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for the establishment of hospitals for the 
treatment of shell shock. The necessary funds 
have been provided and Dr. Finney has re- 
turned to France. 
A mission headed by Colonels Combe and 
Dr. Lure has been sent to France by the Ca- 
nadian government for the purpose of study- 
ing the measures that have been taken in re- 
construction work among the maimed and the 
invalided. 
Proressor Hiram BincHam, of Yale Univer- 
sity, who is a lieutenant colonel in the Avia- 
tion Section, Signal Corps, of the Regular 
Army, has been appointed chief of the Per- 
sonnel Section in the office of the Chief of the 
Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces. 
Dr. Rate G. Van Name, of Yale Univer- 
sity, has qualified as chemist in the govern- 
ment service. 
CuarLes V. BACON was commissioned a cap- 
tain in the Engineer Reserve Corp on July 2 
and is now stationed at the General Engineer 
Depot, Washington, D. C., in the Division of 
Investigation Research and Development, be- 
ing a member of the executive committee. 
Captain Bacon was formerly associated with 
the American University Experiment Station 
as chief of the section on flaming liquids, and 
later as chief of the section on oil research. 
Cuas. N. Jorpan, formerly instructor in 
chemistry, Marvin College, Fredericktown, 
Mo., is now engaged in chemical and metal- 
lurgical work for the Ordnance Department. 
Dr. R. E. Neuson has resigned his instruc- 
torship in chemistry at Purdue University to 
accept an appointment as assistant gas chem- 
ist in the Research Division, Chemical War- 
fare Service, American University Experi- 
ment Station, Washington, D. C. 
At the Oregon Agricultural College, Dr. A. 
GC. Chandler, assistant in the department of 
zoology, and F. H. Lathrop, research assistant 
in entomology, have received commissions as 
second lieutenants in the Sanitary Corps and 
have been granted leave of absence for the 
duration of the war. 
Proressor C. K. Leitry, of the University of 
Wisconsin, has been appointed mineral ad- 
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viser to the War Industries Board from the 
standpoint of the conservation of shipping. 
PreseNT Kenyon BuTTEeRFIELD, of the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, has be- 
come a member of the Army Educational 
Commission appointed to provide educational 
opportunities for the American Expeditionary 
Forces. 
Dr. R. A. Pearson has resigned as assistant 
secretary of agriculture so that he may re- 
sume his duties as president of the lowa State 
College of Agriculture. He will be succeeded 
by G. I. Christie. 
Av the Bureau of Fisheries Glen C. Leach, 
field superintendent, has been promoted to the 
position of assistant in charge of the division 
of fish culture, in succession to Henry O’Mal- 
ley. 
Mr. Henry M. Eaxry, formerly with the 
Alaska Division of the U. S. Geological Sur- 
vey, has entered the employment of a large 
lumber company in Alger, Washington, as 
topographer and forester. 
Dr. R. P. Catvert has been transferred 
from the position of head of the general chem- 
ical division of the Experimental Station, Wil- 
mington, Del., to that of director of Delta 
Laboratory,. Arlington, N. J. Both labora- 
tories are under the direction of the chemical 
department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & 
Company. 
Cuartes S. Rewe, chemist of the United 
States Office of Public Roads and Rural Engi- 
neering, has entered the Research Department 
of the Barrett Company, New York City. 
N. H. Darton, of the United States Geo- 
logical Survey, spent August and September 
in New Mexico continuing his investigation of 
stratigraphy of the Red Beds especially as to 
their prospects for containing potash deposits. 
Proressor MaxweEtb-Lorroy, professor of 
entomology at the Imperial College of Sci- 
ence, London, has accepted a year’s engage- 
ment with the Commonwealth Government for 
£3,000, plus £2,000 for experiments. He will 
investigate the blowfly, the grain weevil, the 
woolly aphis, prickly pear and the St. John’s 
wort. 
