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Dr. Richard C. Tolman, who has the assistance of an advisory com- 

 mittee made up of a representative of the War Department and representa- 

 tives of the agricultural bureaus which are directly interested in the fixation 

 of nitrogen. It is expected that the present allotment will maintain the 

 Laboratory about two years. 



A farewell dinner to Dr. Carl h. AlsbERG, chief of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, was given at the Cosmos Club 

 on June 17 by the chiefs of bureaus of the Department. Dr. Alsberg left 

 Washington in July to become director of the new Food Research Institute 

 established by the Carnegie Corporation at Stanford University, California. 



Mr. Charles H. Behre, Jr., of Illinois, has been appointed assistant 

 geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey. 



The following have been appointed geologic aids with the U. S. Geological 

 Survey: Messrs. WilmoT H. Bradley, of Connecticut; PlaTT C. 

 Benedict, of Massachusetts; James Gilluly, of Washington; Harold 

 W. Hoots, of Kansas; Kenneth K. Landes, of Washington; and 

 Lloyd W. Fisher, of Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Milton N. Bramlette, of Wisconsin, has been appointed 

 assistant geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. Hardee Chambliss, formerly research chemist with the General 

 Chemical Company, and lieutenant colonel in charge of U. S. Nitrate Plant 

 No. 1 during the War, has been appointed to take charge of the work of the 

 department of chemistry at the Catholic University on account of the pro- 

 longed illness of Rev. Dr. John J. Griffin, who has been in charge of the 

 department since 1895. 



Mr. Lloyd C. Fenstermacher, of Pennsylvania, who was recently 

 appointed assistant geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey, was killed 

 on July 9 in an automobile accident while engaged in field work for the 

 Survey near Wilder, Montana. 



Mr. G. J. Fink, formerly with the Hooker Electrochemical Company of 

 Niagara Falls, is now associated with Dr. M. E. Holmes in the chemical 

 department of the National Lime Association in Washington. 



Mr. Paul M. Frank, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been appointed 

 assistant curator in the Division of Mineral Technology of the National 

 Museum. 



Dr. Michael E. Gardner has been apointed chief of the bureau of 

 preventable diseases and director of the bacteriological laboratory of the 

 U. S. Public Health Service. 



Mr. Joseph L. Gillson of Illinois has been appointed assistant geol- 

 ogist with the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. F. H. Knowlton of the National Museum received the honorary 

 degree of Doctor of Science from Middlebury College in June. 



Mr. Charles E. Mirguet, who has been associated with the National 

 Museum for several years, has been appointed taxidermist to succeed the late 

 Mr. William Palmer. 



The sections of Eastern and Western Areal Geology in the U. S. Geological 

 Survey have been merged into one section under the direction of Mr. Sidney 

 Paige. 



