At a business meeting and smoker in the Faculty Club tonight the Harvard University Chapter of the Society of the Sigma XI, national scientific honor fraternity, will wind up its first year of activities. The semi-annual gathering of the organization, under the chairmanship of Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Astronomy and director of the Harvard College observatory, will commence at 8 o'clock.
According to the secretary of the Sigma XI Society, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, the meeting will be most informal, there being no speeches or initiations. Among the business matters to be taken up are the election of one man to the membership committee, and a vote as to the time, subject, and speaker of the annual spring lecture. It is expected that the different scientific departments of the University will demonstrate Pieces of apparatus and other items of practical investigation at this meeting.
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