The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-27

The president of the American Chem.
 ical society is Dr. Edward w. Morley
 professor of chemistry in Adelbert col
 lege of Western Reserve university
 Cleveland, o. Dr. Morley was born ir
 Newark, N. J., January 29, 1888. His fla
 ther was Rev. S. B. Morley of the Con
 gregational church. He entered Will
 Hams college in 1857, and was graduated
 withNfrst honors in 1861. He continued
 his studies in preparation for the min
 istry at Andover Theological seminary
 from 1861 to 1884 Is 1S64-65 he was
 connected with the sanitary commis-
 sion. part of ,the time as station agent
 at Fort Monroe In 1868 he was elected
 professor of chemistry in the Western Reserve college, and taught also math- matics and geology. Between 1873 and 1888 he also held the chair of professor of chemistry in the Cleveland Medical college.
 A fondness for the study of chemistry was developed at the early age of elev- en years by the use of books in his fa- thers library, and by selftaught exper- iments This early predilection for chemical literature resulted later in the collection of a most complete private library of works on chemistry and physics.
 Dr. Morley has received the degree of doctor of medicine, doctor of philosophy and doctor of laws. He was chairman of the section of microscopy. and vice president of the chemical section of the American association for the Advance ment of Science, and in 1895 was chos- en president of the association. He is an associate member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Science.
 The researches of Dr. Morley include the following contributions:
 On the Latitude of William College Observatory. on the Chemical Compost ton of a Saline Effiorescence Occurring on Goat Island, Measurements of Noel lers Diatomaceen-P -Platten, Measure ments of Rulings on Glass on the Linn it's of Accuracy in Measurements with the Microscope, on Possible Cause of Variation in the Proportion of Oxygen in the Air, Remarks on Tables for the Reduction to Zero of the Measured Volumes of Gases the Most Convenient Scale for a Thermometer Used in Gas Analysis Remarks in Jolly's Apparatus for Determining the Amount of Oxygen in the Air, Some Points in the Construc- ton of an Apparatus for the Accurate Analysis of Gases Numerical Results for the Mean Ratio of Oxygen to the Sum of Oxygen and Nitrogen in the Air. Some Conclusions as to the Cause of the Freouent Variations of the Fluc- nations in the Ratio of Oxygen to Nit | roeen in the Air at Different Times, | the Volumetric Composition of Water, | on the Determination of the Atomic | Weight of Oxygen; Carbon an Impuri- | tv in Hydrogen. Affecting Determina lion of it's Atomic Weight on the | Amount of Moisture which Sulphuric | Acid Leaves in a Gas; on the Amount | nf Moisture Remaining in Gas After Drying with Phosphorus Pentoxide; on the Atomic Weight Of Oxygen Synthe- sis of Weighed Quantities of Water from Weighed Quantities of Hydrogen and of Oxygen; Ueber das Verhaltniss des Atomgewichtes von Wasserstoff und on the Densities of Oxygen and Hydrogen, and the Ratio of Their Atomic Weights, Smithsonian Institu- ton: on a New Method of Measuring the Expansion of Solids; Self-Actins Mercur1al AIT fuinpi JedH oerNdlS Stas
 With Prof Henry T. Eddy--On the Velocity of Light in Magnetic Field
 With Prof Albert A. Michelson-On the Feasibility of Establishing a Light Wave as the Ultimate Standard of Length.
 Influence of Motion of the Medium on he Velocity of Light.