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National Cereal Products Laboratories, with 

 offices in Washington, D. C. 



I Professor Harold R. Hagan has resigned as 

 professor of zoology and entomology at the 

 Utah Agricultural College. 



De. Charles E. Simon, professor of clinical 

 pathology at the University of Maryland, has 

 severed his connection with that institution 

 and has accepted the position of a lecturer at 

 the School of Hygiene and Public Health of 

 the Johns Hopkins University. He has also 

 been appointed managing editor of the forth- 

 coming American Journal of Hygiene, of 

 which Dr. William H. Welch is the editor in 

 chief. 



The Mary Kingsley medal has been con- 

 ferred on Professor G. B. Grassi, professor of 

 comparative anatomy at the University of 

 Rome, for his research on the transmission of 

 malaria by mosquitoes and the development of 

 the hematozoa in the mosquito body. 



Professor J. B. Farmer, professor of botany 

 in the Imperial College of Science and Tech- 

 nology, London, has been appointed a mem- 

 ber of the advisory council to the Committee 

 of the Privy Council for Scientific and In- 

 dustrial Research. 



Mr. B. B. Woodward has retired from the 

 British Museum (ISTatural History) but will 

 complete his catalogue of the natural history 

 library. 



Professor Herbert E. Gregory, who by a 

 cooperative agreement with Yale University is 

 serving as director of the Bishop Museum. 

 Honolulu, has returned to New Haven and 

 will resume his university work for the first 

 half of the present academic year. 



Dr. S. I. Franz, of George Washington 

 University and the Government Hospital for 

 the Insane, represented the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science at the 

 recent Cardiff meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation. The General Committee has resolved 

 that national associations for the advancement 

 of science shall in future be invited to send 

 representatives to meetings of the British 

 Association. 



W. S. Kew, on leave of absence from the U. 

 S. Geological Survey, has left California for 

 private work in Sonora, Mexico. 



L. W. Stephenson has returned from Mex- 

 ico and is acting chief of the Coastal Plains 

 section of the U. S. Geological Survey, during 

 the absence of T. Wayland Vaughan who at- 

 tended the Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference 

 in August and is spending the rest of the sum- 

 mer in study and correlation of the marine 

 Tertiary strata ,of the Pacific coast. 



Dr. F. W Traphagen, professor of metal- 

 lurgy in the Dakota School of Mines, has 

 returned to Rapid City, South Dakota, after 

 spending the summer in metallurgical re- 

 search work for the Denver Metals Co., at 

 their plant at Utah Junction, Colo. 



Dr. Lewis Wm. Fetzer has resigned as 

 professor of physiology and pharmacology in 

 the Baylor University College of Medicine, to 

 take charge of the laboratories of St. Paul 

 Sanitarium at Dallas, Texas. 



A committee was organized in 1910 to col- 

 lect funds for a moniunent to Lombroso. 

 The committee had concluded its task when 

 the war broke out but the execution of the 

 monument was deferred. The Journal of the 

 American Medical Association states that the 

 matter has been taken up again and it has 

 been found that the funds collected are inade- 

 quate for the purpose now. So the committee 

 appeals for more donations. They can be 

 sent to Professor Enrico Ferri at Rome. The 

 sculptor is at work on the monument which 

 will be unveiled at Verona in the spring of 

 1921. 



Eric Doolittle, professor of astronomy in 

 the University of Pennsylvania and director 

 of the Flower Observatory died on September 

 21, from heart disease at the age of fifty years. 

 Professor Doolittle succeeded his father the 

 late Charles L. Doolittle in the directorship 

 of the Flower Observatory in 1915. 



Samuel Sheldon, for thirty-one years pro- 

 fessor of physics and electrical engineering at 

 the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, died on 

 September 4 at the age of fifty-eight years. 



