JuLy 5, 1918] 
Miss Mitprep P. Stewart has resigned her 
position as instructor in physiology and chem- 
istry at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., to 
take charge of the work of the Dutchess 
County (N. Y.) Public Health Association, 
with headquarters at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Ir is stated in Nature that the British 
minister of munitions, in agreement with the 
secretary of state for the colonies and the 
petroleum executive, has appointed a com- 
mittee to inquire into certain matters relating 
to the production of fuel oil from home 
sources. The terms of reference are: “To 
consider the report which has been rendered 
by the Petroleum Research Department on the 
production of fuel oil from home sources, and 
to advise to what extent, and within what 
time, it should be possible under present con- 
ditions to carry out the proposals made in this 
report; and to consider the steps which have 
been taken by the Ministry of Munitions in 
this connection.” The members of the com- 
mittee are: Marquess of Crewe (chairman), 
Colonel A. Stirling, Major G. Collins, Engi- 
neer Vice-Admiral G. G. Goodwin (Engineer- 
in-Chief of the Navy), Sir Richard Red- 
mayne (representing the Controller of Coal 
Mines), Sir Lionel Phillips (representing the 
Ministry of Munitions); secretary, Mr. G. C. 
Smallwood (Ministry of Munitions). 
Tue British Army Medical Advisory Board, 
established in 1901 has been in abeyance 
since the beginning of the present conflict. 
We learn from the British Medical Journal 
that it has now been considered advisable to 
appoint a new advisory board somewhat dif- 
ferently constituted and with a smaller number 
of members. The Director-General, Lieu- 
tenant-General T. H. J. C. Goodwin, is presi- 
dent, and the other members are Major-General 
Sir Bertrand Dawson, Major-General Sir 
Berkeley Moyniham, Colonel W. H. Horrocks, 
Colonel Sir Robert Jones and Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Sir Harold J. Stiles. Sir Bertrand Daw- 
son, who is physician to the London Hospital, 
is a consulting physician with the British Ex- 
peditionary Force in France. Sir Berkeley 
Moynihan, who is surgeon to the Leeds Infirm- 
ary, is consulting surgeon to the Northern 
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Command. Sir Robert Jones is the Inspector 
of Military Orthopedics, and Sir Harold 
Stiles, of Edinburgh is assistant inspector of 
Military Orthopedics for Scotland and was a 
member of the commission of inquiry in 
France. Colonel Horrocks, who was a member 
of the old board, again serves on the new 
board as sanitary expert. The secretary is Mr. 
A. T. Gann, who was the secretary of the old 
board. It will observed that the new board 
does not contain, as did its predecessor, repre- 
sentatives of the India Office and of the direc- 
torates of military operations and of fortifica- 
tions and works. 
Mr. D’Arcy Power has been appointed 
Bradshaw lecturer of the Royal College of 
Surgeons of England for the ensuing year. 
THE annual Halley lecture at Oxford Uni- 
versity was delivered on May 28 by Sir Napier 
Shaw, director of the Meteorological Office. 
The subject was “The first chapter in the 
story of the winds 
Dr. WittiaM MecKLenBura PoLk, professor 
of gynecology and dean of Cornell Medical 
School, died on June 24, in his seventy-fourth 
year. 
Apert McCatua, Ph.D., a past-president of 
the American Microscopical Society and of the 
Illinois Microscopical Society, died on June 6, 
aged seventy-two years. 
TitLEs of articles upon physiological sub- 
jects, both plant and animal, which are not 
published in the regular journals devoted to 
such studies are solicited by the Physiological 
Abstracts. Authors may send titles to Dr. 
Withrow Morse, 2900 Ellis Avenue, Chicago. 
FREE public lectures have been delivered in 
the lecture hall of the Museum building of the 
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, on 
Saturday afternoons, at four o’clock, as fol- 
lows: 
April 6. ‘‘How to prepare the soil for garden- 
ing,’’ by Mr. J. G. Curtis. 
April 13. ‘Vacant lot gardens,’’ by Carl Bann- 
wart. 4 
April 20. ‘‘Tree-planting for forests,’’ by Pro- 
fessor 8S, W. Allen. 
April 27. ‘‘Home gardens,’’ by Henry G, Par- 
sons. 
