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accepted the directorsMp of The Research Lab- 

 oratories Company of Toledo, and Dr. G. A. 

 Kirchmaier, for twenty-two years city chem- 

 ist of the city of Toledo and for the State 

 Agricultural Department, has accepted the 

 position of consulting and analytical chemist 

 with this company. 



Dr. Norman A. Shepaed, assistant professor 

 of chemistry at Yale University, has resigned 

 to accept the position of research chemist with 

 the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, 

 Ohio. 



The Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry reports that a " Fixed Nitrogen 

 Research Laboratory " has been organized in 

 the nitrate division of the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment, with headquarters at the American Uni- 

 versity, in buildings formerly occupied by the 

 Chemical Warfare Service. Lieutenant Col- 

 onel A. B. Lamb, of the Chemical Warfare 

 Service, is director; Dr. R. C. Colman, for- 

 merly of the Chemical Warfare Service, and 

 Professor W. C. Bray, of the University of 

 California, are associate directors; and Dr. H. 

 A. Curtis, formerly of the nitrate division, 

 Ordnance Department, is executive officer. 

 The work carried on during the war on the 

 fixation of nitrogen in the Department of 

 Agriculture laboratories at Arlington," Vir- 

 ginia, the geophysical laboratory, and else- 

 where, will be concentrated at the American 

 University. In the absence of Colonel Lamb 

 in Europe, Dr. Tolman is acting director. At 

 present the staff consists of fifty-five persons. 



Dr. W. J. Y. OsTERHOUT, professor of bot- 

 any in Harvard University, will deliver a 

 series of six lectures on the Hitchcock Foun- 

 dation of the University of California from 

 August 20 to 29 on the general topic, " Fun- 

 damental life processes." Dr. Osterhout was 

 assistant professor of botany at the University 

 of California from 1907 to 1909. 



A French edition of Professor Vernon Kel- 

 logg's " Headquarters Nights," with a special 

 preface by Minister Brand Whitlock, has just 

 been issued by the Paris publishing house of 

 Payot et Cie. 



Nature states that Dr. H. R. Mill has re- 

 tired from the position of director of the Brit- 



ish Rainfall Organization and from the editor- 

 ship of British Bainfall and Symon's Meteoro- 

 logical Magazine, which he has carried on 

 since 1901. Serious impairment of eyesight 

 consequent on overwork led Dr. Mill to make 

 arrangements for retiring in 1914, when the 

 outbreak of the war caused him to postpone 

 the step; he now finds his health unequal to 

 the strain of adapting the work to post-war 

 conditions. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation reports that having reached the age 

 limit of seventy-five, Camillo Golgi retires 

 from the chair of general pathology and his- 

 tology at the University of Pavia, but still re- 

 tains charge of the institute connected there- 

 with where he has been uninterruptedly at 

 work for almost fifty years. A scholarship has 

 been founded in his honor by his friends and 

 pupils, the scholarship to be given to the 

 orphan of some physician killed during the 

 war. At an imposing ceremony he was pre- 

 sented with a gold medal and souvenir album 

 signed by the citizens of Pavia, with other hon- 

 ors. His discovery of the stain which first 

 revealed the finer structure of the nervous 

 system was made during his service in a small 

 hospital at Abbiategrasso, remote from the 

 centers of learning. The Nobel prize in medi- 

 cine in 1906 was divided between Golgi and 

 Ramon y Cajal. 



According to a statement recently issued by 

 the Surgeon General of the United States 

 Army, 442 casualties occurred among the med- 

 ical officers of the American Expeditionary 

 Forces in France from July 1, 1917, to March 

 13, 1919. Of these 22 died of wounds, 9 of 

 accidents, 101 of disease; 46 were killed and 

 7 were missing in action; 4 were lost at sea. 

 There were 38 prisoners unwounded, 47 

 wounded in action (degree undetermined), 93 

 severely wounded in action, and 72 slightly 

 wounded. 



The summer meetings of the American 

 Astronomical Society, American Mathemat- 

 ical Society, and Mathematical Association of 

 America will be held at Ann Arbor, Mich., 

 during the week September 2-6. A joint 

 session of the three organizations is arranged 



