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rector of the Hospital for Mental Diseases, 

 Philadelphia. 



Charles S. Howard, formerly an instructor 

 in the department of electrical engineering and 

 physics at the TJ. S. Naval Academy, has ac- 

 cepted a position a,s junior chemist in the 

 Quality of Water Division of the "Water Re- 

 sources Branch of the IT. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, Washington, D. C. 



Me. W. D. Collins has left the Bureau of 

 Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture 

 to take charge of work on quality of water for 

 the TJ. S. Geological Survey. 



De. Chaeles L. Paesons, secretary of the 

 American Chemical Society, has returned to 

 Washington following the adjournment of 

 the International Union of Pure and Applied 

 Chemistry at Borne, where he acted as the 

 American representative. 



W. S. W. Kew, of the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey, is studying the oil conditions of north- 

 western Mexico for private parties while on 

 furlough from the government service. 



R. B. Moore, chief chemist of the Bureau of 

 Mines, and Dorsey Lyon, supervisor of mining 

 experiment stations, are going south to inspect 

 sites suggested for a mining experiment sta- 

 tion to deal with problems of non-metallic min- 

 ing, as provided for at the last session of Con- 

 gress. 



The Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry records changes in positions as fol- 

 lows: A. J. Lewis has resigned from the Bu- 

 reau of Standards, where he was engaged in 

 paint and varnish analysis as assistant chemist, 

 and is at present with the H. H. Franklin 

 Manufacturing Co., Syracuse, IST. Y., as re- 

 search chemist in paints, varnishes and enam- 

 els. Dr. Fred C. Blanck has resigned as food 

 and drug commissioner of Maryland and asso- 

 ciate in chemistry in the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity to accept a position as director of 

 inspection in the Del-Mar-Via Inspection Dis- 

 trict of the National Canners Association, with 

 headquarters at Easton, Md. Dr. R. L. Se- 

 bastian, formerly engaged in magnesit« in- 

 vestigation with the U. S. Bureau of Mines, 

 Berkeley Station, Calif., has accepted a posi- 



tion as research chemist with the Barrett Co., 

 Frankford, Pa. Mr. Arthur C. Metcalf has 

 resigned as junior chemist, Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, to be- 

 come chemist for the Republic Packing Corp., 

 Lockport, N. Y. Mr. Ferdinand A. Collatz 

 has resigned his assistantship in the depart- 

 ment of biochemistry. University of Minnesota, 

 to accept a research fellowship with the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Baking, Minneapolis, Minn. 



We learn from Nature that the civil list 

 pensions granted during the year ended 

 March 31 include: Mrs. Howell, in recogni- 

 tion of her late husband's eminent public 

 service in the Geological Survey of Great 

 Britain, £50; Miss Juliet Hepworth, in rec- 

 ognition of her late brother's services to 

 meteorology and oceanography, £50, and Mrs. 

 K. Macdonald Goring, in recognition of her 

 husband's services to biometrical science, £85. 



" Teexds in Psychology " was the subject 

 of an address delivered on July 22 at Stan- 

 ford University by Professor W. V. Bingham, 

 of the Carnegie Institute of Technology. 



At the request of the Rontgen Society, 

 Dr. W. D. Coolidge, of the research labora- 

 tories of the General Electric Company, gave 

 an address on July 15 at University College, 

 London. 



De. Richaed A. Berry, professor of anat- 

 omy in the University of Melbourne, has been 

 appointed Stewart lecturer for 1921 in that 

 university. Professor Berry has recently, in 

 conjunction with Mr. S. D. Porteus, director 

 of the research laboratory of the training 

 school at Vineland, New Jersey, issued a 

 report describing a practical method for the 

 diagnosis of mental deficiency and other 

 forms of social inefficiency, and will devote 

 his Stewart course to tliis subject. 



De. J. BucQUOY, president of the Paris 

 Academy of Medicine, has died at the age of 

 ninety-one years. He had attended the meet- 

 ings of the academy to the day before his 

 death, which was due to a street accident. 



The death is announced of Dr. T. 

 Debaisieux, one of the most eminent surgeons 

 of Belgium, and emeritus professor of sur- 



