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veterinarians; (7) sanitarians; (8) hospital 

 administration; (9) laboratory specialists 

 (being established); (10) dental surgeons 

 (being established). 



Consideration is being given to plans for the 

 estaiblishment of three additional courses, one 

 in general military surgery, one for genito- 

 urinary surgery, and one for military surgery 

 of the brain, head and face. 



Various special groups now in active serv- 

 ice have been trained since the opening of the 

 schools. These include officers and men to 

 operate ambulance companies, field hospitals, 

 evacuation hospitals, base hospitals, hospital 

 trains, etc. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor Fridtjof Hansen, of the Uni- 

 versity of Kristiania, ITorway, now in Wash- 

 ington as Minister Plenipotentiary of ISTorway 

 on special mission to the United States of 

 America, has been elected an honorary mem- 

 ber of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 

 Dr. ITansen on January 31 gave an address 

 before the academy on " Changes in oceanic 

 and atmospheric temperatures and their rela- 

 tion to changes in the sun's activity." 



Frank Austin Gooch, Ph.D., professor of 

 chemistry and director of the Kent Chemical 

 Laboratory of Yale University, will retire at 

 the end of the present year. Professor Gooch 

 will be succeeded by Professor Bertram 

 Borden Boltwood, since 1910 professor of 

 radio-chemistry. 



At the meeting of the Ecological Society of 

 America in Pittsburgh, officers for 1918 were 

 elected as follows: President, Dr. Henxy C. 

 Cowles, University of Chicago; Vice-presi- 

 dent, Dr. Eobert E. Coker, Bureau of Fisher- 

 ies, Washington, D. C; Secretary-treasurer, 

 Dr. Porrest Shreve, Desert Laboratory, Tuc- 

 son, Ariz. 



Dr. E. M. Ereeman, dean of the coUege of 

 agriculture of the University of Minnesota, 

 was elected president of the American Phyto- 

 pathological Association at the Pittsburgh 

 meeting. 



The officers of the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences for 1918 are as follows: President, 

 Lyman J. Briggs, of the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry; Corresponding secretary, Robert B. 

 Sosman, of the Geophysical Laboratory; Re- 

 cording secretary, W. E. Maxon, of the Na- 

 tional Museum; Treasurer, William Bowie, of 

 the Coast and Geodetic Survey; Non-resident 

 Vice-presidents, T. A. Jaggar, Jr., of Hawaii, 

 and B. L. Robinson, of Cambridge; Members 

 of Board of Managers, T. H. Kearney and A. 

 C. Spencer; Vice-presidents representing the 

 affiliated societies: G. K. Burgess, Philo- 

 sophical Society; J. R. Swan ton, Ajithropo- 

 logical Society; J. IST. Rose, Biological So- 

 ciety; T. H. Kearney, Botanical Society; F. 

 B. Power, Chemical Society; W. D. Hunter, 

 Entomological Society; 0. H. Tittmann, 

 Geographic Society; W. C. Mendenhall, Geo- 

 logical Society; P. S. Roy, Medical Society; 

 A. C. Clark, Historical Society; A. Hrdlicka, 

 Archeological Institute; R. Zon, Society of 

 Foresters; E. F. Wendt, Society of Engineers; 

 P. G. Agnew, Institute of Electrical Engi- 

 neers. 



Dr. Charles V. Worris, Chief of the Patho- 

 logical Laboratories of Bellevue Hospital, has 

 been appointed by Mayor Hylan to be chief 

 medical examiner for New York City. 



Dr. L. C. Glenn, of Vanderbilt University, 

 has been made acting state geologist on the 

 Tennessee Geological Survey until a successor 

 to the late Dr. A. H. Purdue can be secured. 

 Dr. J. I. D. Hinds, of Lebanon, has been ap- 

 pointed chemist of the Tennessee siu-vey. A 

 short time before the death of Dr. Purdue, he 

 asked Dr. Hinds to take this position as suc- 

 cessor of Dr. Paul C. Bowers, who had been 

 called to Washington for government service, 

 and he has been in charge of the state work 

 since December 10. 



Major Grayson M. P. Muephy, of New 

 York, has resigned as head of the American 

 Red Cross Commission to Europe. It is re- 

 ported that he will return to service in the 

 U. S. Army. Major James W. Perkins of 

 New York, who has been serving with the 



