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tlie title of tlie committee. Its chainnan was 

 Professor H. F. Moore, of the department of 

 theoretical and applied mechanics, of the 

 University of Illinois, and during the war 

 and afterward some small pieces of research 

 work were carried out under the auspices of 

 the conunittee, mainly in the materials test- 

 ing laboratory of the college of engineering 

 of the University of Illinois by the chairman 

 of the committee, and by W. J. Putnam, and 

 A. Gr. Gehrig. The National Eesearch Coun- 

 cil recommended that the bulk of the income 

 of the Engineering Foundation be given to 

 the support of an extensive investigation of 

 the resistance of metals to fatigue under 

 repeated loading, and that Professor Moore be 

 asked to take charge of the investigation. 



Engineering Education, from which these 

 facts are quoted, states that the formal ar- 

 rangements have been completed for the 

 active prosecution of this work, with head- 

 quarters and a laboratory at the University 

 of Illinois. The financial support for the in- 

 vestigation will amount to $30,000, and it 

 is expected to extend over a period of two 

 years. Material for study and apparatus is 

 already arriving, and a room is being fitted 

 up for the installation of the score or more of 

 special testing machines which will be re- 

 quired for the investigation. 



The investigation is under the joint 

 auspices of the Engineering Foundation, the 

 University of Illinois Engineering Experi- 

 ment Station, and the National Research 

 Council, the last-named body being repre- 

 sented by an advisory committee of nine 

 members, of which Professor Moore is chair- 

 man. In addition to the funds supplied by 

 the Engineering Foundation, the university 

 furnished Professor Moore's services, light, 

 heat, power, a laboratory room, and the use 

 of the standard testing equipment of the 

 materials testing laboratory. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The degree of doctor of laws was conferred 

 on Professor Theodore W. Eichards, director 

 of the Wolcott Gibbs Laboratory of Harvard 



University, at the University Day exercises of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



Professor Akton J. Carlson, chairman of 

 the department of physiology at the University 

 of Chicago, has been made an honorary M.D. 

 by the University of Lund, Sweden. Professor 

 Carlson has also been made a corresponding 

 member of the French Biological Society. 



Professor J. M. T. Finney, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, and Dr. Charles H. Mayo, 

 of Rochester, Minn., have been elected honor- 

 ary fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 of England. 



Mr. Giffohd Pinchot, of Milford, Pa., 

 former chief forester of the United States, has 

 been appointed commissioner of forestry of 

 Pennsylvania by Governor Sproul to succeed 

 Robert S. Conklin, of Columbia, who resigned 

 to become a member of the State "Water Sup- 

 ply Commission. 



Dr. Henry Graves, chief of the U. S. Forest 

 Service, and Albert F. Pottee, associate for- 

 ester, have resigned. 



Professor Robert B. Riggs, for thirty-three 

 years professor of chemistry at Trinity Col- 

 lege, will retire at the close of the present col- 

 lege year. 



Mr. R. M. Brown, formerly librarian of the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, has accepted an 

 appointment with Rand, McNally and Com- 

 pany, to prepare and edit material for a new 

 edition of their atlas of the world. 



Mr. George A. Rankin, formerly with the 

 Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, and captain 

 in the Chemical Warfare Service during the 

 war, has joined the staff of the Geophysical 

 Laboratory of the Carn^ie Institution of 

 Washington. 



Julius Matz, foi-merly with the Florida 

 Agricultural Experiment Station and for the 

 past year assistant plant pathologist at the 

 Insular Experiment Station of Porto Rico, has 

 been appointed chief of the division of botany 

 and plant pathology at the Insular Experiment 

 Station, Rio Piedrus, P. R., beginning on Jan- 

 uary 1, 1920. 



