March 8, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



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The War Department has ruled that no class I 

 man may be commissioned before enlistment in a 

 non-fighting lirauch of the service. 



Information regarding indiriduals is obtained 

 from the questionnaire on file in the Bureau of 

 Mines, Washington, D. C. If you have not filled 

 out one of these questionnaires, write to the Bu- 

 reau of Mines, asking that one be sent you for this 

 purpose. 



When once in the army, keep me informed by 

 post card of your military address and any change 

 in that address, even should you be sent to France. 

 Although you may not be chosen early among those 

 needed for chemical service, the demand for chem- 

 ists is constantly increasing, and your country may 

 call you at any time where you are best trained to 

 serve. 



It is my duty to help place you where you can 

 serve our country best as the need arises. It is 

 your duty to keep me informed of your address 

 and to accept any service to which the War De- 

 partment may assign you, even if you prefer to 

 fight in the ranks in France. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. John M. Coulter, professor of botany in 

 the University of Chicago, has been elected 

 president of the Chicago Academy of Science. 

 Professor Coulter is this year also president of 

 the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and of the American Association 

 of University Professors. 



Dr. George T. Moore, director of the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 

 to succeed the late Dr. E. A. Engler. 



Professor Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., of the 

 Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, has been 

 elected a non-resident vice-president of the 

 Washington Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Francis G. Benedict, director of the nu- 

 trition laboratory of the Carnegie Institute in 

 Brookline, Mass., has received a gold medal 

 from the National Institute of Social Sciences, 

 in recognition of his "notable service to man- 

 kind." The medal was presented at the recent 

 fifth annual dinner of the National Institute 

 in New York City. 



Prominence has been given in the press to a 

 story that Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, of Ithaca, 



former director of the College of Agriculture, 

 has been selected by the Democratic chiefs as 

 their candidate for nomination for governor 

 of the state of New York. Mr. Bailey states 

 that this action, if it has been taken, is with- 

 out his consent, and that he has not been con- 

 sulted in the matter. 



Members of the Public Health Council, 

 executive officers of the state department of 

 health, and former United States Public 

 Health Service representatives, gave a dinner 

 in honor of Dr. Allen J. McLaughlin, commis- 

 sioner of health, Boston, prior to his departure 

 to begin work in Washington as assistant sur- 

 geon general in charge of the Division of Inter- 

 state Quarantine. 



A BANQUET in honor of the ninety-fifth 

 birthday of Dr. Stephen Smith, New York, 

 known for his work in medicine and sanita- 

 tion, was given at the Battle Creek (Mich.) 

 Sanitarium, on February 19. Dr. Smith gave 

 a most interesting account of the changes he 

 had witnessed in the methods of his profession. 



The Mayo Unit, Rochester, of which Major 

 Louis B. Wilson, U. S. Army, is director, with 

 Captains Wayne W. Bissell and Arthur U. Des 

 Jardins as assistant directors, has left for a 

 mobilization point preparatory to sailing for 

 France. 



M-KJOR Bashford Dean, of the Bureau of 

 Ordnance, has lately returned from a journey 

 to England and France. 



Dr. R. T. Crawford, associate professor of 

 practical astronomy at the University of Cali- 

 fornia, has been commissioned major in the 

 aviation section of the Signal Corps and has 

 been detailed for duty at the Balloon School at 

 Fort Omaha. 



Cl.\rence F. Hiuschfeld, until 1915 pro- 

 fessor of power engineering at Cornell Univer- 

 sity, has received a commission as major in the 

 Ordnance Reserve Corps and is now stationed 

 in the inspection division of the Ordnance De- 

 partment. He has been with the Detroit Edi- 

 son Light and Power Company. 



Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg, of the physics de- 

 partment of the University of Minnesota, has 

 been granted a year's leave of absence for the 



