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Minnesota, Professor Robert R. Bensley, of 

 the department of anatomy at the University 

 of Chicago, was elected president of the asso- 

 ciation. 



The Nashville Natural Science Society was 

 organized in the early autumn of 1917 by per- 

 sons professionally engaged in natural science 

 work, not including physics and chemistry. 

 Its purjKjse is the advancement of science in 

 Tennessee, and especially, in the vicinity of 

 Nashville. The following officers were elected 

 for the academic year 1917-18 : President, Dr. 

 R. M. Strong, Vanderbilt University Medical 

 school; Vice-president, Dr. Edward E. Reinke, 

 Vanderbilt University; Secretary-treasurer, 

 Mr. J. M. Shaver, Peabody College; Members 

 of Executive Council, Dr. A. E. Parkins, Pea- 

 body College, Dr. George M. Curtis, Vander- 

 bilt ifedieal School, Mr. L. V. Silvester, Van- 

 derbilt University. 



Dr. Henri M. Ami, Canadian geologist and 

 paleontologist, has been elected vice-president 

 of the Geological Society of France for the 

 year 1918, at its last meeting held in Paris. 

 Emmanuel de Margerie, secretary of the so- 

 ciety, in communicating the information states 

 that the Geological Society of France desires 

 by this choice, not only to express the esteem 

 in which Dr. Ami himself and his work in 

 geology are held, but also the full gratitude 

 and the admiration of the people of France 

 for his generous country. He adds : — '* Vive 

 le Canada ! whose sons are fighting so glo- 

 riously for the defence of the Liberty of the 

 World." 



Nicholas Kozeloff, Ph.D. (Rutgers, 1917), 

 has been appointed bacteriologist of the 

 Louisiana Sugar Station, to succeed W. L. 

 Owen. 



Dr. George E. Hale, director of the Mt. 

 Wilson Solar Observatory of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washington, and chairman of the 

 National Research Council, gave the second 

 lecture in the series on science in relation to 

 the war before the Washington Academy of 

 Science on February 21. The subject of the 

 lecture was " Astronomy and war." 



Authorities possessing an intimate knowl- 

 edge of the chemical and allied industries of 

 China will deliver illustrated talks at a joint 

 meeting of the New York Sections of the 

 American Electrochemical Society, Society of 

 Chemical Industry and American Chemical 

 Society, on March 1. The meeting will be held 

 in Rumford Hall, Chemists' Club. One of the 

 speakers will be H. K. Richardson, who will 

 speak on " A chemist's view of the native in- 

 dustries of China." 



Dr. Edmuxd Arthur Engler, for twenty 

 years professor of mathematics at Washington 

 University, St. Louis, and for ten years presi- 

 dent of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 

 and president of the Academy of Science of St. 

 Louis at the time of his death, died after a 

 brief illness on January 16, aged sixty-one 

 years. 



Dr. Clark Bell, long president of the Med- 

 ico-Legal Society, New York, died on February 

 22, at the age of eighty-five years. 



Professor Levi M. Umbach, professor of 



biology at North-Western College since 1884, 

 died on January 27. Mr. Umbach was born 

 in Ontario on July 15, 1853, graduated from 

 North-Western College in 1877, and since 1884 

 has been teaching continuously in North-West- 

 ern College with the exception of one year. 

 Since 1888 he has held the chair of biology in 

 the college. Professor Umbach's chief interest 

 lay in botany, especially systematic botany. 

 He was chiefly instrumental in gathering the 

 herbarium of North-Western College, contain- 

 ing some 40,000 specimens. He was especially 

 well acquainted with the flora of the central 

 west, Ontario, and of the northwest, and dis- 

 covered a large number of new species of 

 plants, one of which bears his name, " Fonti- 

 nalis Umbachii Cardot." 



A War Research Board to centralize all 

 government work now being done at Cornell 

 University has been organized by the board of 

 trustees, and President Jacob Gould Schur- 

 man has been requested to name three mem- 

 bers of the university faculty. This board 

 will have full charge of all work which the 

 government wishes Cornell to do. 



