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d'Acclimatation de France, at the meeting of 

 May 25, under the presidency of Minister 

 Lebrun. 



The title of Commander of the Order of 

 the Crown of Belgium has been conferred on 

 Dr. "W. J. Holland, director of Carnegie In- 

 stitute, Pittsburgh, in recognition of the 

 " devotion shown by him to the cause of 

 Belgium." 



Major W. H. Eddy, of the section of food 

 and nutrition of the Surgeon General's Office 

 has recently returned from abroad. After 

 the departure of Major P. A. Shaffer, Major 

 Eddy was in charge of the work of the section 

 in Prance. He is now temporarily on diity at 

 the Surgeon General's Office. Major P. L. 

 Scott, of the section of food and nutrition of 

 the Surgeon General's Office has also returned 

 from abroad and received his discharge from 

 the army. 



President Kenyon L. Butterpield, of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, has re- 

 turned from Prance. 



Captain Lawrence J. Cole, professor of 

 psychology at the University of Colorado, has 

 received his discharge froni the army and has 

 returned to the university. 



Professor Max Ellis, of the department of 

 biology of the University of Colorado, who 

 has been on leave of absence for two years 

 engaged in government service, has resigned 

 to accept a permanent government position. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that Dr. Alexander C. 

 Abbott, of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 who recently returned from France, where he 

 served with the Medical Corps of the U. S. 

 Army, has been nominated for a position on 

 the Philadelphia Board of Health. Dr. Frank 

 C. Hammond, who was appointed to fill the 

 vacancy, insisted on resigning the post that 

 Dr. Abbott might be reappointed to his former 

 position. 



The Harvard Corporation has made the fol- 

 lowing appointments on the Harvard Cancer 

 Commission: Dr. Robert B. Greenough, di- 

 rector, and Drs. Channing C. Simmons, secre- 



tary (both of Boston) ; Roger Pierce, treasurer; 

 James H. Wright, Boston, pathologist; Wil- 

 liam Duane, research fellow in physics; Wil- 

 liam T. Bovie, research fellow in biology; 

 Henry Lyman, Boston, research fellow in chem- 

 istry, and Ernest W. Goodpasture, Boston, re- 

 search fellow in pathology. 



Dr. Winfield Scott Hall, for more than 

 twenty years a member of the faculty of ISTorth- 

 western University Medical School, Chicago, 

 has been appointed to take charge of the newly 

 organized department of social hygiene of the 

 Presbyterian Board of Temperance and Moral 

 Welfare. 



Dr. Charles J. Galpin, professor of agri- 

 cultural economy in the college of agriculture 

 of the University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 

 pointed economist in charge of farm-life stud- 

 ies of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Mr. Charles Snyder, head keeper of reptiles 

 iu the New Tork Zoological Park, has been 

 made director of the Buffalo Zoological Gar- 

 dens. 



Mr. F. Flippance, at one time a temporary 

 assistant in the herbarium at Kew, has been 

 appointed assistant curator of the Botanic 

 Gardens, Singapore. 



Dr. J. E. KiRKWOOD, professor of botany in 

 the Montana State University at Missoula, has 

 been granted leave of absence for a year and 

 will work in the University of California lab- 

 oratories. During his absence the depart- 

 ment will be in charge of Assistant Professor 

 Paul W. Graff. 



Dr. K. Sato, assistant professor of agricul- 

 ture in the University of Tokio, is studying 

 problems of farm management and agricul- 

 tural economies in the United States. 



H. S. Gale, of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 has been making a survey of the potash situ- 

 ation in Alsace. 



W. R. Ingalls has retired from the editor- 

 ship of the Engineering and Mining Journal, 

 but will continue as consulting editor. He has 

 resumed practise as consulting engineer with 

 offices in New York. 



