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certain of the electrochemical plants which are 

 open to visitors, and to other points of interest 

 in the vicinity. 



Thursday evening there will be a smoker 

 and entertainment. Friday evening a dance 

 and reception at the Cataract House. Satur- 

 day evening will be devoted to a trip to 

 Niagara-on-the-Lakc, Youngstown and Port 

 Niagara by boat and trolley. 



The following titles of papers have been 

 announced : 



P. G. S.\L0M : ' A New Type of Electrolj-tic 

 Cell.' 



Dr. George P. ScnoLL: ' Manufacture of Ferro- 

 AUoys in the Electric Furnace.' 



Dr. W. D. Banchoft : ' Electrolytic Copper Re- 

 fining.' 



Dr. \V. H. Walker: 'Electrometallurgy of 

 Gold.' 



F. A. J. FitzGer.vld: 'Some Theoretical Con- 

 siderations of Resistance Furnaces.' 



F. Austin Lidbury: ' On the Supposed Electrol- 

 ysis of Water Vapor.' 



Professor 0. W. Brown: 'Efficiency of the 

 Nickel Plating Tank.' 



Carl Hambvechex: 'Electrolysis of .Sodium 

 Hydro.\ide, by Alternating Current.' 



Professor C. F. Burgess: 'A Practical Utili- 

 zation of the Passive State of Iron.' 



Dr. E. F. Roeber: 'The Present Status of the 

 Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation.' 



C. J. Reed: ' Berthelot's Law of Electrochem- 

 ical Action.' 



Other papers are expected from Dr. J. W. 

 Richards, David H. Browne, Dr. L. Kahlen- 

 berg. Professor C. F. Burgess, A. H. Cowles 

 and others. One session of the meeting will 

 be devoted to the discussion of the theory of 

 electrolytic dissociation, which will be opened 

 by Dr. W. D. Bancroft. 



It is announced that "negotiations have now 

 been practically completed for supplying to all 

 members free the Transactions of the London 

 Faraday Society (the recently formed British 

 Electrochemical Society), which are published 

 in the Electrochemist and Metallurgist issued 

 monthly. This is to be accomplished by sup- 

 plying our Transactions free to the members 

 of the Faraday Society. There will be no 

 increase in our annual dues on account of 

 this free exchange, and the benefit to be de- 



rived by our members is obvious. It is also 

 evident that this new arrangement entails con- 

 siderable additional expense upon our society. 

 The continuance of this agreement will re- 

 quire not only the greatest economy in the 

 administration of our funds, but also the ac- 

 tive support of our individual members in 

 maintaining and increasing our membership." 



sciEyriFic yoTES axd 7\'ews. 



The following honorary doctorates have 

 been conferred by the University of Heidel- 

 berg, on the occasion of the centenary of its 

 reopening: Mathematics, M. G. Darboux, 

 Paris ; physics, Dr. E. T. Glazebrook, London ; 

 astrophysics. Sir William Huggins, London ; 

 chemistry. Professor S. Cannizzaro, Rome; 

 mineralogy. Professor F. Fouque, Paris; 

 astronomy. Professor E. C. Pickering, Har- 

 vard University; zoology. Professor E. 

 Maupas, Algiers ; botany, A. Cogniaux, 

 Nivelles. 



Dr. F. R. Helmert, director of the Geodetic 

 Institute at Potsdam, has been elected a 

 foreign member of the Turin Academy of 

 Sciences. 



A Festschrift is in course of preparation to 

 be presented to Professor J. P. Pawlow on 

 the twenty-fifth anniversary of the beginning 

 of his scientific work, which occurs next year. 

 It is proposed at the same time to endow in 

 his honor a prize for research in physiology. 



A BRONZE medal is to be struck in honor of 

 Professor Coruil, of Paris, to commemorate 

 his work on the history of pathology and bac- 

 teriology. 



Professor O. Israel has been appointed 

 curator of the Pathological Institute of the 

 Berlin Charity Hospital. 



Dr. Karl Schoxbero has resigned the chair 

 of surgery at the University of Wiirzburg, 

 owing to a stroke of paralysis. 



Dr. Stuhlm.\n has been appointed director 

 of the Biological and Agricultural Institute 

 at Amani in German East Africa. 



Dr. Ros.\nes, professor of mathematics and 

 physics, has been elected rector of the Uni- 

 versity of Breslau. 



