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introduction of quarantinable diseases into tbe 

 United States. 



Dr. r. C. Waite, professor of histology and 

 embryology in tbe schools of medicine and of 

 dentistry of Western Reserve University, has 

 been recalled to "Washing-ton to assist Major 

 H. D. Arnold, M.E.C., in a new division of the 

 Surgeon General's office. This division is to 

 have charge of medical, dental, and veterinary 

 students who, under the provisions of the 

 selective service act, are enlisted in the re- 

 serve medical corps and placed on inactive 

 service imtil they finish their professional 

 training. Any student who does not make 

 satisfactory progress will be dropped from the 

 reserve corps and become liable to call for 

 immediate active military service. The divi- 

 sion is also to have oversight of the medical, 

 dental and veterinary schools in which those 

 men are studying, and to determine what 

 schools throughout the country are equipped 

 to give satisfactory professional training for 

 medical services. 



Mr. William A. Hamor, of the Mellon In- 

 stitute of Industrial Eesearch, has been called 

 into active service as a major in the foreign 

 chemical service section of the army. 



Major Basil C. H. Harvey, professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Chicago, has re- 

 cently joined Base Hospital No. 13 at Fort 

 McPherson, Georgia, after having served six 

 months at Camp Cody, New Mexico, in charge 

 of the sanitation of the camp and of tlie plan- 

 ning of the rations. Major Harvey has also 

 conducted an army medical school in Camp 

 Cody for training men in sanitation. 



Arthur W. Ewell, professor of aeronautics 

 at the Worcester Institute of Technology, has 

 been appointed a captain in the aeronautic 

 branch of the Aviation Corps and assigned to 

 immediate foreign service. He will be at- 

 tached to General Pershing's headquarters for 

 the purpose of studying bomb dropping. 



Dr. F. C. Brown, professor of physics in the 

 Iowa State University, has received a cap- 

 taincy in the ordnance department and will go 

 to Washington, D. C, to do special research 

 work. Dr. Brown has worked on the determi- 



nation of the velocity of bullets by electrical 

 methods. 



Professor Frederick B. Slocum, of the de- 

 partment of astronomy at Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity, has taken up nautical work for the gov- 

 ernment and will not return to college this 

 year. 



Neil M. Judd, since 1911 assistant in the 

 department of anthropology. United States Na- 

 tional Museum, has been granted indefinite 

 furlough by the Smithsonian Institution. He 

 returned to Washington early in October, after 

 seven months' explorations in the southwest, 

 and shortly thereafter enlisted as a flyer in 

 the Signal Reserve Corps. 



The Minnesota Alumni Bulletin states that 

 Professor Francis Jager, chief of the bee di- 

 vision of the agricultural department of the 

 University of Minnesota, has been granted six 

 months' leave of absence to head a group of 

 men who are to go to Serbia and direct farm- 

 ing operations on a large tract of land. Prep- 

 arations have been made and negotiations 

 practically completed for a boat to transport 

 machinery, seed and all the necessary equip- 

 ment for the task. 



T. Ralph Robinson has been appointed crop 

 physiologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 and will be associated with Walter T. Swingle 

 in the administration of the office of crop 

 physiology and breeding investigations and 

 especially in the breeding of hardy and disease 

 resistant citrous fruits and stocks. Mr. Rob- 

 inson formerly belonged to the bureau staff 

 when he worked chiefly on soil bacteriology 

 and water supply purification, but for a num- 

 ber of years he has been engaged in citrus 

 culture in Florida. 



Rev. Harry R. Caldwell has been elected 

 to life membership in the American Museum 

 of Natxiral History in appreciation of his gift 

 to the museum of a collection from China of 

 about 8,000 insects, and of his assistance to the 

 Asiatic Zoological Expedition during its re- 

 cent work in Yunnan. Professor C. R. Kel- 

 logg has been made a life member in acknowl- 

 edgment of his aid to the Asiatic Zoological 

 Expedition and his continued interest in the 

 development of the museum. Dr. William 



