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parative Zoology at Harrard, and on Hennen 

 Jennings, consulting engineer. 



Major Ealph D. Mershon, fonnerly assist- 

 ant professor of Ohio State University and 

 now of the !N"aval Construction Board, has re- 

 ceived the degree of D.Sc. from Tufts College. 



Williams College has conferred the degree 

 of D.Sc. on Dr. Eaymond Dodge, professor of 

 psychology in Wesleyan University. 



BowDOiN College has conferred the degree 

 of doctor of science on Charles Clifford 

 Hutchins, professor of physics at Bowdoin; on 

 Donald B. Macmillan, the explorer, and on 

 Colonel Winford H. Smith, the surgeon. 



The Willard Gibbs Medal for 1918 was con- 

 ferred on William M. Burton, Ph.D., in recog- 

 nition of his distinguished work in petroleum 

 chemistry, at the meeting of the Chicago Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society on 

 May 17, 1918. Introductory remarks by L. M. 

 Tolman, chairman of the section, were followed 

 by the presentation of the medal by Dr. Ira 

 Eemsen. A reception and dinner preceded the 

 meeting at which informal addresses were 

 made by Lucius Peter, president of the Chi- 

 cago Association of Commerce; Thomas F. 

 Holgate, president of Northwestern Univer- 

 sity; George jST. Carman, president of Lewis 

 Institute; W. E. Stone, president of Purdue 

 University, and Julius Stieglitz, director of 

 the department of chemistry, University of 

 Chicago. 



Dr. Allen Rogers has been appointed a 

 major in the chemical service section of the 

 ITational Army. He will be in charge of the 

 Industrial Relations Department. 



Dr. E. B. Forbes, head of the department of 

 nutrition of the Ohio Experiment Station, 

 has been commissioned a major in the Pood 

 Division, Sanitary Corps. 



Dr. a. E. Zennelly, acting head of the de- 

 partment of electrical engineering at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 

 place of Professor D. C. Jackson, who went 

 into government service a month ago, has been 

 called to Washington for special work with 

 the Signal Corps. He will be away from the 



institute during the summer months, but ex- 

 pects to return in the fall. 



The Pereira medal of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society of Great Britain has been awarded to 

 Miss H. 0. M. Winch. 



Dr. N"orman Walker has been appointed in- 

 spector of anatomy for Scotland in the room 

 of the late Sir James A. Eussell. 



G. Montague Butler, E.M. (Colorado 

 School of Mines), has been appointed director 

 of the Arizona State Bureau of Mines to fill 

 the vacancy created by the resignation of C. 

 F. Willis. He will continue to serve as dean 

 of the College of Mines and Engineering, 

 which position he has held for three years. 

 The new director of the bureau intends to lay 

 greater emphasis upon geological investiga- 

 tions, and will collect the data required for the 

 preparation of a reconnaissance geological 

 map of Arizona. 



Professor Arthur Harmount Graves, 

 formerly of Yale University, has been ap- 

 I)ointed by the Office of Forest Pathology, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, for work during 

 the summer months on problems relating to 

 disease resistance in the chestnut tree. 



Professor Frank T. McFarland, of the de- 

 partment of botany of the University of Ken- 

 tucky, has charge for the summer of the white 

 pine blister rust eradication in the states of 

 Kentucky, Teim.essee and Missouri, with head- 

 quarters at Lexington, Ky. 



Dr. S. K. Loy has resigned his position as 

 professor of chemistry at the University of 

 Wyoming to become chief chemist for the 

 Midwest Refining Company. His office will 

 be at Casper, Wyoming. 



Mr. W. J. McGee, of the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and 

 formerly stationed at Savannah, Ga., has been 

 transferred to San Juan, Porto Rico, where he 

 is engaged in the inspection of food and drugs. 



The Croonian Lecture before the Royal 

 Society was delivered by Major W. B. Can- 

 non, professor of physiology, Harvard Med- 

 ical School, on Jime 20, the subject being 

 " The physiological basis of thirst." 



