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the Canadian Army. He will visit Montreal 

 and Toronto to observe the food conditions of 

 the concentration camps and will later inspect 

 camps in the United States. 



Major Frank Billings, M.E.C, professor of 

 medicine in the University of Chicago, who 

 ■was appointed medical adviser to the governor 

 of the state of Illinois, in the creation of the 

 medical advisory boards, and who has been 

 acting in this capacity, is now relieved from 

 this duty and assigned to the Provost Marshal 

 General's Office, Washington, D. C. It is 

 understood that Major BiUings' work in Wash- 

 ington will be that of adviser to the Provost 

 Marshal, in connection with the medical prob- 

 lems under the Selective Service Law. Major 

 Billings will report in Washington on Febru- 

 ary 1. 



Dr. Edwin Oakes Jordan, head of the de- 

 partment of bacteriology of the University of 

 Chicago, returned on January 12, from Fort 

 Sill., Okla., where has has been making a study 

 of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis. 



Dr. L. B. Baldwin, superintendent of the 

 Hospital of the University of Minnesota, has 

 been commissioned as a major in the medical 

 reserve corps of the U. S. Army, and assigned 

 to the personnel division of the Surgeon Gen- 

 eral's office at Washington, D. C. 



Lawrence Martin, professor of geography 

 in the University of Wisconsin, has been com- 

 missioned a first lieutenant in the ISTational 

 Army. 



The University of Chicago has granted 

 leave of absence to Associate Professor Carl 

 Kinsley, of the department of physics, for 

 work in the Eadio Division of the Signal 

 Corps of the United States Army, and to Pro- 

 fessor Henry Gordon Gale, of the same de- 

 partment, who is now a captain of infantry in 

 the United States Army. 



Dr. C. a. Magoon, assistant professor of 

 bacteriology at the State College of Washing- 

 ton, has resigned to accept a position in the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington, D. 

 C. His new field will be bacteriological in- 



vestigations in connection with the problems 

 of food preservation. 



The secretary for Scotland has appointed 

 Mr. Charles Weatherill to be secretary to the 

 Board of Agriculture for Scotland, in place of 

 Mr. H. M. Conacher, who has been appointed 

 a deputy commissioner of the board. 



Mr. Worthington G. Smith, known for his 

 publications on and especially for his illustra- 

 tions of British fungi, died on Ifovember 1. 



Sir William H. Lindley, known for his 

 work on municipal engineering, died on De- 

 cember 30, aged sixty-four years. 



Major Harry Clissold, teacher of natural 

 science at Clifton College, England, has been 

 killed in action. 



The annual meeting of the IvTew York State 

 Breeders' Association was held at Syracuse on 

 January 8, 9 and 10. Addresses were given by 

 President J. G. Schurman, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, on " Food Problems, ISTational and 

 State " ; by Dr. Y. A. Moore, dean of the New 

 York State Veterinary College, on " Control of 

 Hog Cholera," and by Professor Mark J. 

 Smith of the l^ew York State College of Agri- 

 culture, on "Farm Flock Husbandry," and 

 by Ernest I. White, of Syracuse, president of 

 the l^Tew York State Association of Horsemen, 

 on " Horse breeding and the war." 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



Dr. Thomas F. Kane, president of Olivet 

 College, has been elected president of the Uni- 

 versity of North Dakota, to succeed President 

 Frank L. McVey. 



Dr. Carrol G. Bull, of the EockefeUer In- 

 stitute, who is now in France demonstrating 

 with the French armies his newly discovered 

 cure for gangrene, has been named as associate 

 professor of immunology and serology in the 

 Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public 

 Health. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Minnesota at their meeting on January 18, 

 elected Dr. W. A. Eiley, of Cornell University, 

 professor of parasitology and chief of the di- 



