SEPTEMBER 27, 1918] 
first week was spent at Camp Hancock, Au- 
gusta, Ga., and the second at Camp Sevier, 
Greenville, S. C. The plan of giving lectures 
in the camps on geographical and travel sub- 
jects was undertaken at the instance of the 
committee on geology and geography of the 
National Research Council, of which Professor 
W. M. Davis, of Harvard University, is chair- 
man. 
Dr. D. S. Jentncs has been appointed to the 
staff of the Experiment Station of the Utah - 
Agricultural College as expert in charge of an 
extensive soil survey to be made of the state 
of Utah. This survey will be conducted in 
consultation with the station departments of 
agronomy, geology, horticulture, irrigation 
and drainage, botany, chemistry and bacteriol- 
ogy, and farm management. 
Proressor A. S. Hircucock, Bureau of 
Plant Industry, spent the month of August 
studying and collecting grasses in Arkansas, 
Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado. 
Dr. Ira E. Les, instructor of chemistry at 
the University of Rochester, has become a re- 
search chemist with E. I. du Pont de Nemours 
& Co., Wilmington, Del. 
Dr. Atrrep R. ScHuttz has presented his 
resignation from the U. S. Geological Survey, 
to become manager of a hydro-electric power 
and milling company. 
Mr. Joun A. Cove has resigned his position 
as chief chemist with the Engineering Experi- 
ment Station of the Iowa State College, Ames, 
Towa, to accept the position of assistant chem- 
ist with the General Chemical Company at 
their Laurel Hill Works. 
Proressor Jost SAKURAI, who has arrived in 
London from Japan, has brought with him a 
contribution from Japan to the Ramsay Me- 
morial Fund, amounting to £487 9s. 2d., which 
he has handed over to the honorable treasurers, 
Lord Glenconner and Professor Collie. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
NEWS ° 
THE movement for reform in the manage- 
ment of the universities in Argentina for 
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which the professors and students of the uni- 
versities have been keeping up an agitation, has 
culminated in a bill presented by the president 
of the republic to congress for deliberation and 
action. The bill coincides in general with the 
demands of those contending for reforms. It 
provides that the dean shall be elected by the 
professors, he shall serve four years and can 
not succeed himself. The election will be by 
a council of seven members, one representing 
the students, one the alumni and the others the 
professors. 
At Harvard University, Dr. Wallace Cle- 
ment Sabine has been appointed acting di- . 
rector of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 
and Dr. Herbert Sidney Langfield, acting di- 
rector of the Psychological Laboratory. 
Proressor Louis pE L. Harwoop, Montreal, 
has been appointed dean of the medical de- 
partment of Laval University. 
F. C. WERKENTHIN, assistant professor of 
biology in New Mexico College of Agriculture 
and Mechanic Arts, has been elected to the 
associate professorship of botany in New 
Hampshire Agricultural College and will as- 
sume his new duties with the opening of col- 
lege in September. 
At Cornell University Dr. R. C. Gibbs has 
been promoted to be professor of physics; Dr. 
H. E. Howe, formerly professor of physics at 
Randolph-Macon College, has been appointed 
assistant professor. 
Dr. H. L. Waster, of the college of agricul- 
ture of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 
Wisconsin, has returned to his position as 
associate professor of soils in the university 
after having spent a year’s leave of absence at 
the University of Chicago, where he received 
the Ph.D. degree in plant physiology and 
plant ecology. 
Tue following changes in the faculty of the 
department of agriculture in the University of 
Minnesota have been made recently: H. H. 
Kildee has resigned as chief of the dairy hus- 
bandry division in order to take charge of ani- 
mal husbandry work at Iowa State College, 
