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Dr. H. S. Wasuineton, of the Geophysical 
Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, has 
been appointed chemical associate to the scien- 
tific attachés at the American embassies in 
Paris and Rome. 
Proressor GraHAM Lusk, of Cornell Med- 
ical College, and one of the representatives at 
the recent meetings of the “ Interallied Scien- 
tifie Food Commission” abroad, will give at 
the New York Academy of Medicine on Thurs- 
day evening, October 3, at nine o’clock, the 
Wesley M. Carpenter lecture on “ The scien- 
tifie aspect of the interallied food situation.” 
Dr. WintiaM P. Hartow, head of the 
school of medicine of the University of Colo- 
rado, has been appointed a major in the Med- 
ical Corps, and has been placed in charge of 
General Hospital No. 21. 
Dr. H. L. HontinewortH, associate pro- 
fessor of psychology in Barnard College, Co- 
lumbia University, has been commissioned a 
captain in the Sanitary Corps, and will report 
at the Plattsburg Barracks. 
Ruys D. Evans, associate professor of phys- 
ics in Bowdoin College, formerly instructor in 
physics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, the 
son of Professor D. J. Evans, of the latter in- 
stitution, has been commissioned captain in 
the Chemical Warfare Service. 
Dr. W. E. Carrout, professor of animal 
husbandry at the Utah Agricultural College, 
has been commissioned as captain in the Sani- 
tary Corps of the United States Army, and 
will report to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for 
special training at the medical officers’ train- 
ing camp. 
Dr. W. L. Arco, formerly of the University 
of California, has been commissioned a lieu- 
tenant in the Chemical Warfare Service and 
has been sent to France. 
Dr. W. J. Rossins, formerly professor. of 
botany at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 
has ,been appointed a lieutenant, Sanitary 
Corps, and is stationed at Yale University. 
JoHN Pau GiviEr, of the department of 
zoology, University of Tennessee, has been ap- 
pointed first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps. 
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Dr. Frank C. Gates, professor of biology at 
Carthage College, Carthage, Ill, has been 
commissioned second lieutenant in the Sani- 
tary, Corps and reported at Yale University 
on September 9. 
LiruTENANT CHartes A. WaArTrERS, who re- 
cently returned to this country after fourteen 
months’ service with the Johns Hopkins Base 
Hospital in France, will leave shortly for Fort 
Oglethorpe, Ga., where he will be an instruc- 
tor in the roentgen-ray division of that can- 
tonment. He expects to return to France 
later. 
O. L. THomas has been transferred from the 
Experimental Station of E. I. du Pont de 
Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Del., where he 
acted as research chemist, to the U. S. Goy- 
ernment Powder Plant at Jacksonville, Tenn., 
where he will be chief supervisor of caustic 
soda manufacture and soda ash recovery. 
Tur Mary Kingsley medal of the Liverpool 
School of Tropical Medicine for research in 
tropical diseases has been awarded to Dr. 
Griffith Evans, the discoverer of the trypano- 
some of Surra, a disease of horses and camels 
of India, Burma, and the east. 
Dr. Carouine S. Fintey, Dr. Anna I. Von 
Sholly and Dr. Mary Lee Edward, of New. 
York, who are connected with the Women’s 
Overseas Hospitals, have been decorated by 
the French government and commissioned 
lieutenants in the Medical Corps of the 
French Army, the commissions haying been 
bestowed for excellent surgical work and treat- 
ment of the wounded under heavy bombard- 
ment in a hospital at the French front. 
R. G. WresBseEr, assistant professor of physics, 
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, who has been 
in the service of the government during the 
summer at the Watertown Arsenal, has had 
his leave of absence extended through the 
coming college year to continue his work in 
the physical testing department of the arsenal. 
Prorrssor C. H. Gorpon, Ph.D., professor 
of geology and mineralogy, University of 
Tennessee, has returned after an absence of 
two weeks in lecturing at army camps under 
the auspices of the Army Y. M. C. A. The 
