December 12, 1913] 



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tional scientific societies will meet together with 

 the Association, which thus becomes a national 

 congress, at which all the most important work 

 and the most important problems of science and 

 scientific education are adequately discussed. The 

 paying of the expenses of delegates is not an inno- 

 vation, as it is already the custom of several insti- 

 tutions, and in Europe it is the general custom, 

 owing to the belief that the sending of official 

 delegates to important scientific meetings is of 

 great benefit to the institutions they represent. 



Members of the association are requested 

 by tbe committee to use their influence to 

 secure the appointment of delegates from the 

 institutions vs^ith which they are connected. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Booker T. Waspiington, principal of 

 the Tuskegee Industrial Institute, Alabama, 

 extends a cordial invitation to the members of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and of the affiliated societies 

 to visit the institute at the close of the Atlanta 

 meeting. 



A PORTRAIT of the late Dr. Morris Loeb, 

 formerly professor of chemistry at New York 

 ITniversity, was unveiled in the Gould Mem- 

 orial Library at New York University on 

 December 4. Mrs. Loeb, who presented the 

 portrait, was present at the exercises, and 

 Chancellor Elmer E. Brown accepted the gift 

 in behalf of the university. Speeches of trib- 

 ute to Dr. Loeb's memory were delivered by 

 Dr. Arthur E. Hill, director of the Havemeyer 

 chemical laboratory, of New York University, 

 and Professor Charles Baskerville, director of 

 the laboratory at the College of the City of 

 New York. 



The Grashof Medal was presented to Mr. 

 George Westinghouse at the recent meeting of 

 the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 

 neers. The medal was awarded to him last 

 summer at the joint meeting at Leipzig of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 

 and the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure. 



On the evening of December 17, the faculty 

 of Brown University will give a dinner to Pro- 

 fessor John H. Appleton, Newport-Rogers 

 professor of chemistry, who this year com- 



pletes fifty years of service. Professor Apple- 

 ton began teaching at Brown University at the 

 unusually early age of nineteen. 



Dr. Shosuke Sato, professor and dean of 

 the Agricultural College of the Tohoku Uni- 

 versity, has been designated as exchange pro- 

 fessor at the American universities. He was 

 a student of agricultural economy at Johns 

 Hopkins University and also in Germany from 

 1882 to 1886. 



Professor A. A. Noyes, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, will during the 

 second semester of the year conduct courses 

 and give lectures in chemistry at the Throop 

 College of Technology, Pasadena, Cal. 



Major F. E. Russell, formerly professor of 

 bacteriology and pathology at the Army Medi- 

 cal School, Washington, D, C, has been ap- 

 pointed lecturer in tropical medicine at the 

 New York Post-Graduate Medical School and 

 Hospital. Major E. R. Whitemore, recently 

 lecturer in tropical medicine at the Post- 

 Graduate Medical School, has been transferred 

 to Washington, and is now professor of bac- 

 teriology and pathology at the Army Medical 

 School. 



Capt. J. F. SiLER, of the Medical Corps of 

 the United States Army, and Mr. A. H. Jen- 

 nings, of the Bureau of Entomology, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, have recently returned 

 from the West Indies, where, in association 

 with Dr. Louis W. Sambon, of the London 

 School of Tropical Medicine, they have been 

 investigating pellagra and other tropical dis- 

 eases in the interests of the Thompson-Mc- 

 Fadden Pellagra Commission of the New York 

 Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. 



M. Jean Perrin, professor of physical 

 chemistry at the University of Paris and at 

 present exchange professor at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, gave an illustrated lecture on Decem- 

 ber 4, on " Brownian Movement and Molecular 

 Reality " at a joint meeting of the Washington 

 Academy of Sciences and the Philosophical 

 Society of Washington, 



Dr. Max Planck has been installed as rector 

 of the University of Berlin and gave on the 



