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their meeting on January 12, expressed their grati- 

 tude, on behalf of the nation whose treasures they 

 hold in trust, to the newspapers which so unani- 

 mously gave voice to the public disapproval of a 

 proposal which threatened the safety of the mu- 

 seum and its collections. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Memorial exercises were held at the Jolins 

 Hopkins University on February third, in 

 commemoration of Professor Franklin Paine 

 Mall. President Goodnow presided and ad- 

 dresses were delivered by Professor Florence 

 E. Sabin, Professor Lewellys F. Barker, Pro- 

 fessor William H. Welch, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins Medical School, and President Eobert S. 

 Woodward, of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. 



Suegeon-General Sm Alfred Keogh, 

 director-general of British Army Medical Serv- 

 ices, has been permited to resume his duties 

 as general executive officer to the Imperial 

 College of Science and Technology, and will 

 be replaced at the War Office from March 1 

 by Colonel T. H. J. C. Goodwin, Eoyal Army 

 Medical Corps, until recently the assistant 

 director of medical services to the British Ee- 

 cruiting Mission in America. He will be ap- 

 pointed acting director-general of the Army 

 Services. 



Director Eussell H. Chittenden, of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School and professor of 

 physiology at Tale University, has left for 

 Europe to represent the United States on an 

 important Government commission to Eng- 

 land, France, and Italy. He will probably be 

 away for a period of from three to six months. 

 During his absence Professor Percey F. Smith, 

 will be the acting director of the Sheffield 

 Scientific SehooL 



Dean Philip A. Shaffer, of Washington, 

 University and major in the food division of 

 the Surgeon—General's Office, Washington, 

 D. C, is making a tour of the cantonments, 

 before leaving for France to take charge of the 

 food division with the expeditionary forces. 



Dr. Frank Schlesinger, director of the 

 Allegheny Observatory, has been appointed 

 aeronautical engineer in the U. S. Signal 



Corps. He will have charge of the instru- 

 ments that are moimted on aeroplanes and 

 will form the connecting link between the 

 construction department of the Signal Corps 

 and the National Eesearch Council. During 

 his temporary absence from the observatory 

 Dr. Frank C. Jordan will be in charge. 



Dr. C. Jddson Herrick, professor of neu- 

 rology in the University of Chicago, has re- 

 cently been commissioned major in the Sani- 

 tary Corps of the National Army and has been 

 assigned to active service as neurohistologist in 

 the neurosurgical laboratory of the Surgeon- 

 General's Office, located at the Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, Baltimore. 



Professor Bradley M. Davis has been 

 granted leave of absence from the University 

 of Pennsylvania to take up work with Dr. 

 Eaymond Pearl in the Statistical Division of 

 the Food Administration, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. E. a. Goldman, of the Bureau of Bio- 

 logical Survey, U. S. Department of Agrictd- 

 ture, has been commissioned a major in the 

 Sanitary Corps of the National Army, for the 

 purpose of investigating methods for the con- 

 trol of the rat pest in its relations to the army. 

 As is well known, the common house rat ex- 

 ists in enormous numbers both in this country 

 and especially in France, where it is reported 

 to transmit certain diseases among the sol- 

 diers. 



Dr. K. L. Mark, head of the chemistry de- 

 partment and of the school of general science 

 at Simmons College, Boston, has been granted 

 a leave of absence for the duration of the war 

 to accept a commission as captain in the Sani- 

 tary Corps of the Army. 



Among the professors of the State Univer- 

 sity of Iowa and instructors who have joined 

 the colors recently are: B. P. Fleming, pro- 

 fessor of mechanical engineering, captain in 

 the engineering corps; H. B. Whaling, asso- 

 ciate professor in the newly organized school 

 of commerce, aviation; F. C. Brovm, associate 

 professor of physics, captain in the ordnance 

 division, Washington, D. C. ; I. L. Pollock, in- 

 structor in political science, United States 

 War Trade board, Washington, D. C; D. A. 



