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Moerlback Brewery, 

 German-American Button Co., 

 Genessee Eeduetion Co., 

 Municipal Incinerator, 

 Steoker Lithographic Co., 

 and possibly others. 



The following are the addresses of the di- 

 visional and sectional secretaries: 



Industrial Division — S. H. Salisbury, Jr., Lehigh 

 University, South Bethlehem, Pa. 



Physical and Inorganic — E. C. Wells, U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey, Washington, D. C. 



Fertilizer — J. E. Breckenridge, Carteret, N. J. 



Agricultural and Food — G. F. Mason, care of 

 Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Organic — Wm., J. Hale, University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Pharmaceutical — Frank E. Eldred, 3325 Kenwood 

 Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 



Subber — Dorris Whipple, care of The Safety In- 

 sulated Wire and Cable Co., Bayonne, N. J. 



Biological — I. K. Phelps, Bureau of Mines, 40th 

 and Butler Sts., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Joseph Swain, president of Swarthniore 

 College, was elected president of the National 

 Educational Association at its recent Salt 

 Lake City meeting. Dr. Eobert J. Aley, presi- 

 dent of the University of Maine, was elected 

 president of the National Council of Educa- 

 tion. 



The fourteenth series of the Lane medical 

 lectures will be given by Professor Sir Edward 

 Schafer, professor of physiology, University 

 of Edinburgh. These lectures will be upon 

 " The Functions of the Ductless Glands espe- 

 cially in relation to other Secreting Organs." 

 They will be delivered on the evenings of 

 September 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9, in the Lane Hall 

 of the Stanford University Medical Depart- 

 ment, Sail Francisco. 



The Berlin Academy of Science has awarded 

 its gold Leibnitz medal to Professor Georg 

 Schweinfurth for his explorations and re- 

 searches in Africa. 



Professor Eudolf Sturm, the distin- 

 guished mathematician of the University of 

 Breslau, has celebrated the fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of his doctorate. 



Me. "William Stanley, of Great Barrington, 

 Mass., electrical inventor and engineer, has 

 received the Edison gold medal awarded by 

 the American Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers for meritorious achievement in elec- 

 tricity. 



The Michigan Agricultural College has con- 

 ferred the degree of doctor of science upon 

 Mr. William A. Taylor, chief of the bureau of 

 Plant Industry, United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. Erwln E. Smith, plant pathologist, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, has been awarded a certificate 

 of merit by the American Medical Association. 

 This was consequent upon an exhibit made by 

 Dr. Smith at the recent annual meeting of 

 association at Minneapolis illustrative of the 

 results of his researches upon cancer in plants. 

 On June 28 Dr. Smith delivered an address 

 upon this subject at the University of Wis- 

 consin under the auspices of the Department 

 of Plant Pathology. 



Dean W. F. M. Goss, of the engineering 

 college, University of Illinois, has been 

 granted leave of absence for one year begin- 

 ning July 1, 1913, to enable him to serve as 

 chief engineer to the Chicago Association of 

 Commerce committee on the investigation of 

 smoke abatement and the electrification of 

 railway terminals. 



Dr. J. S. Flett, F.R.S., assistant director, 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain; Dr. A. 

 Lacroix, professor of mineralogy, Natural His- 

 tory Museum, Paris, and Professor E. Wein- 

 schenlv, Munich, have been elected life honor- 

 ary members of the Geological Society of 

 South Africa. 



The alumni of Adelbert College, Western 

 Reserve University, at the last commencement 

 adopted the following resolution : 



Whereas: Charles J. Smith has continuously 

 filled the chair of mathematics in this college for 

 a period of forty-three years and is about to re- 

 linquish the duties of an active professor, and 



Whereas: The alumni thereof duly appreciate 

 his long and honorable career as such professor 

 and the personal benefits they have derived from 

 his instruction. 



