572 Scientific Intelligence. 



2. Aicard of the Medal of the Royal Society of London. — 

 The announcement has been received by the cable that one of the 

 Royal Medals of the Royal Society of London has been recently 

 awarded to Professor Ernest W. Brown of Yale University in 

 recognition of his investigations in astronomy. 



3. The National Academy of Sciences. — The autumn meeting 

 of the National Academy will be held this year in Chicago and at 

 a somewhat later date than usual, namely on Dec. f, 8 and 9. 

 The sessions will be, by invitation, at the University of Chicago. 



It is to be noted that with the opening year the Academy will 

 begin the publication of monthly Proceedings. It is planned 

 that these shall " present in the form of brief original articles a 

 comprehensive survey of the more important scientific researches 

 currently made by American investigators." Up to this time the 

 Academy has given to its members no opportunity for a prompt 

 announcement of the results of their investigations. It has, how- 

 ever, issued occasional extended papers as a series of Memoirs in 

 quarto, and an octavo series of Biographical Memoirs ; volume 

 YII of the latter has recently appeared. 



4. The American Associatio/i for the Advancement of Science. 

 — The American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 will hold its next convocation-week meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 from Dec. 28, 1914, to January 2, 1915, under the presidency of 

 Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University. 

 The usual affiliated Societies will also hold meetings at the same 

 time ; some thirty organizations are now included in this list. 



5. The British Association for the Advancement of Science. — 

 The annual meeting of the British Association was held this year 

 in Australia and was attended by numerous scientists from Eng- 

 land notwithstanding the unfortunate conditions existing in 

 Europe. The president, Dr. William Bateson, delivered the first 

 part of his address at Melbourne on August 14, and the second 

 part at Sydney on August 20. An abstract of the address by 

 Prof. E. W. Brown before the section of Cosmical Physics is 

 given on an earlier page. 



6. Food Products ; by Henry C. Sherman. Pp. ix, 594. 

 New York, 1914 (The Macmillan Co.). — This is a timely and 

 useful book by a writer thoroughly conversant with the subject. 

 It is not merely a compilation of analyses or a description of the 

 technical processes of food manufacture, but differs from most of 

 the works on the same topic in the emphasis which is either 

 explicity or indirectly given to the bearing of each chapter upon 

 the problems of nutrition. Unique nutritive virtues such as are 

 now commonly believed to be associated with certain foods like 

 milk and butter, the relative value of polished and unpolished 

 rice with its story of the " vitamines," the physiological as well as 

 the legal aspects of the question of the various food preservatives, 

 digestibility and utilization of the nutrients — these are illustra- 

 tions of the sort of novelty which Sherman has introduced 

 freely. An appendix dealing with the rules and regulations for 



