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SCIENCE 



457 



entered the eng-ineering section of the aviation 

 service, and is stationed at Lake Chai'les, La. 



Mr. Watsox Bain, professor of applied chem- 

 istry 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. 



E. A. Richmond, instructor in physiology 

 at Simmons College, has joined the Signal 

 Corps. At present he is doing research work 

 in physiology at the Medical Research Lab- 

 oratory in Mineola, N. Y. 



Dr. Walter M. Mitchell, formerly of the 

 astronomical department of the University of 

 Michigan, and recently mechanical engineer 

 with the Midvale Steel Co., Philadelphia, has 

 received an appointment in the Signal Corps, 

 U. S. A. Dr. Mitchell is stationed at Roch- 

 ester, N. Y., and is placed in charge of the in- 

 spection of equipment for the Signal Corps in 

 that district. 



Dr. a. D. Brokaw, assistant professor of 

 mineralogy and chemical geology at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, has been called to Wash- 

 ington to take charge of the oil production 

 east of the Rocky Mountains. 



Dr. E. B. Spear, professor of chemistry of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 has been appointed consulting chemist to the 

 Bureau of Mines in connection with the gas 

 warfare work. 



P. W. Mason, assistant professor of ento- 

 mology in Purdue University, has resigned to 

 accept a position in the Bureau of Entomology, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



R. V. Mitchell, professor of poultry hus- 

 bandry at Delaware College, has been granted 

 leave of absence to do work with the U. S. 

 Food Research Laboratory along the line of 

 poultry and egg handling. 



Dr. C. L. Reese, of E. I. du Pont de Ne- 

 mours & Co., has teen named chairman of tlie 

 committee on dyestuffs and intermediates of 

 the Chemical Alliance. 



Dr. Ch.\rles Keyes, consulting mining 

 engineer and geologist of Des Moines, has been 



chosen by the Democrats of Iowa for candi- 

 date for United States senator, to succeed Sen- 

 ator W. S. Kenyon, whose term expires shortly. 



Dr. Royal S. Copel.\nd has been appointed 

 by Mayor Hylan to be health commissioner of 

 New York City. 



Dr. H. E. Dubin has resigned as chemist to 

 the Montefiore Home and Hospital to accept 

 the appointment of research chemist with the 

 Herman A. Metz Laboratories, Inc., New York 

 City. 



After thirty-eight years' service, Mr. Rich- 

 ard Hall has retired from the staff of the geo- 

 logical department of the British Museum. 



Captain Roald Amundsen proposes to leave 

 Norway this summer in his new Arctic vessel, 

 the Maud, which has been si^ecially built for 

 this attempt to reach the North Pole. The ves- 

 sel is to be provisioned and fitted out for a 

 seven years' stay in the ice, but Captain 

 Amundsen hopes to be back within four years. 



Professor J. H. Jeans, the physicist, has 

 been elected a member of the Athenffium Club 

 for distinction in science. 



Philip E. Edelman, of St. Paul, Minn., has 

 been awarded the Research Corporation fellow- 

 ship in applied science on competition by a 

 jury consisting of the president of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, the secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the president of the 

 American Chemical Society, the president of 

 the Research Corporation and the chairman of 

 the Engineering Foundation, upon evidence of 

 scientific attainments, inventions and special 

 fitness for advanced work. Mr. Edelman is an 

 electrical engineering graduate of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota and has served as electrical 

 engineer for radio-communication interests. 

 He is the author of " Experimental Wireless 

 Stations " and other popular technical books, 

 and has since February, 1917, devoted his time 

 principally to research work for the govern- 

 ment. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, of the United States 

 Food Administration, lectured on May 9 at 

 the Washington Academy of Sciences, the sub- 

 ject of the lecture being " Biology and War." 



