Dedication of the William Albert Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry at the University of Illinois.

SCIENCE is thle oflicial orgain of the Amnericani Associa-ion for the Advaniceiient of Science. Information regard-iug ullmbershii) in the Association mii:iy be secuired from tlio office of the permanent secretarti y in tile Slllitlhsonian 85) Institutioln Buil(ding, asllingtoi, 1). C. OITIu imeeting today is to hionior Dr. AVilliaIn Albert Noyes, formerly head of this departlnent. This is a rather uiusrual occasion; first, because there is probably a larger proportion of the graduate stlidel-ts arid faicuilty in chemistry gathered lhere to-daby in a gvOup tlhani at aniy tilue sinee I have 1)ben aXssoeitettd wi-ithl the departmemit, and setoil, beeatlue we are nlanuilO' a bulildilng, oInc lalf of wlhielh is thirty-seveni years old anid the other lhalf twenty-three years old. The older inmemiber-s of the staff kinow Dr. Noyes and his accoMplishments. Thle youtiner iien whvho are so b11sily eiigaged1 in tleire studies toward advanced degrees know too little of hirn. I shall, therefore, otltlille briefly his career.