July 25, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



87 



Scientific Eesearch of the American Medical 

 Association for the investigation of sub- 

 stances likely to be of value as anesthetics. 



Don 0. Mote, formerly economic zoologist, 

 Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 been appointed state entomologist of Arizona 

 by the Arizona Commission of Agriculture and 

 Horticulture, and assumed the duties of the 

 office on July 1. 



Dr. a. G. McCall has terminated his ser- 

 vices with the Army Educatioinal Corps in 

 France and has resumed his work as chief of 

 the Soil Investigational Work at the Mary- 

 land Experiment Station. 



Mr. Harry S. Mork has resigned as vice- 

 president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., and has been elected to the vice- 

 presidency of the Lustron Company of Boston, 

 manufacturers of artificial silk by a process 

 developed in the Little establishment. He will 

 also act as consultant to the Industrial Com- 

 pany of Boston. 



Dr. Maurice H. Givens has resigned the 

 assistant professorship of biological chemistry 

 at the University of Rochester to accept the 

 post of biochemist in the research laboratory 

 at the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



The council of the British Scientific Instru- 

 ment Research Association has appointed Mr. 

 H. Moore to be assistant director of research. 



The American Scandinavian Foundation an- 

 nounces the names of ten American coUege stu- 

 dents who will receive $1,000 each to enable 

 them to go to Sweden to study in exchange 

 with ten Swedish students to come to America. 

 The men appointed are: Samuel G. Frantz, 

 Princeton; Harry F. Yancey, University of 

 Missouri; Chester C. Stewart, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology ; Harry W. Titus, Uni- 

 versity of Wyoming ; Robert C. Sessions, Wor- 

 cester Polytechnic Institute; Clarence 'N. Os- 

 tergren, Sheffield Scientific School; William S. 

 Moir, Yale Forestry School; Henry M. Me- 

 loney. State School of Forestry at Syracuse 

 University; Rudolph E. Zetterstrand, Shef- 

 field Scientific School, and Thomas Eraser, 

 University of Illinois. 



On July 1, Major Clarence J. West, recently 

 in charge of the editorial department. Research 

 Division, Chemical Warfare Service, assumed 

 his duties as director of the information de- 

 partment of Arthur D. Little, Inc. In his new 

 position Major West will extend the library fa- 

 cilities of the organization and develop a spe- 

 cial information service on technical and 

 scientific subjects for the benefit of the clients 

 and staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc. 



Colonel Harey L. Gilchrist, of the Med- 

 ical Corps, U. S. A., will command a group of 

 550 American Army officers and volunteers who 

 will undertake to eliminate typhus from the 

 camps and among the people in Poland. 



Professor Albert Johannsen, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has gone to Mexico City 

 for the summer. He is doing petrographic 

 work for the Mexican Survey. 



Mr. I. H. Boas, M.Sc, of the Technical 

 School, Perth, has left for Europe, America 

 and India, where he wiU investigate Forest 

 Products Laboratories. His report will form 

 the basis of the Western Australian project. 



Professor H. F. Clelland, of the depart- 

 ment of geology, has been granted a leave of 

 absence from Williams College for the com- 

 ing college year. 



Dr. J. G. Sanders, director of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry of the Pennsylvania Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, at Harrisburg, Pa., has 

 been commissioned by the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board at Washington to study the potato 

 wart disease in the Briish Isles, and to note 

 the methods adopted for controlling the spread 

 of this most dangerous potato disease. The 

 potato wart disease was first determined by 

 him to occur in the United States in a district 

 comprising four counties in the vicinity of 

 Hazleton, Pa., in September, 1918. These four 

 counties, with three outlying points, are now 

 under strict quarantine. 



Organized from the Scottish Oceanograph- 

 ical Laboratory, a surveying expedition left 

 Edinburgh on June 16, for Spitsbergen, 

 headed by Mr. John Mathieson, late divisional 

 superintendent of Ordnance Survey in Scot- 

 land, who retired to take up this work. In 



