For Chemists

The annual spring meeting of the American Chemical Society was held in New Haven in conjunction with the dedication of the new $2,000,000 Sterling Chemical Laboratory of Yale University. The building is the most complete and thoroughly equipped structure of its kind in the world. It accommodates 3,000 students, covers a city block, and is composed of a U-shaped exterior of collegiate Gothic, enclosing a building of modern factory construction, invisible from the street. The first chemistry lecture at Yale was delivered April 4, 1804, by Professor Benjamin Silliman.

The Postmaster General of England appointed a committee to consider the technical possibilities of transatlantic wireless telephony for commercial use. Officials of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company are cooeperating with the movement, though practical developments are not expected for a year or two.

Edouard Belin, of Paris, was awarded the grand gold medal of the Societe Nationale d'Encouragement au Bien, coveted by French scientists as second only to the Nobel prize, for his invention of a method of transmitting photographs by wire. The New York World has acquired the exclusive American rights for the process; and Le Matin, the French rights. M. Belin predicts the early establishment of telephotographic service between Continental capitals, and even transoceanic service in the not-far-distant future.