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search, in connection with the Melbourne Hos- 

 pital. 



'Nils B. Eckbo, a member of the Forest 

 Service since 1907, has left for Pretoria, 

 South Africa, to assume the duties of chief 

 of wood investigations in the Forest Depart- 

 ment. 



Dr. J. P. Street, chemist in charge of the 

 analytical laboratory of the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station and recently 

 major in the Sanitary Corps of the United 

 States Army, has been assigned by the ISTa- 

 tional Canuers' Association as chief inspector 

 for the state of Indiana. 



Captain Edward B. Stephenson, Engineers, 

 U. S. A., formerly assistant professor of phys- 

 ics. University of North Dakota, who has been 

 connected with experimental and development 

 work in sound ranging for the past two years 

 and with the Engineer School at Camp Hum- 

 phreys, Va., has been honorably discharged 

 from the military service and employed as 

 physicist in charge of Ranging and Camou- 

 flage Development, Office, Chief of Engineers, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Lieutenant Colonel C. G. Storm, Ord- 

 nance Department, U. S. A., chief of the Re- 

 search Section, A m munition Division, has 

 been honorably discharged from the service 

 and is now engaged in research work with the 

 Pennsylvania Trojan Powder Company, Allen- 

 town, Pa. 



Mb. H. E. Haeing, for the last two years in 

 the inspection division of the Ordnance De- 

 partment, is now connected with the Bureau 

 of Standards where he will be engaged in elec- 

 trochemical research. 



S. T. Dana, forest economist in the Forest 

 Service, has been assigned to the joint con- 

 gressional committee for the reclassification of 

 salaries to assist in the formulation of a 

 report to the congress. 



Professor J. E. Kirkwood, head of the 

 department of botany at the State University 

 of Montana, has been granted leave of absence 

 for the coming academic year. He will spend 

 much of his time in research and study at the 

 University of California. 



Dr. W. Armstrong Price, assistant pro- 

 fessor of geology at West Virginia University, 

 has resigned this position to devote full time 

 to his duties as paleontologist of the West 

 Virginia Geological Survey. 



Charles Conrad Abbott died at Bristol, 

 Pa., on July 27, in the seventy-seventh year 

 of his age. Dr. Abbott was the author of 

 " Primitive Industries " published in the early 

 '70's, and of a number of books on natural 

 history, including the " Archeology of the 

 Delaware Valley." 



Samuel T. Wellman, past-president of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 

 well known in the iron and steel industry of 

 the Great Lakes, died on July 11, at the age of 

 seventy-two years. 



Dr. Joseph Zeisler, professor of dermatol- 

 ogy at INrorthwestern University since 1889, 

 died on September 1. 



George Stephen West, professor of botany 

 in the University of Birmingham, has died at 

 the age of forty-three years. 



Dr. J. Gomez Ocana, professor of physiol- 

 ogy at the University of Madrid, and life 

 senator, has died, aged fifty-nine years. 



The Civil Service Commission of the state 

 of N'ew York will hold examinations on Sep- 

 tember 27 for the position of assistant director. 

 Division of Laboratories and Research, State 

 Department of Health, with a salary of $4,000. 

 This position is open to men between the ages 

 of thirty and forty-five years and to non-resi- 

 dents and non-citizens. Applicants will be 

 rated on education, experience and personal 

 qualifications. An interview may be required. 

 There will also be an examination for a 

 bacteriologist-pathologist, Division of Lab- 

 oratories and Research, State Department of 

 Health with a salary of $2,500, open to men 

 and women, twenty-five to forty-five years of 

 age. Candidates will be rated on a written 

 examination relating to the duties of the posi- 

 tion, weight 1 ; and on their education, experi- 

 ence and personal qualifications, weight 1. 



Harvard University announces that Dr. 

 Thomas M. Legge, chief medical inspector of 

 factories dn Great Britain, has been invited to 



