1914] General 499 



of pharmacol. (Vienna) and incidentally visiting various labora- 

 tories in Europe. He will return in Sept. — Dr. F. H. Scott (dep't 

 of physioL, Univ. of Minn.), has been granted leave of absence for 

 the first semester of 1914-15. 



Internat'l Joint Commiss. Prof. G. C. Whipple (Harvard 

 Univ.) has been chosen one of three Amer. engineers to act with 

 three Can. engineers to advise with the Internat. Joint. Commiss. 

 on matters pertaining to the pollution of the Great Lakes. 



Another med. sch. open to women. The trustees of the 

 Univ. of Penn, have voted to admit women to the Sch. of Med., be- 

 ginning in the fall of 1914. 



" Nela." Dr. E. P. Hyde, direc. of the physical lab., Nat'l Elec. 

 Lamp Assoc, announces that hereafter the lab. will be known as 

 Nela Research Lab., Nat'l Lamp Works of the Gen. Elec. Co., under 

 which name its Ahstract-Bulletin and other publications will appear. 



U. S. Dep't of Agric, Bur. of Chem. The U. S. Dep't of 

 Agric. has established an office in the Bur, of Chem. for the purpose 

 of promoting a closer and more cordial Cooperation among the city, 

 State and federal food and drug officials of the country in the en- 

 forcement of the food and drug laws. Mr. /. S. Abbott, for nearly 

 seven years dairy and food commissioner of Texas, has been ap- 

 pointed to this office. 



Dr. M. G. Donk, of the Bur. of Chem., has been detailed to co- 

 operate with the dep't of forestry, at the Univ. of Idaho, in efforts 

 to devise better methods of utilizing mill waste and refining by-prod- 

 ucts obtained from stumps. The work will be a continuation and 

 extension of experiments which have been conducted for the past 

 three years by Dr. C. H. Shattuck, head of the dep't of forestry at 

 Moscow, Idaho. 



Labeling microscope slides. I now use an ordinary india ink 

 (l'encre de chine) to which I have added a little ordinary water glass 

 (sodium Silicate sol.) such as is sold at the corner drug störe for pre- 

 serving eggs. It is usually better to thin, after adding the water 

 glass, with enough water to make the ink flow freely. With this 

 ink one can write with a fine pointed pen any label that he would 

 have been able to write on paper. It can be put on the slide as soon 

 as the paraffin ribbon has been mounted. If the slide was clean 



