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conditions tending to stimulate cooperation be- 

 tween manufacturing interests and our re- 

 search laboratories in order to broaden as much 

 as possible the applied features of our research 

 work. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



DmEOTOR "William Wallace Campbell, of 

 the Lick Observatory, University of California, 

 has been elected a foreign member of the 

 Eoyal Society. 



The annual gold medal of the British Insti- 

 tution of Naval Architects has been awarded 

 to Professor G. W. Hovgaard, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, for his paper 

 on " The Buoyancy and Stability of Sub- 

 marines." 



At the annual meeting of the Chemical So- 

 ciety, London, on March 21, the Longstaff 

 medal for 1918 was presented to Lt.-Col. A. W. 

 Crossley, for his work in the field of hydro- 

 aromatic compounds. 



The University of Chicago has granted 

 leave of absence to Professor Forest R. Moul- 

 ton, of the department of astronomy and astro- 

 physics, for one year, from April 1, 1918. He 

 is commissioned major in the Ordnance Re- 

 serve Corps of the United States Army, and 

 will have the duty of directing the computa- 

 tion of range tables and ballistic data. 



Dr. T. Wingate Todd, F.R.S.C. professor of 

 anatomy in the school of medicine of Western 

 Reserve University, has been granted leave of 

 absence from the tmiversity and commissioned 

 captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. 

 He is at present stationed at the Military Hos- 

 pital of London, London, Ontario, and expects 

 to see service in France within a few months. 



Dr. Robert W. Hegnee, of the University 

 of Michigan, who has been carrying on re- 

 search work at the Johns Hopkins University 

 during the past year as Johnston scholar, has 

 been reappointed and will continue his in- 

 vestigations there for another year. 



T. B. Wood, professor of agriculture in the 

 University of Cambridge, has been appointed 

 to the Development Commission of Great Brit- 



ain, vice A. D. Hall, now secretary of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. 



Dr. Elbert C. Lathrop has resigned his 

 position as biochemist in the Laboratory of 

 Soil Fertility Investigations, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, to accept a research position 

 with the Jackson Laboratory of the E. I. du- 

 Pont de Nemours Company, of Wilmington, 

 Delaware. 



Mr. R. C. Bergen, assistant editor of Metal- 

 lurgical and Chemical Engineering, has re- 

 signed his position to go into manufacturing 

 work. He has been with the journal since its 

 change to a semi-monthly in 1915. 



John C. Schelleng has resigned his in- 

 structorship in the department of physics of 

 Cornell University to accept a position in war 

 work with the Westinghouse Electric Company. 



The course of lectures on " Symbolic logic " 

 by Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin which was to 

 have been given at Harvard University begin- 

 ning on April 22, has been given up on account 

 of the existing situation. These lectures were 

 given earlier in the season at Columbia Univer- 

 sity before the Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Professor W. A. Cogshall, of Indiana Uni- 

 versity, delivered recently an address before the 

 St. Louis Academy of Science on " The prob- 

 lems of the total solar eclipse with particular 

 reference to the Corona and the intra-mercur- 

 ia] planets." 



Professor E. V. McCollum, of the school of 

 hygiene and public health of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, delivered a lecture on nutri- 

 tion, before the faculty and students of the 

 college of medicine. University of Ulinois, on 

 AprH 11. 



Dr. E. Emmet Reid, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, delivered an illustrated lecture on 

 " Gas warfare " before the West Virginia Sci- 

 entific Society on April 15. In the afternoon 

 of the same day, he addressed the students of 

 chemistry of the university on " The present 

 status of the chemist." 



Dr. Winfred Berdell Mack, professor of 

 veterinary science and bacteriology in the Uni- 

 versity of Nevada, died in Reno on January 

 18, after an illness of three months, aged forty- 

 seven years. 



