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these are tlie only states to whieli this call ap- 

 plies. 



Owing to the shortness of time it is requested 

 that only men fuUy qualified apply for this 

 service. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor "Willmm F. Durand, of Stanford 

 University has been made chairman of the 

 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 



Four of the college deans or former deans 

 of Ohio University are now majors in the Na- 

 tional Army: Dr. Edward Orton, Jr., of the 

 College of Engineering; Dr. William Mc- 

 Pherson, of the Graduate School; Dr. Eugene 

 E. MeCampbell, of the College of Medicine, 

 and Dr. David S. White, of the College of 

 Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Henry E. Spencer, 

 appointed dean of the Graduate School in Dr. 

 McPherson's absence, is now in Y. M. C. A. 

 service abroad. 



Dr. William Libbey, professor of physical 

 geography at Princeton University, has been 

 commissioned major in the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment, and is now awaiting orders. He has 

 long held a commission in the New Jersey 

 National Guard. 



Dr. George S. Meylan, associate professor 

 of physical education at Columbia University, 

 has been granted a further leave of absence to 

 continue his work with the T. M. C. A. in 

 Eranoe. 



Dr. W. B. Bentley, head of the Department 

 of Chemistry of Ohio University, has been 

 commissioned as captain by the War Depart- 

 ment, and is stationed at Watertown, Massa- 

 chusetts, in the Department of inorganic 

 chemistry, of the Watertown Arsenal. 



Dr. Bird T. Baldwin, who last year left 

 Swarthmore College to accept the directorship 

 of a newly established child-welfare station of 

 the Iowa State University has enlisted in the 

 sanitary corps of the army. He has the rank 

 of major and will be engaged in the work of 

 testing recruits by psychological methods. 



Dr. Henry H. Goddard for ten years head of 

 the research department of the Vineland train- 

 ing school, has been appointed head of the 



Bureau of Juvenile Research of the State of 

 Ohio. Dr. Goddard will go to Ohio in May, 

 returning to the Training School for the Sum- 

 mer School for Teachers to take charge of the 

 laboratory work. 



Watson Bain, professor of applied chemis- 

 try at the University of Toronto, has been 

 granted leave of absence for the duration of 

 the war. He is going to Washington, D. C, 

 where he will be on the staff of the Canadian 

 mission. 



Colonel Herbert S. Birkett, C.M.G., dean 

 of the medical faculty of McGill University, 

 Montreal, and who has been overseas in com- 

 mand of their base hospital, has returned 

 home on account of ill health. Colonel John 

 M. Elder has taken over the command of the 

 hospital. 



Dr. John E. Bucher, professor of chemistry 

 in Brown University, has been granted leave of 

 absence for the second semester of the aca- 

 demic year, in order to devote himself to ex- 

 perimentation in chemical processes in the in- 

 dustry. He will continue to direct the work 

 of certain advanced students in the university 

 laboratory, but will be relieved of all teaching 

 during the remainder of the year. Dr. Robert 

 F. Chambers, a Brown graduate, will be acting 

 head of the department during the second se- 

 mester. 



Dean R. H. Forbes, of the University of Ari- 

 zona College of Agriculture, and for eighteen 

 years director of the Arizona Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, has been granted a year's 

 leave of absence for agricultural service in 

 Egypt and is at present en route for Cairo. 

 Dean Forbes is a specialist in semi-arid sub- 

 tropical agriculture of the kind common to 

 both Arizona and Egypt. 



Dr. a. I. Ringer has been appointed special 

 consultant in diseases of metabolism at the 

 German Hospital, New York City. 



Stephen S. Visher, Ph.D. (Chicago), has 

 been appointed a land classifier in the United 

 States Geological Survey. 



Professor H. H. Love and Instructor Wil- 

 liam T. Craig, of the department of plant 

 breeding, Cornell University, are cooperating 



