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sive course in imlustrial hygiene at the ^las- 

 sachusetts Institute of Technolojiy. As 

 chairman of a conunittee ai>pointe<l by thf 

 Committee on Higher p](lueation anil Special 

 Training he was in charge of the work of 

 preparing the official syllabus for instruction 

 in hygiene and sanitation to be offered to 

 the enlisted men in the Students' Army 

 Training Corps at four hundred colleges 

 this fall. 



Professor Henry Shaler Williams, 

 dean of Cornell University, died at Havana 

 on August 14. Professor Williams was well 

 known both for his scientific attainments 

 and for his kindliness and nobility of char- 

 acter. He was born in Ithaca, New York, 

 on ^larch 6, 1S47. In 1S68 he was gradu- 

 ated from Yale University, where later, after 

 specializing in geology, pala?ontology, and 

 biology, he received the degree of Ph.D. 

 Preferring scientific work to a business ca- 

 reer, he began teaching at Kentucky Uni- 

 versity, but was soon called to Cornell 

 University, of which he became dean after a 

 few years. While in this position he founded 

 the honorary society of Sigma Chi, which is 

 now the highest goal of scientific students 

 in American colleges. By request of James 

 D. Dana, who was retiring from the jiosi- 

 tion, he accepted in 1892 the Silliman pro- 

 fessorship of geology at Yale. There he 

 edited the American Journal of Science and 

 published numerous books on scientific sub- 

 jects. For many years he was closely asso- 

 ciated with Major Powell, Charles D. Wol- 

 cott, and T. W. A^aughan in investigations 

 for the United States Geological Survey. He 

 made special studies of the Devonian and 

 Silurian periods both in this country and in 

 Europe. From 190-1 to 1912 he was again 

 at Cornell, in charge of the geological de- 

 partment, but was chiefly engaged in scien- 

 tific research. His surveys in Cuba from 

 191.3 on have resulted in the starting of oil 

 develoi>ments in western Havana and the 

 eastern Pinar del Eio provinces. He was 

 a member of many scientific societies in 

 America and England. Among his many 

 pulilications his Geological Biolor/i/ has been 

 a great stimulus to geological thought of 

 later years. 



Dr. Frank M. Chapman, author of The 

 Distribuiion of Bird-Life in Colombia, has 

 been highly complimented by reviewers on 



Major BarriiiKton Moore, associate curator of 

 woods and forestry at tlie American Museum, is 

 at present in France assisting witli the work of 

 the Cnniite intrrnllie di',s liuw di- Guerre, which 

 acquires and delivers to the Allies the timber 

 needed in the conduct of the war. (See p. 413 

 for further notice of his work) 



