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School, and has 'been in the Forest Service 

 continuously since 1904, except for two years 

 of military service with the American Expedi- 

 tionary Forces. 



From 1906 to 1908 he was supervisor of the 

 Sequoia National Forest in California. After 

 a short period of service in the "Washington 

 office he was appointed district forester in 

 charge of the ISTational Forests of Montana 

 and northern Idaho, with headquarters at Mis- 

 soula, Mont. In this position it fell to him to 

 protect these forests, having a total area of 

 over 29,000,000 acres, at the time of the great 

 fires in 1910. The following year he was ap- 

 pointed assistant forester and placed in charge 

 of the 'branch of silviculture, now the branch 

 of forest management, in the Washington 

 office. This branch has supervision of all na- 

 tional forest timber sales and timber cutting, 

 together with other important lines of work. 



With the opening of the war it was decided 

 to raise and send to France forestry troops, 

 and their recruiting was assigned to Colonel 

 Greeley. To prepare the way for their opera- 

 tions in the French forests, the chief forester. 

 Colonel Graves, was sent to France and at- 

 tached to the General Staff. After Colonel 

 Graves returned to the United States, Colonel 

 Greeley took his place and finally became chief 

 of the forestry section in the American Ex- 

 peditionary Forces, in charge of 21,000 forestry 

 troops and 95 savTUiills, with lumbering opera- 

 tions scattered from the zone of military ope- 

 rations to the Pyrenees and from the Swiss 

 border to the Atlantic. 



Colonel Graves, in presenting his resigna- 

 tion after ten years of service as chief for- 

 ester, wrote: 



Since the pecuniary returns afforded profes- 

 sional and scientific men in the government service 

 inadequately provide against the exhaustion of the 

 working powers which must inevitably take place 

 in time, and entail sacrifices from which employ- 

 ment elsewhere is free, the only course consistent 

 alike with self-respect and a regard for the puhlic 

 interests seems to me to be retirement from office 

 before efficiency has been impaired. Present con- 

 ditions, which amount to a heavy reduction in the 

 rate of compensation in practically every branch 

 of the government service, emphasize this point of 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the mid-year commencement exercises of 

 the University of Pittsburgh honorary degrees 

 were conferred upon Dr. William H. Nichols, 

 retiring president of the American Chemical 

 Society, and Dr. William A. Noyes, present 

 president. 



Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick 

 Observatory, has been appointed " Commander 

 of the Order of Leopold LI." by King Albert, 

 of Belgium. Dr. Campbell has also been 

 elected to honorary membership in the Eoyal 

 Institution of Great Britain. 



Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell 

 University, at present chairman of the division 

 of chemistry of the National Research Coun- 

 cil, has been elected a foreign member of the 

 Chemical Society, London. 



Dr. F. G. Novy, of the University of Michi- 

 gan, has been elected a corresponding member 

 of the Society of Biology, of Paris, and asso- 

 ciate member of the Eoyal Society of Medical 

 and Natural Sciences of Brussels. 



Dr. Frederick P. Gay, of the University of 

 California, has been elected an honorary mem- 

 ber of the Philadelphia Pathological Society. 



Professor A. Fowler, professor of astro- 

 physics. Imperial College of Science and Tech- 

 nology, London, has been elected a correspond- 

 ing member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 

 in succession to the late Professor E. Weiss, of 

 Vienna. 



Professor E. A. Sampson, astronomer royal 

 for Scotland, has been appointed Halley lec- 

 turer at the University of Oxford for 1920. 



Dr. Arthur L. Day, who has been engaged 

 in research work at the Corning Glass Works, 

 Corning, N. T., is resuming the directorship 

 at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution, Washington, D. C. 



Karl Sax has been appointed biologist at 

 the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station to 

 take charge of the plant-breeding work. 



Dr. Chester Snow has resigned as professor 

 of mathematics at the University of Idaho, to 

 accept a position as physicist in the Bureau of 

 Standards, Washington. 



