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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLVII. No. 1201 



Professor S. C. Prescott, of the depart- 

 ment of biology and public health of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been appointed to a commission as major in 

 the food division of the Army Sanitary Corps. 



Professor Charles P. Berkey, of Columbia 

 University, as chairman of the committee on 

 highways for the state of New York, has trans- 

 mitted to the National Eesearch Council a 

 report on road materials and conditions con- 

 trolling the construction of highways and 

 other roads in New York. 



Victor Yngve has been engaged as research 

 chemist by the Oldbury Electro Chemical 

 Company of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and will 

 have charge of their research laboratory. 



For the New Mexico Association for Sci- 

 ence, officers for 1918 have been chosen as 

 follows: President, Dr. John D. Clark, of the 

 University of New Mexico; vice-president, J. 

 E. Brownlee of the Normal School; secretary. 

 Professor Higley of the Agricultural College; 

 treasurer. Professor Goddard of the Agricul- 

 tural College; members of the Educational 

 Council, Paul A. F. Walter, for three years, 

 Professor Eodgers of the Normal University 

 for two years and Professor Barnes of the 

 Agricultural College for one year. 



Professor J. F. Adams, of Pennsylvania 

 State College, is on leave of absence for a 

 year and is spending the time at Columbia 

 University and at the New York Botanical 

 Garden. He is making a detailed study of a 

 group of microscopic fungi, many of which 

 occur as parasites on living plants. 



ViLHJALMUR Stefanssen, the Arctic ex- 

 plorer, last heard from in a letter received in 

 March, 1916, has arrived with his party at 

 Fort Yukon, according to word received by the 

 naval department. Stefanssen, head of the 

 Canadian Arctic Expedition has been in the 

 far North since 1913 and lately there was 

 some anxiety as to his safety. 



Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell 

 University, lectured before the District of 

 Columbia Chapter of the Sigma Xi on Decem- 

 ber 20, on Colloid Chemistry. 



Professor E. D. Salisbury of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago spoke on " Geography and 

 geology work about Camp Grant," the National 

 Army cantonment at Eockford in northern 

 Illinois, at the Post- Vacation Luncheon of the 

 Geographic Society at Chicago, on November 

 17. 



At the request of the Medical Eesearch 

 Committee of Great Britain, Professor W. M. 

 Bayliss last August visited various centers in 

 France, to discuss with workers there special 

 problems in the field and the application to 

 them of methods devised in the laboratory. 

 Acting upon suggestions made to it from 

 France the committee appointed a special in- 

 vestigation committee for the purposes of 

 further combined study of shock and the 

 better correlation of laboratory and clinical 

 observations. This committee consists of Pro- 

 fessor F. A. Bainbridge, Professor W. M. Bay- 

 liss, F.E.S., Professor W. B. Cannon, Dr. H. 

 H. Dale, F.E.S. (secretary), Lieutenant- 

 Colonel T. E. Elliott, F.E.S., Captain John 

 Eraser, Professor C. S. Sherrington, F.E.S., 

 Professor E. H. Starling, F.E.S. (chairman), 

 and Colonel Cuthbert Wallace, C.B. Pro- 

 fessor W. B. Cannon, of Harvard University, 

 whose work in this connection is of great 

 value, is making arrangements for coordina- 

 ting the work of this committee with that of a 

 similar committee of American physiologists, 

 and a further memorandum on the subject will 

 probably be issued. 



The Eomanes lectures at the University of 

 Oxford, which were not given in 1917, will 

 next year be given by Mr. Asquith, lately 

 premier, who is honorary fellow of Balliol 

 College. 



Portraits of the late Professor Eaphael 

 Meldola, painted by Mr. S. J. Solomon, were 

 in December 18 presented to the Eoyal So- 

 ciety and to the Institute of Chemistry of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. 



Dr. Theodore Caldwell Janeway, since 

 1914 professor of medicine at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University and previously Bard pro- 

 fessor of medicine at Columbia University, 

 died on December '2Q at his home in Baltimore 



