8 SCIENCE 
The stations at which magnetic observations 
were made by the observers of the Department 
of Terrestrial Magnetism were: Goldendale, 
Wash.; Corona, Colo.; at an altitude of 12,000 
feet; Moraine Lake, Colo.; Lakin, Kans.; 
Brewton, Ala., and Washington, D. C. At 
Lakin, furthermore, and at Washington, D. 
C., atmospheric-electrie observations were 
made. Reports on the results obtained will be 
published in the September issue of the journa! 
Terrestrial Magnetism and Atmospheric Elec- 
tricity. At various universities also series of 
magnetic observations were obtained and data 
will likewise be furnished by the Canadian 
magnetic observatories. 
The magnetic survey vessel Carnegie arrived 
safely at her home port, Washington, D. C., 
on June 10, where she will be put out of com- 
mission probably during the period of the war. 
During her cruise from Buenos Aires, Argen- 
tina, around The Horn to Valparaiso, Chile, 
Callao, Peru, thence through the Panama 
Canal to Newport News, she was in command 
of Dr. H. M. W. Edmonds; the other members 
of the scientific staff aboard were: Messrs. A. 
D. Power, Bradley Jones, L. L. Tanguy, J. M. 
McFadden, and Walter E. Scott. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. THEopore W. RicHarps, Erving pro- 
fessor of chemistry and director of the Wolcott 
Gibbs Memorial Laboratory at Harvard Uni- 
yersity, has been made a foreign member of 
the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. He has been 
elected an honorary member of the Royal Irish 
Academy. 
Sm James Dewar has been awarded the 
medal of the Society of Chemical Industry in 
recognition of the conspicuous services which, 
by his research work in both pure and applied 
science, he has rendered to chemical industry. 
Tur French Geological Society has awarded 
the Conrad Ealte-Brun prize to Professor Law- 
rence Martin, of the University of Wisconsin, 
for his studies on the glaciers of Alaska. 
Dr. Victor OC. VAUGHAN, of the University of 
Michigan, and Dr. George E. Crile, of Western 
Reserve University, have been promoted to 
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the rank of Colonel in the Medical Corps of 
the National Army. 
Dr. Leonarp P. Ayres has been made a col- 
onel and is attached to General Pershing’s 
staff in France. Dr. Ayres has had charge of 
the statistical work of the War Department in 
Washington. 
Captain Paut H. DeKruir, Ph.D. (Michi- 
gan), has been ordered to return to the United 
States for the purpose of making special in- 
vestigations on gas gangrene. Captain De- 
Kruif has been in France for some months 
studying at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He 
expects to remain in this country for about 
three months, when he will return to France. 
Supervisory authority over several of the 
largest explosive manufacturing plants in the 
country has been granted to Professor Arthur 
H. Hixson, of the chemistry department at the 
University of Iowa. He holds the position of 
consulting chemical engineer in the ordnance 
department. 
Dr. ArtTHUR CARLETON TROWBRIDGE, of the 
geology staff of the State University, for the 
past few months in charge of the work at 
Camp Dodge, has been called to New York to 
take a place on the national war work council 
of the Y. M. C. A. 
Dr. Cuas. W. Burrows, associate physicist 
of the National Bureau of Standards in 
charge of the magnetic section of that institu- 
tion, has resigned and will take up the work 
of commercial research and consultation, with 
laboratories equipped for research on problems 
involving magnetic materials and apparatus 
located at Grasmere, Borough of Richmond, 
New York City. 
Dr. Vern B. Srewart, of Cornell Uni- 
versity, has accepted an appointment in the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, and is at present 
engaged in work on the pathological aspects of 
markets inspection of vegetables. 
Mr. H. J. Morean, of the General Chemical 
Company, has been transferred from the Dela- 
ware Works at Marcus Hook, Pa., to the main 
laboratories of the company at Laurel Hill, 
Long Island, where he will be chemist in 
charge. 
