SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Mission of French Scholars to the United States visited Wash- 

 ington on November 18, 1918. The visiting members were: Professors 

 Emanuel de Martonne, Fernand Baldensperger, and Charles 

 Cazamian, of the University of Paris; Dr. Etienne Burnet^ of the 

 Pasteur Institute; Dr. Theodore Reinach; Mr. Charles Koechlin; 

 and Mr. Seymour de Ricci. 



A new Hygienic Laboratory of the PubHc Health Service will be 

 built on the grounds occupied by the present Laboratory at Twenty- 

 fifth and E Streets, The new laboratory will cost approximately 

 $250,000. 



Mr. Robert Somers Brookings, of St. Louis, chairman of the price 

 fixing committee of the War Industries Board, has been elected by the 

 Senate to succeed the late Charles W. Fairbanks as a regent of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Major Samuel Avery of the Chemical Warfare Service has been 

 permitted by the War Department to resign his commission in order to 

 resume his duties as chancelor of the University of Nebraska. 



Mr. H. S. Bailey has resigned from the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, and is with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & 

 Co., of Wilmington, Delaware. 



Dr. William N. Berg, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has been 

 commissioned a captain in the Sanitary Corps, and has been detailed 

 to the Yale Army Laboratory School at New Haven, Connecticut. 



Brig. Gen. William H. Bixby, U. S. A., Retired, formerly chief of 

 engineers, has been relieved from emergency duty at St. Louis, and 

 has been transferred to Chicago. 



Mr. H. E. Howe, formerly manager of the commercial department 

 of Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been ap- 

 pointed consulting chemist to the Nitrate Division, Ordnance Depart- 

 ment of the Army. 



Mr. Edwin Henry Ingersoll, chemist in the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, died of influenza on No- 

 vember 5, 1918. Mr. Ingersoll was born in the District of Columbia 



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