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twenty-five directors, among them the chair- 
man and four members of the naval consult- 
ing board. The action of the board of di- 
rectors is said to affect the status of twenty- 
one German men of science and one Austrian 
professor who held either honorary or. active 
membership in the association. The institute 
now has a membership of about 6,600 in this 
country and there are more than 1,000 mem- 
bers abroad. 
Dr. Grorce D. Husparp, head of the de- 
partment of geology at Oberlin College, 
spent the summer in Wyoming doing research 
work for the federal government. Dr. Hub- 
bard’s special problem was the location of 
war materials, particularly petroleum. His 
course in the Oberlin Summer School in the 
principles of geography was given by Mr. 
E. T. Thomas, supervisor of geography in the 
Shaker Heights Schools, Cleveland, Ohio. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
NEWS 
Reep CoLiecEe is awaiting the decision of 
the War Department and the Federal Board 
for Vocational Education in regard to the 
college’s offer to undertake extensive service 
in the reeducation of the wounded for in- 
dustrial activity. An offer of $200,000 in 
equipment for a school of this nature and 
another offer of grounds and buildings suit- 
able for a convalescent hospital and remedial 
workshops have been made to the college. 
Puians have been prepared for a laboratory 
building for the Yale Medical School, New 
Haven. The building is to be of brick and 
steel construction. 
Tue West Riding Education Committee 
has renewed for another year its grant of £500 
to the Department of Glass Technology at 
Sheffield University. 
As a memorial to their son, William Fred- 
erick Drughorn, an old King’s scholar, killed 
in action, Mr. and Mrs. Drughorn have en- 
dowed King’s School, Canterbury, with lab- 
oratories, to be known as the Drughorn Sci- 
ence Buildings, at a cost of £25,000. 
SCIENCE 
269 
Proressor Exias J. Durann, of the Univer- 
sity of Missouri, has been appointed to a 
professorship of botany in the University of 
Minnesota. 
Dr. AtBert Epwarp Hennings, of the Uni- 
versity of Saskatchewan, Canada, has been 
appointed to an assistant professorship in the * 
department of physics of the University of 
Chicago. The following promotions have also 
been announced: Associate Professor Albert 
Johannsen, of the department of geology, to a 
professorship; Assistant Professors Albert D. 
Brokaw and Rollin T. Chamberlin, of the 
same department, to associate professorships; 
and Dr. Eugene A. Stephenson, of the same 
department, to an assistant professorship. 
Dr. Harry Suiptey Fry, former associate 
professor of chemistry, has been appointed pro- 
fessor and head of the department of chemis- 
try at the University of Cincinnati. Other 
appointments in this department are as fol- 
lows: Dr. Earl F. Farnau, associate professor 
of organic chemistry, formerly assistant pro- 
fessor of chemistry at New York University; 
Dr. Ralph E. Oesper, associate professor of 
analytical chemistry, formerly assistant pro- 
fessor of chemistry at Smith College; Dr. 
Clifford J. Rolle and Dr. Leonora Neuffer, in- 
structors in chemistry. 
Cuartes L. Rairorp, Ph.D. (Chicago), head 
of the department of chemistry at Stillwater, 
Oklahoma, has been elected associate professor 
of chemistry at the University of Iowa. He 
will take charge of some of the classes of Pro- 
fessor Hixson, who is now consulting chemical 
engineer in the ordnance department of the U. 
S. Army. 
Eric THERKELSEN, who for several years has 
been a member of the engineering faculty of 
the University of Washington, has accepted an 
assistant professorship of mechanical engi- 
neering at the Montana State College. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
BARLEY BREAD, OPTIMUM REACTION AND 
SALT EFFECT 
Wuen the attempt is made to make barley 
bread with a wheat flour content lower than 
