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been given leave to accept a commission as 
first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps. He is 
stationed at Mineola, L. I., for work with the 
Medical Research Board of the Air Service Di- 
vision. 
Dr. OC. A. BrauTLECHT, professor of chemis- 
try in the Florida State College for Women, 
has been called into the Sanitary Corps as first 
lieutenant. He is stationed at the Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research at New York. 
Dr. James F. Kemp, formerly professor of 
geology in Columbia University, has left Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, to resume permanent residence in 
New York. 
Dr. M. Leprepo, a leading hygienist and 
bacteriologist of Cuba and a member of the 
editorial staff of the Revista de Medicina y 
Oirugia of Havana, has been appointed a mem- 
ber of the Rockefeller Institute and is leaving 
on a scientific mission for Eecquador on behalf 
of the institute. 
G. I. Curistiz, superintendent of agricultural 
extension of Purdue University, has been 
granted leave of absence to become assistant 
to the secretary of agriculture, in charge of 
farm-labor problems. JT. A. Coleman, state 
leader of county agents, will serve as extension 
director during his absence. 
Prorsssor G. A. Minier, of the University 
of Illinois, has accepted the chairmanship of a 
committee which is to make a survey of the 
mathematical instruction given under the aus- 
pices of the Y. M. C. A. at the various naval 
stations. 
Dr. Lucius P. Brown, who, following an in- 
vestigation of the health department by the 
Hylan administration, was tried on charges of 
neglect of duty and acquitted, has been unani- 
mously reinstated as director of the bureau of 
foods and drugs of the New York Health De- 
partment. : 
WiviiAM Hart Hippen, known for his work 
in mineralogy, died at Ocean Grove, N. J., on 
June 12, 1918, at the age of sixty-five years. 
Tue death is announced, on July 14, of Dr. 
R. O. Cunningham, emeritus professor of nat- 
ural history and geology, Queen’s College, Bel- 
fast, at the age of seventy-six years. 
SCIENCE 
[N. 8S. Von, XLVIII. No. 1234 
Dr. ALFRED SENIER, since 1891 professor of 
chemistry in Queen’s College and University 
College, Galway, Ireland, died on June 29, aged 
sixty-five years. His parents, about two years 
after his birth, emigrated to Wisconsin, where 
he received his early education; in due course 
he attended the universities of Wisconsin and 
Michigan. Professor Senier’s researches in 
organic chemistry were devoted mainly to the 
cyanuric acids, to the acridines and to photo- 
tropic and thermotropic phenomena. 
Proressor J. Bishop Tincir, of McMaster 
University, Toronto, died at Ottawa, on Au- 
gust 6, after an illness of some weeks. Dr. 
Tingle was born at Sheffield, England, in 1866, 
and received his early training at the Royal 
Grammar School of Sheffield and at Owens 
College, Manchester. He took his degree, after 
working with Claisen at Munich, in 1889. He 
came to America in 1896 and after some years 
at Lewis Institute, Chicago, Illinois College, 
Jacksonville and Johns Hopkins University 
was appointed to the chair of chemistry at 
McMaster University. He was elected fellow 
of the Royal Society of Canada in May, 1918. 
He was the author of a considerable number of 
scientific papers. Several of his students are 
already rising to positions of prominence as 
chemists. He was a pioneer, against much dis- 
couragement, in training young women for 
laboratory positions under war conditions. He 
married Sarah Ellen Capps, of Jacksonville, 
Illinois, in 1906. She survives him with a 
daughter and a son, also a younger brother and 
sister. Dr. Tingle was a valued friend to those 
who knew him intimately and he always took 
a close personal interest in the future of his 
students. 
For the care and conditioning of fliers in 
the Air Service the United States Govern- 
ment is now appointing a corps of doctors 
and trainers large enough to equip each train- 
ing field and camp for fliers, both here in the 
United States and in France, with a proper 
organization. The doctors will be known as 
flight surgeons and the trainers as physical 
directors. The medical branch of the Air 
Service is not alone confined to the selection 
of the flier but to his care and condition after 
