556 Biochemical News, Notes and Comment [June 



Dr. R. N. Lyne, director of agriculture in Portuguese East 

 Africa, has been appointed director of the new agricultural depart- 

 ment of Ceylon. 



Dr. Charles E. Marshall, professor of bacteriology and hygiene 

 in the Michigan State Agricultural College, has accepted the direc- 

 torship of the graduate school, and the professorship of microbiol- 

 ogy, at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



Dr. J. W. Nowell and Mr. F. B. Sherwood have been appointed 

 instructors in chemistry in the North Carolina College of Agricul- 

 ture and Mechanic Arts. 



Dr. Eugene L. Opie, professor of pathology in Washington 

 University, has been appointed dean of the mediud school, vice Dr. 

 George Dock, retired from this position at his own request. 



At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. James B. Overton has been 

 promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of plant 

 physiology; and Mr. Gilbert M. Smith from assistant to instructor 

 in botany. 



Prof. Thomas L. Patterson, head of the department of biology 

 in the Highland Park College, has accepted an appointment as asso- 

 ciate professor of biology and physiology in the University of Mary- 

 land School of Medicine. 



Dr. William Pepper, professor of clinical pathology at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, son of a former provost of the university, 

 has been appointed dean of the Medical Department, to succeed 

 Dr. Allen J. Smith, resigned. Dr. Smith will remain professor of 

 pathology, comparative pathology and tropical medicine. 



Dr. Amos W. Peters, of the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, 

 has been appointed biochemist in the research department of the 

 Training School for Feeble Minded Children, at Vineland, N. J. 



Dr. E. J. Russell, at present Goldsmiths' Company's assistant in 

 soil investigations, has been appointed director of the Rothamstead 

 Experimental Station, in succession to Mr. A. D. Hall, F.R.S. 



Dr. De Witt H. Sherman has succeeded Dr. Eli H. Long as pro- 

 fessor of materia medica and therapeutics in the University of 

 Bufifalo. 



