April 19, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



387 



a scientific rationing system whereby the in- 

 dividual will be enabled to make the greatest 

 effort on the minimum amount of food. 



Le.we of absence for the remainder of tlie 

 year has been granted by Harvard University 

 to Louis C. Graton, professor of economic 

 geology, to enable him to take charge of the 

 work of the Copper Producers Committee in 

 Washington. 



Mr. H. E. Ives, of the United Gas Improve- 

 ment Company of Philadelphia, Pa., has en- 

 tered the Science and Research Division of tlie 

 Signal Corps. 



Dr. Frederic Bonnet, Jr., professor of 

 chemistry at the Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 

 tute, has resigned to accept the position of 

 chief chemist at the new Perrj-viUe plant of 

 the Atlas Powder Company. 



Professor Adolph F. Meyer, associate pro- 

 fessor of hydraulic engineering of the Univ- 

 ersity of Minnesota, has accepted a position 

 as engineer for the Minnesota-Ontario Power 

 company and will resign his position on the 

 faculty probably at the end of the current 

 year. 



Dr. W. F. Faragher has resigned his i)0si- 

 tion as research chemist for the Alden Speare's 

 Sons Co. to become senior fellow at the Mellon 

 Institute in Pittsburgh. He will work on 

 crude petroleum. 



Miss Katherine Marden, assistant bacteriol- 

 ogist in the Massachusetts State Department 

 of Health, has been apiwinted sanitary bac- 

 teriologist in the United States Public Health 

 Service, and has been ordered to proceed to 

 Greenville, S. C. 



Dr. Abraham Jablons, of the Bureau of 

 Preventable Diseases, Department of Health, 

 City of New York, is on active duty in the 

 United States Naval Reserve Force, at the 

 Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. 



The Rockefeller Institute recently tendered 

 a banquet to Dr. G. Gasteiiet^, subdean of the 

 medical department of the University of Lima, 

 Peru, who has been on a brief visit to the 

 United States. 



The GiU Memorial of the Royal Geograph- 

 ical Society has been awarded to Dr. Cutlibert 

 Christy for his sur^-eys and explorations in 

 Central Africa. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that the seventieth birthday of 

 the well-known authority on physiologic chem- 

 istry and histology. Professor C. A. Pekelhar- 

 ing, of the University of Utrecht, falls on 

 July 18, and his friends and pupils are col- 

 lecting a fimd to erect a tablet in his honor 

 or endow the laboratory for physiological 

 chemistry there. The secretary of the com- 

 mittee in charge of the testimonial is Dr. C. J. 

 van Hoogenhuyze, Banstraat 8, Amsterdam. 



The officers of the Royal Microscopical So- 

 ciety, elected for the ensuing year, are : Presi- 

 dent, J. E. Barnhard; Vice-Presidents, E. 

 Heron-Allen, F. Martin Duncan, A. Earland 

 and R. Paulson; Secretaries, Dr. J. W. H. 

 Eyre and D. J. Scourfield. 



The Medical Research Committee of Great 

 Britain has apjwinted a special committee 

 to consider the methods of manufacture, bio- 

 logical testing, and clinical administration of 

 salvarsan and its substitutes used in Great 

 Britain, and the results of these, and to pro- 

 pose to the Medical Research Committee spe- 

 cific investigations aimed at improving those 

 methods and results. The committee consists 

 of Dr. H. D. Rolleston, C.B., temporary Sur- 

 geon-General R.N. (chairman). Professor F. 

 W. Andrewes, M.D., F.R.S., Professor "Wm. 

 Bulloch, M.D., F.R.S., Dr. H. H. Dale, F.R.S., 

 Lieut.-Colonel L. W. Harrison, D.S.O., R.A.- 

 M.C., and Dr. F. J. H. Coutts, assistant medi- 

 cal officer, Local Government Board (secre- 

 tary). 



Professor Frederick B. Loomis, of Am- 

 herst College, recently addressed the Middle- 

 tovra Scientific Association at Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity on " The Patagonian Pampas." The 

 subject matter of this lecture was taken from 

 facts gathered during five months' traveling 

 over the Pampas, while hunting for extinct 

 animals. 



The Cutter lectures on preventive medicine 

 and hygiene will be delivered at the Harvard 



