510 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Edgar Buckingham, of the Bureau of Standards, has been ap- 

 pointed physical associate to the scientific attache to the American 

 embassy at Rome. 



Mr. George A. Burrell, in charge of the American University 

 Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines, has been commissioned a 

 colonel in the Chemical Warfare Service, National Army. 



Major William B. Greeley, formerly of the Forest Service, has 

 been commissioned a lieutenant colonel. He is at present with the 

 American Expeditionary Forces in France. 



The honorary degree of A.M. has been conferred by Harvard Uni- 

 versity on Mr. Hennen Jennings, consulting mining engineer. 



Prof. Lauder W. Jones, formerly of the University of Cincinnati, 

 and recently appointed head of the department of chemistry of the 

 University of Minnesota, is on leave of absence and is engaged iii re- 

 search at the American University Experiment Station. 



Dr. Thomas J. Kelley has been appointed professor of gynecology 

 in the Medical School of Georgetown University, as the successor of 

 Dr. Isaac Stone, who resigned in June after twenty-six years of serv- 

 ice with the Medical School. Dr. James M. Moser and Dr. John A. 

 FooTB have been appointed associate professors of pediatrics. 



Prof. A. E. Kennelly, acting head of the department of electrical 

 engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is in Wash- 

 ington for the summer on special work for the Signal Corps. 



Dr. John Harper Long, Professor of Chemistry at the North- 

 western University Medical School, Chicago, IlHnois, and a member 

 of the Academy since 1899, died at his home in Evanston on June 14, 

 1918, in his sixty-first year. He had been with Northwestern Uni- 

 versity for the past thirty-seven years, and had been active in physio- 

 logical chemical research as well as in the public service, having been 

 a member of the referee board of the Department of Agriculture, a 

 member of the revision committee of the Pharmacopoeia, and presi- 

 dent of the American Chemical Society (in 1903). He was the author 

 of several text-books of chemistry. 



President R. C. Maclauren, of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, came to Washington in July to act as educational head of .a 

 students' army training corps, organized to give military instruction to 

 student volunteers who are not yet of draft age. 



Mr. Edwin H. Pagenhart, hydrographic and geodetic engineer of 

 the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, has been transferred to the 

 Corps of Engineers (Reserve) of the army, with the rank of Captain. 



