Febeuaby 15, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



167 



Armbruster, physical training department, 

 aviation ; A. R. Fortsch, physics department, 

 private at Camp Dodge; R. H. Sylvester, as- 

 sistant professor of psychology, psychological 

 division of the medical officers' training camp, 

 Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. 



Professor Rollix D. Sausbury, head of the 

 department of geography and dean of the 

 Ogden graduate school of science at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, was presented with the 

 Helen Culver gold medal of the Geographic 

 Society of Chicago at a banquet in the Hotel 

 Sherman, Chicago, on January 26. The occa- 

 sion marked the twentieth anniversary of the 

 society, of which Professor Salisbury was the 

 first president. 



Dr. Griffith Taylor, of the Australian Bu- 

 reau of Meteorology, has been awarded the gold 

 medal of the Royal Geographical Society of 

 Queensland, for his work on the settlement of 

 tropical Australia. 



Officers of the Association of American 

 Geographers have been elected as follows: 

 President, Nevin M. Fenneman; First Vice- 

 president, Charles R. Dryer; Second Vice- 

 president, Bailey Willis; Secretary, Oliver L. 

 Fassig; Councilor, Walter S. Tower; Treas- 

 urer, FranQois E. Matthes. 



The American Geographical Society of New 

 York has elected the following officers: Presi- 

 dent, John Greenough; Vice-president, Anton 

 A. Raven; Foreign Corresponding Secretary, 

 William Libbey; Treasurer, Henry Parish; 

 Councilors, Banyer Clarkson, Edwin Swift 

 Balch, W. Redmond Cross, Walter B. James, 

 M.D., H. Stuart Hotchkiss. 



With the purpose of securing desirable ma- 

 terial from various sources for the Scientific 

 Exhibit at the Chicago meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association an advisory committee 

 on scientific exhibits has been appointed con- 

 sisting of Dr. Harlow Brooks, New York; Dr. 

 A. S. Warthin, Ann Arbor; Dr. George L. 

 Dock, St. Louis; Dr. L. B. Wilson, Rochester; 

 Dr. E. R. LeCount, Chicago ; Dr. Oskar Klotz, 

 Pittsburgh; Dr. F. P. Gay, Berkeley; Dr. C. C. 

 Bass, New Orleans; Dr. W. M. L. Coplin, 

 Philadelphia; Dr. Joseph C. Bloodgood, Balti- 

 more, and Dr. Walter B. Cannon, Boston. 



Dr. I. W. E. Glattfeld has been appointed 

 a member of the committee on the supply of 

 organic chemicals for research during the war. 



J. A. McClintock, plant pathologist, of the 

 Virginia Truck Experiment Station, has ac- 

 cepted a position with the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, as extension pathol- 

 ogist, in charge of cotton, truck and forage 

 crop disease investigations in Georgia, with 

 headquarters at the State University, at 

 Athens. 



Professor George J. Young, recently pro- 

 fessor of mining in the University of Minne- 

 sota, and previously in the Mackay School of 

 ilines at Reno, Nev., has joined the editorial 

 staff of the Engineering and Mining Journal 

 as assistant editor-in-chief. 



Miss Grace MacLeod has become assistant 

 editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engi- 

 neering Chemistry. Miss MacLeod holds the 

 degree of S.B. from the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology and of M.A. from Colum- 

 bia University, and for the past seven years 

 has been irlstructor in chemistry at Pratt In- 

 stitute, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Dr. W. J. Lenz has severed his connection 

 with the Lenz Apparatus Co., New York, in 

 order to devote his time to his manufacturing 

 interests. 



Mr. Victor Yng^t: has been engaged as re- 

 search chemist by the Oldbury Electro Chem- 

 ical Company of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and 

 will have charge of their research laboratory. 



Mr. Howard B. Bishop has severed his con- 

 nection with the General Chemical Co., at 

 Easton, to accept a postion with the National 

 Aniline and Chemical Co. 



Dr. F. E. Chidester, chairman of the course 

 in biology and sanitary science and professor 

 of zoology at Rutgers CoUege, has been 

 granted sabbatical leave of absence for the 

 second term of the coUegiate year. He will 

 spend some time in research at tlie University 

 of Pennsylvania, also visiting other institu- 

 tions to secure ideas for the further develop- 

 ment of public health instruction in the State 

 of New Jersey. 



