H. Baekeland, M. C. Whitaker, 

 B. C. Hesse, Adriaan Nagelvoort and Chas. 



F. Eoth; also Mr. E. D. Hollman and Mr. F. 

 W. Payne of the International Exposition 

 Company were present, all of whom will serve 

 on the advisory committee for the 1916 Na- 

 tional Exposition of Chemical Industries to 

 be held at the Grand Central Palace, New 

 York City, during the week of September 25, 

 1916. Dr. Chas. H. Herty was elected to 

 serve as chairman of the committee for the 

 coming year. Plans for enlarging and in- 

 creasing the scope of the exposition were laid, 

 which will assure a very large exposition both 

 from the attendance standpoint as well as ex- 

 hibits. The plans include using several floors 

 of the Grand Central Palace, with speakers in 

 the evening and motion pictures during the 

 day from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 



The anniversary meeting of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine, held on November IS, 

 was devoted to the subject " Disease and 

 Crime — an Analogy." The speakers were 

 George W. Wickersham, president of the Bar 

 Association of New York, " The Concern of 

 Society in the Problem of Crime"; Thomas 

 Mott Osborne, warden of Sing Sing prison, 

 " The Part which Penal Institutions Might 

 be Made to Play in the Solution of the Prob- 

 lem," and Judge Harry Olson, chief justice 

 of the Municipal Court of Chicago, " The 

 Progress that has been Made and What the 

 Future Promises." 



Dr. Heset Charlton Bastiax, the distin- 

 guished London neurologist, the author also 

 of books on the origin of life, died on Novem- 

 ber 17, at the age of eighty years. 



Eaphael Meldola, professor of organic 

 chemistry in the Fniversity of London, died on 

 November 16, at the age of sixty-six years. 



Dr. Philippe Hatt, the French astronomer 

 and hydrographic engineer, has died at the age 

 of seventy-five years. 



Dr. F. Hasenohrl, professor of physics at 

 Vienna, has been killed in the war. He suc- 



ceeded Boltzmann, whose pupil he was and 

 whose works he edited, in the chair at Vienna. 



The twenty-fourth meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Psychological Association wiU be held at 

 the University of Chicago, on December 28, 

 29 and 30. The annual dinner-smoker, with 

 the address of the president. Professor John 

 B. Watson, will occur at the Quadrangle Club 

 on the evening of December 29. 



The iifteenth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Philosophical Association will be held at 

 Philadelphia, Pa., on December 28, 29 and 30, 

 in acceptance of the invitation of the philo- 

 sophical department of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. The session will begin on Tuesday 

 afternoon. The meeting will have some spe- 

 cial features, which will be announced when 

 arrangements are completed. The associa- 

 tion meets alone this year, and there wiU be no 

 joint discussion, and no special topic as at 

 recent meetings. 



According to the Weehly Bulletin of the 

 New York City Department of Health in a 

 service of less than two years as commissioner 

 of health of the city of New York, Dr. S. S. 

 Goldwater eifected the following reforms : 



1. Placing most of the important supervisory 

 positions on a full-time basis, with a correspond- 

 ing increase in the salaries attaching to the posi- 

 tions. 



2. Establishing a bureau of public health educa- 

 tion under a director chosen as the result of an 

 open competitive examination, and insisting on 

 education as an indispensable factor in public 

 health administration. 



3. Establishing a division of industrial hygiene, 

 thereby properly claiming as a health department 

 function an important but hitherto neglected field 

 of public health activity. 



4. Establishing a division of statistical research 

 by readjustment of existing positions within the 

 bureau of records. 



5. Revision of the sanitary code and formula- 

 tion of a complete set of regulations thereunder. 



6. Advancing the work of school medical inspec- 

 tion by providing that private physicians may 

 make the required physical examinations. 



7. Broadening the application of the dog muz- 

 zling ordinance and thereby reducing the preva- 

 lence of dog bites and the number of rabid animals 

 in this city. 



