OCTOBEK 31, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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Bonn, more recently captain of the Eoyal 

 Engineers in the British Army, has been ap- 

 pointed visiting professor of physical chem- 

 istry at the University of Illinois for the 

 current year. 



Professor George C. Whipple, of Harvard 

 University has been appointed director of the 

 division of sanitation in the bureau of hy- 

 giene of the International League of Red 

 Cross Societies. The associate director will 

 be Colonel Francis F. Longley, U. S. A., who 

 served as colonel of the 26th Engineers in 

 France. 



The Massachusetts Forestry Association 

 has submitted to the Governor of Massachu- 

 setts the names of Herman H. Chapman, of 

 the Yale Forest School, IsTew Haven, Con- 

 necticut; E. C. Hirst, state forester of 

 Concord, New Hampshire, and William C. 

 Howard, assistant superintendent of the State 

 Forests, Albany, ISTew York, as candidates to 

 head the Massachusetts Division of Forestry, 

 and also to fill the office of .commissioner of 

 conservation. 



Among the war prizes awarded by the 

 French Academy of Sciences are the three 

 Montyon prizes of £100, given respectively to 

 MM. Louis Martin and Auguste Pettit, of the 

 Pasteur Institute, for a memoir of ictero- 

 hemorrhagic spirochetosis; MM. Weinberg 

 and Seguin, of the same institute, for a re- 

 search on gas gangrene; and MM. Rouvillois, 

 G. L. Pedeprade, and A. Basset for their 

 studies on war surgery. A prize of £120 was 

 awarded to M. Paul Eavaut for his researches 

 on paludism, and one of £80 to M. Goris 

 for studies on the localization of alkaloids 

 and glucosides in vegetables and on the 

 preparation of catgut. 



Dr. W. H. Rankin, for five years assistant 

 professor of plant pathology in the New York 

 State College of Agriculture at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed officer in charge, 

 Field Laboratory of Plant Pathology, St. 

 Catherines, Ontario, in the Canadian depart- 

 ment of agriculture, and has entered upon 

 his duties. 



Professor J. 0. Arnold, dean of the fac- 

 ulty of metallurgy and professor of metal- 



lurgy in the University of Sheffield since 

 1889, has retired. 



Dr. Elwood Mead, professor of rural insti- 

 tutions in the University of California and 

 chairman of the California Land Settlement 

 Board, has been appointed a member of the 

 National Bureau of Economic Research. 



Dr. Oliver Kamm, assistant professor of 

 organic chemistry in the University of Illi- 

 nois, has returned to Urbana after an eight 

 months' leave of absence spent in organizing 

 a chemical research laboratory for the Amer- 

 ican Writing Paper Company, at Holyoke, 

 Mass. Dr. R. E. Rindfuss, of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, has accepted a permanent 

 position with the same company as director 

 of Chemical Research. Dr. Kamm remains 

 connected with the company in an advisory 

 capacity. 



Mr. Paul C. Standley, of the Division of 

 Plants, U. S. National Museum, has re- 

 turned from a collecting trip through Glacier 

 National Park, Montana. Data were secured 

 for a handbook of the plants of the park, to 

 be issued by the National Park Service. 



Professors Edward W. Berry and Joseph 

 T. SiNGEWALD, Jr., of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, have returned to Baltimore, after 

 spending six months in geological investiga- 

 tions in the South American Cordillera. 

 Over one thousand miles were traversed on 

 mule-back and the Andes were crossed eight 

 times between Huancayo, Peru and Con- 

 cepcion, Chile. Much valuable material was 

 shipped home. The expedition was made 

 possible by a fund in memory of the late 

 Professor George H. Williams. 



Professor Olaf P. Jenkins has resigned 

 from his position as geologist to the Arizona 

 Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, at 

 Tucson, to undertake geological work in for- 

 eign countries fou S. Pearsons & Son, Ltd., of 

 London. 



Dr. C. Bonne and his wife, Mr. C. Bonne- 

 Wepster, of Surinam (Dutch Guiana), stu- 

 dents of South American mosquitoes, are 

 spending two months at the National Mu- 

 seum in the study of the mosquito collection. 



