Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-26
SCIENCE NOTES.


The Permanent International Eugenics
Congress will meet In New York during
September, 1914
James Means, a Boston inventor. has
made a device to use in communicating
with others which Is much simpler than
the wireless telegraph and equally effec-
tive.
Sir William Christie. X. c. B., +. r. s..
formerly astronomer royal, has been
elected master OF the clock markers
company. Sir Christie Is well known to
the scientists of the United States. hav-
ing visited this country some years ago.
The Rocky Mountain Park Museum.
maintained by the park department OF
the Canadian government at Bann, Al
berta, has been reorganized and rear
ranged by Harlan J. Smith Of the geo.
logical survey. Canada.
Prof. Ralph s. Lille of the University
OF Pennsylvania has been elected head Of
the biological department of Clark Uni
versity, to succeed Prof Clifton +. Hodge.
who has gone to the University OF Ore
gon.
DR.. Phillip Uhler, for many years prov
ost of the Peabody Institute and widely
known In scientific circles. both I'm this
country and Europe. is dead. aged seven
OF many scientific contributions to jour-
nails in the United States and Europe.
Some years ago he gave his collections
of locusts and other members of the
cicada family to the national govern
ment. The collection is considered the
best ever made.
The American Petroleum Society has
been organized at the experiment station
of the United States bureau of mines.
Pittsburgh. The object of this associa-
ton is to study all phases of natural
gases and petroleum. including the origin.
statistics. conservation. methods. produc-
ton Transportation, refining and specih-
cations for refined products. The first
annual meeting will be held at the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition i'm San Francisco.
1915.
During the absense OF DR. David Hit
Tinnent. who is on a Carnegie research
expedition, DIR. Florence Publes Is In
charge of his work in Bryn Mawr Col
lege. DIR. Publes. who was last year
fellow of the association of ColleG ate
Alumnae, has just returned from year
abroad. where she carried on investiga-
tons in marine laboratories at Naples
and Monaco. and also I'm the University
of Freiburg. in Breisgau-
At the recent International Congress OF
Pharmacy, held at The Hague, a pro-
posal to form an international phar-
macopOcial bureau was discussed. and
commission was appointed to consider
the question and report to the Interna-
tional Pharmaceutical Federation AT an
early date scheme for the establish
ment of such bureau. Prof. ]. r.
Remington. editor of the United States
Pharmacopoeia, is "A member OF the COM
mittee to get up the bureau.
Prof H. r. Osborn has i'm the bio
graphical memoirs of the National Acad-
envy Of Sciences an exceedingly inter-
Prof, Joseph Leidy. the founder of verte-
brate, palaeontology in America. and the
great naturalist of the type who made
the entire subject of zoology their study
and published papers and works of PERM
ament- value in every branch of zoology.
TechnoIogic paper No 90 of the bu-
reau OF standards. by r. $. Mcbride ana
E. r. Weaver. issued by the Department
Of Commerce. treats of the determination
OF sulphur in Illuminating gas. Expert
ments were made with the gas referees
apparatus and the apparatus designed
by Elliot Hinman-Jenkins. Deeschmidt
and Someryille.
According to the geocentric attitudes
Of mountains Mount Everest Is the high
est mountain on the globe. but In another
sense 1t is overtopped by at least twenty
i've other peaks. Prof. August Won Bohn
has calculated the fgeocentricD attitudes
,f tfirty-one high mountains. that is. the
distance OF their submits from the CEN
ter of the earth. Chimborazo in the An
les of South America stands at the head
Of the list. Everest stands near the
miles lower than its South American