June 7, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



559 



Dr. Abraham Jacobi, the distinguished New 

 York physician, who is still iu active practise, 

 received many congratulations on the celebra- 

 tion of his eighty-eighth birthday, which oc- 

 curred recently. 



The honorary fellowship of the Royal Col- 

 lege of Surgeons in Ireland has been conferred 

 on Major Harvey Gushing, of the United 

 States Medical Service, on leave of absence 

 from Harvard University. 



Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait, director of military 

 orthopedics with the American Expeditionary 

 Force in France, has been made a lieutenant- 

 colonel. 



Major Roger I. Lee, chief medical officer of 

 the Harvard surgical unit which sailed a year 

 ago, has been appointed commanding officer in 

 place of Colonel Patterson. 



Dr. Frank D. Adams, dean of the faculty of 

 applied science and professor of geology, Mc- 

 Gill University, has left for England and 

 France to take up work in connection with the 

 organization of the " Khaki University for 

 Canadian Soldiers Overseas." 



Mr. H. Foster Bain has been appointed as- 

 sistant director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines 

 and is in the office of the bureau at Washing- 

 ton. 



Dr. George V. N. Dearborn has been com- 

 missioned a first lieutenant in the Medical 

 Reserve Corps. 



Dr. R. B. Teachout, instructor in psychol- 

 ogy in the University of Oregon, has entered 

 the psychological service of the national army 

 and is now stationed at Camp Lewis, Ameri- 

 can Lake, Washington. 



In accordance with the recommendation of 

 Professor Ruthven, director of the Museum of 

 Zoology of the University of Michigan, Mr. 

 Calvin Goodrich, editor of the Detroit Jour- 

 nal, has been appointed to the honorary posi- 

 tion of associate curator of Mollusea. 



William P. Stl'ddert has been appointed 

 fishery expert on the steamer Albatross. 



Dr. Robert G. Caswell has resigned as as- 

 sistant professor of chemistry at Colby Col- 

 lege, to accept a position as one of the re- 



search chemists for the E. I. du Pont de Ne- 

 mours Company of Wilmington, Del. 



Dr. C. H. Shattuck, professor of forestry 

 at the University of California in charge of 

 range management, has accepted a position 

 for the summer as technical adviser to the 

 field parties now engaged in classifying the 

 public domain lands of the west, which are 

 now open for settlement under the 640-acre 

 Homestead Act. Four parties are at present 

 being organized in Montana, who will report 

 on the grazing value of large bodies of this 

 land. 



S. F. Hildebrand, director of the Beaufort 

 Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries, is engaged in cooperation with Dr. C. W. 

 Stiles, of the Public Health Service, in the 

 campaign for the control of mosquitoes in the 

 environs of Camp Hancock, near Augusta, Ga. 



Professor Harold Heath, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, who has made a number of visits to 

 the seal islands as an assistant of the Bureau 

 of Fisheries, has been engaged to go there this 

 year for the purpose of making special in- 

 vestigations, assisting in the annual census, 

 and advising the agents regarding various 

 matters connected with the animal life on the 

 islands. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Dr. Charles W. Young, dean 

 of the Union Medical College, Peking, China, 

 has gone to Shansi, taking with him Dr. 

 Chang of the staff of the college, who has had 

 experience in work with the plague in Tien- 

 tsin. His mission is educational, and he hopes 

 to persuade the governor of the province to 

 stop traffic on the Hwang-Ho River which 

 flows through Saratsi where pneumonic plague 

 is very prevalent. In one town north of the 

 Great Wall, it is said that 1,000 persons died 

 from the disease in five days. 



At a meeting of the Iron and Steel Insti- 

 tute on May 3 awards of £100 from the Car- 

 negie Research Fund were made to Mr. George 

 Patchin, of London, an associate of the Royal 

 School of Mines, and formerly head of the 

 metallurgical department of Birkbeck College, 

 to enable him to pursue research on " Semi- 



