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tlie eoQstruction of maps on the Lambert pro- 

 jection. The Chart Division has done much 

 work in the compilation of maps, furnishing 

 copies of original sheets, and supplying infor- 

 mation of various kinds required for military 

 purposes. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The University of California has conferred 

 the d^ree of LL.D on Professor George F. 

 Swain, of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology and Harvard University, who this year 

 delivered the Hitchcock lectures at the Uni- 

 versity. 



Oxford University has conferred the degree 

 of D. Sc, on Professor W. C. W Intosh, for 

 many years professor of natural history in the 

 University of St. Andrews. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 M. Flahaut of Montpellier to take the place of 

 the late M. Gosselet. He has been the corre- 

 spondent of the academy for the section on 

 botany since 1904. 



Sir J. J. DoBBiE, British government chem- 

 ist, has been elected a member of the Athenjeum 

 Club for eminence in science. 



We learn from Nature that an Entomolog- 

 ical Society of Spain has lately been founded, 

 with its center for the present at St. Saviour's 

 College, Saragossa. Dr. Hermenegildo Gorrfa, 

 of Barcelona, is the president for 1918, and 

 the Rev. R. P. Longinos Navas, S.J., the 

 secretary. 



The Bureau of Standards has announced the 

 appointment of Samuel S. Wyer, a consulting 

 engineer of Columbus, Ohio, and Mr. Willard 

 P. Hine, chief gas engineer of the Public 

 Service Commission of the First District, New 

 York State, as consulting engineers on its 

 staff. 



Dr. Samuel A. Tucker, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, Dr. H. E. Moody, of the College of 

 the City of 'New York, and J. M. Moorehead, 

 of Chicago, have been added to the personnel 

 of the chemical section of the War Industries 

 Board. 



Dr. John Lyon Rich, of the department of 

 geology at the University of Illinois, has been 



coanmissioned a captain in the National Army. 

 He is assigned to Washington, D. C, for serv- 

 ice in the Intelligence branch of the army as 

 a specialist in geography. 



Captain E. G. Hoskins, of Northwestern 

 University Medical School, Captain L. A. 

 Congden, Lieutenant P. A. Cajori and Lieuten- 

 ant A. G. Hogan, have completed a month's 

 study of army nutrition at Camp Zachary 

 Taylor, Louisville, Ky. They comprise a 

 " Nutritional Survey Party " from the office of 

 the Surgeon General of the Army. 



Dr. W. a. Cannon, of the Department of Bo- 

 tanical Research of the Carnegie Institution, 

 sailed in April to Australia and will be away 

 from the United States about twelve months. 

 He will visit certain of the more arid portions 

 of West and South Australia where he will 

 make field studies of the desert plants with 

 especial reference to root habits. 



We learn from The Journal of Industrial 

 and Engineering Chemistry that Dr. Yogoro 

 Kato, professor at the Tokyo College of Tech- 

 nology and director of the Nakamura Chemical 

 Research Institute in Tokyo, is visiting the 

 United States for professional purposes and 

 Mr. T. P. Chin, of Pekin, China, principal 

 technical expert of the Chinese Ministry of 

 War, is in this country with the Chinese mis- 

 sion to make purchases for the outfitting of an 

 extensive chemical laboratory at Pekin for his 

 government. 



Professor T. L. Haeceer, of the University 

 of Minnesota, who has been asked for several 

 successive years to continue his experiments in 

 animal nutrition, despite the fact that he has 

 passed the usual age for retiring from service, 

 will retire at the close of this college year, 

 July 31, 1918, and provision will be made for 

 completing the work upon which he is engaged 

 and for tabulating the results. 



Dr. Eugene E. Kelley, Boston, has been 

 appointed state commissioner of health to suc- 

 ceed Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin, who has been 

 called back into the federal public health serv- 

 ice. 



Dr. Buford Jennette Johnson, Ph.D. (Hop- 

 kins '16), has resigned her position as assist- 



