Mat 24, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



513 



on leave of absence for the diiration of the 

 war. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 has granted leave of absence to Professor 

 Dugald C. Jackson, head of the department of 

 electrical engineering, who has gone into gov- 

 ernment service, with the commission of major, 

 and to F. H. Lahee, assistant professor of geol- 

 ogy. Three men have resigned their positions, 

 Ernest W. Chapin, research assistant in elec- 

 trical engineering, who has been drafted, and 

 Paul H. Burkhardt and Guy A. Gray, assist- 

 ants in electrical engineering, who have gone 

 to the Bureau of Standards in Washington. 

 Professor D. F. Comstock, of the department 

 of physics, has resigned. 



From the department of chemistry of the 

 College of the City of New York, Assistant 

 Professor F. E. Breithut, who has already 

 been granted a leave of absence for the dura- 

 tion of the war, has been commissioned as cap- 

 tain in the U. S. Army, and has reported for 

 duty; Dr. B. G. Feinberg, tutor in chemistry, 

 has been appointed research chemist in the 

 Ordnance Division of the United States Army 

 and was ordered to report for duty May 17; 

 Mr. D. L. Williams, instructor in chemistry, 

 has been called into the national service to be 

 in charge of the Division of Supplies of the 

 Research Department of the Gas Warfare Sec- 

 tion of the United States Army, to report by 

 June 1 at the latest. Mr. Paul Gross, tutor in 

 chemistry, has been commissioned as second 

 lieutenant in the United States Army, and 

 was required to report for duty in Washing- 

 ton on May 9. 



It is reported from Oberlin College that Pro- 

 fessor F. O. Grover, of the department of bot- 

 any; Professor C. W. Savage, of the depart- 

 ment of hygiene and physical education, and 

 Professor S. E. Williams, of the department 

 of physics and astronomy, will be away next 

 year on sabbatical leave. 



Dr. McIvery Woody, secretary of the med- 

 ical faculty of Harvard University, and Dr. 

 W. G. Webber, of the department of preventive 

 medicine and hygiene, have been commissioned 

 in the Medical Eeserve Corps. 



Wilbur A. Nelson has been elected state 

 geologist of Tennessee. 



Miss Edith Talpev, of Bayside, has been 

 appointed chief chemist at the big plant of 

 the General Chemical Company, at King- 

 ston, Ontario. For the past fo\ir years she 

 has been working in the laboratory of the 

 Company at Long Island City. 



Herbert P. Whitlock has been appointed 

 curator of mineralogy in the American 

 Museum of Natural History in succession to 

 the late Louis P. Gratacap. A correspondent 

 writes: "Mr. Whitlock leaves his position as 

 mineralogist in the New York State Museum 

 at Albany after serving for a period of four- 

 teen years. During this time he has brought 

 the state collection of minerals to a high de- 

 gree of excellence and has helped to make it a 

 complete representation of the mineral occur- 

 rences of New York. Mr. Whitlock is well 

 known for his published papers, principally on 

 crystallographic mineralogy." 



Dr. M. E. Gilmore, curator of the North 

 Dakota State Historical Society, delivered a 

 series of lectures before the faculty and stu- 

 dents of the University on May 2, 3 and 4, on 

 " Native culture and its geographic relations." 

 The subjects presented in the series were: 

 " The relation of human culture to geographic 

 influences," " Native culture of the Great 

 Plains Eegion," and " The history of Indian 

 corn." 



The death is announced of A. Montuori, in- 

 structor in physiology at the University of 

 Eome and director of the Institute for Phys- 

 ical Education and Experimental Physiology. 



The forestry department of the University 

 of California, and its head, Professor Walter 

 Mulford, believes that the intimate relation be- 

 tween the forest and wild life demands that 

 the well-trained forestry student know some- 

 thing of fish and game and methods by which 

 this resource may be conserved. It there- 

 fore procured the services of Dr. Harold C. 

 Bryant, in charge of the educational, publicity 

 and research work of the California Fish and 

 Game Commission, to give instruction on 

 game fish, birds and mammals, their economic 



