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as a foundation for the great future needs of 

 meteorology. I would be glad to have com- 

 munications from prospective members of a 

 meteorological society in order to have a 

 strong-, tentative organization and vt^orking 

 plans for the formal establishment of this 

 society. 



Charles F. Brooks 

 Weather Bureau, 

 Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor For- 

 est Eay Moulton, of the department of astron- 

 omy and astrophysics of the University of 

 Chicago, was elected a fellow in the section of 

 mathematics and astronomy. 



At the recent commencement exercises of 

 the University of Georgia, Augusta, the hon- 

 orary degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred on Dr. John M. T. Finney, of Balti- 

 more. 



Queen's University, Belfast, has conferred 

 the degree of LL.D. on Lieutenant-Colonel 

 Ribert McCarrison, I.M.S., a graduate of 

 the university, in recognition of his in- 

 vestigations into the causes of goiter and 

 cretinism; on Dr. Johnson Symington, for 

 twenty years professor of anatomy in the 

 university, and now emeritus professor; the 

 D.Se. on Sir David Semple, late R.A.M.C, 

 a medical graduate of the university, formerly 

 assistant of pathology in the Army Medical 

 School, ISTetley, and director of the Pasteur In- 

 stitute, India; the M.D. on Professor J. G. 

 Adami, F.R.S., vice-chancellor of the Univer- 

 sity of Liverpool, and lately professor of pathol- 

 ogy in McGill University, Montreal, in recog- 

 nition of his researches in pathology; on Dr. 

 Alexis Carrel, member of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute of Experimental Medicine, New York, 

 and during the war medical officer of the Spe- 

 cial Research Hospital of the French Army; 

 .on Professor Harvey Gushing, of Harvard 

 University; on Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Sin- 

 ton, V.C., I.M.S., formerly Riddell demon- 

 strator in pathology at Queen's University, in 

 recognition of his early distinctions and of his 



valor in the field while engaged in the treat- 

 ment and succor of the wounded. 



The Navy Department announces the pro- 

 motion of the following officers of the Medical 

 Corps, Reserve Force, to the rank of com- 

 mander; William Seaman Bainbridge, Rob- 

 ert Crier LeConte, "William Baret Brinsmade, 

 Stanley Stillman, Eugene Floyd DuBois, Rea 

 Smith, John Chalmers DaCosta, Milton Joseph 

 Rosenau, George Gorgas Ross, Albion Walter 

 Hewlett, Hobart Amory Hare, Robert Battery 

 Greenough, Judson Deland, James Eli Talley, 

 Edward Milton Foote, Paul Adin Lewis, Guy 

 Cochran, Verne Adams Dodd, Edgerton La- 

 fayette Crispin, John Aloysius McGlinn, Le- 

 Roy Goddard Crandon, Harold Denman 

 Meeker, Nelson Henry Clark, Halsey DeWolf, 

 Charles W. Moots, George Arnold Matteson, 

 James Taylor Hanan, Francis Joseph Dever, 

 Frank Cousins Gregg, Clifford Elmore Henry, 

 Porter Bruce Brockway, Clinton C. Tyrrell, 

 Frederick Obadiah Williams, Harvey Mitchell 

 Righter, Zachray Thomas Scott, William Cur- 

 tis Newton, William Henry Areson. This is 

 the first time in the history of the Navy that 

 medical reserve officers have been ranked higher 

 than Lieutenant Commander. 



R. F. Bacon, A. V. Bleininger, G. A. Bur- 

 rell, F. G. Cottrell, J. O. Handy, G. A. Hulett, 

 G. F. Mason, Samuel R. Scholes and Alexander 

 Silverman have been appointed delegates from 

 the American Chemical Society to attend the 

 ceremonies, exhibits and demonstrations to be 

 given at Pittsburgh, Pa., September 29-30 and 

 October 1 at the time of the dedication of the 

 new buildings of the Bureau of Mines. 



Dr. Jack J. Hinman, Jr., after having been 

 on leave of absence as a captain of the Sani- 

 tary Corps in the A. E. F., engaged in water 

 supply work, has returned to his work as water 

 bacteriologist and chemist for the Iowa State 

 Board of Health, and assistant professor of 

 epidemiology in the State University of Iowa. 



Dr. Edward G. Bikge has been apiwinted 

 state epidemiologist of Iowa, succeeding Dr. 

 John H. Hamilton, Iowa City. Dr. Birge is 

 the son of President Birge of the University 

 of Wisconsin. 



