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ment of Agriculture, to succeed tlie late Dr. 



C. Gordon Hewitt, whose death oecui-red in 

 February last. 



Dr. Thomas F. Hunt, dean of the college 

 of agriculture at the University of California, 

 has been appointed a member of the perma- 

 nent committee of the International Institute 

 of Agriculture at Eome, Italy. 



Mr. Paul Moore, director of the Informa- 

 tian Bureau of the War Trade Board, has 

 been appointed secretary of the Division of 

 Eesearch Extension of the National Research 

 Council. 



Mr. R. M. Wilhelm, chief of the ther- 

 mometer laboratory of the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, resigned in September to accept a posi- 

 tion with the 0. J. Tagliabue Manufacturing 

 Company, of Brooklyn, ~New York, manufac- 

 turers of thermometric apparatus. 



Robert Hall Craig, formerly sanitary engi- 

 neer with the surgeon general of the army 

 and later sanitary and hydraulic engineer 

 with the Construction Division of the Army, 

 Washington, D. C, and Henry Ward Banks, 

 3d, formerly research chemist with the Harri- 

 man Research Laboratory, !N"ew York City, 

 and the l^Tational Biscuit Company, have 

 formed a partnership under the name of 

 Banks and Craig, consulting engineers and 

 consulting chemists, with offices in New York 

 City. 



The Iowa Physics Research Board, an 

 organization allied with the Iowa Academy ot 

 Science, has been formed as a result of the 

 annual meeting of the Iowa Academy held 

 last May at the University of Iowa, at Iowa 

 City. About twenty-five college physicists are 

 members of the board, which is organized to 

 give mutual help in aiding research work in 

 physics in the state. Three members serve as 

 an executive committee. These are Professor 



D. W. Morehouse, of Drake University, Pro- 

 fssor Roy D. Weld, of Coe College, and Pro- 

 fessor G. W. Stewart, of the University of 

 Iowa. Professor Stewart is the secretary of 

 the committee. 



Dr. Blenby a. Christian, Hersey pro- 

 fessor of the theory and practise of physic 



at the Harvard Medical School, has returned 

 to his position at the medical school and as 

 physician-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham 

 Hospital, Boston, after a year's leave of 

 absence spent in Washington as chairman of 

 the Division of Medical Sciences of the Na- 

 tional Research Council. Prom June 25 to 

 July 2, 1920, he delivered five lectures at the 

 University of Washington, Seattle, and he 

 will deliver an address before the Mississippi 

 Valley Medical Association at Chicago, 

 October 27. 



Dr. Edward Phelps Allis, Jr., of Palais 

 de Carnoles, Mentone, Maritime Alps, France, 

 well known for his basic researches in com- 

 parative anatomy, is now in America, and is 

 expected to spend three or four months in the 

 United States previous to returning to the 

 Allis Laboratory to resume his work. 



Professor C. W. Hewlett, of the depart- 

 ment of physics of the University of Iowa, 

 has returned to the university for the work of 

 the academic year after spending the summer 

 in the research laboratory of the General 

 Electric Company, at Schenectady, N. Y. 



Howard E. Simpson has returned to the 

 chair of geographic geology at the University 

 of North Dakota after a semester's leave of 

 aibsence. During the leave he served as visit- 

 ing professor of geology and geography in the 

 University of Southern California. 



Professor Homer R. Dill, director of the 

 vertebrate museum at the University of Iowa, 

 has returned to the university after spending 

 the summer making collections for the mu- 

 seum in the Hawaiian Islands and in the 

 Billy Goat Pass region of Washington. 



A GROUP of twelve physicians of the Mayo 

 Foundation has organized the " Osier Society 

 for the Study of Medical History." Dr. Wil- 

 liam C. MacCarty, associate professor of 

 pathology, has been chosen president. 



Cooperative work has been worked out by 

 Professor Frank Schlesinger, professor of as- 

 tronomy at Yale University, between the gov- 

 ernment Observatory at WeUington, New Zea- 

 land, and the observatory of Yale University. 

 This plan, which has received the approval of 



