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particularly those who come to the University as state fellows under the scheme outlined above and who are appointed to such fellowships because of the belief that they are above the average in ability. The meeting was turned over a t once to Dr. Gordon who conducted the discussion. There were present about fifty, among these a number of the donors of fellowships and members of the state fellowship committees, and a limited number interested in the purpose of the conference. At 6.00 P.M. dinner was served in Levering Hall and shortly after, a t eight o'clock, there followed the last feature on the program of the day. This was a public lecture in Remsen Hall by Dr. C . E. K. Mees of the Eastman Kodak Company. Dr. Mees' lecture was the first to be given under the A. R. I,. Dohme lectureship. President Ames again presided and introduced Dr. Dohme who spoke briefly of his desire in providing the lectureship to make i t possible for the student body to see and hear investigators in various fields. The lecture by Dr. Mees on "The Development of the Photographic Image" proved to be extremely interesting and was illustrated by a number of remarkable moviug-picture illustrations of the development of the photographic image. The lecture, although popular in style, brought before the audience the modem work and theories which have been advanced to account for the facts relating to photography. Thermionics Pioneer Given 1928 Nobel Physics Prize. The man who discovered the fundamental laws connecting the production of electricity from a hot wire with the temperature of the wire, a phenomenon utilized today by every tube radio set, received the 1928 Nobel prize, just awarded this year. He is Prof. Owen Williams Richardson, director of research in King's College, London, who from 1906 t o 1913 was professor of physics a t Princeton University in this country. He is considered the father of the branch of physics which he christened-thermionics -which deals with the effect that heat has on matter in . generating . electricallv charged particles, called ions or electrons. While Prof. Richardson's work for which he has e received the Nobel prize was done in the interests of the advancement of ~ u r knowledne. - . his laws find practical application in the design of electron tubes now so widely used in radio, the talkies, and other applications of physics to industry.-Sciace Seruice
The KekuM Memorial Book. In celebration of the centenary of the birth of August KekulC, the eminent German chemist (born on September 7, 1829, in Darmstadt), the Verlag Chemie G. m. b. H., of Berlin, has published a two-volume life, written hy Professor R. Anschutz, one of Kekule's students. The first volume (732 pp.) deals with Kekulb's life and work; the second (976 pp.) with his scientific papers, reports, articles, speeches, etc.: and the price is 120 marks. The production, printing, and binding of the volumes can only be described as sumptuous. The first is profusely illustrated, the pictures including not only Kekule and his circle, but various groups of great interest. I n the labor m d care lavished on the production of these volumes, Professor Anschutz and the publishers have fittingly commemorated the immense senices rendered by KekulC t o organic chemistry.-Chem. Age
