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15, 1902, and it has been recommended by 

 tbe committee on the fund, and approved by 

 the council, that the award be made to Miss 

 Ida M. Ogilvie, for assistance in her studies 

 of the Strombidse. 



The Herrman Fund. — The principal of this 

 fund amounts to $10,000. This money was 

 presented to the council of the alliance by 

 Mrs. Esther Herrman in January, 1899, as a 

 nucleus of a building fund, and with the con- 

 sent of Mrs. Herman, the interest upon it is 

 being temporarily used for the encouragement 

 and assistance of investigation. Rules for 

 its administration were adopted by the coun- 

 cil in October, 1902, and the following grants 

 have been made: 



1. To Professor L. M. Underwood, of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, for aid in his investi- 

 gations upon the ferns of tropical America, 

 $200. Professor Underwood is now in Ja- 

 maica and will visit Cuba and other West 

 Indian Islands during the next few months. 



2. To Professor J. McK. Cattell, of the New 

 Tork Academy of Sciences, for aid in his in- 

 vestigation on the natural history of Ameri- 

 can men of science, $200. 



N. L. Britton, 

 Secretary of the Council Scientific 

 Alliance of New York. 



FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF 

 APPLIED CHEMISTRY. 



I HAVE received the following communica- 

 tion dated December 3, 1902, from Dr. Geo. 

 Pulvermacher, Secretary of the Fifth Inter- 

 national Congress of Applied Chemistry to 

 be held in Berlin, beginning May 31, 1903, 

 with the request that it be published in 

 Science: 



The preparations for the Fifth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Applied Chemistry, which 

 will meet in Berlin during Whitsuntide of 

 this year and which wiU be the first of its 

 kind on German soil, are advancing in a satis- 

 factory manner. All expectations with refer- 

 ence to a successful session will no doubt be 

 fulfilled to the greatest degree. The mem- 

 bership of the general committee and the 

 organization committee has increased to about 

 one hundred and fifty. We find as members 



of the general committee the Imperial Chan- 

 cellor, all the secretaries of the various states 

 and individual members of the same, the 

 presidents of the Imperial Health Depart- 

 ment, of the Patent Office as well as the Im- 

 perial Insurance Department, the ministers 

 of the German Confederate States, almost 

 all Prussian provincial ministers, representa- 

 tives of many Prussian authorities and rep- 

 resentatives of all German Confederate States. 

 Furthermore, twelve members of the high 

 courts, six members of the municipal council 

 and common council, with the Chief Burgo- 

 master and presiding officer of the common 

 council at the head, and niunerous represen- 

 tatives of various industries. 



About sixty of the most prominent repre- 

 sentatives of German science and industry 

 compose the organization committee and are 

 making the requisite arrangements. An ex- 

 tensive fund for the expenses of the Congress 

 has been subscribed and is in the hands of 

 the treasurer of the Congress, Deputy Doctor 

 Bottinger. 



The foreign states whose governments re- 

 ceived notice of the Congress through diplo- 

 matic channels and who were requested to 

 send delegates have formed separate organiza- 

 tion committees which are in constant com- 

 munication with the organization committee 

 in Berlin. A large attendance both from 

 European and foreign countries is expected. 



The work of the congress will be done in 

 eleven sections. The President of the con- 

 gress. Professor Dr. Otto W. Witt, in con- 

 juction with the presiding officers of the in- 

 dividual sections, has fixed the basic prin- 

 ciples for the scientific arrangement of the 

 congress. The sections have been divided as 

 follows : 



1. Analytical chemistry, apparatus and in- 

 struments; presiding officer. Professor Dr. 

 G. von Ejiorre, Charlottenburg, Technische 

 Hochschule. 



2. Chemical industries of inorganic prod- 

 ucts; presiding officer. Dr. Heinecke, Berlin 

 N. W., Wegelystr. 



3. Metallurgy and explosives; presiding of- 

 ficer. Professor Dr. J. Weeren, Charlotten- 

 burg, Stuttgarterplatz, 13. 



