December 24, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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"The money should be spent not on build- 

 ings, but on a national junkshop," where 

 means of defense can be tried out first, at 

 relatively small cost so as to learn how to 

 get the most and very best for the money, 

 and so as to avoid making expensive and 

 dangerous blunders on a wholesale scale. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the scientific societies 

 affiliated with it meet at the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, Columbus, Ohio, beginning on Mon- 

 day, December 27. The program of the meet- 

 ing has been printed in Science, and details 

 in regard to the places of meeting and the 

 officers of the different societies that meet 

 during convocation week will be found else- 

 where in the present issue of the journal. 



"We have not been able to obtain any pro- 

 gram of the Pan-American Scientific Congress 

 which meets in Washington for two weeks 

 beginning on December 27. It is possible that 

 after the adjournment of the Columbus meet- 

 ing of the American Association, the council 

 will call a special meeting at Washington in 

 conjunction with the congress. 



The nineteenth International Congress of 

 Americanists and the affiliated societies, 

 meeting in Washington from December 27 to 

 31, has an extensive program on which are 

 represented most American anthropologists 

 and a number of foreigners. 



The State Geographical Society of New 

 Mexico was organized in October with David 

 Ross Boyd, Ph.D., president of the state uni- 

 versity as president, and Governor McDonald, 

 Senator Catron, Ex-Governor Prince and Pro- 

 fessor C. T. Kirk, as vice-presidents. 



Dr. Erasmus Kittler, known for his work 

 in electro-technics, has been awarded an hon- 

 orary doctorate of engineering by the Darm- 

 stadt Technical School. 



Dr. Albert Stutzer, professor of agricul- 

 tural chemistry at Konigsberg, will retire 

 from active service at the close of the present 

 semester. 



Dr. Hugo Fischer has been appointed act- 

 ing head of the chemical and bacteriological 

 department of the Kaiser WiUiehn Depart- 

 ment for Agriculture in Bromberg. 



King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, has been rer 

 moved from the membership in the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Prance, which he has held 

 since 1882. His name has also been erased 

 from the membership list of the Petrograd 

 Entomological Society. In this society there 

 has been elected in his place, M. Lameere, of 

 Brussels, who is now working in the Paris 

 Museum of Natural History. 



The Massachusetts Agricultural College at 

 Amherst has sent Professor F. A. Waugh tO' 

 lecture to the students in landscape gardening 

 at the University of Illinois. In exchange, the- 

 Illinois Agricultural College has sent Profes- 

 sor E. E. Eoot to take charge of the classes of 

 Professor Waugh at Amherst. 



Dr. Charles S. Palmer, formerly professor 

 of chemistry in the University of Colorado, 

 and later consulting chemical engineer for 

 various manfacturing interests in New Eng- 

 land, has recently accepted a fellowship in the 

 Mellon Institute for Industrial Eesearch of the 

 University of Pittsburgh. 



At the last meeting of the Eumford Com- 

 mittee of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, the following appropriations were 

 made: $200 for the purchase of a comparator 

 to be used by Mr. Eaymond T. Birge, of Syra- 

 cuse University, in his researches in spectro- 

 scopy. $400, in addition to a former appro- 

 priation, to Professor P. W. Bridgman, of 

 Harvard University, in aid of his researches 

 upon thermal phenomena under high pressures. 

 $300, in addition to a former appropriation, to 

 Professor A. L. Clark, of Queens University, 

 in aid of his researches on the physical prop- 

 erties of vapors in the neighborhood of the 

 critical point. $300, in addition to a previous 

 appropriation, to Professor Gilbert N. Lewis, 

 of the University of California, in aid of his 

 researches on free energy. 



Professor Benjamin Miller, of Lehigh 

 University, and Dr. Joseph T. Singewald, Jr., 

 associate in economic geology at the Johns 



