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which is engaged in the application of rare 

 metals to industrial uses. 



Dr. H. S. Adams, of the department of phys- 

 iological chemistry in the University of Chi- 

 cago, has accepted a position as research chem- 

 ist and pharmacologist at the hiological labo- 

 ratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons, New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J. 



Dr. William Gilman Thompson, professor 

 of medicine in the Medical College of Cornell 

 University, has resigned, and is succeeded by 

 Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner, professor of 

 clinical medicine in the college since 1905. 



Dr. Arminius C. Pole, after many years' 

 service as professor of anatomy in the Balti- 

 more Medical College and professor of descrip- 

 tive anatomy in the University of Maryland 

 since the merger of the two schools in 1913, 

 has resigned. 



C. F. Hirshfield, professor of power engi- 

 neering in Sibley College, Cornell University, 

 who has been absent on leave for special work 

 in Detroit, has resigned. 



W. C. Phalen has resigned his position as 

 geologist in the U. S. Geological Survey and 

 has entered on his new duties as a mineral 

 technologist in the Bureau of Mines, with 

 headquarters in Washington. 



Professor Ernest Blaker, of the depart- 

 ment of physics, Cornell University, has, on 

 account of illness, been granted leave of ab- 

 sence for the present term. 



Dr. Charles L. Parsons, of the Bureau of 

 Mines, is in Europe, where he will spend two 

 months visiting plants in connection with the 

 United States work preparatory to construct- 

 ing a nitrate plant. 



Dr. Henry I. Adler, lately chief of staff of 

 the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, is spend- 

 ing several months in Chicago at the request 

 of the Civic Club and the Illinois Society for 

 Mental Hygiene, under the auspices of the 

 Rockefeller Foundation. His especial work is 

 to be a survey of the mental defectives of 

 Chicago and Cook County, and he will work 

 in the courts and other institutions where 

 there are facilities for detecting and handling 

 defectives. 



Dr. Clark Wissler, of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, during the summer, 

 continued his work with Mr. James R. Murie, 

 chief of the Pawnee Indians of Oklahoma. 

 With the aid of Mr. Murie, Dr. Wissler has 

 secured many interesting rituals of the reli- 

 gion of the Pawnee, which is now passing 

 away. The more important parts of these 

 rituals have been written down as tests in the 

 Pawnee language with translations in English. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz, of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, and Mr. J. A. G. 

 Rehn, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, spent part of the summer study- 

 ing and collecting insects in the vicinity of 

 Tucson, Arizona. Mr. B. Preston Clark gen- 

 erously contributed toward the field expenses; 

 and the Philadelphia Academy also cooperated^ 

 in the work. In addition to securing speci- 

 mens for the study collection, an effort was 

 made to obtain material which would bear 

 especially upon the problems of ecological and 

 geographical distribution. 



At the opening exercises of the College of 

 Medicine of the University of Illinois, held in 

 Chicago, on October 5, Edmund J. James, 

 president of the university, delivered an ad- 

 dress on the "Function of the State in the 

 Promotion of Medical Education and Re- 

 search." 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Roentgen Ray Society, held in Chicago the 

 last week in September, Professor W. S. Miller, 

 of the department of anatomy at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, delivered by invitation an 

 illustrated address on "The Architecture of 

 the Lung and its relation to the Proper Read- 

 ing of X-ray Plates." 



Professor Bird T. Baldwin, of Swarthmore 

 College, has been appointed lecturer in edu- 

 cation at the Johns Hopkins University. He 

 is giving, on Saturdays, a course on " Educa- 

 tional Measurements," continuing the special 

 work he began in the university's summer 

 session. 



Dr. Percival Lowell, director of the Lowell 

 Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., left Boston on 

 September 27 for an extensive astronomical 



