SEPTEMBER 6, 1918] 
THE NEED FOR NUTRITION OFFICERS IN 
MILITARY CAMPS 
Tue Surgeon-General has been authorized 
to station in each of the larger military camps 
and cantonments in this country a nutrition 
officer whose duties will be those of an adviser 
to the camp commander, the camp surgeon and 
the camp quartermaster on all matters relating 
to the nutritive value of foods. There is still 
need for. a considerable number of men well 
trained in food chemistry and physiology of 
nutrition, who can qualify as lieutenants and 
captains in the Sanitary Corps for this assign- 
ment. Upon receiving commissions these offi- 
cers will be given training for a period at the 
Medical Officers’ Training Camp, Camp Green- 
leaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and will then 
be subject to appointment as nutrition officers, 
or to duty of a similar nature overseas. This 
work has proved to be of signal importance in. 
the interest of proper nutrition of the soldiers 
and of the economic use of foods both in this 
country and overseas. Application for infor- 
mation should be made to Lieutenant Colonel 
John R. Murlin, Sanitary Corps, Office of the 
Surgeon General, 7th and B Sts., NW., Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
The following officers of the Division of 
Food and Nutrition of the Medical Depart- 
ment, U. S. Army, are on duty overseas: 
Majors Phillip A. Shaffer, A. J. Carlson, Ernest 
B. Forbes, John P. Street. 
Captains Frank C. Gephart, Walter H. Eddy, Fred 
F. Flanders, J. Garfield Riley, Ernest L. Scott, 
Leon A. Congdon, H. A. Mattill, F. B. Kings- 
bury, Marion G. Mastin, Arthur W. S. 
’ Thomas, Drury L. Weatherhead. 
Lieutenants Cleon C. Mason, Willard R. Line, C. A. 
Cajori, A. G. Hogan, S. C. Dinsmore, A. A. 
Reithwiesner, A. F. Wussow, F. J. Funk, L. V. 
Burton and A, A. Schaal, Sanitary Corps. 
Lieutenants A. D. Shohl, Rolla B. Hill, R. W. Bury 
and A. T. Hipps, Medical Reserve Corps. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. Epwarp A. SpirzKa has been promoted 
to be lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps, 
U.S. A. 
Mr. WittiaM Bow, hydrographic and geo- 
detic engineer and chief of the division of 
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geodesy of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
_vey, has been commissionel a major in the 
Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army and has been 
assigned to duty in the department of map 
making. 
Proressor Ross P. Anperson, of Cornell 
University, has received a captaincy in the 
Chemical Warfare Service of the United States 
Army and has been sent to France. For the 
last year, Captain Anderson has been absent 
from Cornell on leave, carrying investigations 
on the removal of gasoline from natural gas 
for the United Natural Gas Company, of Oil 
City, Pa. While at Cornell he had charge of 
the courses in gas analysis. 
Cartan J. F. McCuenpon, Sanitary Corps, 
U. S. A., has been ordered to Camp Fremont, 
Menlo Park, California, to serve as nutrition 
officer of that camp. He has leave of absence 
for the period of the war from his position as 
associate professor of physiology, University 
of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis. 
A. H. Hott, of the college of applied science, 
University of Iowa, has been appointed cap- 
tain in the Engineering Corps of the Army and 
is stationed at Camp Lee, Va. 
Dr. Froyp K. RicurMyer, assistant pro- 
fessor of physics at Cornell University, has 
left Ithaca to accept a temporary civilian ap- 
pointment as radio engineer in the Signal 
Corps of the United States Army at Washing- 
ton. The appointment was made as a result of 
research work done by Professor Richtmyer 
this summer. He plans to return to Ithaca 
before the university reopens in October. 
THE experimental ammonia plant and lab- 
oratory of the Bureau of Soils at Arlington, 
Virginia, has been transferred to the Nitrate 
Division of the Ordnance Department of the 
Army. The work is in charge of Dr. R. O. 
E. Davis and Mr. L. H. Greathouse. 
Dr. Winuram T. McCarty has been ap- 
pointed physical director of the aviation unit 
at Mineola, N. Y. : 
Mr. SrepHen C. Bruner, formerly assistant 
pathologist at the Estacién Experimental 
Agronémica, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, 
has been appointed pathologist to sueceed Mr. 
