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Mr. E. Bullen Newton, of tlie geological 

 department, British Museum (Natural His- 

 tory), has completed fifty years active gov- 

 ernment service. During the earlier part of 

 his official career, which commenced on Jan- 

 uary 6, 1868, Mr. Newton was one of the 

 assistant naturalists of the Geological Survey 

 under the late Professor Huxley. He was 

 transferred to the British Museum in August, 

 1880, at the time of the removal of the Na- 

 tural History Collections to Cromwell Eoad. 



Peofessor C. H. Lees has been elected pres- 

 ident of the Physical Society of London. The 

 Vice-presidents are Professor J. W. Nicholson, 

 Professor O. W. Richards, Dr. S. W. J. Smith 

 and Dr. E. W. Sumpner. 



Professor Tuffier, of Paris, has been pro- 

 moted to the rank of commander of the Le- 

 gion of Honor in recognition of his eminent 

 services as consulting surgeon to the French 

 armies. 



Major J. G. Fitzgerald, associate professor 

 of hygiene and director of the Connaught and 

 Antitoxin Laboratories in the University of 

 Toronto, has left for active service overseas in 

 the Eoyal Army Medical Corps, having been 

 transferred from the Canadian Army Medical 

 Corps. 



Dr. William P. Wood, assistant professor of 

 chemical engineering at the University of 

 Michigan, has resigned, to join the Signal 

 Corps of the Armyi 



Captain Lawrence Martin, National Army, 

 ordinarily associate professor of physiography 

 and geography at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, is on duty in the Military Intelligence 

 Section, War College Division, Office of the 

 Chief of StaS, War Department, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. He has charge of the map room at 

 the War College and of the maps in the offices 

 of the War Council and of the Chief of Staff, 

 and does geographical work for the General 

 StafE in the combat branch of the Intelligence 

 Serviice. 



According to the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association Dr. Edgar M. Green, of 

 Easton, Pa., a member of the advisory board 

 of the state health department, is mentioned 



as the probable successor of the late Dr. Sam- 

 uel G. Dixon, health commissioner of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



F. B. Howe, M.S. (Iowa State College '16), 

 has accepted a position as land classifier with 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. 



On the evening of February 20, Dr. Edmund 

 Otis Hovey, curator of geology in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, gave a lecture at 

 Mount Holyoke College on the subject, " Two 

 years' experience in the Arctic with the 

 Crocker Land Expedition." 



Professor H. C. Sherman, of Columbia 

 University, spoke to the Virginia Section of 

 the American Chemical Society at Richmond, 

 on March 15, and at the Randolph-Macon 

 Woman's College, Lynchburg, on March 16, on 

 " The food situation from the viewpoint of 

 nutrition." 



The fourth Guthrie Lecture of the Physical 

 Society of London was delivered on March 22, 

 at the Imperial College of Science, South 

 Kensington, by Professor J. C. McLennan, of 

 the University of Toronto. The subject was 

 " The origin of spectra." 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that the attention of the 

 Surgeon-General of the United States Public 

 Health Service has been called to the fact 

 that men from the military service who are 

 carriers of various infectious diseases, par- 

 ticularly meningitis, have been discharged 

 into tlie civil communities of the country. 

 Dr. Oscar Dowling, president of the Louisiana 

 State Board of Health, has made a particu- 

 larly strong protest against this action by the 

 government authorities, calling attention to 

 specific instances in which meningococcus 

 carriers have been discharged from the 

 service. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



A fellowship in physiological chemistry has 

 been established at the University of Chicago 

 by the Fleischmann Company, of Peekskill-on- 

 Hudson, New York, for the purpose of in- 



