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stand on the principle that Ked Cross funds should 

 back such work rather than secure special funds 

 for that purpose. 



The medical department of the United States 

 Army is in full accord with all the Eed Cross 

 is doing in this regard. It is cooperating and as- 

 sisting in every way in research matters, and is 

 counting upon our help in this regard. It has 

 asked the Red Cross to help it study the many 

 problems of preventive medicines and of medical 

 and surgical diseases, against which the Army 

 Medical Corps must struggle. The research com- 

 mittee assists the Red Cross in the management of 

 its funds and its experiments, and controls the type 

 and kind of experimentation. The research com- 

 mitec, whose names you have, controls fully its re- 

 search work, against which the antivivisectionists 

 are protesting. 



English medical authorities are vigorously co- 

 operating with the Eed Cross in research work. 

 We feel that any one endeavoring to stop the Red 

 Cross from assisting in its humanitarian and hu- 

 mane desire to prevent American soldiers from be- 

 ing diseased and protecting them by solving the 

 peculiar new problems of disease with which the 

 Army is confronted is in reality giving aid and 

 comfort to the enemy. Research work so far 

 undertaken includes studies on anesthesia, shell 

 shock and trench fever, which last will be the main 

 line of investigation this winter. We are also in- 

 vestigating trench nephritis and foot-wound infec- 

 tions, including gas gangrene and tetanus. The 

 animals used are principally guinea-pigs, rabbits 

 and white rats. If operations causing pain to ani- 

 mals are performed anesthesia is used. Actually 

 very few animals have been used for this work. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Ch;U!les DooLiTTLE Walcott, secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution at Washing- 

 ton, has been elected corresponding member 

 of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the sec- 

 tion of geology in place of Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, who has been elected foreign associate. 



Professor Arthur N. Talbot, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, has been elected president 

 of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 



Professor Willum Trelease, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, who was chairman of the or- 

 ganization committee of the Botanical Society 

 of America in 1893 and its first president in 



1894, has been elected president for the year 

 1918. 



Chancellor Samuel Averv, of the Univer- 

 sity of Nebraska, has been given leave of ab- 

 sence in order that he may go to Washington 

 to accept the position of chemist with the Na- 

 tional Council of Defenca 



The Norman medal of the American Society 

 of Civil Engineers has been awarded to Ben- 

 jamin F. Groat, hydraulic engineer of Pitts- 

 burgh, by the board of direction of the society. 

 The modal is of gold and is awarded to a paper 

 which shall be judged worthy of special com- 

 mendation for its merit as a contribution to 

 engineering science. The title of the paper 

 for which the award was made is " Chemihy- 

 drometry and its application to the precise 

 testing of hydroelectric generators." It ap- 

 peared in the Transactions of the society for 

 1916. The name " Chemihydrometry " is one 

 that was suggested by Mr. Groat in Science 

 for June 11, 1915. 



The Royal Dublin Society has presented 

 its Boyle medal to Professor J. A. McClelland, 

 F.R.S., in recognition of his work in science, 

 especially on ionization. 



Dr. Henry Jackson Waters, for eight and 

 a half years president of the Kansas State 

 Agricidtural College, resigned this position on 

 December 31, to become managing editor of 

 the Kansas City Weekly Star. During his 

 admimstration, the college has progressed 

 notably in the fields of education and research 

 and has gained materially in financial support. 

 Dr. Waters leaves the institution to enter a 

 field in which he believes that tliere is a large 

 opportunity for service to agriculture and one 

 in which, at present, his talents can be used 

 more effectively. Pending the election of a 

 new president. Dean J. T. Willard, of the di- 

 vision of general science, will be acting presi- 

 dent at the college. 



Captain Anton J. Carlson, Sanitary Corps, 

 National Army, now at the Army Medical 

 School, Washington, D. C, has been directed 

 to proceed to Ottawa, Canada, for the purpose 

 of conferring with the surgeon general of the 

 Canadian forces concerning the nutrition of 



