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branch. The operations branch has been placed in charge of Mr. 

 F. J. Bailey, formerly chief clerk of the Bureau. 



Dr. Abraham Jacobi, a non-resident member of the Academy, died 

 at his summer home at Bolton Landing, New York, on July lo, 1919, 

 in his ninetieth year. Dr. Jacobi was born at Hartum, Westfalen, Ger- 

 many, on May 6, 1830. He came to the United States in 1853, as a 

 result of his participation in the revolution of 1848. His sixty-six 

 years of active medical work in New York City, during which he lec- 

 tured and taught in several of the medical colleges of that city and con- 

 tributed voluminously to medical literature, earned him the title of 

 "the father and founder of American pediatrics." He had been a 

 member of the Academy since 1899. 



Dr. J. A. LE Clerc resigned on August 31 from the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and is now with the Miner- 

 Hillard Milling Company of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. 



Mr. J. J. Skinner, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been awarded 

 the Edward Longstreth Medal of Merit by the Franklin Institute of 

 Philadelphia, for his paper on "Soil Aldehydes." 



Dr. J. E. Spurr has resigned from the Bureau of Mines, to become 

 editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal of New York. 



Dr. Joseph B. Umpleby has resigned from the U. S. Geological 

 Survey to accept the position of Director of the School of Engineering 

 Geology of the University of Oklahoma, at Norman, Oklahoma. 



