June 14, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



585 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A BOARD of medical officers, consisting of 

 Colonels Deane C. Howard, M.C.. U. S. Army; 

 Frederick F. Russell. M.C., U. S. Army; 

 Victor C. Vaughan, M.C., N. A.; Lieutenant- 

 Colonel William H. Welch, M.C., N. A., and 

 Contract Surgeon Rufus Cole, has been ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of making an investi- 

 gation as to the nature, causes and prevention 

 and treatment of pneumonia, and its compli- 

 cations, in the various military camps in the 

 United States. It will report from time to 

 time to the surgeon-general of the army, to 

 whom a full report will be made as soon as 

 practicable after the completion of the investi- 

 gation. 



Major A. J. Carlsox, S.C. N. A., attached 

 to the Food Division or the Surgeon -General's 

 Office, is at present on duty in England 

 making a study of food conditions in the rest 

 camps of the United States Army. 



Major Samuel C. Prescott. S.C, N. A., 

 attached to the Food Division of the Surgeon- ' 

 General's Office, has just returned from a 

 tour of southern camps in which he was 

 making an inspection of the conditions of 

 storage as affecting the healthfulness of foods 

 supplied to troops in training. 



The following named officers of the Food 

 Division, Surgeon General's Office, are on 

 duty in France: ilajor Philip A. Shaffer, Cap- 

 tains Walter II. Eddy. Arthur W. S. Thomas, 

 F. B. Kingsbury and M. G. Mastin, all S.C, 

 N. A. 



Dr. Georoe E. Vincent, president of the 

 Rockefeller Foundation, who had been on a 

 trip of nearly three months to Italy, France 

 and England, arrived in New York on June 1, 

 accompanied by Dr. Livingston Farrand, presi- 

 dent of the University of Colorado, who had 

 been in charge of the foundation's tuberculosis 

 work in France for a year. 



The close of the present year at Western 

 Reserve University will be marked by the re- 

 tirement of Professor F. P. Whitman, who has 

 held the chair of physics and astronomy at 

 Adelbert College for thirty-two years. Pro- 

 fessor Whitman, who was born in Troy, New 



York, was graduated at Brown University in 

 1874. 



SwARTiiMORE CoLLEGE at its commencement, 

 on May 20, bestowed the honorary degree of 

 doctor of letters upon Provost Edgar F. Smith. 



At its recent commencement Syracuse Uni- 

 versity conferred th? honorary degree of doctor 

 of science ou Professor Albert Perry Brigham, 

 of Colgate University. 



The L^'niversity of Pittsburgh has conferred 

 its doctorate of science on Raymond Foss 

 Bacon, director of Mellon Institute, Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh, and lieutenant-colonel in 

 charge of the chemical work of the American 

 forces in France, and on George Coffin John- 

 ston, professor of roentgenology in the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh, and major in the medical 

 corps, the doctorate of engineering, on Walter 

 Victor Turner, pneumatic exjjert with the 

 Westinghouse interests, and tlie doctorate of 

 chemistry on Arthur Dehon Little of Boston. 



In recognition of his distinguished work at 

 Yale University, Joseph Barrell, '00, Ph.D., 

 professor of structural geology, has been 

 elected to honorary membership in the Phi 

 Beta Kappa Society. 



Dr. J. Bishop Tingle, professor of chemis- 

 try at McMaster University, Toronto, has been 

 elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Can- 

 ada. 



Sir THo^fAS R. Eraser, who succeeded Sir 

 Robert Christison as professor of materia 

 medica in the University of Edinburgh in 

 1877, has tendered his resignation, to take 

 effect at the end of the present year. 



Dr. R. S. Heath, professor of mathematics 

 at Birmingham University, vice-principal and 

 registrar, has announced his intention to re- 

 tire owing to ill-health. 



The War Industries Board has created a 

 commodity section on medicines and medical 

 supplies, with Lieutenant Colonel F. F. Simp- 

 son as its chief. 



Dr. Thomas L. Watson, professor of geol- 

 ogy in the University of Virginia and state 

 geologist of Virginia, has been engaged for 



