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American Eed Cross Commission in Europe 

 since last June, will immediately take up the 

 direction of the commission's work. 



Dr. H. L. Russell, dean of the College of 

 Agricultxire of the University of Wisconsin, 

 has been granted leave of absence by the uni- 

 versity, at request of Mr. Herbert Hoover, U. 

 S. Food Administrator. Dr. Eussell will 

 organize the Section of Agricultural Relations 

 which will connect the work of the Food Ad- 

 ministration and the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture along production lines and 

 present the work of the administration to the 

 extension agencies of the agricultural colleges. 



The Food Adminstration has requested and 

 secured from the New York Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, leave of absence for F. H. 

 Hall, vice director and editor of that institu- 

 tion, in order that he may take charge of the 

 publicity work of the Food Administration 

 dealing with perishable foods. 



The following members of the faculties of 

 Harvard University have been granted leave 

 of absence: Albert Sauveur, professor of 

 metallurgy and metallography, who is to con- 

 tinue his research work for the French govern- 

 ment; Reginald A. Daly, Sturgis-Hooper pro- 

 fessor of geology, who is to take up Y. M. C. 

 A. work; Julian L. Coolidge, assistant pro- 

 fessor of mathematics, who has been commis- 

 sioned a major in the Ordnance Department; 

 Lester R. Ford, instructor in actuarial mathe- 

 matics, who is to enter the military service; 

 Samuel W. Ellsworth, assistant in roent- 

 genology, who has been commissioned captain 

 in the Medical Reserve Corps. 



Cn.ARLES A. KoFoiD, professor of zoology. 

 University of California, has been appointed 

 major in the Sanitary Corps of the U. S. 

 Army. 



Dr. George A. Soper, consulting sanitary 

 engineer in New York City, has been appointed 

 major in the Sanitary Corps of the National 

 Army. 



Dr. Walter R. Parker has been granted 

 leave of absence from the professorship of 

 ophthalmology in the medical school of the 



University of Michigan, to accept service as 

 major in the Medical Reserve Corps. 



AssoouTE Professor J. C. Riley, of the de- 

 partment of mechanical engineering of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 

 been given the commission of major in the 

 Signal Corps. 



Professor Sterling Temple, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of the University of Min- 

 nesota, has gone to Washington where he is to 

 engage in work as a civilian in the ordnance 

 department. 



Leave of absence has been granted to Pro- 

 fessor David L. Webster, of the department of 

 physics of the University of Michigan, to en- 

 able him to accept a first lieutenancy to do re- 

 search work on aviation instruments. 



Leave of absence has been granted to Lewis 

 Knudson, professor of botany in the college of 

 agriculture of Cornell University, till next 

 September, to permit him to engage in Y. M. 

 C. A. war work in France. 



Dr. WiLLUM S. Thayer, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins Medical School, has returned to the 

 United States after four months in Russia, as 

 a member of the mission sent by the American 

 Red Cross. 



Dr. H. Gideon Wells, of the University of 

 Chicago, has returned from Roumania to 

 which country he was sent as a member of the 

 American Red Cross Mission. 



Professor E. V. McCollum, head of the de- 

 partment of chemistry of the school of hygiene 

 and public health of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, will deliver the Packard lecture before 

 the American Pediatric and Rush societies of 

 Philadelphia on Februarj' 12. The subject of 

 the lecture is " Growth." 



A Har\-ey Society lecture will be delivered 

 at the New York Academy of Medicine on 

 February 9 by Professor John Gordon Wilson, 

 of Chicago. The subject is " The effect of 

 high explosives on the ear." 



Dr. Frank R. Van Horn, professor of geol- 

 ogy and mineralogy at the Case School of Ap- 

 plied Science, in Cleveland, lectured on Jan- 

 uary 22, on " Some geological features of 



