240 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Capt. p. E. Landolt of the Nitrate Division, Army Ordnance, has 

 resigned from the ser\dce and has returned to his work as chemical 

 engineer with the Research Corporation at New York City. 



Dr. A. O. Leuschner, who has been with the National Research 

 Council since November, 191 8, returned to the University of California 

 in the latter part of March. 



Mr. James W. McGuire, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, has 

 been appointed a member of the U. S. Geographic Board. 



Lieut. Col. William McPherson, Chemical Warfare vService, 

 Professor of Chemistry at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 

 who was stationed in Washington in the early part of the war and was 

 later sent to France, received his honorable discharge from the Army 

 in March, and has returned to the University. 



Dr. W. B. Meldrum, professor of chemistry at Haverford College, 

 and until lately a member of the Chemical Warfare Service and of the 

 price section of the War Trade Board, has received a temporary ap- 

 pointment as assistant physical chemist at the Geophysical Laborator\% 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Professor Sem Saeland, Professor of Physics and Rektor of the 

 Technological Institute of Norway, at Trondhjem, Norway, visited 

 Washington in March. 



Dr. H. C. Taylor, head of the department of agricultural economics 

 in the College of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 

 pointed Chief of the Office of Farm ^lanagement. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Col. W. H. WiLMER, Medical Corps, U. S. A., returned to Washington 

 on March 22. He expects to continue in the Army for a period to 

 write the history of the laboratory work of the Air Service in France. 



