390 
work in France. Arthur N. Tasker, M.D., lec- 
turer in tropical medicine, a lieutenant col- 
onel in the Medical Corps, is Sanitary In- 
spector of the Intermediate Section, France. 
J. Wheeler Smith, M.D., associate in bacteriol- 
ogy, now a lieutenant in the Medical Corps, is 
doing research work with Colonel Whitmore 
at the Army Medical School. Anton R. Rose, 
Ph.D., associate in pathological chemistry, is 
a captain in the Food Division of the Sanitary 
Corps. W. L. Aycock, M.D., instructor in bac- 
teriology, a lieutenant in the Medical Corps, is 
in charge of the laboratory of the U. S. Army 
Hospital, No. 8 (Post-graduate), France. 
Arley Munson, M.D., who was appointed in- 
structor in bacteriology in Dr. Smith’s place, 
is now with the Red Cross and bacteriologist 
to the Blake Hospital, Paris. Colonel J. F. 
Siler, a member of the Robert M. Thompson 
Pellagra Commission of the Laboratory of 
Tropical Medicine, is in charge of the Labora- 
tory Department of the Medical Corps, Ameri- 
can Expeditionary Forces. The laboratories 
of the school are now under the charge of Vic- 
tor C. Myers, Ph.D., professor of pathological 
chemistry. During the absence of members of 
the regular staff, Louise H. Meeker, M.D., is 
instructor in pathology, Adele E. Sheplar, 
M.D., instructor in bacteriology, and Anne G. 
Dellenbaugh, B.A., instructor in bacteriology. 
Emma L. Wardell, M.S., has recently re- 
signed as assistant in pathological chemistry 
to become assistant professor of household eco- 
nomics at the University of Illinois. John A. 
Killian, Ph.D., has been promoted to be asso- 
ciate in pathological chemistry. Owing to the 
emergencies of the war the board of directors 
is admitting women, who are graduates of rec- 
ognized colleges, though not graduates in medi- 
cine, to courses in the laboratories. A number 
of such women have already been appointed to 
positions in the cantonment hospital labora- 
tories. A new course in bacteriology begins on 
November 1. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
CoLonELs JAMES D. Guienman, William S. 
Thayer and John M. T. Finney have been pro- 
moted to be brigadier-generals in the Medical 
Corps. 
SCIENCE 
[N. S. Vou. XLVIII. No. 1242 
To secure closer cooperation between Ameri- 
can and British educational institutions, a 
mission headed by Dr. Arthur Everett Ship- 
ley, vice-chancellor of the University of Cam- 
bridge, has arrived in this country. In addi- 
tion to Dr. Shipley, the zoologist, the mission 
includes two other men of science, Sir Henry 
Alexander Miers, formerly professor of miner- 
alogy at Oxford, and Dr. John Joly, professor 
of geology and mineralogy in the University 
of Dublin. 
CotonEL CHampPe C. McCuttocn, Jr., M.C., 
U. S. A., executive officer of the Board for 
Collecting and Preparing Material for a Med- 
ical and Surgical History of American Partic- 
ipation in the European War, has arrived in 
France, to establish his administration for this 
purpose. During his absence Lieutenant Col- 
onel Casey A. Wood, M.C., U. S. A., will be in 
charge of this work in the Surgeon-General’s 
Office. 
Proressor FrepErIc S. Ler, of Columbia 
University, has been sent to England and 
France on a special mission by the United 
States Public Health Service. 
J. S. Jones has resigned as director and 
chemist of the Idaho station and professor of 
agricultural chemistry in the University of 
Idaho, and has assumed charge of the operat- 
ing laboratory of one of the government ni- 
trate plants under the Ordnance Division of 
the War Department. 
Dr. LoranpEe L. WooprurFr, professor of biol- 
ogy in Yale University, is serving as consult- 
ing physiologist in the Chemical Warfare 
Service, N. A. 
Wim S. Bacon has been promoted to be 
a major in the Chemical Warfare Service and 
is now in command of the Lakehurst Proving 
Ground, Lakehurst, N. J. 
Frank A. Waucu, head of the division of 
horticulture and professor of landscape gar- 
dening at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
lege, is on leave of absence to fulfil his ap- 
pointment to a captaincy in the Army Sani- 
tary Corps. 
Dr. H. K. Benson, director of the Bureau of 
Industrial Research, University of Washing- 
