SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Among the members of the Academy who are now with the mihtary 

 forces of the United States are: 



Lieutenant Colonel R. F. Bacon, with the Chemical Service Section 

 of the National Army, in France. 



Brigadier General Wm. H. Bixby, U. S. A., retired. President of 

 the Mississippi River Commission and Division Engineer, Western 

 Division River and Harbor Improvements, 'at St. Louis, Mo. 



Major W. R. Blair, with the Meteorological Service of the Signal 

 Corps, in France. 



Major Edward H. Bowie, with the Meteorological Service of the 

 Signal Corps, in France. 



Major Alfred H. Brooks, Geologist on the staff of General 

 Pershing, American Expeditionary Forces, in France. 



Major General William Crozier, U. S. A., Chief of Ordnance. 



Major L. A. Fischer, Ordnance Officers' Reserve Corps, Bureau of 

 Engineering. 



]\fajor General W. C. Gorgas, U. S. A., Surgeon General, Medical 

 Corps. 



Lieutenant Colonel Henry S. Graves, with the Twentieth Engineers 

 (Forestry) in France. 



Captain Carey V. Hodgson, Engineers' Reserve Corps, at Anniston, 

 Alabama. • 



Major Douglas W. Johnson, National Army. 



First Lieutenant Walter D. Lambert, Engineers' Reserve Corps. 



First Lieutenant M. W. Lyon, Jr., Medical Reserve Corps, at Walter 

 Reed General Hospital, Washington. 



Colonel John Millis, U. S. A., Corps of Engineers, at the Office of 

 • the Division Engineer, Southeast Division, Savannah, Georgia. 



Biigadier General A. W. Vogdes, U. S. A., Retired, at San Diego, 

 California. 



Major W. H. Wilmer, member Medical Research Board, and As- 

 sistant to Chief Surgeon, Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. 



Captain Fred. E. Wright, Ordnance Officers' Reserve Corps, de- 

 tailed to the Bausch & Lomb optical glass plant in Rochester, New 

 York. 



Dr. H. AL Ami, iformerly of the Geological Survey of Canada, is 

 spending the winter in Washington. Dr. Ami is in charge of problems 

 of war metals and minerals in the Trade Department of the British 

 Embass}'. 



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