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ment of the Army, to aid in preventing the 

 spread of those diseases, such as malaria, 

 which are carried by insects. Professors H. M. 

 Hall and T. H. Goodspeed, of the department 

 of botany, have been investigating certain 

 native plants of California which can be used 

 as a source of rubber in case of national neces- 

 sity. Practically all of the members of the 

 department of chemistry are engaged in con- 

 fidential researches as to chemical problems 

 the national authorities have asked them to 

 take up. Professor Stuart Daggett, of the de- 

 partment of economics, has reported on the 

 supply of iron and steel on the Pacific coast 

 and Professor Henry E. Hatfield, of the de- 

 partment of economics, dean of the college 

 of commerce, has reported on the relation of 

 the state banks to the Federal Reserve System. 

 Professor F. E. Pernot, of the department of 

 electrical engineering, is in Washington aiding 

 with various war-time electrical problems. 

 Professor Charles Gilman Hyde, of the chair 

 of sanitary engineering, designed fifteen miles 

 of sewer system for Camp Fremont. Professor 

 C. C. Wiskocil and his colleagues in the civil 

 engineering department have made tests of 

 airplane fastenings and woods to be used in 

 the construction of airplanes. Professor C. L. 

 Cory, dean of the college of mechanics, has 

 investigated problems in the fixation of nitro- 

 gen from the air by direct electric are furnace 

 process. Professor B. M. Woods, of the de- 

 parment of mechanics, as president of the Aca- 

 demic Board of the School of Military Aero- 

 nautics, is directing the instruction given to 

 the flying cadets. Professor George D. 

 Louderback, of the department of geology, has 

 reported on sources for a supply of manganese 

 ores. Professor George M. Stratton, as a 

 captain in the Signal Corps, is enlisting officer 

 in San Francisco for the Aviation Service, 

 and he and Professor Warner Brown, of the 

 department of psychology, have developed tests 

 to determine the fitness of young men to be- 

 come military aviators. Professor William E. 

 Eitter, director of the Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Eesearch, has investigated the 

 supply of food fishes in the Pacific Ocean not 

 as yet used by the fishermen and the canneries. 



Professor C. A. Kofoid and Professor W. W. 

 Cort, of the department of zoology, have in- 

 vestigated the hookworm, and organisms re- 

 sponsible for trench dysentery. Professor 

 Lincoln Hutchinson, of the department of com- 

 merce, is in Washington as tin expert of the 

 War Trade Board. Professor Joel H. Hilde- 

 brand has gone to Washington to become a 

 captain in the Ordnance Department and to 

 aid in coordinating the war-time researches 

 of chemists throughout the country. George 

 E. Dickie, of the department of military sci- 

 ence and tactics, is the Pacific coast repre- 

 sentative of the War Department and Navy 

 Department Commissions on Training Camp 

 activities. Professor H. B. Langille, of the 

 department of mechanics, is an inspector of 

 naval construction for the government, at the 

 Union Iron Works. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



M. Painlevb has been elected president of the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences, succeeding M. 

 d'Arsonval. M. Leon Guignard, professor of 

 botany at the School of Pharmacy of Paris, has 

 been elected vice-president. 



The Nichols Medal for meritorious re- 

 search in organic chemistry has been con- 

 ferred on Professor Treat B. Johnson, of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. 

 The medal is awarded annually by the New 

 York Section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety on the merit of the original communi- 

 cations published in the journal of the society. 



At the last meeting of the New York Sec- 

 tion of the Society of Chemical Industry, the 

 Perkin Medal was presented to Auguste J. 

 Rossi, by Dr. William H. Nichols, past-presi- 

 dent of the society, and Dr. F. A. J. Fitzgerald 

 gave an account of Dr. Rossi and his work. 



Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, F.E.S.O., dominion 

 entomologist and consulting zoologist, of the 

 Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, has been 

 awarded the gold medal of the Eoyal Society 

 of Canada for the Protection of Birds, and has 

 been elected an honorary fellow of the society, 

 in recognition of his services to the cause of 

 bird protection in England and in Canada, 



