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Mr. Joun O’Connor, JR., one of the assistant 
directors of the Mellon Institute of Industrial 
Research of the University of Pittsburgh, has 
gone to Washington to assume the duties of 
civilian appointment in the Plan and Scope 
Division of the Quartermaster General’s office. 
Proressor Mites S. SHERRILL, of the depart- 
ment of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, has been granted a leave of ab- 
sence from the institute and has commenced 
_ work on explosives for the Ordnance Depart- 
ment. 
Dr. CREELMAN, commissioner of agriculture 
in Ontario and president of the Ontario Agri- 
cultural College, has left for England, where 
he will consult with the directors of the Uni- 
yersity of Vimy Ridge, with respect to the 
agricultural training of soldiers. 
Dr. F. Mottwo Prrxin has been elected 
president and Mr. H. A. Carwood secretary of 
an association of chemists engaged in the oil 
and color and allied trades which has been or- 
ganized in England. 
THE John Wimbolt prize in civil engineer- 
ing at Cambridge has been awarded to Mr. E. 
B. Moullin, B.A., of Downing College, for- 
merely of Newcroft School, Bournemouth, for 
an essay on “ Some problems of gaseous explo- 
sions.” 
Tue Moxon medal of the Royal College of 
Physicians of London has been awarded to Dr. 
F. W. Mott. 
Dr. A. §. Pearse, of the University of Wis- 
consin, has returned from a trip to Maracay, 
Venezuela, where he studied the fishes of Lake 
Valencia. 
Proressor C. M. Smirn, of the department 
of physics, Purdue University, spent the sum- 
mer in scientific work at the Bureau of Stand- 
ards, Washington, D. C. 
Dr. E. C. SHorey, in charge of the division 
of chemical investigation in the Bureau of 
Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has 
resigned to accept a position with the National 
Aniline and Chemical Co., Inc., at Marcus 
Hook, Pa. 
SCIENCE 
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OprLt E. Lansing, assistant botanist in the 
Field Columbian Museum, died by suicide on 
September 11, aged fifty-one years. 
M. Cuartes Josera Ermnne Wotr the dis- 
tinguished French astronomer, died on July 
4, at the age of ninety years. 
Mr. W. M. Crowroor, of Beccles, Suffolk, 
who died on April 6 at eighty years of age, 
bequeathed a collection of exotic butterflies 
and moths to his wife for life and then to the 
Natural History Museum, University College, 
Nottingham; a collection of shells from the 
Paris basin, his cragshells, and other fossils to 
the Norwich Museum; a collection of shells 
from the Italian Pliocene basin and a collec- 
tion of marine, land and fresh-water shells to 
the Ipswich Museum. 
Srvce the establishment of the Journal of 
Geography, formerly the Journal of School 
Geography, over twenty years ago, the maga- 
zine has been under personal management and 
control. During the first thirteen years Pro- 
fessor R. E. Dodge of the Teachers College, 
New York, carried most of the responsibility. 
During the last eight years the present editor 
Professor Ray Hughes Whitbeck, of the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin, has carried the major 
part of that responsibility. During the past 
summer, the American Geographical Society 
of New York offered to take over the complete 
ownership and control of the Journal and the 
offer has been accepted. During the remain- 
ing four months of 1918, the present editorial 
and business management will continue. 
THE autumn meeting of the Institute of 
Metals was held in the rooms of the Chemical 
Society, London, on September 10 and 11. 
We learn from Nature that among the com- 
munications submitted were: The Resistance 
of Metals to Penetration under Impact, includ- 
ing a note on The Hardness of Solid Ele- 
ments as a Periodic Function of their Atomic 
Weights, Professor ©. A. Edwards; Grain 
Growth in Metals, Dr. Z. Jeffries; Rapid Re- 
erystallization in Deformed Non-ferrous Met- 
als, Mr. D. Hanson; The Influence of Impuri- 
ties on the Mechanical Properties of Admiralty 
Gunmetal, Mr. F. Johnson, and A Peculiar 
