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Haven, Conn. The utilization of researeli. De- 

 cember 13, 1919, to post-graduate student officers. 



Dr. Arthur D. Little, Charles River Eoad, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. Natural resources in their relation 

 to military supplies. January 17, 1920, to post- 

 graduate student officers. 



Dr. Wm. H. Nichols, 25 Broad St., New York 

 City. Sulfuric acid, the pig iron of chemistry. 

 February 6, 1920, to midshipmen. 



Dr. Willis E. Whitney, General Electric Co., 

 Schenectady, N. Y. Industrial research. February 

 7, 1920, to post-graduate student officers. 



Dr. W. Lee Lewis, Northwestern University, 

 Evanston, 111. Organic research in toxic gases. 

 March 6, 1920, to post-graduate student officers. 



Dr. Chas. L. Keese, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & 

 Co., Wilmington, Del. Explosives. April 2, 1920, 

 to midshipmen, April 3, 1920, to post-graduate 

 student officers. 



Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. Organized research. April 30, 1920, 

 to midshipmen, May 1, 1920, to post-graduate stu- 

 dent officers. 



Dr. Wm. H. Walker, Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Manufacturing 

 problems of gas warfare. May 15, 1920. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A SECTION of engineering has been estab- 

 lisbed in itbe National Academy of Sciences 

 and is now constituted as follows: Messrs. H. 

 L. Abbot, J. J. Carty, W. F. Durand, J. E. 

 Freeman, H. M. Howe, F. B, Jewett, G. 0. 

 Squier, D. W. Taylor. All members of the 

 sections of physics and chemistry were given 

 an opportunity to remain with the section with 

 which they had been affiliated or to be placed 

 in the section of engineering. 



At a recent meeting of the corporation of 

 Yale University it was voted " to extend the 

 sincere congratulations of the corporation to 

 Professor Ernest Brown on the completion of 

 his montunental work on the " Tables of the 

 Motion of the Moon," and to assure him that 

 the university considers the work that he has 

 done on these volumes as among the most im- 

 portant scientific contributions ever made by 

 an officer of Tale University." 



We regret to learn that Sir William Osier, 

 regius professor of medicine in Oxford Uni- 



versity, who passed his seventieth birthday 

 anniversary last July, was stricken with pneu- 

 monia in November. 



Sir Henry A. Miees, vice-chancellor of the 

 University of Manchester, and formerly pro- 

 fessor of mineralogy at the University of Ox- 

 ford, has been elected president of the Man- 

 chester Literary and Philosophical Society. 



The Royal Meteorological Society has 

 awarded the Symons memorial gold medal for 

 1920 to Professor H. H. Hildebrandsson for 

 distinguished work in connection with meteoro- 

 logical science. 



Dr. a. Pirelli has been elected president of 

 an Italian Society of Chemical Industry 

 which has been organized at Milan. 



Dr. J. C. McLennan, professor of physics 

 in the University of Toronto, who has since 

 1917 been engaged in work for the British 

 Admiralty, Avill shortly return to Toronto. 



Dr. Nelson W. Janney, New York City, 

 has been appointed director of the new Me- 

 morial Laboratory of the Santa Barbara Hos- 

 pital, founded by the late Dr. Nathaniel Bow- 

 ditch Potter, for research on metabolistic dis- 

 eases. 



Dr. Ealph B. Seem, Baltimore, assistant 

 superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hos- 

 pital, has accepted the position of superintend- 

 ent of the Billings Memorial Hospital, Chi- 

 cago. 



Mr. Chester G. Gilbert has resigned from 

 the Smithsonian Institution to accept a posi- 

 tion on the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., of 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has opened 

 a Washington office in the Munsey Building, 

 with Mr. Gilbert in charge. 



De. E. Miller, associate in chemistry at the 

 Johns Hopkins University, has resigned to 

 take a position with the DuPont Powder Com- 

 pany. 



Mr. W. J. Cotton has resigned from the 

 color laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry 

 to laccetpt a position with the National Aniline 

 and Chemical Company, of Buffalo, New York. 



We learn from Nature that Captain P. E. 

 Lowe has been appointed assistant in charge of 



