Physicists Meet

THE NEW ENGLAND section of the American Physical Society held its annual fall meeting in Hanover on October 14. The program of four speakers included Prof. Gordon Ferrie Hull of the Dartmouth physics department, who discussed short electrical waves; Prof. David A. Keys, head of the physics department at McGill University, who described the newest scientific devices employed in geophysics; Dr. Saul Dushman of the General Electric Research Laboratories, Schenectady, N. Y., who topic was fluorescence; and Dr. F. S. Goucher of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York City, who discussed latest developments in the perfection of the microphone.

In addition to Dartmouth and McGill, other institutions represented were Harvard, M. I. T., Williams, Wesleyan, Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, Trinity, Tufts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, Bates, Worcester Polytechnic, and the United States Coast Guard Academy. Representatives were also present from the Mt. Washington Observatory and the Norton Company of Worcester.