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representative of the Army, in chemical war- 
fare, in England. The following men, all in 
the Chemical Service Section, are to be with 
him to help in the work: Captain A. B. Ray, 
Captain G. M. Rollason, Lieutenant H. A. F. 
Eaton, and First Sergeants E. O. Hobbs, L. C. 
Benedict, C. E. Wood and J. A. Bowers. 
Captain Laurence Martin, of the geological 
department of the University of Wisconsin, 
was commissioned as a major on July 23, and 
has been detailed for duty with the Federal 
Staff Corps. 
Proressor V. H. WELLS, of the department 
of mathematics, of the University of Pitts- 
burgh, has been commissioned a lieutenant in 
the science and research division of the signal 
corps. 
Dr. 8. A. MircHett, director of the Leander 
McCormick Observatory of the University of 
Virginia, is at present in Jersey City engaged 
as instructor in navigation for the U. S. Ship- 
ping Board. 
Mr. Wittiam J. Hammer, consulting physi- 
cist and electrical engineer, of New York, has 
been commissioned a major in the National 
Army, and is assigned to duty in Washing- 
ton with the newly organized Inventions Sec- 
tion of the General Staff. 
Proressor T. D. BeckwitH, head bacteriol- 
ogist of the Oregon Agricultural College, has 
been commissioned captain in the Sanitary 
Corps and is ordered to report at the Rocke- 
feller Institute for Medical Research at New 
York. 
Proressor F’. B. SANBORN, a member of the 
Tufts College faculty since 1899 and head of 
the department of civil engineering since 1901, 
has resigned to enter business in Boston. His 
firm is now engaged in important manufactur- 
ing work for the government. 
Mr. New M. Jupp, assistant curator of an- 
thropology in the National Museum, has re- 
cently returned from explorations of the House 
Rock valley and the Pahreah and Wahalla 
plateaus, on the north rim of the Grand 
Canyon in northern Arizona. Several cliff 
dwellings and ruins were discovered. Since 
his return to Washington, Mr. Judd has en- 
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listed in the aviation section of the Signal 
Corps. 
Mr. F. T. Sun, director of a fisheries school 
at Tientsin, China, established and maintained 
by the Province of Chihli, is in the United 
States in order to gather information and ma- 
terial for his school, which is devoted prin- 
cipally to the preparation and utilization of 
fishery products. 
Dr. Hans Moore, director, and Albert 
Scheret, professor, in the agricultural college 
near Lucerne, Switzerland, are studying 
methods of agriculture in the United States. 
Proressor JosepH S. Ames, director of the 
physical laboratory in the Johns Hopkins 
University, recently gave the annual address 
at the University of Virginia before the Phi 
Beta Kappa Society. The title of the address 
was “The Value of the Scientific Man in 
War.” 
Miss STEPHENSON has offered £2,500 to en- 
dow.a studentship in the faculty of arts at 
Armstrong College, Newcastle, in memory of 
her father, the late Sir William Haswell 
Stephenson. 
THE name of the Memorial Institute for 
Infectious Diseases, founded in the memory 
of John Rockefeller McCormick, has been 
changed to The John McCormick Institute 
for Infectious Diseases. 
Henry SHALER WILLIAMS, emeritus professor 
of geology at Cornell University, died of 
pleurisy, on July 31, at Havana, aged seventy- 
one years. He was born in Ithaca in 1847, 
graduated from Yale in 1868 and held the 
professorship of natural science in the Uni- 
versity of Kentucky from 1871 to 1872. He 
was professor of geology in the same univer- 
sity from 1880 to 1892 and Silliman professor 
at Yale University from 1892 to 1904. His 
research work in Cuba resulted in the develop- 
ment of oil fields in the island. 
Dr. Joun Durr Irvine, professor of eco- 
nomic geology at Yale University, known for 
his work in ore deposits, has died of pneumo- 
nia in France, aged forty-four years. Pro- 
fessor Irving was one of the first from the Yale 
