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Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Ani- 
mal Industry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture; Mr. George R. Argo, specialist in cotton 
business methods, Bureau of Markets, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture; Mr. John F. 
Wilmeth, administrative assistant, Bureau of 
Markets, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
The committee will secure general informa- 
tion regarding food production conditions in 
England, France and Italy, so that, when they 
return, they will be able to reveal the needs 
more effectively to the leaders of agriculture 
in the United States and to farmers generally. 
They will also study agricultural problems in 
England, France and Italy, including the use 
of machinery and the assignment of labor in 
farming operations, the livestock situation, the 
depletion of herds and the probable extent to 
which Europe may call on this country for live 
stock to replenish herds, the seed situation and 
the probabilities of securing supplies from 
Europe and similar matters. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Masor GeneraL MerritTteE W. IRevAnp, of 
the Medical Corps, has been appointed Sur- 
geon General of the Army, to succeed Major 
William C. Gorgas, who was retired on 
October 5. General Gorgas will remain in 
Europe as the medical representative of the 
United States Army at the Interallied War 
Council. , 
Dr. Artuur L. Day, director of the Geo- 
physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 
tion of Washington since its establishment in 
1906, has resigned to accept a research posi- 
tion with the Corning Glass Works, Corning, 
Ls A 
Secretary Houston has visited the drought- 
strickened sections of the country to confer 
with field representatives of the Department 
of Agriculture in regard to making loans to 
farmers from the special fund of $5,000,000 set 
aside for that purpose. Professor G. I. 
Christie and Mr. L. M. Estabrook, assistants 
to the Secretary, are supervising the work in 
the northwest and southwest, respectively. 
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Proressor Frank P. Unperuity, of Yale 
University, has received the commission of 
Lieutenant Colonel in the Chemical Warfare 
Service. He is in charge of gas investiga- 
tions at New Haven. 
Wituiam H. Ross, of the Bureau of Soils, 
has been commissioned captain in the Chem- 
ical Warfare Service and has been assigned to 
work in the chemical laboratory, at Edgewood 
Arsenal in Maryland. 
Dr. Lucius Pork Brown, chief of the 
Bureau of Food and Drugs of the New 
York City Health Department, has been 
granted leave of absence without salary for 
the period of the war, to accept a commission 
as a captain in the food and nutrition division 
of the sanitary corps. 
Dr. Paut E. Kuopstec, formerly of the 
physics department of the University of 
Minnesota, is now with the Leeds and 
Northrup Company, of Philadelphia. 
Tue Italian Scientifie Society has awarded 
the natural sciences gold medal for 1918 to 
Professor Filippo Eredia for his work in 
meteorology. 
In honor of Professor Golgi, who retires 
this year from the chair of pathology and his- 
tology at the University of Pavia, it is pro- 
posed to found a scholarship in the medical 
department for the orphan of some physician, 
preferably one whose father was lost during 
the present war. Contributions may be sent 
to the treasurer, Tesoriere dell’ Ordine dei 
Medici della Provincia di Pavia. 
Mr. Wittium Bowie has resigned as treas- 
urer of the Washington Academy of Sciences 
on account of having been commissioned a 
major in the Engineering Corps, U. S. A.. and 
is succeeded by Mr. R. L. Faris, of the Coast 
and Geodetic Survey. 
Mr. Geo. F. Freeman, plant breeder in the 
college of agriculture of the University of Ari- 
zona, has left for Egypt and will take up his 
permanent residence in Cairo, in connection 
with the Société Sultanienne de Agriculture. 
Tue first lecture of the series of the Harvey 
Society will be given in New York City on Oc- 
