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beginning of the present conflict. Among these may be mentioned 

 the production of ammonia, nitrates, sulfuric acid, nutritive Sub- 

 stitutes for wheat and rye, zinc, hydrochloric acid, acetic acid, fats 

 and oils, hydrogen, alcohol, and chlorin. 



III. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BIOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION 



I. General Notes 



Prizes. Accademia dei Lincei, Rome; King's prize for human 

 physiol., £400: Dr. Filippo Bottaszi, prof. of physiol., Univ. of 

 Naples. 



A prize of $1,000, given by the Metropol. Life Ins. Co., through 

 the Amer. Soc. Hyg. Assoc, for the best pamphlet on social hygiene 

 for boys and girls, has been awarded to Dr. and Mrs. D. B. Arm- 

 strong of Stapleton, S. I. Dr. Armstrong is director of the Social 

 Weifare Dep't, N. Y. Assoc. for Improv. Cond. the Poor; Mrs. 

 Armstrong is actively interested in social and philan. work. Nearly 

 500 essays were entered in competition from all parts of the U. S., 

 Canada, Europe and So. Amer., and the task given the judges to 

 compare and pass on these manuscripts v^as exacting. The judges 

 were Mrs. Martha P. Falkner, sup't, Sleighton farms, State Train- 

 ing Seh. for Girls (Darlington, Pa.); L. K. Frankel, 6th vice-p., 

 Metropol. Life Ins. Co. (N. Y.) ; Dr. L. H. Gulick, pres't, Camp- 

 fire Girls of Amer. ; Julia C. Lathrop, chief, Children's Bur., U. S. 

 Dep't of Labor; Dr. M. J. Rosenau, Harvard Med. Seh.; Dr. V. C. 

 Vaughan, Univ. of Mich.; and Mrs. Ella F. Young, formerly sup't 

 of schools, Chicago. Dr. and Mrs. Armstrong's essay will be pub- 

 lished in the Quart. Magazine of the Amer. Soc. Hyg. Assoc. 



Appointments. Bradley Polytech. Inst. (Peoria, 111.) : Isabel 

 Collins, instr., home econ. and sup. of pract. teaching. 



Clark Co. High Seh. (Las Vegas, Nev.) : Margaret M. Johnson, 

 direc, househ. econ. 



Columbia Univ. (Teachers' Coli.) : Helene M. Pope, instr., die- 

 tetics (promotion). 



Ind. State Normal Seh. (Terre Haute) : Minnie L. Irons, assis. 

 prof., dorn. econ. 



Jewish Ho5.p. (Cincinnati, O.) : Elsa Maurer, instr., dietetics. 



