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A separate entrance, or at least a separate floor, 
will be provided for ladies or married couples. 
Meals will be furnished under the auspices of 
the college at reasonable rates. The rates for 
the occupancy of dormitory rooms will prob- 
ably be one dollar per day per person. Per- 
sons desiring to stay over Sunday and Monday 
for the purpose of making excursions into the 
neighboring hills and mountains can prob- 
ably be accommodated. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Sir Witiiam Crookes, O.M., celebrated his 
eighty-sixth birthday on June 17. 
Mr. Horace Lamp, F.R.S., professor of 
mathematics in the University of Manchester, 
has been appointed Halley lecturer at Oxford 
University for next year. 
Dr. Wituiam §. THayer, of the Johns Hop- 
kins University, now a colonel in the National 
Army, has been made a foreign member of the 
French Academy of Medicine. 
A srction of Anthropology in the Division 
of Medical Records in the Office of the Sur- 
geon General, was created on July 28, 1918. 
Major Chas. B. Davenport, Sanitary Corps, 
N. A., has been designated as the officer in 
charge. The functions of this section are to 
be: To secure the highest quality of the meas- 
urement of recruits and of identification rec- 
ords as done by the Surgeon General’s Office 
for the purposes of the War Department; to 
assist, as called upon, in the analysis and 
synthesis of the statistics compiled from med- 
ical records; to care for and help analyze 
physical examination records; to care for and 
classify identification records, and to assist the 
War Department in all questions about racial 
dimensions and differences. 
Proressor E. V. Huntineron, president of 
the Mathematical Association of America, has 
taken leave of absence from Harvard Univer- 
sity and with the rank of major in the na- 
tional army is assigned to statistical study 
under the chief of staff with residence in 
Washington. 
Prorsessor A. D. Cot, professor of physics 
at Ohio State University, is in Washington 
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for the summer, engaged in research work in 
the Bureau of Standards. 
Mr. W. L. Currie, of Glasgow, has been 
elected president of the Pharmaceutical So- 
ciety of Great Britain. 
THE Association of Military Surgeons of 
the United States will hold its annual meet- 
ing for 1918 at Camp Greenleaf, Fort Ogle 
thorpe, Ga., on October 13 and 15, under the 
presidency of Medical Director George A. 
Lung, of the U. 8S. Navy. 
By request of the Secretary of War and the 
Secretary of the Navy the National Research 
Council has formed a committee on explosives 
investigations composed of Lieutenant Col- 
onel W. C. Spraunce, Jr., Ordnance, National 
Army, nominated by the Chief of Ordnance of 
the Army; Lieutenant Commander T. S. Wilk- 
inson, United States Navy, nominated by the 
Chief of Ordnance, United States Navy, and 
Mr. L. L. Summers, representing the War In- 
dustries Board, with Dr. Charles E. Munroe, 
dean of the faculty of graduate studies of the 
George Washington University, as chairman. 
The functions of the committee as officially 
defined are: (1) To survey the investigations 
on explosives now under way and to keep 
closely in touch with their subsequent prog- 
ress. (2) To gather and communicate to the 
proper military and naval authorities all in- 
formation available in regard to such investi- 
(8) To bring to the attention of the 
proper military and naval authorities pro- 
posals for supplementary investigations re- 
lating to explosives, and to arrange for the 
prosecution of such investigations by the 
civilian bureaus of the government, by indus- 
trial companies and by universities and en- 
dowed research institutions. The office of the 
committee is in the building of the National 
Research Council at 1023 Sixteenth Street, 
Washington, D. C. 
Drs. C. E. Ferre and G. Rand, of Bryn 
Mawr College, presented a paper at the fifty- 
fourth Annual Convention of the American 
Ophthalmological Society on July 10 on “ The 
Inertia of Adjustment of the Eye for Clear 
Seeing at Different Distances.” A method 
and apparatus were described for testing for 
