December 22, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



871 



ner, business will be resumed and proceed 

 until finished. 



A ladies' committee for the coming Wash- 

 ington meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science and the 

 aiRliated and other societies meeting at the 

 same time has been formed, with Mrs. Kobert 

 S. Woodward as chairman. Aside from the 

 general functions, which will include a recep- 

 tion following the address of President Taft 

 in the new National Museum on Wednesday 

 evening, December 27, a reception at the Cor- 

 coran Art Gallery on Thursday night, Decem- 

 ber 28, by invitation of the trustees of the 

 gallery, and an exhibition cavalry drill at 

 Fort Myer, Virginia, on Thursday afternoon, 

 the committee has arranged for a reception 

 and tea at the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington on Wednesday afternoon at the invita- 

 tion of Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Woodward. A tea 

 to the visiting women will be given at the 

 Cornell Women's Club of Washington at the 

 residence of Mrs. Frederick A. Holton, 2125 

 S Street, Northwest, on Thursday afternoon. 

 It is hoped that a tea can be arranged for 

 Friday at the Washington Club. Professor 

 and Mrs. Edgar Frisby will be at home to the 

 members of the Astronomical and Astrophys- 

 ical Society and accompanying ladies on Fri- 

 day evening from 8 to 10 o'clock. 



A li'EW yeai-s ago, the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science decided to 

 permit libraries desiring back numbers of 

 sets of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science Proceedings to have 

 them up to a certain number on the condition 

 of the payment of carriage charges by the re- 

 ceiving library. An announcement to this ef- 

 fect was published in Science at the time and 

 a number of institutions responded. During 

 the removal of the office in Washington, how- 

 ever, the list was unfortunately lost. Libraries 

 which responded to the former request are 

 urged to notify the permanent secretary, Dr. 

 L. O. Howard, Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, D. C, especially stating that 

 they are willing to pay the freight or express 

 charges. The publications will then be sent. 



Other libraries desiring the Proceedings on 

 these conditions are invited to notify the 

 permanent secretary. 



The readers of Science will probably recall 

 the obituary notice of Miss Matilda H. 

 Smith published in the issue of Science for 

 August 5, 1910, in which mention was made of 

 the benefactions of the deceased and her 

 sister, Miss Jennie M. Smith, to the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 by occasional payments of life membership 

 fees for worthy scientific men of relatively 

 small means. The permanent secretary has 

 received word of the death of the sister. Miss 

 Jennie M. Smith, and a copy of her will in 

 which it is requested that the sum of $5,000 

 should be given to the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, the said sum 

 to be invested and the net income to be de- 

 voted to the creation of new life memberships 

 in the Association. Under the terms of the 

 will, similar bequests arc made to the National 

 Geographic Society of Washington and to the 

 American Forestry Association of Washing- 

 ton. Other items in this will which are of 

 interest to scientific men are as follows: 

 $10,000 to the University of Pittsburgh, the 

 income of which is to be used in the purchase 

 of books and mineral specimens and the en- 

 largement generally of the collection in the 

 university known as " Smith's Collections." 

 $10,000 to the Allegheny Observatory. $5,000 

 to the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 

 the same to be invested and the net income to 

 be devoted to the support of scholarships to 

 be known as the Matilda H. and the Jane M. 

 Smith Scholarships. $10,000 to the Allegheny 

 General Hospital. $10,000 to the West Penn 

 Hospital. The remainder of the estate is 

 divided among her relatives and church and 

 philanthropical organizations. 



As has already been noted here an institu- 

 tion for furthering the progress of scientific 

 chemistry without the obligation of teaching 

 is to be founded at Dahlom near Berlin. The 

 institute is to be erected jointly by a society 

 consisting principally of proprietors of chem- 

 ical factories and the state of Prussia. The 



