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committee to study hospital conditions, sur- 

 gical treatment and sanitary medicine in Italy. 

 The committee consisted of the following 

 members : Majors Angus McLean, George E. 

 McKean and Harry IST. Torrey. Lieutenant 

 Bror H. Larsson accompanies the expedition 

 as secretary, and Captain James "W. Inches 

 represents the American Red Cross. Permis- 

 sion for this investigation was obtained 

 through the Italian military authorities, and 

 ■was granted for fourteen days. 



Dr. Joel Asaph Allen, after twenty-eight 

 years of active service as editor of the scientific 

 publications of the American Museum of 

 iN'atural History, has resigned in order to de- 

 vote his entire time to the collections of the 

 department of mammalogy and ornithology, of 

 which he is curator. The following is an ex- 

 tract from the resolution passed by the pub- 

 lication committee of the museum in apprecia- 

 tion of Dr. Allen's services : 



... As the scientifie editor, he has been little 

 less than ideal, since with a natural fitness for the 

 calling there was combined also the highest quality 

 of scholarship in the subjects dealt with by his con- 

 tributors. He was thus more than editor; rather 

 a leader in the researches represented in the Bul- 

 letin and Memoir series. 



Dr. F. E. Lutz, of the department of inver- 

 tebrate zoology has been appointed to suceed 

 Dr. Allen. 



At the recent meeting of the American As- 

 sociation of Anatomists, held in the new In- 

 stitute of Anatomy at the University of Min- 

 nesota, Minneapolis, the following officers 

 were elected: President, Professor R. R. 

 Bensley, of the University of Chicago; Yice- 

 presiderd. Professor C. R. Bardeen, of the 

 University of Wisconsin; Secretary-Treasurer, 

 Professor C. R. Stoekard, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity; Memhers of the Executive Committee, 

 Dr. G. L. Streeter, Carnegie Institution, Pro- 

 fessor G. S. Huntington, Columbia University, 

 and Professor H. E. Jordan, University of 

 Virginia. 



The following officers have been elected by 

 the Association of American Geographers for 

 1918: President, Nevin M. Fenneman; First 

 Vice-President, Charles R. Dryer; Second 



Vice-President, Bailey Willis; Secretary, 

 Oliver L. Fassig; Councilor, Walter S. Tower; 

 Treasurer, Frangois E. Matthes. 



The British Air Inventions Committee ap- 

 pointed by Lord Cowdray, the late president 

 of the Air Board, consists of the following 

 members: Mr. Horace Darwin, F.R.S., chair- 

 man, Major-General Luck, vice-chairman. Sir 

 Dugald Clerk, F.R.S., Sir Richard Glazebrook, 

 F.R.S., Professor H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., Pro- 

 fessor C. H. Lees, F.R.S., Professor J. E. 

 Petavel, F.R.S., Mr. L. Bairstow, F.R.S., Lieu- 

 tenant-Commander Wimperis, Major G. Tay- 

 lor, Captain B. M. Jones, Captain A. V. Ball, 

 Munitions Inventions Department, Mr. J. P. 

 MiUington and Mr. F. W. Lanchester. The 

 main function of the committee is to investi- 

 gate inventions submitted to it. 



The next lecture of the Harvey Society will 

 be given on Saturday evening, January 12, at 

 the New York Academy of Medicine, on 

 " Food Chemistry in the Service of Human 

 Nutrition," by Dr. H. C. Sherman, professor 

 of food chemistry in Columbia University. 



At University College, on December 18, 

 Major Sir Filippo de Filippi delivered a pub- 

 lic lecture, illustrated by lantern slides, on the 

 sanitary services of the Italian army. 



At the meeting of the Royal Statistical So- 

 ciety on December 18, Sir R. Henry Rew read 

 a paper on the prospects of the world's food 

 supplies after the war. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 



NEWS 

 By the will of Zenas Crane, late of Dalton, 

 Mass., public bequests of more than $500,000 

 are made to various institutions, including 

 $200,000 to the Berkshire Museum of Natural 

 History and Art of Pittsfield; and $5,000 each 

 to Washburn College, Topeka, Kans.; Yank- 

 ton College, Yankton, S. D.; Idaho Industrial 

 Institute, Weiser, Idaho; Lincohi Memorial 

 University, Cumberland Gap, Tenn.; Oberlin 

 College, Oberlin, Ohio; Berea College, Berea, 

 Ky. ; Tuskegee Normal School, Tuskegee, Ala. ; 

 Hampton Normal and Industrial School, 

 Hampton, Va. 



