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Dr. John L. Todd, of McGill University, and 

 Dr. Simeon B. Wolbach, of Harvard Medical 

 School, have gone to Poland to study typhus 

 fever. They are working under the Red Cross. 

 Dr. Don M. Griswold has been appointed 

 state epidemiologist of Iowa to succeed the 

 late Dr. E. G. Birge. Dr. Griswold will also 

 act as head of the division of hygiene, pre- 

 ventive medicine and epidemiology of the de- 

 partment of pathology and bacteriology of the 

 University of Iowa. 



Dr. E. G. Titus, technologist in sugar-plant 

 investigations, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, who has been in charge of seed-breeding 

 and other sugar-beet investigations in the 

 intermountaiu region, has accepted a posi- 

 tion with the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 

 .Salt Lake City, as director of their new 

 department of agricultural research. 



Professor O. M. Leland, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has accepted a position with the J. G. 

 White Engineering Corporation and has taken 

 up his work at their offices in New York City. 

 He has been a member of the faculty of civil 

 engineering at Cornell for seventeen years. 

 During the war. Professor Leland was in 

 active service as Lieutenant Colonel of Engi- 

 neers, in the 78th Division, and, after the 

 Armistice, in the 89th Division. 



Dr. James Brown, formerly research chem- 

 ist for Zinsser and Co., Hastings-on-Hudson, 

 N. T., has accepted a position as research 

 chemist with the Caleo-Chemical Company, of 

 Bound Brook, IST. J. 



Professor E. A. Sampson, F.R.S., astron- 

 omer royal for Scotland, has 'been appointed 

 Halley lecturer in the University of Oxford. 



The courses and conferences arranged for 

 the physicists and mathematicians who will be 

 assembled at the University of Chicago during 

 the s umm er quarter, beginning on June 21 and 

 ending about September 1, include the subject 

 of the General Theory of Eelativity, by Dr. A. 

 C. Lunn; the Theories of Quanta and Theories 

 of Atomic Structure, by Dr. E. A. Millikan; 

 Kew Developments in Optics, by Dr. H. G. 

 Gale; Thermionic Phenomena and their Appli- 

 cations, by Dr. A. J. Van der Bijl, of the Ee- 



search Laboratory of the Western Electric 

 Company ; the Theory of Sound, by Dr. Lunn ; 

 and Electro-Magnetic Theory, by Dr. A. J. 

 Dempster. The facilities of the Eyerson Lab- 

 oratory for research and conference purposes 

 are extended to professors holding the doctor's 

 degree from other institutions. A considerable 

 number of physicists of this type are to be in 

 attendance. 



Sir Eichard Glazebrook, late director of the 

 National Physical Laboratory at Teddington, 

 England, was presented on March lY by the 

 stafi with his portrait in oils, painted by his 

 cousin, Mr. Hugh de T. Glazebrook. Accom- 

 panying the gift was an album, containing an 

 illuminated address, followed by the signatures 

 of past and present members of the staff and a 

 photograph of the laboratory taken from an 

 aeroplane. Mr. P. E. Smith, F.E.S., who pre- 

 isided, and Dr. T. E. Stanton, w'ho made the 

 presentation, reviewed the rise and progress of 

 the laboratory under Sir Eichard, and referred 

 t-o the harmony that had always existed be- 

 tween him and the staff. Sir Eichard Glaze- 

 brook thanked the staff for their gift, and, 

 speaking of the future of the laboratory, said 

 he Was sure Mr. Balfour and the members of 

 the council had its interests very seriously at 

 heart, and would do all they could in the future 

 ■to promote its prosperity. There was an in- 

 tention on the part of the Ministry to carry on 

 the study of aeronautics, which had been an 

 important feature in the work of the labora- 

 tory in the past, and he hoped that place would 

 be made one of the centers where research 

 ,work would be continued. 



At the meeting of the Institute of Medicine 

 of Chicago on April 16, Professor E. A. Milli- 

 kan, professor of physics at the University of 

 Chicago, presented la paper on " Twentieth 

 century contributions to our knowledge of the 

 atom." 



Professor Vernon Kellogg recently ad- 

 dressed the New York Alumni Society of Phi 

 Beta Kappa, and also the Washington Academy 

 of Sciences, on " Europe's food in war and 

 armistice." 



